The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-08
CLASSES TO HOLD REUNIONS
Program for the Commencement Week
Promises to be the Most Interesting
Ever Offered at the Great Wisconsin
University

The 57th commencement of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, at which over
zoo degrees will be granted will be held
June 1921.
The first event of the week will be
the annual commencement concert of
the school of music on Friday evening,
June Is. Sunday, June 18, the bac-
calaureate address to the graduating
students will be delivered by DR.. Paul
Shorey of the University of Chicago,
who will speak on "The Gospel of
Work.
The class day exercises will take
place on Monday. At 10 O'Clock in the
morning the ceremony of the planting
of the ivy ON the campus will be held.
The ivy will be planted by Arthur G.
Baer of West Bend, while Miss Jessie
j. Ruble of Platteville and Miss
Ellie G. Paine of Milwaukee will de-
liver the ivy Grafton and the ivy ode
respectively. The address of welcome
will be made by William A. Spohn,
GAINESVILLE, president of the graduating
class, while the farewell address to the
buildings win be made by John A. Dor
ney of Stevens Point.
The class history will be told at $3.50
p. m. by Carl II. Haessler, Milwaukee,
and Miss Lucy Case, West Allis. At
the same time interesting statistics re-
garding the class will be given by
Sager L. Odegard of Merrill, and the
class Grafton delivered by Fred Merk,
Milwaukee The presentation of the
class memorial will be made by Leroy
Johnson, Wausau, while the speech of
acceptance will be made by Prof. f. G.
Sharp. The exercises will close with
the farewell address to the underclass-
men by Miss Gertrude Kitchell of To-
peka, Kansas, and the farewell address
to the university by William G. Spohn,
GAINESVILLE.
Going Some,' comedy by Rex.
Beach and Paul Armstrong, will be pre-
,ented by the graduating class on the
evenings of June 10 and 90. The pipe
Of peace ceremony at which the pipe
is passed from the graduating class to
The next senior class will take place
ut Ii O'Clock Monday night on the
lower campus. The present custodian
If the pipe is Henry G. Abendroth,
Milwaukee, who will give it into the
keeping of Rae +. Bell, Madison.
The alumni of the university will
hold reunions on Tueslay, June 20.
The annual business meeting of the
alumni association will be held in
the morning.
The much beralded baseball game be-
tween the university alumni of Mil
waulee and those of Chicago will be
one of the leading features of the af-
ternoon program at Camp Randall. A
reunion of all former athletes of the
university and track meet between
the regular varsity team and alumni
who used to be famous track men are
other interesting features planned for
the afternoon, A procession of all
former wearers of the ''W' and a re-
union of oldtime glee club men are
two other events scheduled for the day
In the evening the alumni will gather
in the big gymnasium for the alumni
dinner at which 500 plates will be laid
Lynn S. Pease of Milwaukee, president
of the alumni association, will b
POSTMASTER.
Not small part of the time OF
alumni day will be devoted to the re
unions of the various classes. Judge
Farlin Q. Ball, Chicago, of the class Of
'61, one of the oldest living graduate;
of the university who celebrates his
fftieth graduation anniversary thi
year, has declared his intention to b
present at commencement this year.
The comforting of degrees upon tn,
zoo graduates will take place at 9:3C
q. m. in Armory hall, Wednesday, Jun,
FL. The commencement address will b.
made by President Charles R. Van His,
of the university while the commence
ment orations will be delivered by fv
members of the graduating class
Samuel L. Barber, Madison, and JOIN
L. Childs, Eau Claire, for the colIeg
Of letters and science; Albert Birch
Fargo, N. D., for the college of en-
cheering; Arthur c. Baer, West Bend
for the college of agriculture; an,
Frederick Esch, Manitowoc, for tn
law school.
President and Mrs. Van Hise vii
give a reception for the graduating
class and alumni on the afternoon o
commencement day. In the evenin.
viii take place the annual alumni bal
and reception, which will be held i
Lathrop hall and marks the end of tn
commencement activities.