Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-06-10

OA~SS
tion Exercises Friday Evening Will Close
School Work of the Year-Roster of the
High School Alumni Since Glass of 'o3
The commencement exercises of the |
city schools, which reach the end of
the years work with the close of this
week practically had its beginning on
Tuesday evening when the seniors,
together with Supt. Kuhnes, and corps
of teachers of the high school and
school officers were banquetted by |
the Juniors. The banquet, which was
served in the M. E. church basement,
by the ladies aid, was attended by
about fifty. The Juniors have a class
membership of over twenty and had
named Kinsell Johnston as their toast
master and following the course of
delicacies composing the banquet,
those surrounding the tables were
regaled with the wit and repartee of
both faculty and pupil to a degree
leaving the seniors of this years
and their hosts of Tuesday night who
form the class of '16, reminisence
of the past twelve months that will
long afford pleasant memories.
Tomorrow evening class of eight,
five girls and three boys, will receive
their diplomas and graduate from the
Langdon high school having completed
the four years course Of study. The
class of 1915 makes the twelfth class
to receive their diplomas as high
school graduates at the close of their
work in the school history of
Langdon. Tomorrow evenings pro-
gram, with the exception of a number
given by the girls glee club of the
high school and vocal solo by Mrs.
Fred L. Ober, is confined solely to the
address to the graduating class by DR..
f2sottfried Hult, on "Tests OF Educa-
tion, following which the diplomas
will be presented to the graduating
class by Chas. Hunter, the president
of the Langdon city school board. The
innovation in this years program is
one which the public readily under
stands with the constantly increasing
growth of the graduating class year
by year. DR.. Hult, of the faculty of
the state university, is a platform
talker whom it will we'll repay Lang.
don people to hear. The program
follows:
COMMEN CEMENT PROGRAM
Music. Summer Winds ....... Smith
Girls Glee Club
Invocation Rev. James Opie
Vocal Solo ......" Delight. ......... Luckstons
Mrs. Fred l.. ODER
Address. .....' Tests of Education Dr. HUI
Presentation of Diplomas s................
............ -. President Charles Hunter
CLASS RoLL--Bessie Braithwaite, Grace Dun
ford, Minnie Finerty, Lula Goodman Ell;
Catherine Lindsay, Cyril Halstead Radford
Marcus Davidson Smith, Mary Lucille Sullivan
CLASS OFFIcERs-Lucile Sullivan, president
Minnie Finerty, secretary and treasury.
CLASS MoTro-"Clmb. Though the Rocks b
Rugged
CLASS CoLoRs-Green and White
Class FLowER-White Lilacs
The alumni of the high school o
. Langdon city are now able to retro
spect their viewpoint over space O
twelve years, during which, in
cluding the class Of Is, which re
ceive their diplomas tomorrow, Fri
day evening, an aggregate of eight
7 pupils have passed from the hig
school room to take their sphere i
| life The first class of graduate
completed its four years course i
: 1908, under Superintendent Richar
I Hayward, and since then the process
' sion of Langdon boys and girls to pas
s from the school room to take up life
4 work in the world has gone steadil
3 on. 1t was not until along in 1912
: that with the increased facilitie
f afforded by the new $40, 200 scho,
y building after the fire, that the clas
. of graduates each year began to reac
e the size which it today forms. TIL;
t year there were fourteen young peop
g of this city who were handed the
d diplomas and had their names adde
a to the roster roll of the alumni of OF
8 high school. 1t will be noted in glan,
e ing over the list which follows tn:
o the year 1909 furnished the smalle
s class, there being two who gradl
j. ated in that year. But it will be r.
called that the year 1909, brougl
things in Langdon generally to
d standstill and for some time ther,
n after halted the progress of Langdon
e workers, both in the work-a-day al
the educational fields. We believe tn;
:. many of our readers of Langdon ar
o vicinity will find more than passir
interest in the roster of those wi