Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-23
Class Day on Lawn.

with an ideal day for open air eXer-
cises and a program of unusual excel
lence the class of 1911 held its class day
exercises Saturday at 3 o CLOCK. pat
form had been constructed on the lawn
in front of the high school building and
was decorated with mountain laurel
Seats had been arranged in front of the
platform with the first few rows reserved
for students and long before the hour
set for the opening all the seats were
filled and a good number of late-comers
were obliged to stand. Following selec-
tons by the high school orchestra on the
front proch strains of which sounded
pleasantly out on the lawn, the teachers
were conducted to their seats by Mar
shals BENJAMIN Weeden and julius
Kuech. who Immediately afterward con-
Quoted the seniors to their places Inc
first number on the program was the
presidents address by Onslow Edmund
Thompson, who spoke of the years that
had passed so pleasantly for the senior
class and of the regret with which the
class passed out of the life of the school.
| Explaining the value of "A high school
| and college education to boy or girl
| he also said that good health was
| valuable adjunct to success in atterllte.
| Samuel Finley Breese Morse delivered
the class grafton, his subject being, The
benefit of college education" He told
of the fact that the value OF college
education was becoming more ana more
recognized nd averred that hlgh school
graduate needed four years or more OF
college life and instruction in order to
be equipped for the battle with the
| world He said that a college training
fitted a man to think for himself ana
gave him proper training to cope with
the problems of later life. Laura Glenn
ent Harper recited the class poem,
which was fitting tribute to the Brat
~. ,frrI, on
1911. The poem was sung at the gradua-
ton exercises Tuesday night, to the tune
of ION the Road to Mandalay" 1t was
as follows:
Among the mountains of Vermont, the
river gliding near,
Lies our Brattleboro High School-may
we ever hold her dear
There our studies, there our glory, there
our friendships grew apace,
And twas there in friendly contest that
we fought our four years race.
There we learned regard for right;
Fought for purple and for white.
There we sometimes fell in darkness;
There we reached anew the light.
Chorus:
May you ever. b. II. s.,
Only to the right confess;
And Nour class of 1911
May you ever, ever bless.
Now Wen look into the future, soon lool
backward Ger the past
And remember all those school days
which are dear unto the last;
All our class rooms, and our school books
altho tattered and so old,
We will hold in deepest reverence, ant
rehearse the tales they told.
Let it be our greatest care
To do braVely all our share;
Let's stand up for nineteen leven,
And uplift the name we bear.
The class history by Helen Bracket
Kenney provoked many smiles among
, members of the class and others wh'
were familiar with its career. 1t included
also some anecdotes of teachers ant
students which those less familiar will
the school and its life could appreciate
The history was well written and wal
entertaining throughout. Evelyn Elmer
son read the class prophecy. Startinl
from this earth five years after gradua
ton in company with Roy Miner anC
Laura c. Harper, Miss Emerson was car
red to Mars in Mr.. Miners aeroplane
Following an objectionable sin by Miss
Harper, who stepped upon the kings
robe, she and Miner suddenly decampeC
in the machine leaving Miss Emerson
alone upon the planet, Eight years latel
they returned for her and she escaped
Then followed "a year of touring the
skies after which Miss Emerson AGAR
reached the earth and discovered one o.
her old classmates. While she had ,beer
away from the earth a war had resulted
in wiplng out the yellow PERIL by
the United States and one of the chile
actors in the war was one of the class
of 1911. Then followed a humorous
portrayal of the lives of the members
since they had left school and the differ
ent lines of work they had followed. II
clever way she depicted the aftel
affects of some of the present idiosyn'
crasies of her classmates,
The ivy GRAFTON was delivered by
Walter Calvin Halliday, who had for his
subject, "The road to success In bust
ness" He said that mere financial gair
could not be counted as real success, bu
that other factors should be considered
that the road to success Is hard to follow
and the goal can be reached only by hare
work. honesty and ability to seize OPP
portunty. He chose Abraham Lincoln a;
a worthy example for any man to follow
in his efforts to attain success Lucy
Cecilia Weatherhead recited the ivy ode
written by herself The Ivy then wal
planted at a point In front OF the build
ing just south of the main entrance. The
Ivy ode was sung by the class to the tune
Grew Song" and with a selection by the