The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-22
CLASS DAY
ON THE LAWN
Large Audience Enjoyed Ex-
ercises on High School
Grounds Yesterday
WEATHER PERFECT
FOR SUCH OCCASION
School, Numbering 50 Efforts of
Participants Greeted with Applause
Ivy Planted.

\ very large audience enjoyed the
class day exercises of the high school
on the north lawn in front of the high
school building yesterday afternoon.
The day was perfect for such an oc-
casion, permitting of the wearing of
light summer frocks without being I'M
pleasantly warm, for the heat of the
sun was tempered with a cooling
breeze. The efforts of each participant
in the program were greeted with APP
plause.
The high school orchestra, stationed
on the porch, played an opening selec
tion and then the marshals, Joseph
Gray Estey and George Bernard Chase,
both of the junior class, escorted the
members of the high school faculty to
their seats nearest the platform which
had been erected fo~ the occasion. Re
turning to the school building, the mar
shals performed a similar duty for the
seniors, 50 in number.
Hugo Arthur Johnson, class presi-
dent, gave a brief address IN which he
lpaid to the faculty the appreciation of
the class for guiding them in their
studies during four years and expressed
1 the hope that the class would always
IproVe an honor to the institution.
| Clifford Henry Rate, whose address
was ON Vocational Education in B. II
/ s, mentioned the fact that wood work
1 ing was an industry that provided the
most general employment in Brattle
boro and that dairying and agriculture
were the largest industries of the state
/ Opportunity to study any of these while
in high school would tend to keep some
pupils longer at their studies than i.
the case at present.
II The class poem by Porter c. Spencer
was recited by him effectively, as fol
lows:
Come, classmates all, and gather
To sing our parting song
With ev'ry heart rcsoundin@
The echo, clear and strong,
Wen sing of joys and memories:
OF happy years, of springtime, tell
For all our hearts are with thee,
! Dear school we love so we'll;
For all our hearts are with thee.
Dear school we love so well.
When life's great cares o 'ertake us
And might is matched with might.
And constant struggles shake us
4 With doubtings of the right
God grant that we may hearkcn bacL
70 those past years, so swiftly gone
And ever gain from memory
thought to guide us on;
And ever gain from memory
thought to guide us on.
The address by Miss Emorov Wilde
was, in general, an historical review
of high school work in BrattIehort
from the period of the first organiza
ton of the high school to the gradua
ton of the present class, the largest il
the history of the school The most i'm
portant historical features were uiyel
and many of the prominent teacher
, were mentioned. The fact that the pres
. ent building is 81 years old, she said
: is difficult for visitors to believe he
: cause it is so well preserved.
The class history was divided thi
: year into four parts. Each of thes
f; parts provided opportunity for touche
: of humor or sentiment that were espe
/. cially appreciated by faculty and mem
(; bers of the school. Miss Janette Lee
nora Smith, who gave the history 0
: the freshman year, told of the class en-
. tering - strong and in athletics Gale
5 to mind that the school did not win
J. baseball or football game or the trac
: meet that year.
; Miss Amy Isabelle Moran, who gay
|. the history of the sophomore year, sal
/ that 60 of the original members cor
). tinued in the class the second year an
!. a presidential election which PEI
, mitted women to vote, for the first tim
q in Vermont, was one of the feature.
d as was the organization of a cookin
class, the products of which were nc
a always as intended.
d Miss Leila Simonds Knapp, in he
: review of the junior year, spoke of til
!. basketball game between the East an
West sides of Main street, played fc
y the benefit of the athletic fund, tn
: production of Princess Chrysanthemun
= the Washington trip and the Lati
play, among the other bright memorie
of that year.
Andrew George Osteyee brought tn