The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-17
DAY
ON THE LAWN
Large Audience Listened to
Entertaining Program
Yesterday
OUTLINE OE THE
VARIOUS NUMBERS
Glass Was Favored With Ideal Wealth
er-Planting of 1918 Ivy Feature
of the Program-High School Or
Chestra Furnished Music.

graduating class of the high school yes |
terdaT and a cooling breeze tempered |
the hot rays of the sun that made |
conditions even more enjoyable than |
they otherwise would have been for |
the several hundred students, parents
and invited guests who gathered on
tie high school lawn at + clock for
the class-jay feature OF the commences
ment exercises.
The class marched to their places on
the lawn under the guidance of the
marshals, Paul Addison Chase and
Jacob Poor Estey of the junior class.
Music by the high school orchestra
/ followed.
The president 5 address by Robert
Gordon Chamberhn was a brief re
sumo of the four years the class had
spent together as members of the high
school and in conclusion spoke of the
/ debt the members owe the school au-
thorities for the interest taken in
them and their work which will al
ways be a source of inspiration to
/ them.
Miss Goldie Mae Johnson, in her ad-
/ dress on The Commercial Course, spoke
OF the Introduction OF the course in
i 1905 because it had been decided that
+ the school was not doing enough for
the students who were to 20 directly
into practical life. She gave statistics
showing how large a percentage Of the
students had taken the course in whole
OF in part.
Lawrence Gates Sherman in his adj
dress on Athletics said that athletics
are a greater problem in high schools
than IN colleges because of the youth
tUlncsa Gf the participants and the
want of proper facilities for training
which has brought demand for teach
orS who can teach physical training
/ Business men, he said. are recognizing
the value OF physical as we'll as mental
training. He urged that athletics be
treated as an essential part of the
school system, which implies recog-
milton Of their Importance and a con
sideration of the good points to be
preserved and the evils to be eradicat-
ell.
The class poem, by Carrie Mabeue
DuntOu, was as follows:
Among the Green Mountains a red
schoohouse stands,
Which sends forth strong men to all
far distant lands;
Yet toward Alma Mater their thoughts
often turn,
And for the past joys of their school
life they vcarn.
= In mem 'rv they hallow each nook and
each wall,
Thiek-shaded by ivy, so glossy and
tall.
0 dear B. II. $, may we all be to YOU
A. your sons of old, ever faithful
and true,
/ Through four years our teachers have
helped us each day
| In conquering the problems which BAT
/ fed our way
May we oft be mindful when we gain
/ success.
That we owe our good fortune to theiI
faithfulness.
Though moss covered ruins may fal
to decay,
Yet thick clustering memories shal
ne 'er pass away.
Let pride in our High School keep al
our lives clean,
While we win great honors for Nine
teen Thirteen.
= At last, in the world, we are takin,
our place
To meet the great problems of lf
face to face.
It's then we Will learn every day t
aim higher,
And by patient effort attain our de
sire.
Alma Mater to US ever dearer vii
RS grow;
Wen think of her always, whercvc
we go;
And soon we will learn, through on
trust in the right,
BY Labor and Honor to win ever
tight.
The class history covering tn
. freshman and sophomore years was gil
ha en- by Marjorie Elizabeth Leach, coy
ering comprehensively the activities c
the class for those two eventful per
DDS and in some instances particula
!. ling regarding individual members.
! The history of the last two years h
y Evelyn Leila Staples was in a simil;
vein and equally entertaining, espe
l. tally for those most concerned.
~ Evelyn HawIey Durham, with h
class prophecy, made the usual pla
upon the supposed abilities of the di
fercnt members in various walks al
lanes of life, describing them as 81
met them OF An extended tour of tn
country and Europe.
. In her phophet-on-prophet Gertru'
Staples Plummer found equal oppc
tunity for amusing references as
the future of the class prophet, who
she found in the West while on a TT
to California.
The ivy address, The Beauty
} BrattIeboro, by Louise Belize Broe
ington, was attuned to the beauty al
grandeur of the hills and valleys