The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-24
ALUMNI Of VALLEY
CITY HIGH SCHOOL

The Valley City High school will
have graduated at the end Of this
school year 10 classes from her doors.
n The first commencement was in 1896
Since that time the alumni has grown
l from four to over 3O0 The largest class
ever graduated was the class Of 1914,
with 40 members. The class of 1910
comes next with a membership OF 80.
Approximately rs per cent of the High
N school graduates have attended a
higher institution Of learning Sixty
three Of the alumni have attended col
lege. The university at Grand Forks
gets most of our graduates, while
/ Michigan, Minnesota and even Har-
ward and Yale have received Valley
City students. Twenty-Five have at
tended the University of North Da-
kota. Michigan ranks second with
II local graduates and Minnesota Is
third with eight. One or more Valley
City representatives have been found
in 16 other colleges The class of 1916
still holds the record for the number
of college graduates, having six. The
class Of 1918, however, has six men,
|. bers in college and the class of 1912
has seven attending college.
A great many High school gradu-
ates have taken advantage Of the
proximity Of the Normal to complete
the one year professional course there.
At the present over 80 have attended
or graduated from the Normal school
and IS are in attendance now. The
alumni can count among their num-
bers graduate of the Mayville Nor
NAL, one from Moorhead Normal and
one from the Normal at Mankato.
Thirteen of the High school graduates
have attended schools of art, music
or other special work.
The class of 1886 had four men,
bers. They are Dena Wegner, William
T.. Craswell, Edwin Mason and David
Ritchie The three boys of the class
have gone into business and the girl
has become the wife of William Bail
lie, of Harvey, N. D. Miss Wagner
was a successful teacher for several
years, and just previous to her mar
riage taught in the local city schools.
After graduation William Crasweil
took up bookkeeping as his work and
was for some time city auditor. Dur
ing the past several years he has act
ed as the manager of the Valley City
Telephone exchange and has made a
decided success of his work.
Ed Mason and David Richie, after
their graduation, attended Illinois
Wesleyan university. Both went into
athletics, at which there was no
chance in High school, and both won
their letters on the football team,
Richie played four years on the team.
After graduating from college Mr..
Richie returned to Valley City and
= began to study law in the Office of
Winterer & Winterer. He is now as
ISOLATED with Herman Winterer in the
firm of Winterer & Richie.
= Ed. Mason completed his course at
Wesleyan and went on to Harvard
university. While there he was a
member of the renowned Harvard
:, football team and won a name for him
self on the gridiron. Mason took up
the practice Of law in Valley City after
his graduation from Harvard. He is
now engaged in farming at Ryder,
N. D.
George Walks finished his High
school course in 1897 and then at
tended the Gem City business college
at Quincy, Ill. Since that time he has
taught in some of the principal BUSH
ness colleges of the country, including
schools at San Francisco, Brooklyn,
Quincy, Eiyria, Ohio, and Evansville,
Ind. Walks was once the president
Of the National Business Teachers
association. At present he is en-
gagged in work as auditor in the postal
savings system of the departmental
service at Washington. ."%% &
Harvey schilling, also Of the class
of 1897, went to school at Earlham
college and won his letter in athletic
work there. He has taken up engi.
neering work and is in the reclama-
ton service of the government. At
present he is in Idaho, where he is
superintendent on an irrigation pro-
ject near Boise. "a w. - / +.
Rev Healy, the third member of
the class, was for some years, after
his graduation, employed by the
Peake Insurance agency. Mr.. Healy