The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-05-20
EXERCISES LAST EVENING
AT THE TEMPLE THEATER WERE,
INTERESTING AND WELL
ATTENDED
Addresses and Essays of the Graduates
Were Excellent and Received the
Closest Attention and Most Hearty
Appreciation.

no church or school room in the city |
could have held so comfortably and |
conveniently as the big, handsome the |
alter the crowd that assembled last
night TO hear the graduating exercises
of the OcaIa High School
Wisely did the school choose for its
emblem the sunflower, royal in its
beauty, strong in its growth, useful in
| it's mission, a type of all education
should be. The stage was arranged in
simple elegance, with sunf1owers and
ferns in profusion forming a floral
hedge behind the footlights The class
motto, "Esse Guam Videri." was letter
! ed on the curtain, and in every appro-
pirate place hung the school banner Of
ebon and orange.
! The students of the high school and
the invited guests occupied the front
seats, marked off by huge black and
yellow ribbons. Very few empty seats
were there in orchestra, parquet or
gallery.
| The Ocala Concert Orchestra beguil-
ed the waiting minutes-frst the
notes of "Old Black Joe" stole out from
their Instruments, then Dixie" rang
forth and brought it's wonted applause,
and then the audience bent its ear to
I"Way Down Upon de Swanee Ribber."
t
and the play began.
Enter Reverends Dodge and Coleman,
L. W. Duval, DR. A. j. Farrah, Hon. R.
A. Burford, Professor Workman and
the graduates, who took chairs in
semi circle around the back of the
stage in the order named from left to
right. At home lin camp, in court in
bower" Hon. r. \. Burford presided
and called each performer to his or her
part.
DR.. Dodge offered prayer, and then
the audience gave rapt attention as
Rubinstien's "Kamenoi Ostrow' rippled
from the piano under the deft touch Of
Miss Irma Blake. Then came the event
of the evening to the audience, and the
event, SO far, in their lives, the utter
ances of the graduates.
American Idols of Today
With the dignity and earnestness of
r coming statesman, Paul Weathers
denounced our false deities of wealth,
: power and fashion. His subject was
! well chosen, his argument was ethical
| ly unanswerable Perhaps when years
have quelled his enthusiasm he may
: look upon these same false gods with
tolerance, but all the same his words
I were good, and the world would be
. better tomorrow if all men had heard
and needed him last night.
t Our Lost Opportunity
Leon Leitner, perhaps more distrust-
full of his own merit than he should
have been, essayed no Grafton or com
position, but acclaimed the speech OF
Senator George Frisbie Hoar on the
criminal folly of America embarking or
Imperialism. An exceedingly good ad
$ dress it was, and well worthy of repe.
titiOn again and again to every Ameri-
e can. The audience owes thanks to Mr.
= Leitner for his selection and it's de.
:. livery.
:. The flowers behind the footlight:
y paused in their whiting and freshenec
= in emulation as two dozen lovely schoo
g girls trooped upon the stage and faced
n the audience in really, truly dais!
|. chain. School boys were in the chorus
e also, but the audience would hardly
= nave looked at them. even if the!
5: hadn't been behind the girls, who's.
a fresh young voices were like the fra
l, GRANGE of the flowers as they sang on,
of Rubinstein's melodies
= OsceOIa the Seminole
Edward Henderson has roamed
large portion of his not many days il
-, one of the forest haunts of Osceola
who to the Seminole was what both Lee
and Davis are to the Confederate, so i
is not strange that he spoke of tn
red-skinned hero who may really de
!. serve Florida's niche in the hall o
" fame. His subject was we'll chosen an,
, he handled it we'll
While the efforts of the first tire
graduates were of general import, tn os
of the last four We're of more local in
L
attention.
- The Class History
Everybody sat up and took motto
j. when Herbert Martin began to give tn
h history of the class. In fact, it is i'm
possible not to take notice when Her
bert is on deck. He will interest yo
y somehow. unless you are dead. Hi
re history had particular interest for tn
class and general interest for the au
N dience and he went to his seat in
storm of applause.
The Class VIII
l. Miss Jessie Wilson. the lovely nowe
that Reddick sent to bloom awhile i
Of Ocala, who has added almost two year
0. to her age, over two inches to he
la stature and heaven only knows no,
many names to her list of friend
n since she came among US, read tn
class will, document correct in la,
t and language, full of quiet humor tina
her class mates could best appreciat,
al but which everyone in the house coul
d. well understand. Ocala dipped il
colors to Reddick and sent Miss Jessi
to her seat with a spontaneous out
i burst of appreciation.
or Miss Annie Laurie Perry, who PLAY
We as prettily as she looks. and progresse
in both every day, delighted the al
n dience with a Hungarian rhapsod
n that would have made old Franz Lis
III stop, look and listen; and then tn
e. house heard Laurie Izlar recite
The Class Poem
On Laurie was modest about that poem
a He didn't want it in print. In val
of his friends told him he would get
De wet in the lake of the opera house {
in the ocean of the newspa per- and
US his mother hadn't taken his poe
n while he was looking another way an
or brought it to the printer. it woul
ON never have been put in type, and
al would have robbed our readers TT
poem was seven pearls on a strin;
seven clever parodies on seven stanG
ard poets, wittily adapted to his 81
fellow graduates and the class worl
1t brought down the house.
eS The Class Phonheex