The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-05-17
OUR HIGH SCHOOL
TO GRADUATE AZ
FULL ACCOUNT OF THE PLAY AND
EXERCISES THAT WILL TAKE
PLACE
PROGRAM FOR WEEK., LIST OF GRADUATES
All These Exercises Open to the Pub.
lie and All Are Wei.
come

Next week is commencement week
for the high school of the city. The
first exercise Of the week will be the
b~accalaureate sermon, to be preached
next Sunday, by the Rev. /. M. Hargett,
of the NJ. e. church, at that chuch. APP
propriate music and surroundings will
make this service one that will inn
press the graduate with the duties as
well as the beauties of the coming
life
Then on Thursday evening the senior
play will be given at the opera house
with a well drilled and well balanced
cast of characters. The title of the
play is "The Admirable Crichton," a
play founded on the life of James
Crichton, a Scottish intellectual pro-
dizzy living about 1885, who at the age
of fourteen took the degree of Master
of Arts, and at twenty was said to
have run through the whole circle of
sciences, mastered ten languages and
perfected himself in all knightly ac-
complishments. 1t is supposed that
this character is the aim of all high
school students.
On Friday evening will occur the
commencement exercises, and they
will be in the nature of a class night
and musical, rather than the second
nlov that hoe hocotoPora hoa~ c,c<o-,
airy. Forty-two students will be in the
graduating line, twenty-five girls and
seventeen boys. The officers Of the
senior and graduating class are Ed.
mond Haugen, president; Guy Davis.
vice president; Marian Carlisle. secre-
tary; and Evan Borst, treasurer. The
class colors are purple and gold; class
flower, the violet; class motto, 1--WE
Finish to Begin; and the class advisor
Is Mrs. Helen Shea.
The class Is a very notable one in
the history of a school that has turned
out any number of bright and promis-
ing young men and women. The work
so far done by them is of the highest
average, and the promise for the fu-
ture Is one that is pleasing to them
and their friends.
The following is the list of the grad
yates, grouped according to the course
Of study pursued: German-Einar J..
Anderson. Benjamin Roydon Fem, Ed
mond Harrison Haugen, George e.
Hepner, Elmer D. Kennard, Parmenas
E. Norton, Max Wexler ,Helga Judith
Anderson, Aslaug Bjorge, Dora Cor
nelia Dybdahl, Frances Elizabeth Erie,
Clara Ruth Eberlein. Eva Holmes, Ger.
trude Pauline Handwerk, Zilda Ruth
Heusinkveld, Nan Clark Milne, Amy
Josephine Mcmahon. May d. Swift,
Grace Marguerite Wakes, Kathleen
Wilson; Latin-German-Thelma Mar
guerite Brictson, Marian G.. Carlisle,
Wilma Anne Knutson, Pearl E. Zieg-
Ter; Latin-I. Evan Borst, Guy w.
Davis, Palmer l. Johnson, George w.
SHSlSOu, OOu IL. Iuic, rIdlCeS Il. AilOIi,
Olive C. Gibbs, Esther June Irish, Leah
McGill, Lillian V. Nelson, Myrtle Viola
Shuck, Leah Electa Vinegar, Neva d.
Woodward; Science-Samuel j. Chen
oweth, Arthur Earl Gilbert, William c..
Jarman; English-William j. Burdett,
John C. Morrow.
Yesterday morning at the high school
assembly room, G.. F. Knappen on be-
half of the Bank of Brookings present
ed to the Alpha Alethean Society Of
the high school, a beautiful framed pic
ture by Holman, "The Finding of
Christ in the Temple" This work OF
art will add more spot of beauty
in the assembly room. A response to
the presentation was made by Miss
Rose Lynch as a representative of the
society.
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