Arizona republican., 1913-06-08
COMPLETION IF
 YEARS WORK
Final Exercises of Com menccmcnt Week at the Tempe Normal School = Dr. AIiIlspaugh of Los An gcIcs Delivers Address

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 The Nouor medal, given annually to the student of the Tempe Normal school. who during the last two years of the course makes the highest indi- viduaI average was awarded on Friday night to Miss Lillian WiXom of Thatcher. with an average of 91.5. This medal is named for the donor Dr. Bs B. Mouer of Tempe. who in addition to being an enthusiastic booster for the school has been for number of years d member of the board of trustees of the school
 The second medal of importance also given at commencement time is the Harvard medal given by the Harvard club or Arizona to the student of the Normal school who submits the best original essay. This medal was won by Miss Emily Wilson of Bisbee. to the title, Life in an Arizona Mining Camp.
 The diplomas were presented to the class by Governor George w. r. Hunt. while the commencement address was given by Dr. J. F MilIspaugh, presi- dent of the Los Angeles, California, Normal school. Miss Anne Blount of Tempe was the valedictorian of the class and delivered one of the most WomanIy utterances ever heard in the halls of the Normal
 There was quite a deal of rivalry for the MOuer medal. Four members of the class pressed Miss Wixom close for the prize. they were Miss Grace KfttIe of Miami, With a grade of 90.S; Miss Eva Behn of Phoenix with a grade of S93; Miss Viola Guldin, Tempe. SS6 and Miss Vera AIcNuIty of Prescott with grade of SS.3.
 Following the close of the more for maI numbers of the program Presi- dent Matthews of the school took the platform and gave a number of inter esting statistics. He stated that the attendance for the year was 329 in the Normal and 192 in the training school. an increase of twenty-five per cent over that of the previous year.
 This year the first diploma ever awarded for the completion of the aca- Gemic course was made. It was given to Julius A Goodwin of Tempe. MT. Goodwin is the first of 535 graduates to complete the course.
 pr. Mil!spaugh's Address.
 Dr. J F Millspaugh delivered the address 10 the graduating class And throughout his discourse he command- cd unusual attention from every one in the house. all interested in hearing the departing words to the forty-nine grad uates. pr. Millspaugh said in part:
 That this is no ordinary occasion, everything about us gives evidence Brilliant flowers. stirring music hope fuI faces-aI things seen and heard in II, claiming it a festival of joyous sfgnifi- canoe, We are assembled here not merely for the purpose of bestowing upon these chosen youth the we'll earned laurel wreath. but of sending them forth to achieve new and more difficult success in the larger school of the world. If these commencement celebrations form the conclusion of an important past, they are at the same time the beginning of much more serious and critical future. Tn it's high est sense, education is preparation for service. However much, then, we re- joice with our young friends here upon the successful completion of so much of their educational journey, it is not m hour for cOngra tuIatiOn merely. Those who graduate tonight, of whose achievements we are proud, are putting aside old tasks only to take up new duties no less strenuous and urgent. It is to stimulate and encourage them s they lay hold of the large work and to invoke the blessings of heaven upon them as they assume the graver re- responsibilities which education imposes that parents and teachers and friends unite in the exercises of this hour"
 pr. Millspaugh continuing in his dis 1 course spoke of the responsibilities, ! which, in view of the new conditions | affecting society and the national life, l seriously concern everyone: responsi- l biities which the educated men and | women of the country may not evade: l and which, a solemn obligation, rest | upon those whose duty it is to aid in i the rearing of youth and the moulding 1 of the public opinion of the nation. He i also urged as a public need of the pres 1 ent times the development of new ideals of patriotism.
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