The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-06-14
High School Alumni BANQUET

ing, if possible, must interfere with
children's future welfare. On the con-
trary, a forty-eight term is even be-
ing suggested. The board of education
is willing to do everything in it's power
to increase the system of education
the next year," he declared, rather
than decrease it,
The problem of retaining foreign
languages in both parochial and pub
lie schools must be contended with by
the state board of education in the
next two months
iowa has aolished all foreign Ian
guages in both private and public
schools. This is perhaps too radical a
STEP" he asserted.
At the conclusion Supt. Berto told
how the board of education and faculty
regretted the losing of such a fine
class as that of 1918.
The Elk's Quartette were called up
on-cOmposed of Messrs. Schempf.
SprOesser, RChr and Meyer and their
part in making the evening an enjoy
able one is not to be mitigated. Sing
ing "Over There" "On the Road to
Home Built Town" and Sunshine of
Your Smile" they accorded those pres
ent music such as is seldom sung. That
those present enjoyed it immensely
was evidenced by the fact that the ap-
plause did not cease until long after it
had become APPARENT that they had fin
ished
The "Star Spangled Banner" sung
by the Alumni brought the enjoyable
meeting to a close
Business Meeting.
Bushes came next A committee of
one, Frank p. McAdams, was appointed
to see what could be done in the way
OF presenting play, with the Alumni
as cast, in the gymnasium, the pro-
ceeds to go to the Red Cross.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows:
President-Miss Lydia Schmidt.
First Vice President-Ewald Hub.
Second Vice President-Miss Ruth
Manschot.
Treasurer-Fred Kaercher.
Secretary-Mrs. Arthur Lietzke.
A motion to adopt a. French war or
phan was unanimously carried. Miss
Ella Wilder, Mrs. John G. Conway and
Miss Ruth Duffy were appointed a
committee to take care of the details.
Response To Welcome.
Miss Anna Butler delivered the fol-
lowing address in response to the adj
dress of welcome:
Members of the WatertOwn Alumni
Association, Fellow Classmates, and
Friends:
Few men ever feel brighter day
than the day on which they are grad
uated and fortune bids them start forth
on their journey through the various
paths of life. However, in choosing a
path, | may say that very many young
people are thoughtless and very often
make grievOus mistakes.
Now, for an example, let us take
certain youth, who having just gone
forth from the halls of his Alma Mater
tries to seek his fortune. After he has
been graduated, however, he has a
sense of sadness along with the glad
ness with which every young gradu-
ate is endowed. Sadness because he
now reels quite alone in the world;
for, while his kind parents and broth
ers and sisters are with him, still he
greatly feels the loss of his Alma
Mater. Now he will no longer have his
teachers to influence him or to cor
rect him. Although he has been we'll
trained in his work and greatly aided
by his teachers, he feels quite mex
perlenced and ignorant of the life of
the outside world. He possesses a feel
ing OF JOY because he feels as does any
youth who stands on the threshold of
the world, that fame and wealth will
be easily found. He thinks that these
will go hand in hand with him lust as
nicely as did the pretty young girls in
MS good old high school days. AL
though he is lonesome he feels happv
that he has at last reached that time
Tor which he has always looked for
ward when he can go forth in life I'M
aided. These things inspire him with
great ambitions and aims as he starts
forth on life's journey. Our youth sees
the many roads of life and knows that
ne must choose one. Seeing many 9TH
er young men rush toward a .flowerv
and pleasant looking path, he also in
spired by the mob and, laughing at
the few youths who earnestly desire to
traverse the rugged road, our youth
happily entered the pleasant. low
seeking path
Everything is delightful and charm
ing to him in the beginning of this
new career which he has chosen He
needs ask for nothing, for wealth. iov
and all things that are pleasant are
near at hand He goes on in this hannv
carefree path having just GLORIOUS
time as he describes it, until finally
the pleasant things of life are not so
easily to be found and our youth meets
with a few obstacles. Having had such
a delightful and exhilrating time from
the day of his graduation, he is quite
Ignorant OF the cloudy side of life and
being very unprepared he encounters
these obstacles with great cowardice
More difficulties come before him and
more still until he feels at last that
ne is completely overcome. He looks
ahead in the toilsome path and he sees
1ar In the distance, the same vouths
at whom he had laughed not more than
TWO years ago, as they entered upon
the rough and toilsome course RI suc-
cess. he sees that these men had been
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