The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-15
BENNINGTON HIGH
GRADUATES |I'S
Beth CLASS
Public Exercises in the Opera
House Friday Evening
ADDRESS BY Mr.. COLGATE
This Years Glass Numbers Twenty
Six and Ranks High In Scholar
ship and Ability

A class of 25 was graduated from
the Bennington high school Friday
evening with appropriate exercises.
The members of the class are:
Fannie Estella Aldrich, Jessie Mary
Burgess, Miner Charles Clark, John
Michael Cronin, Beulah May Evans,
Myrtle Ann Gardner, Doris Gibson,
Amy Hamutal Harbour, Maude Elvira
Harris, John Holden Hart, Douglass
Hawks, Helen Mildred Haynes,
'Charles Sharpe Hitchcock, Helen
Frances Hurley, John Goodall Hutton,
Frank Senior Keller, Harrison Will
fred Moore, margaret Ella Murray,
'Avis Rachel Meyers, Samuel Alfred
Patterson Jr, +Zenobia Valma Royce,
Edith Jane Russell, Henry William
Schulze, Addie May Sumner, Edith
Jane Sumner.
II was the 35th annual commence
ment and was held in the opera house
which was crowded, every seat being
taken and many standing The pro-
gram was as follows:
Music, Donnelly's Orchestra
Invocation, Rev. w. f. Meyer
Essay, Everyday Philosophers
Miss Beulah Evans
Grafton, True Patriotism
Harrison w. Moore
Music, Orchestra
Grafton, THE Wage Earner-Past
and Present
Frank S. Keller
Essay, "The Toll of the Short Cut"
Miss Maude Harris
Address to the Glass.
Charles S. Hitchcock
Music, Orchestra
Address, James c. Colgate
Presentation of Diplomas.
Superintendent Albert w. Varney
Music, Orchestra
The essays and orations were
above the average and creditaLle to
both class and school, Especially
was The Toll OF the Short Cut" by
Miss Maude Harris a remarkable eff
fort. It was an allegorical picture of
the life of a man who was lured from
the straight road by promised easy
short cuts which yielded him only
trouble and'remorse and final failure.
Mr.. Colgate's address was most cor
daily received and included many
points of interest OF value. He trac-
ed the difference between education
which merely fills the mind with a
mass OF facts and figures undigested
and unavailable, though they may re-
present a vast deal OF effort. and the
education which actually fits for life
and service.
He deplored the pursuit OF false
standards and false ideals and urged
the young people OF the graduating
class to labor for things worth while
and to build their character and their
life on the foundation of brave, pure
and high purpose.
Mr.. Colgate was apt in illustration
and his stories kept the audience
laughing and enabled him to carry
home his points with additional yigor
and force.
One member OF the graduating
class, Samuel Patterson. was unable
TO be present because OF Illness, while
another, Miss Wilhelmina Hicks. be,
cause of Illness, has not quite com.
pleted her final examinations, but
these will be given by Mr.. Varney
as soon as she is able and she win
then receive her diploma. A third
member of the class. Miss Esther
Merrill, did not quite complete her
work in season to appear with the
class, but has earned the required
amount of credits and will receive her
diploma on completion OF examina
ton in one subject.
The officers OF the graduating class
are: President, Charles S. Hitchcock
vice president, Miss Mildred Haynes
secretary, Miss Margaret Murray;
treasurer. John NJ. CronIn.
Honorary appointments.
The members OF the graduating
class who will 20 to higher institu
lions are: Charles Hitchcock, Yves
leyan; Zenobia Royce, Syracuse,
Harrison Moore, University OF Yer
mont; Goodall Hutton, Williams: and
Douglass Hawks, University of Penn
sylvania.