Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-07-01
.Cifside Grammar
School Graduates ~
With Fine Exercises
The Grammar School


dreds of persons of every size and
age filled every seat on the floor and
in the gallery. Bouquets and punches
of flowers were on every hand, and
with the bright dresses and orna-
ments of the women, formed spark
ling and animated scene.
Supt. Bray Introduces Class.
At 500 the march began, played
by Miss Murphy, and the boy and
girl graduates marched into the hall
and up the center aisle, two boys and
two girls alternately. At the stage
the girls went to the left and the
boys to the right, taking seats in that
order on the stage. When the class
had seated themselves, Supervisor
Bray introduced them to the audience
as the largest class yet graduated
from the borough, there being a
total of forty-two graduates, fifteen
being girls and twenty-seven boys.
He said that the faculty and board
were very proud of the young people
and the record they had made. They
were credit to the school,
The Fine Program
The program was interesting and
well rendered by the young people,
the different numbers of which there
were fifteen being announced by
Supervisor Bray. The program was
made up Of recitations by the girls
and declarations and essays by the
boys, introduced by the salutatory by
Loretta Foy, and closed by the vale
dictory by Albert Van Dusen, and the
presentation of diplomas by Presi-
dent Whelan of the Board of Educa-
ton. Songs by the class were also
sung.
Class Salutatory
After the singing of "Santa Lucia"
which was nicely done by the class,
Loretta Foy delivered in delightful
manner the salutatory for the class
pointing her class mates on to the
heights yet to be attained on the
ladder of success. Ellen Conroy then
recited with dramatic effect, "After
the BATTLE" and Gerald Travis re-
cited "a word and Decd" showing
how great things came from little
beginnings. Gertrude Marten recited
feelingly, "Guilty or not guilty." the
story of the little girl mother who
had sinned for the sake of those de-
pendent upon her, the lines beginning
with "She stood at the bar of justice"
In an essay on Preparedness"
Joseph Bohm made an able appeal in
h. {. the great world upheaval for
moral sid spiritual preparedness,
and that we should all be prepared to
work with each other and not against.
The first part was closed by the re-
citing Of Kipling's famous "Recis-
sionaP by Louise Beerbohm.
Rapping Carranza
Nelson Neumann opened the Sec
ond part of the program with an adj
dress in which he sharply criticized
the ''half breed, half human bandit,
Carranza," and referred to the
ordering back Of the American punt
tive expedition by murderer. He
declared that the patience Of the
American people had been broken and
demanded the vindication of the honor
of the country. Anna Zimmerman
followed with little recitation, "The
better way" in which she said that
he serves his country best who lives
a pure life and makes a stainless rec
ord. Charles Porzl recited humor-
GUS selection, CRY and Billy and Jo,"
and President Martin Frederick Stein
was vigorously encored for his ex-
position of the difficulties Of presi-
dentism. Georgine Kasper recited
effectively, "The poet and the chill
dren."
The class valedictory was rendered
in a mastery manner by Albert Van
Dusen. The address was a graceful
tribute to the pleasant associations
of the class, the influence of its teach
ers, and manly reminder of the
fact that the education of the MEM
bers had really only begun.
President Whelan Presents Pins
Before presenting the diplomas to
the graduates President Whelan pre-
scented pins for perfect attendance to
the following: Joseph Bohm, Ellen
Conroy, Helen Conroy, Florence
Klingbiel, Lucien Leclercq, Gertrude
Martens, Charles Murphy, Steven
Meshak, Walter Nordeoff, Charles
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Whelan then presented each graduate
with his or her diploma, after which
he congratulated them for their sue
cess, and hoped that they would not
be idle during the vacation, and that
they would all return to enter the new
high school in September. Then turn
ing to the audience, the speaker said
that he hoped they would not be dis
appointed to learn that these ex-
ercises were the last that would be
held in the schools as it as the plan
to inaugurate junior high school,
according to which the work Of the
seventh and eighth grades would be
departmental in the future, that is,
by subject instead of by class. In
closing, he lauded the new high
school and it's equipment for it's high
quality, as we'll as for the character
of it's teaching staff. Flowers were
then presented to the graduates and
they marched out boy and girl to-