Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-23
Glass Day Exercises.

The first of the annual commence
ment exercises of the Brattleboro high
school were those of class day Satur-
day afternoon at $50 o clock in the
main room of the high school build
ing The inclement weather made it
impossible to hold them on the lawn
as is customary.
Shortly after the hour set Miss
Helen Madeline Hall, II, played a
march and the members of the grad
uating class under leadership of How
ard Holland Thayer and Dwight Bee
man Fairnan, both of the junior class
as marshals, marched into the room
and took seats in the center.
President Sanford Corlins Plumb
gave the president s address, in which
he spoke of the class having complet
ed the first important step in its ca
reer and expressed the gratitude and
appreciation of the members to the
principal and faculty members for
their patience and efforts in behalf of
the members; to the school committee
for providing such excellent instruct
ors and such good equipment; and to
their parents, many of whom had been
forced to much self denial in order to
give them the opportunity to obtain
high school education.
Miss Hazel Dorothea Wentworth
gave an address on Modern Office
Equipment which had to do with the
mechanical aids that have modernized
office methods of the present day. She
spoke of the telephone, typewriter,
multigraph, dictaphone, addressOgraph
envelope sealer, stamp atfiXer, compi-
lating machines, check protector copy
ing press and card index, among the
numerous appliances that are the
equipment of almost every modern
office.
George Bernard Chase gave the
class poem, of which he is the author,
written to be sung to the tune of Ami
ci, as follows;
Swift the years have been in passing
Since we entered here,
Bearing us so surely onward
To this closing year.
Now the future stands before us
All unknoWn-'tis true
But we face it with the courage
Learned the four years through.
AS we struggle onward, upward,
In our divers ways,
! Lovingly our thoughts will wander
To our high school days.
Alma Mater, thee we honor,
Alma Mater true.
In our hearts tonight We're pledgin9
Loyalty to you.
Chorus.
Loyalty to Alma Mater,
Do your best, no less,
Be the motto that we carry
From loved b. II. $.
Raymond Dowley Bishop had an ad
dress on Engineering-It Appeal t.
Young Men. 1t is one of the oldes
of professions, and the art of survey
ing was known even to the Egyptians
and the military roads of ancien
Rome are studied by modern engin
GERS. He divided his subject into tire,
parts - civil, mechanical and electri
cal. The civil engineer especia
field is that of developing and improv
ing the transportation problems of tn
country and among the opportunitie
of the mechanical engineer he spok
of the construction of motors and ma
chine guns as among the more impor
tant at present while that of the cleo
trical engineer embodies power trans
mission, wireless telephony and wire
less telegraphy.
The history of the class of 1916 wa
presented in a novel form by Mis-
Gertrude May Austin, Miss Ruth MAJ
iorie Hale, Miss Lamoille Clark Lang
worthy and Miss Mary Elizabeth No
ran. They met on the stage as if a
class reunion year hence and i
reminiscent conversation recalled man
incidents of their four years in tn
high school, which were much appr'
ciated by the members of the schoC
= and in numerous instances by others
> Joseph Gray Estey selected coul
r room with himself juror as the bi
: sis for his class prophecy and his for
!. east of the futures of his classmatC
+ furnished them much amusement.
: The ivy ode by Sylvia MeCur
Crosby was given by her and the eloi