Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-06-12
|. H. s. CLASS OF 1912
GRADUATE WITH HONOR
Fine Address Delivered by DR..
c.. L. Collie, of Beloit
Event Was Witnessed by Large Audi
ence Mainly Composed by Patrons
of the School

of nineteen was Standardization
girls and five boys. The room was
tastefully decorated in the class
colors-red and white, the work of
the Junior class, while the stage
was banked with ferns and potted
plants. The graduates we're:
ENGLIsH-GERMAN COURSE.
Bert Chandler Irene Caspers
Ruby Poland Mabel HOlZinger
Elsa KinZe1 Gladys LishernesS
Katharine Meyer Marie Meyers
Clarence Rech Maurice Z1egler
Clyde Roth Ethel WeiSbenner
VeVa Place
CLASSICAL COURSE
Arthur Battle Marcia LANCE
Doris Schreiner Mary Webb
COMMERCIAL COURSE
Bernadin Knobel Anna Meysembourg
The exercises we're opened with a
selection by the high school orchestra
and an invocation by Rev. j.. 7. Nor
gans.
Owing to the size of the class and
the fact that several of the graduates
had already been heard in oratorical
productions during the past two or
three weeks, only four orations were
given at this time.
Miss Marie Meyers reviewed the
remarkable work done by Booker
I. Washington, the leading educator
of the colored race; Ethel Weis-
benner's theme was Democracy and
Education;" Bernadin Knoble told of
the brilliant career of Alice freeman
Palmer and Anna Meysembourg had as
the topic of her grafton ''Liszt. the
Composer. Each ..of them handled
their subjects il a very capable
manner. Elisha Kinzel rendered
beautiful piano solo and Katharine
Meyer sang a very sweet lullaby, and
the diplomas were presented to the
graduates in a brief address by
Principal F. w Trainer.
The address to the class by Dr. q.
l.. Collie. dean of Beloit college and
a geologist of wide reputation. whose
work and explorations have taken
him to all parts of the world, was
a departure from the ordinary ad-
dress of this kind and one that con-
tains much food for thought. He
said, in part:
There is perhaps no scene in
American life more impressive, more
appealing, more significant than that
which is passing before our eyes here
today at this time and in this place.
Boys and girls emerging from the
protection and the safe guarding of
home. from the training and develop
ing influences Of the school are here
stepping out into the greater life.
No mother can witness sucn scene
without emotion commingled with
apprehension, without silent prayer
for the boy or the girl who is a very
part of her life. No patriot can wit
ness it without commingled feeling
of hope and fear, as he thinks of the
influence these coming citizens will
WELD for the veal or woe of the
nation. On an occasion like this an
address might be directed to any one
of several ends, for modern educa-
tion is bIistling with problems partly
solved or partly unsolved. 1t might
be addressed to any one of several
groups, parents. school authorities,
teachers and the like. Today would |
speak to the graduates themselves; let |
others who will hear my message to
you my young friends. You who |
gather here today for the last exercise |
IS q public school pupil, are debtors
beyond measure. You owe your par
ents an unpayable debt, you owe the
men and women of this community /
and those who have gone before them
All imm easurable sum.
For did they not build up this city,
giving it schools, churches and all |
privileges that you might be helped |
and bettered. that you might stand on
a vantage ground as you begin life
What say you in view of all that has
been accomplished in your behalf
Are you not debtors how do you
propose to pay like honorable men
and women all that you owe That
question I want to consider in this
address It might take hours to
answer ir in detail, it takes but
word to answer in substance. You
must go out into the world and serve
as this community has served you, as
your forbears have done, only better.
Social service is my theme and above
all else want to impress upon you its
Importance, nay more its necessity if
you would truly fulfill your mission
and give back to the world in any
sense the obligations you owe it. To