Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-12
ivy PLANTED
BY GRADUATES
Miss WeinbIatt Delivers
Grafton at High School.

UTdtlon al nign SCnOol.
Forty-fve loyal members of the
graduating class Of the high school
assembled before the school build
ing shortly after DOT today and
heard Miss Minerva Weinblatt de-
liver the Ivy grafton while President
Barney Browning planted the sprays
which will commemorate the. four
years of school life spent by the class
of 1912. Miss Weinblatt impressed
upon the minds of her happy audi
ence that the Ivy which was planted
was not only to commemorate, but
also was an emblem of love for the
high school and of loyalty to her
cause. The sprays of Ivy were
planted on the southeastern wing
of the school and the rapid and
prosperous growth which will follow
was mentioned to be a fitting critic
rion to each member of the grad
uating class.
The class presented their Alma
Mater" with a tablet upon which
were engraved the numerals 1913"
which will bring memories to the
graduates In later years. After the
grafton was given by Miss Vein
blatt, a picture of the class was
taken.
Miss Weinblatt's speech was as
follows:
Glass mates-On this memorable
day In the history of Jul class we
meet to plant the ivy, which shall
keep alive our memory long after
the class has departed. AS we pause
and look back to our high school life
with its buoyancy and its pleasures,
It's riYalries and ambitions we can
not avoid a feeling of sadness which
comes with the thought of parting.
But one thought should be upper
most in our minds dispelling the
gloom Of present sadness, and suffus-
ing with a golden glow the morning
sky of the future. The influence of
our Alma Mater has become a living
power within us that shall quicken
us to lofty endeavor, uplift our
souls, and urge US on like an inspr-
ration.
I'VE are grateful to the kind
mother Of us all under whose guar
dianship u minds have expanded
and matured. So long az these
walls, reach the footsteps Of the
ambitions pressing IN toward the flu
ture, she will be as she has ever
been, a true person, a very Alma
Mater to her children.
1--WE go tearfully from these walls
and these familiar scenes, we are
perhaps severing forever the sacred
ties thai bind US to one another and
to the high school which has guided
and guarded us.
The hours of the present are gol-
den, and the recollections of the
happy days that we have spent to-
gether will ever brighten our path
way as we press on with hopeful and
confident promise into the future.
And so by the ivy which we plant
today as an emblem of love for the
high school and of loyalty to her
cause we pledge it all.
Fare thee well dear Alma Mater
Parting's hour is drawing nigh.
And with loving thought we crown
thee,
AS we say our last goodbye.
We would wreath the walls with ivy,
Which when we are parted far,
Still we flourish as an emblem
That thy hope may be our star.
"As our Ivy climbeth upward,
Strengthening with the lengthening
years,
So our memories cling more firmly
Brighter still thy name appears
To our hearts which hold thee ever
With a reverence tender, warm
Be the ways hat lie between us
Bright with sunshine. dark with
storm.
I'VE would wreathe the walls with
ivy
We would crown with praise thy
name,
Though the garlands we may bring
thee,
May not all be plucked by fame,
We would mingle with the laurel,
Rose and myrtle bright with bloom
And with glory's fame we'd mingle
The mild radiance Of home.
oh, how short seem now the sea-
sons,
Fruitful years and blithely sped
Here within thy loved cloisters,
Bright with dreams that hope has
bred.
In the real world we enter,
May we guard our ideal well,
AS the ivy be Il memory,
Alma Mater dear fa rnwa11