Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-03
CLASS Of 1918
GET DIPLOMAS
Commencement Exercises Held in
Lincoln School Auditorium and
Diplomas are Given Mem
bers of Class.
PRIZES GIVEN RED CROSS.
Winners Of Jane Young Prizes Turn
Money to the American Red
Cross.

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schools, participated in the final
graduation event at the commence
ment exercises at Lincoln school
auditorium Wednesday evening. At
the conclusion of these exercises, S.
S. Parkhurst, president of the board
of education, presented the members
with their diplomas and when the
benediction was pronounced the
members of the class went forth no
longer as students of the Webster
City schools, but as students in the
great school if life. As a patriotic
and touching finale to the exercises,
the three students to whom were
awarded the Jane Young cash prizes,
amounting to $50, handed the money
back to Superintendent d. M. Kelly
with the request that it be turned
over to the Red Cross.
Prize Winners.
These prizes were awarded as fol-
lows:
SIS to George Claude, first honor
student.
$40 to Arthur Wahl, second honor
student.
S. to Alice Melrose, best grade in
English during four years high
school course.
The auditorium at Lincoln school
was filled with a large crowd when
the exercises began. Every seat was
filled and people were standing. In
keeping with the spirit of the times,
. the decorations were simple. Red,
white and blue streamers and ."191S"
in large gold letters formed the
background of the stage. The school
service flag, with nineteen stars, also
hung at one side of the stage
Promptly at 8 o'clock, Supt. Kelly,
h DR.. r. T. Chipperfield, S. S. Park
hurst and the graduating class seated
themselves on the stage. The girls
were all respondent in white and
wore flowers, while the boys wore
plain business suits.
The program was opened by the
high school orchestra under the lead
ership of Miss Rosalind Cook. Their
first number was the National
Emblem March," 1t was roundly ap-
plauded, for this orchestra is an
organization of which the city may
we'll be proud.
Salutatory Address.
Following the invocation by DR..
Chipperfield, Arthur Wahl delivered
the salutatory. He bespoke a cordial
welcome to the audience from his
class upon the occasion of their last
appearance, as high school organi-
cation. He compared the privileges
of American school children with
those of England, France and Bel
GUM, many of whom went to, school
In cellars and caves. He spoke feel
ingly of the faculty, not forgetting
Profs. Siefert, Mitchell and Nelson,
who enlisted year ago. In love and
memory, he also recalled that Leslie
Calkins, member of the class, had
died near the close Of the school
year.
The boys glee club, also directed
by Miss Cook, next sang the "Bedouin
Love Song" which also drew gener-
GUS applause. No encores, however,
were given.
Blunders Of Germany.
Sabra Markwardt then delivered
an Grafton on "Germany's Blunders.
She reviewed the German national
character, finding it's greatest blund
er in the attitude taken by the ruling
class against democracy and it's fail
ure to understand the will and am
billions of free people. She held
that Germany royalty ruled by fear
and that the background of German
conscience is fear Of the law. She
argued that the German powers, miss
understanding free people, seek to
compass their defeat through striking
fear into them, citing the sinking of
the Lusitania and the ruthless sub
marine warfare as instance. This
policy, however, only makes free
people that much more determined to
break the sway of German rule. Ger
many is seeking to apply the methods
of the dark ages to the twentieth
century. She has set her self across
the path of democracy and civilization,
but is doomed to fefeat, for no nation
can set herself bcross the path OIL