White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-09
GRADUATE FROM
ELY SCHOOLS

Oh lHe Ely nlBu 5CHOOl were nelu III
the Empire theater last night when
class of four bade farewell to their
local alma mater, to take up the
more serious responsibilities and
duties of life In educational or bust
ness lines as the case may be. The
theater was well filled with friends
and relatives of the class and school,
and the program as rejecting the at
tainments of the graduates four
years work, was highly creditable
alike to the school and the members
of the class. The graduates were
Mabel Sloan, yaledictorian; Minnie
Curtis, salutatorian; Frances Meyers
and James Rice. The program was
given in the following order:
Invocation .... Rev. J. w. Gum
Vocal solo Miss Lucy Rumbaugh
Commencement Address .......
Vocal solo .... Mrs. Frank Millard
Salutatory. "The Boys and Girls
of Tomorrow. =. Minnie Curtis
Valedietory. THE Students Debt
to Society" ..... Mabel Sloan
Presentation of Diplomas. 49,.
.............. Lindsay Duncan
Vocal solo. ...... Mrs. j. w. Gum
Lindsay Duncan. president of the
county board OF school trustees, in
presenting the diplomas. traced the
growth of the school from its acad-
emy days to its present standing
of one of the best preparatory high
schools In the country. He compli-
mented the faculty upon the results
of the past year, and in this con-
nection ealltd attention to the high
compliment paid the school by L. w
Hartman of the University of Ne
vada. In naming the White Pine
County institution as an accredited
school. Mr.. Duncan also touched
comprehensivly on the schools cur
riculum. which has been standardized
along practical and modern eduea-
tional lines.
Mr.. Chandler in his commence
ment address spoke in part as fol-
fows
"All the worlds a stage
And all the men and women merely
players.
They have their exits and their en-
frances,
And one man in his time plays many
parts"
When We pause to contemplate
the fact that at a time estimated to
be fully 1000 years before the date
fixed as the birth of Christ, men and
women were playing on this great
stage. parts that were perhaps as
advanced as any in our own time,
and playing them perhaps as well
as our stars" and leading men and
women" when we try to realize the
vast length OF time previous to that
which must have been required to
enable mankind to grow from the
primitive savage state to the degree
of civilization that existed on the
banks of the Euphrates 5000 years
ago; when we remember the untold
men and women who. in the un-
known length of time since man be-
gan to think, have played their
earthly parts and gone to the undis-
covered country; when we recall
that during all this time the players,
all over this great stage. have been
training their minds and bodies to
the end that they might become bet
ter actors and the play be more per-
fectly rendered; when we contem-
plate all this, we may get some
faint conception of the insignih-
cance of the parts that must neces-
sarily be assigned to us in this great
play of the ages.
Yet at this special period In the
sweep of time, in this little town of
Ely, nesting in the lap of the treas
ure bearing hills of Nevada, far
from the marts of the congested CEN
ters of population and feverish
activity, we are acting our parts In
this enormous play, and no one Is
so unworthy as not to have some
part assigned him. And you, who
are now graduating from our little
high school have likewise your
parts to play. You have about I'm
ished playing through your parts as