The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-24
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS DAY.
Continued from Page L.


national spirit, though this spirit has no
historic or racial tradition at all. The
Americans are Seandinavians, Slavs.
Jews, Hungarians, Italians, French
Germans They are of every race of the
world, and they have become a part in
the whirl of life in America They are
the American citizens, if not of today.
surely of tomorrow The essay told of
the wondering of the peoples as they
come to the American shores, where they
have come to find home peace and OPP
portunties. In speaking of the respon-
sibility of America to these peoples Miss
Scovell said:
"'Mueh must be accomplished through |
education, through schools which must
become the center of social and intellec- |
tual life for the men and women as well |
as the children. The war has made us
keenly alive to the necessity of a more
thorough education of our people, to the
| fact that it is the man who can convert
| his knowledge into power that is most
needed now. The world is to be run by
| workers-the ones who have gained
lenough education and larger experience,
men of scientific knowledge and large
organizing power In the future, we are
to be judged by what we do and not by
what we have. As we think of these
| things it comes to use in a flash that
after all, usefulness is the essence of
true Americanism."
The class essay was followed by Sc
lection, Absent, by the double quartet,
Dorothy Hubbard and Katherine Den
ming, sopranos, Evelyn Metcalf and
Katherine Stockwell, altos; Arthur Bar
rett and Leighton Moves, tenors; Leland
Convey and Francis Nichols, BASES.
The history of the class of 1919 was
divided into two sections. Evelyn Len
ora Fisher confined the first section to
the elections, social events, ETC., which
began with the first election Of officers
: Nov. /, 1915, and closed with review
of the work of the junior Red Cross.
Roy Bernard SwitZer gave his attention
to the athletic interests of the class
leaving to future classes the heritage
of the right, the privilege of living up
I to the standards we have set. We-the
: brillant,-the gifted the great. the
) glorious,-the illustrious,-the ONLY
: class of 1917
o Ethelyn Beulah Underwood recited il
4 pleasing way and with an enunciatioI
t which showed clearly her familiarity
d with it, the class poem, of which she wai
/ the author 1t follows:
! Dear old high school, loved and honored
As our parting song we sing,
= Thoughts of days with you inspire us,
> Through our minds sweet mem ries ring
2 As the voyage of life shall take us
!, Ger the ever changing sea,
9 Into Joy will turn each SORROW
q Through the memories of thee
Fellow classmates, as we're standing
q On the broad, white strand tonight,
= In sweet dreams we glide Ger wavelet
I OF the future years SO bright.
/ Twinkhng stars above the waters
r Seem to call us to success,
o. For our coming joys and honors,
n Praise is thine, dear B. H. S.
s. sss~.-ssep,rSs -
IN Life's great voyage now lies before us,
rs Bright and happy does it seem.
II Any dali and luckiess moment
ne Will be eheered by mem res' gleam
he Let's remember as we're sailing,
re If at times the pillows roll
Ii We must breast each storm and strugg
of Ever onward to our goal
Two songs, Shadow Town, and o
to Nanny Coon, was then well rendere
n by the girls chorus, which was accor,
lis ed hearty applause.
ed Much hearty laughter and merrimel
n were caused for the graduates when L
h nest William Gibson, who was suppose
d. to be living in the West in 1882, w;
of seated quietly in his living room wht
ce his little daughter, Marie, brought ;
,e- old copy of the Dial, and he rehears,
er to her what each member of the ella
w of 1919 was then doing, and the lin
hit which some of them were then folio
MS ing surely were amusing.
op After the reading of the prophecy t
m class fled out to the lawn, followed
" the Audience, and the ivy Grafton, Brs
eir tlebore in Water Cure Days, was Civ
by Dorothy Lima Hubbard. A - Pre-
no pectus of the Lawrence Water Gu
ro Brattleboro, Vermont, May 10, 1858
ION contained few remarks on the genel
nal effects of the water treatment and
sh description of the new establishme
us with its rules and regulations, viii
were very interesting when one vie
nd the water cure building of today, a
ac- Miss Hubbard followed this with
be cannot resist the temptation to read /
tn grandmother : own account of her vi
to to Brattleboro. This account was j
i'd tings from a diary for the first
eli days of June, 1858, and was especia
well arranged and delivered
is The ivy ode, written by Pearl NJ;
of guerite Faulkner, was recitcd by
est and then sung by the class as the Is
ton ivy was planted near the front W
ave just south of the main entrance to
ses high school building. Thus the cl;
has day exercises of the 1919 graduates W
its completed. FollYving is the ivy ode
eV- Where plays the dancing sunlight,
jee And moonbeams fondly stray,
Q Ivy, young and tender,
We plant thee here today
med So hail, yes hail, o Ivy green!
EN- All hail, all hail to dear 49,
who Essssssssss'sss,s pa-ssssssas
May shining sun and raindrops