East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-26
Program Rendered by High
School Graduates is Ex-
tremeIy Interesting
METHODIST CHURCH
AUDITORIUM CROWDED
Glass History, Prophecy and VIII Are
Recited in Very Able Manner
Twenty-Five Members i'm Class
Commencement Exercises to be
Held Tonight.

With the auditorium of the Metho-
| dist church crowded, the class of
/ 1911 of the Pendleton high school
gave their class day exercises last
night and the program was interest
| ing and entertaining in the extreme.
After the twenty-five members of the
class had marched up the aisles to
| the professional played by Mrs. A. ].
owen, and had taken their seats.
Charles Milne, president of the class.
arose and bade the audience welcome
| to the exercises which marked the
close of a class history.
He was followed by Richard De-
vine in an address to the juniors. Mr..
Devine made the members of the next
senior class aware Of the RESPONSE
| bilties and obligations they were as
suming and gave them good counsel
as to how they should conduct them
selves. Chester Fee responded for
the juniors, thanking the upperclass-
men for their advice and promising
that the conduct of his classmates
would not fall below the standard set
by their predecessors.
In an oration entitled, advance Of
| Education Glen Mccoy traced the
progress of instruction since its Or
igin. pointing out its different trend
| in different continents and casting
into the future to show the goal to
! which the present tendency is maxi
ing. Blanche Bailey delivered the
only Grafton of the evening, her SUBJ
ject being, Lincoln, the Emancipa-
tor" in which she paid a beautiful
tribute to the greatest of American
martyrs.
History, Prophesy. VIII.
The history of the class of 1911
was rapidly sketched by Arthur Jor-
day, in which the hopes. the fears.
| the trials the triumphs and the many
vicissitudes of their four years life
in the high school were recounted.
Emma Richardson acted as the
prophet and told of the future ca
reers of her classmates. Her predlc-
| tions brought much amusement to
both class and audience.
Mollie McDfl was the class poet,
and, like Homer of old, she recited
the deeds of her fellow graduates in
rhyme.
| To Nellie Anibal fell the task of
drawing up the last will and testa-
ment of her class and the document
was a splendid one. In it all of the
qualities of individual members which
have gone to assist in making the
class of 1911 transcendent over all its
predecessors were bequeathed to
members of the Junior class and the
apportioning and distributing of these
blessing showed the maker of the will
to be wise and judicious beyond
measure. Full copies of the will and
the prophesy will be printed in this
paper.
The final address of the evening
was made by President Charles Milne
! in which he expressed the apprecia-
ton of the class for the benefits
which had been received from the
public through the medium of the
schools.
During the evening several splen-
did selections were given by the girls
glee club and vocal solos were rem
dered by Mrs. Thomas Vaughan and
Miss Edna Zimmerman, two Of the
most talented of the alumnae of the
high school, and both received much
, appreciation from the audience.
| Tonights ProgrfUm.
e. Tonight will occur the regular COM
{ meueoment exercises which viii con-
Clude the school year. The following
D. is touights program:
$ Professional .......Mrs. \. J. Ow n
! Invocation ......Rev. Nathan Evans