Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-06-13
". Il. S. COMMENCEMENT.
Fine Essays, Excellent Music and
Handsome Flowers Thirty three
Graduates.

Handsome Flowers Thirty three
! Graduates.
IN the presence of nearly thousand
happy and enthusiastic spectators,
thirty y-three young men and young
women were granted diplomas from
the Woodbury. High School last Thurs
i day evening. Ten of that number
were boys, the largest number ever
/ graduated from Woodbury., while the
total number of the graduates ex-
ceeded by many the largest class ever
before given certificates of graduation
Green's Opera House was smaller
than ever before by reason OF the
hundreds who sought admission but
! were disappointed to find the hall
already crowded The whole lower
floor had been reserved for the fam
lilies and friends of the graduates,
while but the balcony was free to the
! first comers. The doors had not been
i opened fifteen minutes before that un-
reserved section of the house was
filled and no one but holders of the
coveted reserved seat tickets was
granted admission.
Carrying out the custom of several
years there was no illustrious man to
address the graduating class 1t
was from beginning to end, WOOD
BURY High School Commencement
with the graduates playing the stellar
roles. Some of these were not resi-
dents of Woodbury., in fact fifteen
hailed from other parts of Gloucester
County, but their four years spent in
| Woodbury's highest educational insti-
| f11fir 5od 10 in r.17 fn
/ Woodburyss own. Of the twelve honor
students of the class (those having an
average of 80 or more), but six were
from this city, while the Salutatorian
! and Valedictorian were from Black
wood and Thorofare, respectively.
With the coming of the audience in
large numbers, Wanderers Orchestra
played charming music, waltzes and
various selections from the better
compositions of light opera, and up to
the time of the entrance of the gra-
duates, the music was continued.
1t was nearly eight o'clock when the
last of the members of the class had
! been brought to the opera house via
automobiles, provided by the Glass,
and the clock had finished striking
eight but a few minutes when the dig
nified march of the graduates to the
stage began, Wanderers orchestra
/ playing Laurendau's Commencement
! March. Two great semi-circular
rows, sixteen and seventeen chairs
! long, had been formed on the stage for
/ the graduates, while back of them,
the Board of Education and the clergy
of the city were placed
After the invocation by the Rev. J.
K. Manning, D. D., and song by the
/ Glass, NIyra~ Williams Bachelor, of
Blackwood, delivered the Salutatory
address, her theme being The His
tory of International Arbitration"
Going back to the times when the
historic Spartans worshiped their
| belief in the suppression of physical
pain, and up till now, the speaker
! showed how there has always been
! enrooted in the hearts of men the de-
sire for peace, with an ever longing
| for that ideal as civilization emerged
/ into greater development. The arbi-
! tration of the Alabama Claims, just
after the Civil War. was the first sue
cessful attempt at international arbi-
tration. while the strength of the
Hague Tribunal, and the value which
! the enlightened modern nations place
upon it as an impartial arbiter, shows
that international arbitration is a
reality.
g Character as Capital" was the
subject of a thoughtful address by
ElHarris T. Kille, of near Bridgeport.
1 Money will stock a store" said the
| speaker, .'but character holds trade
sContinuing, the importance of a found
it<4:o~ - <.I,k, M oh oil
things else, was emphasized, for in it
will be found the essential of all real
1 success.
Gladys Virginia Swackhamer. of
! Woodbury., spoke on the Passion Play
at Oberammergau, telling how the
/ play originated in the people of the
little Austrian village vowing to give
I a repitition of the death of Jesus every
! decade in order to show their graft
/ tude for deliverance from pestilence.
It is devout religious performance,
said the speaker, and is the occasion
/ for the visits of hundreds of specta-
tors from foreign lands to the open
! air spectacle of which its equal has
/ never been conceived.
John H. Curry, on the violin, played
Selections from Faust, a very pretty
violin solo.
The Woman at the Present Time,
4 was discussed by Elizabeth M. Gle
ment, of near Almonesson. All of the
virtues and accomplishments of wo-
man in the years gone by have their
elimination in the modern woman,
and as result, the present-day pro-
duct is the superior. The woman of
to-day has many cares and response
Utilities which her ancestors never had
| to contend with, but though not meet
1 ing them in the same manner of her
ancestors, she meets them in their
spirit The advance of woman may
! be noted in the fact that practically
every kind of position may be filled
/ by women, a fact which not many
| years ago was an impossibility, but
1 the final step is already near the