The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-05-30
HIGH School Commencement
Exercises.

The members Of the graduating CLASS
Of 1912 of the Lynden High school, re-
ceiyed their diplomas Thursday evening
at Jameson hall The large AUDITORIUM
WAS packed to the doors with the par
ents. relatives and friends of the grad
| yates. and the interesting program Oh
the evening listened TO with the closest
| attention.
| The stage had been prettily decorated
for the occasion, festoons of green ana
white being draped from the ceiling ana
| forming a beautiful canopy under whieh
sat the class Of graduates, the members
| of the school board, Messrs. E. Edson.
Frank Knapp and H. E. Stuart. the
Rev. Herbert Jones' Prof. P. A Wright,
| principal of the Lynden schools, anu
| Rev. F. Alban We'll, of the Unitarian SO
ciety, of Bellingham, the speaker OF the
evening The class motto. Forge wen
Thy Link" was suspended in large let
tiers across the top of the front OF the
stage.
The class was composed of two boys
and eight girls. the boys forming the
center of a semi-circle, with -four girls
on either side The girls were all dress
ed in white, each sweet girl graduate
having designed and made her own COS
tune as an illustration of the work be-
ing accomplished in the domestic science
department Of our public schools.
Mr.. Well prefaced his address with
some very nice and complimentary re-
marks regarding Lynden as an educa-
tional center, and called attention TO the
achievements of its public schools. His
address to the graduates was along the
e nf educational train
ing, and he urged upon each graduate to
make the most of future opportunities 10
obtain the benefit of a period at soma
higher educational institution, and AL
ways to hold in kindest and most CRATE
full remembrance the teachers through
whose painstaking efforts the members
OF the class We're now being SO highly
honored.
The diplomas were presented to the
graduates by Mr. Z. Edison, president of
the school board, who in pleasing ana
we'll chosen remarks, referred to the his
torical features of Lynden in education
al matters calling attention to the fact
that this city was once the home OF the
state Normal, and that in 1887, through
the efforts of public spirited and pro-
gressiye people here. there was establish
ed In our ml0St inc AlrSt Hoi maj Seiiooi,
which was for years conducted as pri-
yate educational institution, and winch
flourished until the year 1872 when II
was decided to make 1t state insttu-
ton Lynden citizens went before the
legislature and had an act passed which
accomplished this, and then our big SIS
ter to the south of us-Bellingham-hav-
ing more pull and prestige than beauti-
full little Lyndon, took the school away
from us and the State Normal was To-
Gated in Bellingham
Prof P. A. Wright, principal OF TEE
schools, made a short address to the par
ents of the graduates, saying that the!
might we'll be proud of the records OF
their son or daughter, and that the teach
ers, while panied to lose the members OF
the class as pupils, wished them all God
speed on the journey through life.
Pleasant features Of the evening were
a piano duet by Miss Handy and Miss
Frances Knapp; vocal solo by Mrs.
Norman and one 10y Mr.. Knapp.
Rev. Herbert Jones, of the Methodist
church. gave the invocation and benedic-
ton in his usual impressive manner.
The class roster follows:
Pearl Frost, Alma Long, Ruth Case,
Minnie worthen, Mabel Wiley, Ellen
Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson, Ellen Boo |
HAN, Dan Clark, and Frank Worthen.