Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-03
SEVENTY-SIX ARE GIVEN
DIPLOMAS FOLLOWING
EXERCISES
w. w. Ablers, New President of School
Board, Makes PresentatiOn-High
School Orchestra Furnishes Music
Twenty to Summer School

The annual commencement exerciS-
es Of the Wausau High School were
held in the high school auditorium last
Friday evening at which time seventy
six young men and women received
diplomas. The class was large one
and the participants in the graduating
activities of the past week. which in
cluded the senior plays and the Junior
promenade, were increased by sixteen,
who will complete their work by at
tending summer school.
Capt. Francis
Following a selection, Venetian
Summer Night" by the high school or
chestra, and song, "Roses from the
South" by the graduates, Ira C.
Painter, principal of the high school,
introduced Capt. Arthur ]. Francis of
Chicago, the speaker of the evening.
Capt. Francis addressed the graduates
and their friends on "The Nemesis of
| Mediocrity"
Capt. Francis, who is an Englishman
! OF birth, was for sometime a citizen
of Canada but for the past twenty
years he has been a citizen of the
United States, fact of which he is
proud. During the war he was as
ISOLATED with the publicity committee
of the Red Cross and for some time he
was in France studying the needs of
| the soldiers.
Have Passion
Throughout his speech, Capt Fran
els interestingly related incidents
| which happened while he was cover
| there" One in particular occurred in
| great cathedral at Bordeaux, in
which there is a beautiful statue of
Joan dare, below which is a basket
| full of pictures. After the people came
in and said their prayer to her they
| would drop their pictures in this bas-
! ket. Joan dare" declares the cap
tain, though only eighteen years old
when she saved France, had passion
for something. That is what you
| young people should have-a passion.
We can all be mediocres but do not
be satisfied with being that or even
| TO go at the same pace your parents
have gone. We are living in a great
! age and with all the opportunities one
| could wish. 1t is up to you to take
| advantage of them, for great things
are expected Of you" Capt. Francis
| told in an amusing manner, of his first
| flight in the air. He wished to go
again and so his wish was granted
by French. aviator who took him
up 1000 feet and carried him along
| at the rate of sixty miles in thirty
minutes. The captain is a great ad-
mirer of Theodore Roosevelt, realiz-
| ing his many mistakes at the same
time. He told the graduates that if
| they could accomplish as much as
the late ex-president, their mistakes
| would be excused. Although a repub-
| llcan he complimented the president,
| Woodrow Wilson, by naming him the
greatest American because he has a
passion for saving the world. The
| captain concluded his address with a
strong plea for the league of nations.
Presentation
Following a selection from GILL
| Trovatore," by the orchestra, and a
song by select chorus, the new
| president of the school board, w. w.
Albers made the presentation of di-
plOmas. He declared that there is no
one who has done more for Wausau
| than G. d. Jones, lately retired presi-
| dent, who served many years on the
school board and as it's president
which statement was heartily applaud
ed. Diplomas were presented to the
following seventy-six:
VIOLET BARTELS
FRANCES BOYACK
EARL GREEN
| FRANK KELLERMAN
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