The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-06-13
Closing of Oak Grove School.
BY Bentley Mackay.

Interesting exercises ON the 2pd
and 3rd instants marked the close
Of the most successful school year
the Oak Grove Agricultural High
School has ever known. On Tuesday
evening an entertainment was held.
The program was an interesting one,
and was presented to a large assem-
bly, of patrons and friends.
The graduation exercises were held
Wednesday night, when diplomas
were awarded to Misses Consuele
Brown, Theresa Daigle and Mabel
Dixon, Charles Brown, Milton Fridge
and John Deitsch.
The class motto, "OnWard is Our
Aim" was the appropriate one Sc
lected. The class colors were ma
room and white, and the flower, the
American Beauty rose.
Miss Mabel Dixon delivered the
salutatory, speaking of the many
happy days the class had spent to-
gether, welcoming the patrons and
friends who honored them with their
presence, and expressing the hope
that the future would hold for all
as much happiness as the present.
The prophecy was delivered by
Miss Consuelo Brown, and brilliant
indeed were her predictions for the
future of her classmates.
An appropriate poem was recited
by Miss Theresa SDaigle.
Milton Fridge read the class his
tory. beginning with the time the
class entered high school as crude
freshmen and recounting their ex-
ploits up to the time they be-
came polished seniors ready to re-
ceive their diplomas and enter into
the world to carve a name for them
selves.
Charles Brown read the class will,
in which they bequeathed to the
teachers all the. grammatical errors
the class may have made, all their
poorly written themes in their Eng
lish classes, as Well as the reams
of experiments in chemistry, zool-
ogy, botany and physics. He ex-
pressed the hope that the teachers
would guard and cherish these in
remembrance of their efforts, but
hoped the class which takes their
place will not add TO the store, but
will be SO perfect that poorly writ
ten theme or experiment will be-
come memory of ether days. The
will ended thus witnessed this
day, June 8, 1914, by the Duroc-Jer.
sey and Tamworth pigs, the Brown
Leghorn chickens and Indian Run
ner ducks of the Oak Grove school
farm" The signatures of the grad
yates followed.
Leslie Osterberber delivered the
Juniors farewell address. He ex-
pressed regret they they were to
lose their schoolmates here, but hop
ed that in the near future they
might all be united again at some
other seat Of learning.
John Deitseh delivered the vale
dictory. In clear, oratoricaI tones
he expressed many beautiful senti-
ments for the long friendship of the
class and hoped this would not mean
farewell, but that they would still
endeaVor to keep in touch with
each other and above all keep the
memory Of their graduation night
as the happiest Of their lives.
Supt. J. L. Rusca delivered a short
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which he congratulated the teach
ers for their good work, the patrons
for their hearty cooperation and
the students for their good show
ing, and as reward of merit he
presented to the six graduates their
diplomas.
The speaker of the evening was
Col. JW. Nicholson, of the Louisiana
State University, who spoke of the
wonderful work the school is doing,
not only along literary lines but ag-
ricultural ones as we'll. He reas-
serted the statement of supt. Rusca
that mo school can stand station
ary; it must either advance or go
backward" and he pointed with par
donable pride to the fact that Oak
Grove did the best work Of the par
ish and leads the state in agricul-
tural work.
In closing the exercises, Prof. l..
S. Bolin thanked the faculty for their
hearty cooperation, stating that not
to- one did the hdnors belong, but
to ALL He also thanked the patrons
for their aid and expressed the hope
that with the same or another
corps Of teachers Oak Grove would
do even better work next year.