The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-11
Graduating class Has It's Place In the
Sun This Morning with Usual
Features on the
! Program.
FEATURES ARE ALL GOOD
Music, Glass Song, Presidents Ad-
dress, History, Poem, Grafton
viii and Prophecy All
Pleasing.

The interest which for almost half
century has found expression an
nually in the commencement or the
/ Keokuk high school, was evident this
morning at the class day exercises.
| Every seat in the auditorium was
allied long before the hour for open
ing of the program.
! The professional was played by the
thigh school orchestra at 10 O'Clock
when the class numbering f1fty-seven.
marched up the center aisle led by
Joseph n. Kinnaman, president OF
1.-the class.
The class wore robes and caps in
gray, and made very fine appear
ance.
The stage setting was most etfec-
tive in purple and yellow, the class
colors. The background was in s:l-
low with '1e in purple in the center.
EStreamers of purple and yellow form
! ed a bower overhead and screen
across the front of the stage.
Show Ability Early.
The program opened with the class
song, the words OF which were writ
ten by Miss Florence Alling who all
through her grammar school and
thigh school career has been OF the
greatest assistance in a musical way.
She has ability and has been most
generous in giving her time to must
cal interests.
/ Leroy Schulz set the words to
music and ably directed the class in
the singing.
Joseph n. Kinnaman gave the
presidents address in good voice and
in very pleasing way.
| He voiced the gratitude which the
class feels for the faculty and for
their patience and leadership as well
as for the lessons learned through
them from books.
He said this class is particularly
indebted to Miss Solomon who has
been class sponsor. He said that
these who were teachers will con-
tinue to hold their relationship to
/, the class as helpful friends.
| A Patriotic Glass.
| Eula Margaret Ackley. who has
been one of the star debaters of the
school and a leader in the oratorical
work during her high school course,
gave the class history. She enumer-
/ ated the leading social events of their
history from the famous freshman
party in Krichels barn to the time
when the class broke the forty year
precedent of having an elaborate
senior-junior banquet.
| The war situation last year made
| 1t possible to substitute simple
| form of entertainment at the Country
club for the banquet which used to
| be the event of the school year
rsocially.
She spoke of John Bell, Kingston
| Bowman and Stanley McCutchan
who had been in the service during
| the year and who had returned at
1 the signing of the armistice to re-
sumo their places in the class.
! She said the class had been leaders
! in every interscholastic debate, and
! in athletics as well Walter Odell
| of '19, had been one of the best foot
/ ball captains the school had pro-
duced. She hoped that the leader
ship in school was only an indication
of future leadership in wider actfvi.
i ties of life.
/ The Class Poem.
! Dorothy Norton read the class
poem in a very charming way, the
poem having been written by her:
To-day the sky is clearer,
| The sunshine is more bright,
The future never roster seemed
For We graduate tonight.
Lets stop to think before we go,
/ The course that we shall take;
When guiding hands are all with
| drawn,
And our decisions make.
There are always some who prefer
the shade,
Too languid the race to run;
Who, dreaming, enjoy the cool retreat
Which another's work has won.
When the world goes wrong and all
seems lost,
And the gamut of fortune seems
run,
Only those survive who are strong
and brave,
For they've taken their place in
the sun
It's not who you were; It's what you
did
That counts when your life is done
And contentment grows and happi-
ness comes
If your goal has been fairly won.
A Traveller Through School.
J. Stanley McCutchan showed the
! qualities of a real orator when he
gave the class grafton, "a Traveller
The figure which he used was OF
, traveller on journey who began
as a little boy on his way to school
who saw in the far off distance the
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