Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-22
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS DAY
Exercises Held in the Assembly
Hall Thursday Evening
Presidents Address, History, Poem
Grafton and Prophecy All showed
Originality and Were Deliver
ed in a ForcefuI Manner.

| originality and Were Deliver
cd in a ForcefuI Manner.
| Before an audience which filled assem-
bly, hall nearly to It's capacity the seniors
| OF the Burlington high school held their
| class day exercises Thursday. the en-
| tertanment began shortly after eight
o'clock. The various numbers on the pro-
gram showed originality. careful thought
| and thorough preparation, and the deliv-
| cry OF the speakers was, without excep-
| ton, clear, distinct and forceful. Their
addresses were brief and to the point, so
that the exercises were finished before
nine O'Clock. and there was nothing in
tho least suggestive OF tediousness. Mi
sic was furnished BY the high school or
chestra, under direction Of Guy N. Hull,
instructor In vocal music In the city
J schools.
| Following the opening number by the
orchestra, entitled THE Merr.e Sailor
Boy" the author Of which !s C. w. Ben
nett. an address was delivered by Fred
s. Hathaway. class day president. whose
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for SUCCESS in life, and the requirements
| upon which the truest and highest attain
nnent is founded Success" said he, "is
based upon ability and ideals. The higher
the ideal that We hold before US. the
harder must we strive toward its realiza-
ton" His grafton received hearty ap-
| p,ause,
| Miss Mary Frank, historian Of the class
| Of 1911. was the second speaker. In wit
| ty and interesting manner she reviewed
| four eventflil years that will remain a
| lifelong recollection in tho experience Of
| herself and her classmates She referred
with tenderness and sincere appreciation
| to the memory Of Florence Hathaway.
After speaking in particular Of the hap
| penings of the past year in school, she
| made brief mention Of the future pros
poets Of the graduating class, and said
| that bright ms has been the past. the
promise of the future Is brighter still.
We look forward" said she in closing.
| land not backward"
| A musical number, Sons of Liberty"
by T. w. Robinson. was then rendered
| by the orchestra, and after this Miss Lee
ota c. Van AIKEN, the class poet, read
| the following poem:
| The eastern sun shines brightly
! On a castle. grim and gray,
Whence youths and maids are riding
| Ger the open drawbridge way;
| Their pennons floating gayly.
Gold. green and blue and white;
Each face all radiant shining
In the golden morning light
Each face turned toward the future,
Which lies so fair and wide
Before these youths and maidens.
| The last time side by side.
| The future filled with visions.
From the threshold of their lives,
OF that ideal. star-like cleaning.
Toward which each one bravely strives.
| But each one looks with sadness
| Toward the kind old foster walls,
| Ere he sets out on his pathway,
At the blaring trumpet calls
| Some paths lead over mountains,
Are yelled in mist and rain;
But always, past the dark'ning.
| The sun CLEANS bright again.
| some paths are IN the valleys,
Where flocks in quiet rest;
| And some in forests ureary,
But all lead toward the west
| And there, when even Cometh
And lifes long quest is DER.
They'll meet. those youths and maidens
United evermore
| The class Grafton was then delivered
By II. ALBION Bailey. who took for his
subject Life" After portraying the
departure of a ship upon calm seas,
only to meet with violent storms be-
fore the end of It's voyage. he said:
"On the sea Of life. as on the
ocean. we shall encounter times of
storm as we'll as times of calm. Many
sink lower and lower, and finally sink
IN the struggle. But they were not
fated to this end. They go down be-
cause they started wrong. No one
need fail, nor be unsuccessful True
success can be attained only by doing
each days duty faithfully. We must
be we'll equipped. Habits of thought
action and industry are needed"
Miss Marie A. Mcmahon closed the
literary program of the evening with
the class prophecy, in which she called
forth many a laugh at the expense of
various members of the class. Some
of the girls she doomed TO be suffrag
cites, militant and otherwise, while
various members of the class were
found, twenty years In the future. to
be either in business on Church street
or making careers for themselves as
a church worker, a physician, a world
champion in the prize ring, n mission
airy. a head designer of Partisan STYLES
a prfma donna. or the proprietor of an
ostrich farm Two or three were SEN
fenced to a term Of service on the high
school faculty. one young man had
taken root as permanent piece OF
statuary at the northwest corner OF
College and Church streets, and an
other had remained in the ranks OF
the hopelessly unmarried. through in
abflity to fix his affections at any one
anchorage. AS for Grandy and Staples
they could manage the athletics and
the Register. but they never could
manage their wives"
Led by the class marshal, V. Paul
Rousseau, the graduating class, which