Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-06-11
SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED

| SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED
commencement Week Over and Summer
Vacation at Hand. Teachers and Pupils
Gone after Very Successful Year.
The Monitor reported in its. last
| issue the events of Commencement
week up to and including Tuesday.
Wednesday afternoon the graduating
exercises of the grammar school took
place and were attended by large
number of parents and friends. The
exercises were of the usual high order,
eighteen pupils graduating.
The commencement exercises of Bar
ton academy were held Thursday eve
ming in Seaver's hall before large and
appreciative audience. The gradual
ing class numbered eighteen, as did
school from the grammar school.
Barton is proud and justly so, of the
size, as we'll as of the attainments OF
it's school, no high school in the county
| numbering so many pupils or so many
graduates. Each paper showed careful
preparation and it would be impossible
to single out any one paper for special
mention. < Before presenting diplomas
to the graduates, Prof. Stannard urged
them to lofty endeavor toward high
ideals, and bade them remember that
this was the beginning, not the end of
their strife Music for the evening
was furnished by the Schubert club.
The program follows: Invocation.
Rev. w. A. Warner; salutatory. Ralph
Elywn King; essay, ''The Voices Of
Nature,'' Katherine Helene Ansboro !;
oration, ''The Modern Terminal"
John Thistle Campbell; essay, 1.-The
Weavers. Mildred Sarah Chase !;
essay. Westminster Abbey" Gladys
Ellen Christie; essay, "Our Progressive
President. Alice Louise Dexter; es-
say, Niagara" Edith Jane cFarlane !;
Corley essay, "Memory's Message, I"
Hazel Sarah Cook essay, "A Strife for
Reform" Matte Lou Phillips valedic-
tory, George Tracy Cook.
Seven of the eighteen graduates took
part in the class day exercises on the
school grounds the Tuesday afternoon
previous as reported in these columns
last week.
On Friday evening the annual
Alumni banquet was held in the
parlors of the Congregational church,
members and guests of the associa-
tion numbering 145 being in attend
ance. Rev. Mr.. Warner invoked the
Divine blessing on the gathering, and
accompanied by the Schubert club, the
feast went merrily on, the company
singing in full chorus as college songs
were introduced by the orchestra. 1t
is worthy of mention here that eight
of the class of ten of 1912 were pres
ent. due to the efforts of the class
secretary.
Hho
Seaver, 'OS, presented Miss Vera Web
ster, 'e7. as the first speaker, who
developed from the subject, "Mer-
ingue," the thought that nothing is
unimportant, and made plea for op-
timism, self control and a true sense
t of relative values. w. S. Hibbard,
: '86, a member of the first class grad
uated from the school, welcomed the
class of 1918 in a cordial manner, and
: sustained his well-earned reputation
for humor. He reminded his hearers
that they would need to cultivate their
imagination and cited instances, as in
the case of Edison, Thoreau, Newton,
the Wrights, where this power had
opened up vast fields Of usefulness.
Miss Matte Philips responded in a
happy manner. Roy A. Bean, '99,
spoke upon" Conservation. He made a
strong plea for the conserving of
, physical and mental energies as well
as of the resources of the state and
nation. In responding to the toast,
"Work," Prof. Stannard mentioned in
; stances in which parents had in his
) that their children would never have
Stannard's opinion, this was the worst
thing that could befall child. as the
necessity for work is a saving grace
and that without it no person is able
to cope with the world. G. Leland
Green. 'o2. principal of the State
Agricultural school at Randolph,
gave a talk upon. Country Life
Problems and How to Solve Them. -
Mr.. Green spoke of the changes notice.
able in Barton in the ten years of his
absence, and paid tribute to Prof.
Stannard on his work in the school and
the love and respect he had received
and merited from his pupils. TIE
Monitor expects to print Mr.. Green's
toast in full in an early issue.
: At the business meeting following,
F. D. Pierce, 100, was elected presi.
! dent; Dean Corley, 10, vice president
and Mrs. J. F. Batchelder, '88, secre.
: tary and treasurer.
y The association desires in this way
to express its grateful appreciation OF
the untiring efforts of Mrs. Batcheldel
, in her work as secretary of the alumni
association.
: This notice of school events is no,
complete without mention of the pro
. motions which took place at 10 O'Clock
, Friday forenoon when reward fo1
u faithful work in all grades was recog
: nized by promotion to grades above.
With the exception of Miss Goss
teacher in the first grade and Mis-.
: Findlay in the fourth and fifth grade:
the entire faculty is expected to re
turn another fall. These teacher.
have given excellent satisfaction ant
it is to be regretted they cannot be
o retained.
r Prospects for a large school, es