The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-13

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home as those who 20 TO college
Working upon that belief our schools
have 80 broadened the curriculum that
we offer instruction In cooking, sew
Ing, manual training and general COM
mercial branches, The last report OF
the Commissioners OF Education
makes the startling report that Boston
the intellectual hub Of the country
has go per cent. OF all Its public high
school students enrolled In CONNER
clal subjects. The graduates Of our
commercial department are reckoned
as ranking with the skilled employees
In the city's banks.
No doubt you were surprised at the
work done In the manual training
shop. We are not trying to make car
penters of your boys nor cooks Of the
girls, but who will deny that they are
better fitted for life because Of such
training II a boy can saw to line,
make a blind dove tail Joint, build a
table, or construct bench, is he not
better fitted to become a high grade
mechanic, a mechanical engineer or a
skillful surgeon? II Is the policy Of
your Board of Education to improve
the schools in every possible way con.
sistent with the ideals enunciated.
II the schools are success, its
manufactured product-you boys and
girls of the graduating class-should
emulate that principle. When 1t is
all said and the curtain falls on the
last act of life's drama, we may say,
He has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the respect Of
intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filled his niche
and accomplished his task; who has
left the world better than he found it,
whether by an improved poppy, per-
feet poem, or rescued soul; who has
never lacked appreciation of earth's
beauty or failed to express it: who
has always looked for the best in 9th
ers and given the best he had; whose
life was an inspiration; whose men,
DRY a benediction.' Now by the au-
thority vested in me as President of
the Board of Education, present you
with these diplomas that certify to
the world your accomplishments thus
far in life and with the diplomas go
the blessings and best wishes Of the
faculty, the Board of Education and
a city proud to claim you as its sons
and daughters, and when in life's
eventide you are drawing nigh unto its
most gruesome tragedy and are pass
ing through the valley of eternal for
getfulness, may your thoughts revert
to a life well spent.
want to say yet not in narrow,
restricted sectarian way, but in the
broadcast conceivable sense-that no
boy or girl can become complete
success whose life work is not actu-
ated by deep religious convictions.
May the Great Eternal Spirit, the God
of Truth to whom all things seem as
they are, be your future protector"
The young women and young men
who received diplomas were: Eliza
beth Allen, John Armstrong, Goebel
Baugh, Pauline Bierley. Elizabeth Cal
vert, William Cartmell, Elizabeth Cliff,
Jeane Coils, Nellie Collopy, Gus Coop
er, Margaret Curley, Raymond Daw-
son, Coils Dickson, Carrie Fitch. Nor
ma Flowers, Ralph Games, Annabelle
Hall, Lillian Helmer, Eugene Hendrix,
Florence Hotze, Bessie Hughes, Mary
Kehoe, Mary Owens Keith, Alice
Knight, Allene Knight. Anne Maltby,
Dorothy Merz, Katherine Pogue, Mar
ion Power, Frances Power. Ada Rube-
hacker, Lowell Seldom, Esculine Trax-
ell, Elizabeth Walsh, John Walker, Jr.