The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-05-30
LARGE CLASS
IS GRADUATED
FTFTY-EIGHT YOUNG MEN AND
YOUNG WOMEN CROSS THRE.S-
HOLD INTO NEW LIFE.
DIPLOMAS IRE AWARDED
Following Address To tho Glass BY
Dr.. II. Y. Benedict tle Covcted
Insignias III Graduation
Are Presented.

Methodist church would not seat the
lrast throng which assembled at 10
losclock this morning for the gradua-
ition exercises cf the Waxahachie
High school. and many were turned
iaway after the Sunday school rooms
ihad been tnrown open and people
fstood in the aisles TO the rear of
1.-The building. 1t was a happy throng
come TO pay tribute to the boys and
girls who have by honest effort and
patient endeavor mastered the
course OF study laid down by faculty
land board OF directors. All Waxa-
Ihachie il proud of her magnificent
schools and prouder still OF the boys
and girls who by hard work reach
1.-THE goal OF success and assemble at
the close OF the term to receive
their diplomas.
The touch OF an artistic hand was
III evidence In every nook and corner
iof the church, and yet the decora-
tons were not SO lavish as TO be
noticeable. Stretching along the en-
tire ehaneeI rail we're boxes and
5a skets OF pretty white and pink
flowers. with occasional stands of
beautiful lilies. E.vergreens formed
The decorations al the base Iast
behind the lovely boxes OF flowers
IN intermin Cling array sat the fifty
eight members IF the class. who
vara swinging cat into the world as
! firh school graduates, many n con-
inus their search Of knowledge thru
le various universities and Others
10 take up the prob ems Of a business
Ifs. II was beautiful picture on
which friends ana loved ones gazad
with hnngering eyes. Next perhaps
% that great anboanded JOY in a
mothers heart which comes when
her baby is first ciasped 20 her
breast, IL That joy which comes when
THE child qualities for service thru
graduation in the public schools
Father, mother, brother, sister. friend
5eamed upon the graduates today.
1T vas TIE largest class in all the
history OF the public schools and
hundreds and hundreds OF families
we're represented in it.
Promptly at the appointed hour
she High school orchestra, which Is
a musical organization of consider
able repute, voiced the sweet strains
Of the Dance of the Maidens,n az
ter which Rev c. A. Chasteen, pas
tor Of the Main Street Christian
church, invoked a Divine blessing.
Paramount Importance.
Superintendent G.. B. VIM ex-
planned that interest in the public
schools had been worked I'D 10 such
point that it was impossible 10
procure a downtown auditorium
large enough to accommodate the
crowds that desired to attend. and
ne proposed that il would In all
probability be necessary to hold fu
t1re commencement exercises at the
ChansauGua pavilion until larger
auGitoriums are erected. He ex-
pressed the belief that any and all
persons who desired TO do so ought
10 be anie TO hear the graduation
exercises. He declared that BubIic
school interests are of paramount
Importance and that he greatly ap-
preeiates the interest being manifest
ed by patrons. without the eo.on-
Grafton OF the parents he doubted
II any set OF teachers could make th.
schools success. He mentioned
the fact that the enrolment this
year was 2,25o. which is vast IN
crease over a few years ago. The
increase he declared had been so
great that the management has been
hard pressed TO provide quarters.
,fFR'h NRtfAt1VH III the iIfif-
eight members of the graduating
class. saying il was the largest in
the history of the Waxahaehie
schools. He said each and every
member OF the class had earned his
or her diploma because the waxa-
hachie school never gave oompli-
mentary diplomas. with these brief
words he gave the program over to
Principal p J. Herndon.
Mr. Herndon likewise expressed
his Joy at having arrived at gradu-
alton exercises with 10 large class.
He said he was proud OF the class OF
1917 because 1t was noted class In
many respects. 1T IL noted. he
said, because II Is the largest in the
history Of the schools. because {.
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