White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-08
SEVEN GRADUATES FROM COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
w. E. Billings in Commencement Address
Points Out Necessity Of Clean Living
to Attain Worthy Achievement

The graduation exercises of the
White Pine county high school were
held at the Photoplay. Friday night,
in the presence of an audience which
filled the theater to its capacity. The
theater was prettily decorated, the
class colors black and gold being used
with good effect The high school
orchestra furnished music, and the
exercises throughout held the inter-
ested attention of those present. The
class of 1913 to whom the diplomas
were presented included Myrtle E..
Baylis, James Chryst, Pearl A. Dec
ker, Waldo John Duddleson, Clark
E. Oldfield, Carrie C. Riepe, Lee s.
Scott. The class motto was "Vineit
qui laborat.' and the class flower the
golden rod The program was as
follows:
March, Sweet Sixteen Kerry Mills
High School Orchestra
Invocation. ....... Rev. J. w. Gum
Salutatory. ..... Miss Myrtle Baylis
Vocal Solo .............S Selected
Mrs. F. F. Nevin
Commencement Address ....
.......... VIM. Z. Billings
Selection. Tannhauser -. Wagner
High School Orchestra
Valedictory -. Miss Carrie Riepe
Presentation of Diplomas ....
............. II. A. Comins
Selection. Naughty Marietta. -.
Victor Herbert
High School Orchestra
w. K. Billings in his commence
ment address gave some sound ad-
vice to the graduates upon the essen
tial qualities for a successful life. and
brought out forcibly the thought that
education is a word of broad mean
ing and that with learning other
qualities are necessary to reach the
heights of great achievement.
Mr.. Billings Address
| congratulate you, young men and
women, upon the completion of your
High School course For four years
you have been training yourselves
TO take up more intelligently your
duties in life. You are standing on
the portal of life and are looking for
ward into the future with ali the hope
and enthusiasm of youth Your eyes
are turned toward the east and your
faces are glorificd in the effulgence
CT the coming dawn. Yea are for
tunate in beginning YOUR careers un-
der such auspieious conditions. New
er before in the history OF the human
race has there beer such century
as the one in which YOU are living
or such a country as the one you are
privileged to call your native land
the wisdom of the ages is your her
itage; the freedom won by your fore
fathers your legacy. There are more
opened to you for sue
cess today than the young men and
women of any former day and genera
tion have known. They are yours to
take advantage of if you will. Do
not listen tc the pessimists who con-
tinually whine about the lack of op-
portunity and tell you that every
thing Is now oyerdone or played out
1t IS true that the professions and vo-
cations are always crowded, but the
crowd you always find at the bottom.
There is always plenty of elbow room
at the top. There are as mary op-
portunities for here.sm as in the days
agone, as many opportunities for the
display = courage patriotism and
hest Of all, for the doh = Of honest
wcrk.
Down the long centuries eternally.
Again, again will rise Thermopylae;
Again. again a new Leonidas,
Must hold for God the imperiled pass.
As the long centuries run,
New Lexington will rise on Lexington.
And many a valorous Warren fall
Upon the imperiled wall"
TO grapple with the opportunities
and problems of this strenuous cen
tury of ours the world will demand
better trained men and women; il
will east aside with ruthless hand the
dullard and the laggard the boy
who has burnt out his energy and
nerve force in dissipation or rusted
them out in idleress Will win no
prizes in this competition, care not
how brilliant his genius or how splen-
did his equipment at the start. He
will have been lost sight of long be-
fore the tape is crossed. 1t is an old