Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

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Beatrice Kath- Florence Eva Hill
/ ryn Davenport, Class Ode
Roll Cali and
Gifts
the party at Alice Wakefields home
which was greatly enjoyed
On May 22nd the class was given
reception by the Junior class which
was considered one of the best recep-
tions ever given by the Junior class
of the Gardiner High school. Our
trip to Maranacook proved to be ex-
eeedingly enjoyable. The surprise par
ty given Mr.. Conant butt a week ago
proved one of the events of the school
year. With the aid of the Junior class
a banquet was given the Cony and
Gardiner baseball boys.
The Mexican Situation was ably
handled by George Henry Cheney.
The essay showed a thorough study of
the situation and a vast amount of
reading necessary to state the situa-
ton so clearly and logically. The au-
thor of this essay was the winner of
the prize offered by Mrs. Laura E.
Richards, two volumes of the Letters
and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe,
which were presented to Mr.. Cheney
by Supt. Chase, as he was the young
man showing general excellence in
work during the entire course.
Class Prophecy
The class prophecy by Hazel Flea
nor Cobb, was a clever bit Of humor.
Beginning with the tale of Aneas, Miss
Cobb disposed of the members of the
class as follows: Pearl Albee is to be-
come a Partisan modiste; George Che
ney, the principal of the new Gardi-
ner High school, with Alice Fossett
as an assistant. teaching modern Ian
guages and eventually becoming a
! queen; Mary Hamilton, a waitress
Stanley Hartman, second Bud
Fisher; Florence Hill, q poetess of
great renown; Frank Libby, head
druggist in Burke's drug store; Carl
ton Philbrook and Arlie Smith, both
ardent woman suffrage supporters;
Edward Winslow, missionary in Lab.
radoc: Charlotte Patterson will open
law office and practice law in Car
diner: Elsie Peacock is to become a
deaconess; Louise Pease. marry and
live in Auburn; Paul Wiley, chauf-t
feur for the Parker House, Boston;
Arthur Dulac. a great astronomer;
Beulan Donaghy is to furnish night
lunches for weary travellers; Kathleen
Monaghan, head nurse at the Maine
General hospital; Gerome Talbot is to
succeed his father in the ice business,
Ruth Lashow. a bookkeeper, and An
ME KcarneS is to be her assistant;
Milton True. athletic coach; Cordelia
Brady is to become Signorine Bradlno
and Is to preside over the symphony
Orchestra in Randolph: Guy Snowe,
mayor of Gardiner; Ray MacFarlane
is to become great inventor, and
Gladys MacAdams will charm vast
audiences from behind the footlights;
Carroll WEIGH is to conduct a restau-
rant in Mechanic Falls: Charles Rob-
erts is to be superintendent of the
State Asylum for the Insane, and Be
atrice Davenport is to be chauffeur
of note and the winner of the Wander
bilt cup races.
Colorado and the Labor Question"
was the subject of the essay of Fred,
erick Ray MacFarlane. Florence Eva
Hill read an original poem entitled
THE Destruction of Pompeii."
Vaedictory
The charming feature of the evening
was the valedictory written and deliv-
cred by Elsie Airline Peacock She
spoke as follows:
Parents, relatives, teachers, you who
have made possible for us these four
happy years just past. school mates
whom we have learned to know and
love, alumni. of whose number we
soon shall be, all the dear friends of
our High school days. whose friend
ship we shall strive to deserve through
life, we thank you for all your kind
nesses and favors to us, and especially
for this last kindness in gathering
here tonight as we say farewell
to all those things with which we have
been most closely associated for four
years.
We are assembled here tonight with
double purpose; first to receive from
our school her dismissal and her bless
ing; and second to show to a certain
degree to those who have shown so
much unselfish affection and interest
in our happiness and welfare, what
we have accomplished 1t Is with
this aim in view that we have pre-
pared the program to which you have
so kindly listened, not understanding
perhaps all the illusions in our his
| tory. smiling indulgently at jokes
which to you may seem weak and
! pointless. but which to us have ev-
eryone it's significance.
/ And now that the story is told and
we are about to receive our diplomas,
the mark of the approval and satisfac-
/ ton of our school, there remains but
one thing more, to say farewell.
| Now it is possible TO make this say
| ing of farewells very mournful bust
ness indeed Many valedictorians
seem to consider their performances
incomplete unless they contain just SO
many illusions to the dear dead
days." doleful references to the cold
cruel world that awaits US, and fun
| eral hopes that we may meet in a
better land" This sort Of thing !s