Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-16
COMMENCEMENT
WEEK TO Be ENDED
THURSDAY EVENING

At the conclusion of the commence
ment exercises tomorrow night TWEEN
ty-six more students will have COM
pleted their work in the local high
school and have passed out into the
world TO rustic for themselves in a
way that they have not known before
With them will go the best wishes of
all their former schoolmates, the fac
ulty and the citizens of the whole
community.
The commencement program TO be
given at the Central NJ. r. church to-
morrow night is as follows:
class March ..............O Orchestra
Plano SOLO .........,.. Miss Engel
Invocation ....... Rev. w. +. Doty
Vocal Duet ...............
Misses Nerna Downs and Marie Reed
Salutatory ............H Helen Gotta
Naledictory-"Out of School Life
into Lies School :. Edith Glass
Violin Solo ........ Mr.. Fred Slater
Address ...... Thornton A. Mills
Presentation of Diplomas $500.
............... Mr.. II. j. Leonard
vocal solo ..............M Mrs. Berry
Benediction ........ Rev. w. A. Bliss
Miss Helen Gotta in her salutatory
will have the following to say:
Parents, Friends Teachers and
Schoolmates-The class of 1915 wishes
to extend to you a most cordial well
come.
This, June II, 1915, is our day-our
last day of school life and we are
glad TO have our friends with us. You
have done much to help us toward
the goal for which every class is
,xrf,, a Il
this is our last day as students of
Belding High School we are both
proud and sorry. Proud because we
have at last gained our desire and
overcome all obstacles-sorry be-
cause we will part never TO be to-
gether again in this same way. 1t
makes us realize that we are indeed
going from school life into lifes
school.
The twelve years of, tchool life
just completed mean much to us.
They are the apprentice years TO life
and the diplomas we receive tonight
will be our passports into that UNI
known country where we will begin
our life work. Whatever honors we
may win in this land of the future
will reflect their glory beyond us TO
the institution which taught us 10 win.
We are the first class to have spent
all four high school years in the new
building, so that il seems i'm an es-
pecial way, TO belong to us. again we
who have a vivid remembrance of the
old. can better appreciate the new,
with all its advantages, than can any
of our successors.
I'VE welcome every one OF you.
Glass of 1916, we greet you most
heartily. We can well remember
with what eagerness we looked for
ward to our Senior year, but if the
coming year goes quickly, a has the
past one, you will all too soon find
yourselves at the goal we have reach
ed tonight We wish TO express our
heartiest congratulations for the sue
cesses you have won. and the hope
that your last year Will put no blot
on the escutcheon of your class and
that you will be worthy followers of
those who have gone before.
Again, in behalf of the Senior
class of 1915, / wish to extend most
cordial welcome to all.
Miss Edith Glass, as valedictorian,
will speak as follows on the subject,
"Out of School Life into Lies
school,:
Scattered all through our lives are
red letter days, that stand out in our
memory with a vividness which Moth
ing can blur. We have reached one
of these-our graduation day. While
we love to linger and think Of the
joys we have had during the days
which are gone, the very nature of
this occasion compels us to look for
ward and plan for the future.
However much we dislike TO grow
up our motto, "Out of School into
LIES School" shows us most clearly
that another epoch OF our lives is
gone. The first was completed when
we started 10 school, the second is
finished with our graduation. When
one period i'm our career is brought
to close, we must Immediately enter
another. We can have no recess be-
tween the two. so now we enter the