The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-12
ENDS 25 YEARS
TEACHING SERVICE
AT ST. MARKS
Prof. Gustav c. Groth Rendered Re-
ceptiOn i'm Honor of Quarter Gen.
fury of Service At st.
Marks School

Principal Gustav G. Groth of St.
Marks school was the guest of honor
at a jubilee celebration held in st.
Marks school hall Friday evening.
Members of the congregation prepared
for many weeks to celebrate his
twenty-fifth anniversary as teacher of
st. Marks parochial school. Mr..
Groth was kept in ignorance of the
celebration and the surprise was most
complete as the evening chosen for
the celebration occurred on the even
ing on which the teachers conference
held Thursday and Friday, came to a
close. The hall was prettily decorated
in natural flowers and streamer decor
atoms A very pleasing program was
rendered to an audience of over six
hundred people.
Prof Groth taught for more than
twenty years in the old st. Mark s
building, which was RACED in 1914,
and the present up to date structure
built in its place. Since the new build
ing has been erected more pupils have
been accommodated and it offers many
more teaching facilities than the old
school possessed.
A surprise distinct and complete in
itself occurred when members of
Prof Groth's choir, who sang under
his direction twenty-five years ago
rendered several selections they sang
when they were still members. Among
these are Messrs. Herman Marquart,
William Kaercher, Charles Piper,
Fred Lehman and Henry Winken-
werder, Mesdames T. B. Rau, H T.
Nowack, Fred Lehman, Herman Mar
quart, A. H. Hartwig, Misses Adele
Piper, Amanda Piper, Johanna Brock
mann, Sophia Gamm.
Many of his old college friends were
also present attending the teachers
conference and they took part in the
celebration. After the program rem
dered by the orchestra, band, school
children and choir, a luncheon was
served those present
Rev. klingmann Speaks.
The Rev. julius Klingmann adj
dressed those present briefly on the
work of Mr.. Groth. He said in part:
1hO iCdSou why VIC SSlCUI dlS Tic
twenty-ffth anniversary of a teacher
at a parochial school is this-because
the object of his work is not only to
give the children a certain knowledge
Of the things which are necessary for
successful life in this world, but to
educate them in the nutrition and adj
monition of the Lord. His chief office
iC n 10 nj inf bn hoo MIC Of fho
children the knowledge of their Sa-
vior, so that they may learn to be-
lieve in Christ, lead an upright chris
tian life and finally depart in peace
The work of the parochial school
teacher is most precious work and
on the other hand very difficult and
tedious work, because it does not con-
sist merely of implanting into the
heart of the child a certain knowledge
Of worldly wisdom but the knowledge
Of the one great thing needful,-to
know Christ, their only Savior, in
whom alone they have forgiveness of
sin, righteousness before God and
eternal salvation. This is not an easy
matter because a christian teacher
lust and license which manifest
themselves in various ways by the
children. A christian teacher knows at
the same time that he employs "a
means to gain that end which will
never prove itself unsuccessful The
means which he employs in his work
is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and of
which God himself has said, That it
will not return void and Mr. Groth
has carried on this work successfully
in our school for the past twenty-five
years. There are certainly quite a
number present this evening who will
confess-We thank the Lord he has
given us in our childhood days a con-
scientious christian teacher who has
lead US to the privilege of God and
through whose services we rave found
our Savior. Quite a number of those
who had attended the school under
the tutelage of Mr.. Groth have enter
ed their eternal rest and today the
majority of the members of ST. Marks
church here have been pupils of Mr.
Groth"
The propram