St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21

because it opens the door to a higher.
wider more important plane and to a
greater efficiency.
you are going out into the world
/ a new generation. What use are you
going to make of your life? Labor that
you may become leaders among your
fellows. No matter how small the
task imposed upon you, do it effic-
iently that particular task may be
your opportunity that will lead to
greater things in the future, and in
i looking back in later life a sense of
satisfaction will be yours that will fill
your heart, and lend a serenity to
your closing years.
Miss Cramton's Essay
The essay by Miss Cramton was a
comprehensive and delightful treat
ment of her subject, the three Els, by
which the goal of achievement can be
reached. Miss Cramton spoke of the
recognition of the three RS, and said:
1.-The three RS have more or less
recognition in the life of man and
are more or less generally lik-
ed and disliked, but the three Els are
not so we'll known"
Taking the first E she said that
Energy was the synonym of evolu-
ton and spoke of the persistent en-
ergy of the infant in it's persistent eff
forts to reach some object, from that
to the man of accomplishment,
brought there by the years of ener-
getic effort. Under the next E, that of
Efficiency, she aptly likened the man
without efficiency to a well equipped
factory lacking the necessary steam
to operate the machinery The final
E, dependent upon the Cockney ac-
cent, is Health, without which the
others are of no value.
Highland Parker's Essay
The Uses of Electricity, by Leigh
4 land Foster Parker, was an essay of
instructive and informative worth,
dealing with the many uses of cleo
tricity as an offensive and defensive
power in time of war.
He also spoke of the many uses of
electricity in hospitals in the war
zone, how the uses of the electric
needle, magnet and X-ray are playing
such an important part in the ALE
Walton of the sufferings of the
wounded, and said that there are
evidences to show that the use of this
great power is only in its infancy"
Vermont Forestry, By Miss Carpenter
The essay Forestry in Vermont"
by Mary Cheney Carpenter, was
finely developed story Of the effort
that has lately been made to preserve
the forests of this state, and sounded
a warning that must be needed if we
are to preserve the industry and
prosperity of the state.
Miss Carpenter spoke of the crea-
ton of the Vermont State Board of
Forestry in 1908 and of the appoint
ment of the state forester and what
his duties are.
She spoke of the extensive work
done by the State Forestry Associa-
ton and their cooperation with the
state board in the overseeing and
preservation of the IL state forests.
| She carefully pointed out the i'm
mense value that they were to the
state and how in whatever commun-
ity they were found they conserved
the water supply, besides identifying
the landscape.
Among other things Miss Carpen-
ter spoke of two most difficult prob
lens to be faced in this work, fire and
taxation and of the means for con-
| trolling the former, while of taxation
she said reform laws were needed to
regulate the tax on forest lands.
| The following members were
awarded diplomas in the academic
courses:
Dorothy Cornelia Adams, James
Folsom Aldrich, Robert Freeman AL
lison, Margaret Louise Bailey, Ora
WiImot Bailey, Dorothy Magdalena
Beck, Mildred Vera Beck, Curtis B.
Brown, Charlotte Newell Bundy, Les
/
Calderwood, Mary Cheney Carpenter.
Inez Marion Christie, Wendell Holt
Cowles, Gertrude Howe Cramton,
Hilda Minerva Day, Gladys Alfredo
Dean, Harold Brook DOnley, Joseph
inc Emily Fisher, Ebert Thomas Gal
lagher, Marion Livingston Hancock.
Archibald Stuart Hunter, Beatrice
Mae Hurley, Eleanor Brooks Jenckes,
Violet Edna Mccullough, Aida Clara
Nolan, Roland Ernest McSweeney,
Horace Charles Masse, Mabelle Jane
Miles. Raymond Leon Miles, Mary
Amanda Murray. Philip Arthur Mel
son. Highland Foster Parker, Flor
ence Irene Perry, Marion Flora Reed,
Helen Carpenter Ross, Frederick Noel
SharpIes, Charles Frederic Simanton,
Ludger Joseph Tousant Wyman AL
drich Underwood, Clarence Lucian
Witty. Edna Christina Wallace, David
Royal Warden, Fanny Alice Whit
comb, Helen Agnes Woods, Winifred
Louise Woods.
Graduates Shorthand Course
The following are the graduates in
the shorthand course:
Robert Freeman Allison, Dorothy
Magdalena Beck, Mildred Vera Beck
RAYMOND Albert Chase, Inez Marion
Christie, Gladys Alfredo Dean, Jo-
sephine Emily Fisher, Beatrice Mae
Hurley, Violet Edna Mccullough, Hell
en- Irene May, Mabelle Jane Miles,
Helen Rose Poole, Edna Christina
Wallace. Helen Agnes Woods.
ALUMNI WELCOME 1916