The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-05-28
YEAR CLOSES FOR
CITY SCHOOLS
BOOKS LAID ASIDE FOR A vACA-
TON PERIOD OF THREE
MONTHS
OUR SCHOOLS ARE BETTER THAN EVER
And the Interest Taken BY the People
of the Community is Largely Re-
%sponsible For This Condition

SpOnSIDIe fOr MS SOhUltIOH
Once more the mighty hands on the
dial of the year have moved forward TO
the figure denoting the end of another
school year. Again have books been
laid aside and the children begun the
execution of the many plans for V a
cation which were laid during the long
hours passed in the school room. Va
cation is here. School is a thing of the
past. The sharp disappointments of
the school year are forgotten. Es-
pecially so by those who enter into
their play season with the knowledge
that their efforts during the past term
has brought the reward of going up
one step higher next year.
And each autumn sees new faces
enter the school room, each spring
sees well known pupils leave the
school and enter into further duties of
life, There were 20 young people who
went out from the school as graduates
this year with hands strong, brains
thinking, and hearts beating high with
hope fully realizing that the oppor-
tunities for success in the life they
are to enter upon will depend on how
we'll they spent their days in the
school which they are leaving.
The public schools of Bookings
have always been good. They are now
better than they have ver been be-
fore. The teachers selected have al
ways been capable. They have been
successful. Much of the success Of
the schools is the results of the care
full selection that have been made of
instructors. Another important ele-
ment has been the interest taken in
the schools and matters akin thereto
by the people of the city and commun-
ity. No school, no matter what may
be the ability of those in charge, can
succeed unless success is demanded,
anticipated and expected by the COM
munity served. And when the com.
munity surrounding the schools insist
on it being the best possible schools
they will insist in the attainment of
this condition by every mean in their
power. The commencement exercises
this yea were attended by probably
the greatest number of people yer
from being a purely local affair these
important finales have grown to be a
matter in which the whole county
takes interest. The audiences reflect
all portions of the county.
Next spring will see another class
step forward and take their departure
from the local school life. And the
next year and the next and so on and
on and on. 1t behooves the people of
the city to take an ever greater inter
est in this, the most important insti-
tuition. This great institution which
takes the children in their early youth
and in a few years fits them for the
duties of the life which is to come is
the most important institution in our
community life. 1t stands upon a
parity with the churches, indeed it is
as important to the churches as they
are to it. Long may the Bookings
schools continue to be the best in the
land.
Students who have obtained senior
standings and will be so classified at
the opening of school in the fall are
as follows:
AIvia Anderson, Guy Austin, Frank
Bergiem, Albert Browning, Frances
Carlisle, Harriet Cheever, Leroy Child
ester, Otto Dybdahl, Daisy Elston,
Julia Enright, Nellie Erickson, Leon
ard Fem, Harry Halverson, Frances
Harza, Erma Hubbart, Delbert Jerde,
Harold Knutson, Ora A. Larson, Leila
Linn, Claire Madden, Mabel Bitterness,
Edith Poole, Andrew Pultz, Mabel
Pultz, Pearl Randall, Clara Shanbark-
er, Hazel Skiff, Esther Some:s,
Dorothy Squirting, Delmer S~wenehart,
Cecile Swift, Albert Thompson, Walter
Whitmus, Claude Vinegar, Rhea
Roach.
Students with junior standings:
Ebert Austin, Hilman Alrick, Char.
mion Brictson. Charles Culhane, Jay
Grinols, Elmer Iverson, Zula Johnson,
Andrew LOban, Edna Morris. Carl
Whitmus, George Biggar. Walter Blk
Ter, Cecil Brown, G%enevieve Caldwell,
Lyman Caldwell, Horace Campbell,
Genevieve Chappell, Olive Cole. Coe