The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-14
HIGH SCHOOL
graf UATION
LAST NIGHT
Glass d Is Received Their
Diplomas
Class Has Made ! Splendid
Record
E. ]. Taylor Delivered an In
teresting Address

The ugh school graduation exercises
Hast evening were a worthy cuIfnina.
tion of a very successful year in the
local school. The programme was Civ,
en- in the auditorium of the Masonic
temple, which was decorated beauti-
fully for the occasionvA Above the stage
there was a huge banner in black and
red, the class colors. with the insignia
1919. The auditorium was crowded
with relatives of the graduates and
friends and the music and addresses
were of a very high class.
The opening number was Carmena
by Wilson, which is so popular for
graduation exercises, sung by the mix
ed chorus under the direction of Miss
Edna Dunning. Rev. Al. e. Peterson
offered prayer. The salutatory address
by Alfred Matters was exceptionally
good. He thanked the audience for
their interest and reeounted the his
tory Of the class which has worked
together for twelve years and hoped
that in the future the same fellowship
might continue. The class poem by
Miss Charity Pinney showed e3cep-
tional talent and contained a splendid
thought, nicely expressed. A chorus
number. o! Italia, Italia, was well
1 GU NY la III us. @ "A du-
dress. Sohrab and Russian, by Charles
Dawson. an original arrangement from
the work of Mathew Arnold by that
name, was very clever and was very
much appreciated as the story is a
good nj full of life M with a strain
of pathos that was well handled by Mr..
Dawson. The Girls Glee club sang a
pretty cantata, Garden of Flowers, by
Denza, which was well worked up and
harmoniously presented.
Fern Monson gave the class
prophesy, enumerating each of the
class as he would see them If return
ing from a trip around the world
twenty years hence. This was ably
given and brought forth much merri-
ment at the "opens of individuals in
the class. The valedictory ADDRESS by
Florence Ames was finely given and
carried a logical message 10 the mem
bers of the class and those present. "A
chorus number, Drink to Me Only
With Thine Eyes by Millish followed.
Superintendent Hoover introduced,
e. r.. Taylor state superintendent Of
public instruction; who in a short talk
congratulated the class and offered
some good advice and presented the
diplomas. The programme was con-
cluded by The Spinning Wheel Chorus
from Martha by Flotow.
The class of 1913 has an enviable
reputation and some of the individual
members have especially remarkable
records, Alfred Matters has the hon
or of never missing a day or being
tardy ono in the twelve years he has
attended school and during his high
school term has an average of 96 per
cent. Miss Florence Ames has a high.
school average of 81 per cent. The
class roll of honor includes Miss Ames,
Mr.. Matters, Miss Bessie Rundan, Miss
Charity Pinney, Merriel Constock,
Theo Hamilton, Arthur Korsrno
Frances Then, William Macfadden
and Granville Hancock.
Those Who Graduated.
Florence Dorothea Ames, John
Schrieher Bathrick, Percy Beals, Will
liam f. Berner, Madeline Blake, Mer-
rill Comstock, Charles Alec Dawson,
George Sherman Dixon, Mary Eliza
beth Driscoll. Erma Venetta Elliott,
Floyd H. Emery, Harold Engerud,
sylvester Harold Erickson, Jack Eas-
ton Farrand, Otto Theodore F~orsberg,
Florence Gearey. Gusta Goldstein,
Alice Elizabeth Goodrich, Clara Inge--
borg Green, Minnie Hagen, Donald
Fletcher Hall, Theo. Hamilton, Gren-
vile Laing Hancock, Mary Edna. Har-.
iris, John Earl Healy, Nellie Mae
Hoard, Edward Emery Holmes, Clar-
ence Rapelye Howell, Eugene George
Hughes, Blanche Jewell, Alma john
son, Arthur Korsmo, Nyna Eleanor
Larson, Clara Emelia Lee, Horace B..
Leeby, William Semple Macfadder,
Edith M. Mann, Alfred Rae Matters,
Lester Howard Matters. Fern Brew
'ster Monson, Josephine Anges Murray,
Leon S. Meyers. Glenna Mable Pear
son, Charity Pinney, Harold Benjamin
Pool, Chester Allison Pope, Bessie
Rundan, LyIith Dorothea Rusk, Alice
Bernatta May Sherman, Floyd Hiram
SIingsby, Helen Mary Stubs, Mary
Aileen sullivan, Herbert Blanchard
HTeichman, Frances Katherine Then,
Gladys EVELYN Tritchler, Gladys
Phoebe Van VolkenbIlrg, Jean Lillian
Wilson, Celia Yoffey.