Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-09
Class Of 10 Gardiner I Iigh
School Holds Successful
Graduating Exercises

of 1916, Gardiner High school, were held
Thursday evening at the Coliseum
which was filled to it's capacity by rel
atives, friends and we'll wishers of the
class. The stage was lastly draped in
the class colors, red and white, and the
side and rear balconies. where the mem
bers of the under classes were seated
were adorned in the class colors and
emblems of the various classes.
The class of '16 consists of the fol-
lowing members, who were seated upon
the stage and were marshaled to their
places by Abraham Brisk: Abraham LIN
coin Brisk, Florence Gertrude Brown,
Dwight Lawrence Davis, Mabel Nye Dill,
Frank Elyn Dudley, Leon Edward Dulac,
Lawrence William Emerson, Lloyd Co
burn Erskine. Harry Louis Goldberg
Abraham Goldberg, Ida Ethel Goldstein,
Ethel Nictoris Hall, Alton True Hamlln.
Warren Raymond Hayes. John Edward
Hickey. Harold Wesley Hill. Lloyd Wes-
ley Hunt, Ruth Hazel Hunt, Elinor ORA
rer Jewell, Florence Rel Jones, Julia
Teresa, Kerans, Rachel Messer. Arch
Hiram Morrell John Sidney Martin,
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Paul Price Ridley, Andrew Cunningham
Sugar. Helen Frances Sherman, Doris
Annie SWEET, Beatrice Elsie Tyler Hele
Trafton Ware. Josephine Catherine VI h.
len, Mary Elizabeth Wiley. Benjam
| Daniel Wolman. The class president
Abraham Brisk and the secretary an3
| treasurer Miss Beatrice Tyler The
| class motto is "Vincit Qui Labarat'
! Gle conquers, who iabors)
| The High school orchestra. under the
supervision Of Prof. II. G. Jebo. added
much to the pleasure Of the evening,
| Their rendition of the following num-
| hers was excellent: Capital City March,
| Hungarian Dance No. ), Poet and Peas
! ant Overture. The invocation was given
by Rev. H. S. Dow.
The salutatory by Leon E. Dulac was
cleverly written and eloquently delivered.
1t was we'll received. as was the essay
on Commercial Training by Miss Florence
G. Brown. The essay illustrating the
Practical Value of the Study of Modern
Languages, by Paul P. Ridley, was one
of the features of the evening. In this
Mr. Ridley acted as interpreter between
an American and Frenchman, the for
! HleI part DSiIlS ldhCIl W many Noi"pNt .
and the latter by Lawrence Emerson.
This was followed by the
/ Presentation Of Gifts
Miss Elizabeth Wiley made the pre-
| sentation of gifts, opening with a
clever, we'll written prologue and then
presented the gifts, each carrying
some especial remembrance of events
that have occurred during their school
life.
The science department was represented
by Benjamin D. Wolman. whose demon
stration of the electric bell was clearly
illustrated by the use of apparatus
The class prophecy is always looked
| forward to with eager interest.
Class Prophecy
! The class prophecy was clever
piece of work from the pen of Law
renee w. Emerson. Its eloquent de-
livery added much to the pleasure OF
the auditors. After a few brief in
troductory remarks he said: 'Believ-
ing as I do in equal suffrage, I decided,
after much deliberation, that there was
no doubt but what the position OF man
and woman of 20 years from now
would be reversed, after many 1utlle
attempts to beguile the Muses. INTO
giving me an inspiration, | at last sue
ceeded through the happy medium OF
cold mince pie.
| Miss Beatrice E. Tyler was the valedlc-
| torian and her paper was cleVeriy VIII
ten. pleasingly delivered one which open
ed by calling attention to Fundamental
principles and standards of civilization
and the change in the last four years
brought about by the great European
war. At the outbreak of the connect
| learning, scholarship and education OF
all kinds had reached high point, aho
! America and European countries were
| prosperous and flourishing and in lotty
| and uplifting state of civilization AFTER
rehearsing briefly the causes and present
state of the conflict, 1T even now seems
almost impossible to us who are not with
! IN a range of these terrible catastrophes
ia conform our minds to such circum-
stances for to do so it is necessary for
us to violate all former laws and princi-
| niles which we thought to be eternal.
with all previous theories thus shattered
she called attention to the fact that tne
class of IL was to go forth at time
/ when we are called upon 10 Lace pi
| of far greater import than any with
which we have been before confronted
The actual happenings to come cannot De
even guessed. She closed by asking her
classmates to be true and steadfast to the
nrinciples and precepts impaired ard IN
s+;,,ed nv the educational department of
the city.
Last wear Mrs. Henry Richards offered
as prizes finely bound volumes. to the
how with the best record for excellence
in scholarship the Life of Rev. s. G.
Howe" (Mrs. Richards father, and to
the girl with like record The Life OF
,Julia Ward Howe" Mrs Richards illus
trious mother). This year she has dupli-
Gated her generous offer and Chairman
Rates. in behalf of Mrs. Richards, pre-
scented the prizes thus won to Leon Dulac
and Miss Beatrice Tyler Following this,
through the generosity of J. s. Maxcy,
prizes for excellence in essays were pre-
scented as follows Senior class. first.
Miss Florence Jones; second. Miss Ethel
Hall. Junior class, first, David Jamison
second, Miss Lucille Quimby. Sophomore,
first. Miss Ethlyn Danforth; second, Miss
Annie Goggin. Freshman class, first,
Theodore Chase; second, Dorothy Harris.
Sunt. of Schools H. J. Chase then distrib-
.,..l ~. d;pIo,,aS The exercises closed