The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-05-28
BR0OK|NGS HIGH
GRADUATES CLASS
LOCAL SCHOOL GRANTS OIPLO-
MAS TO TWENTY-NlNE ON
FRIDAY EVENING
CLASS PLAY GIVEN THURSDAY EVENING

Commencement Exercises Are Of Ar
Unusually High Order-Are En-
joyed by Packed Houses
Last week the Brookings high school
observed its twenty-fourth annual com
mencement. The class play was given
at the opera house on Thursday ever
ing, and the class day exercises were
held Friday evening, Twenty-nine
young people received their diplomas
this year, which is a good big class,
and strange to say fourteen, or nearly
one-half are boys. Superintendent
Browning tells us hat the members
completed their work with high stand.
ings, and as the exercises were as
good if not better than have ever been
/ given here, we judge that the class is
on the whole one of the brightest the
school has turned out. The Register
joins with the numerous friends and
relatives in congratulations to the
young people upon the successful
completion of their high school course.
The class presented as their play,
The Rivals" on Thursday evening.
This is a rather difficult play for high
school students, but the class put it
on in fine shape. 1t would be unfair
to commend any particular one, as all
of the parts were taken cleverely, and
the performance passed off without a
hitch. The house was sold out on
Thursday evening and as there were
many who wanted to see it who were
unable to get tickets the play was pre-.
scented again on Saturday evening.
The cast was as follows:
Sir Anthony Absolute. Harold Hoover
Captain Absolute (Ensign Beverly
Hubble Pickett
Faulkland Ray Bunday
Acres Lynn Cole
Sir Lucius O"Trigger. James Revell
Fag Alfred Ashbaugh
David .Hara Hyde
Thomas, the Coachman
Clifton Walters
Servant Frank Eberlein
Mrs. Malaprop Edith Irish
Lydia Languish .~.....Jessie Caldwell
Julia Laura Pult8
Lucy Ruth Buck
The class day exercises on Friday
evening were, in our opinion, as good
as has ever been given by the school.
The program was thoroughly enjoy
able, the presidents address and the
class history deserving special men
ton. Instead of the hackneyed class
prophesy the class put on a one-act
play, Ten Years Hence" during which
the future Of the members was re-
vealed by three witches. This play
vas cleverly carried u by the actors,
and the hits furnished much amuse-
ment. At the close of the class pro-
gram the graduates were presented by
Principal Dillon, who gave a short
outline of the work that they had com
pleted, and the diplomas were confer
red by Superintendent Browning on
behalf of the school board. Excellent
rp,cio ,,o. fnrniehAJ hyy Chrictnncan1c
orchestra.
Following is the program given by
the class:
Presidents Address-Discipline.. So.
Hubert Mathews
Piano Solo-Au Matin ........ GODDARD
Mamie Honan
Class Poem-The Potter's Shop.
Laura Wood
Girls Chorus-AmorosO. .Boex
Ruth Feeney, May Hendricks, Mamie
Honan, Edith Irish, Ruby Lien, Laura
Nelson, Ruth Peterson, Laura Wood
Class History Ruth Peterson
Male Quartette
Happy Days are Gliding
Alfred Ashbaugh, Clair Gaylord, Joy
Nicholson, Hubert Mathews
Class Oration-Opportunity ........
Leonard Ladd
Charge to the Juniors Eugene Wiz
"Ten Years Hence"
First Witch Lvla Slocum
Second Witch ...... Matte Culbertson
Third Witch ......... johanna Olson
Mayor of Bookings Ruth Feeney
President of College. Laura Nelson
Following is the class roll:
Alfred M. Ashbaugh, Ruth Buck, Ray
A. Bunday. Jessie o. Caldwell. Lynn
N. Cole. Matte e. Culbertson, Frank
Leslie Eberlein. Ruth G.. Feeney. Clair
E.. Gaylord, Lizzie Ginsburg, Mamie e.