The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-20
Exercises Were Held Before
a Large Crowd in the
Opera House
PROGRAM CARRIED
OUT SUCCESSFULLY
The Glass Was AGTltted to
Alumni Assc ation
Last EvfSng

The Barre opera - ie was well filed
yesterday afternoS with high school
students, relativeoS ad friends to hear
the class day eSN ses Of the spauding
high school graduating class. The en-
tire student body marched in by classes,
marshaled by Lloyd Downing of the
freshman class, each student wearing the
flower and class colors Of his class Mu-
sic was furnished by the high school or
chestra.
The stage was very effectively pan
elled in green and gold, the class colors,
and banked at the front with butter
cups and ferns. Across the front hung
the class motto, "Self Reliance Inspires
Success.
The exercises were opened with an ad-
dress of weSome by Frank Rowland
Wells, the senior president. After vel
coming the school, the faculty and the
friends Of Spaulding, he mentioned brief
ly the boys Of the class who had respond
ed to the country's need by entering the
shipyards, the successful meeting of the
several war drives in the school and
the class book
Hilda Alebertina Martinson very success
fully gave the class history, bringing
into high light the particular occasions
or unique movements that made each
year Of l9l9's history worthy of note.
She was followed by Ugo Joseph Caru
81, who read the last will and testament
Of the class. The bequests were well
pointed and wittily worded, provoking
much mirth from the undergraduates
Mildred Marguerite Bombard sang
where Ripples Flow" (deKovenl with
such feeling and sweetness of tone that
an encore was demanded.
Turning to more serious things, Doris
Idella Bradley third honor read very
interesting and well.written essay on
Motion Pictures Allied with Educa-
tion." She pointed out how the "mov
les" had been used successfully in France,
after our entrance into the war, to com
bat German propaganda She gave as
incidents where they have been EN-
ployed with great benefit, their use by
the department of agriculture for spread
ing information among farmers, their,
use in the schools Of New York for max
ing geography more ineligible. their
use BY boards of health in health cam
paigns, their use in testing steel and in
exploring the deep sea Having gone so
far, she suggested that the grandchildren
Of l9loers might get university edu-
cation by such means in the same time
that it now takes a senior class to cover
Virgil
The class prophecy by Clarence Elmer
Rogers tsd through the lips of the
statue OF Robert Burns, which guards
Spaulding. the status of each member of
the class in 1881,
The class ode, Service of Wider
Scope" was written and read by Mar
iorie Kathryn Love. An excellent poem,
it tells Of the frivolities of early days in
Spaulding, the serious call to duty with
the coming Of the war and now, with the
return Of peace, the call to Service Of
wider scope"
Walter Hotchkiss Burgin presented the
school, in behalf of the class, a sum Of
money with which to start fund for q
piano for the gymnasium.
The address to the graduating class
Of 0reste Emil Gianni pointed ont that
Spaulding was graduating them prepared
to meet life, that the country IN calling
fef new enthusiasm, needed in recon
struction. must look TO the young people
Just graduating. So their duty lies
straight ahead.
The very successful program was
closed with a song by the senior girls
chorus, Come Ye Fairies" Uynes)