The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-24
Entire Capacity Occupied
by Parents, Relatives
and Friends
PARTS ESPECIALLY
WELL RENDERED
Room Trimmed with Flags, Palms and
Roses-Plan Was to Have Program
Given Outdoors, but Favorable
Weather Came foo Late.

Given Outdoors, but Favorable
Weather Came foo Late.
With ideal weather conditions for
outdoor exercises developing too late to
allow the plans to be changed, parents,
relatives and friends of the graduating
class assembled in the high school room
yesterday afternoon until the entire
seating capacity and standing room
were occupied, the occasion being the
presentation of the class day program
by the graduates The program was
very entertaining and all the parts were
especially well rendered.
The room was trimmed with American
flags, flags of the allies, palms and
vase of red roses, the class flower, while
the school service flag was hung at the
main entrance to the high school room.
! To a selection by the high school or
| chestra, under the direction of Earl A.
| Braman, musical instructor in the
| schools, the prudential committee and
| faculty of the high school were ushered
| in, and, following the marshals, Francis
| Martin Austin and Perry Coates May
nard. the graduating class, numbering
~. entered and took their seats in the
center of the room.
Harry Austin Plumb, president of the
class. presided, and made one or two
announcements, followed by a musical
selection, Northern Lights, by the or
chestra. which was the opening number
on the program.
In his president s address and as
spokesman for the class, Mr.. Plumb ex-
tended to parents and friends ga sin
cere and hearty welcome to the 9th COM
mencement day exercises of the Brattle-
boro high school He called attention
to the fact that for the graduates 1t was
the turning point from the gaieties of
youth to the more serious and satisfying
things of manhood and womanhood;
that they were starting out into life
with that satisfaction and ambition
that comes from hard work and hard
play. He extended the sincere thanks
of the class to the parents for their
kindness and patience; to the faculty
for their influence, their consideration
and their teaching; and to the pruden-
tial board for the wise administration
of the school which it has been the
: privilege of the class to attend. Presl-
) dent Plumb said, in closing:
"Our written past will be read to you
] today by one of the class, but our real
2 hopes are for the future. No one can
write what the future holds for this
class. We are leaving high school at a
r time when the world is calling for work
| ers to do big things, the time of read
t | iustment and reconstruction. May we
have the courage to meet the response
| bilities and duties before US. May we
have the strength to overcome obstacles
which are bound to lie in our paths. May
e we strive onward and upward with that
immortal Yankee spirit that we Amerl-
| cans have in us Nav the class motto
: that we have chosen, be for US an ideal
J which we shall hold ever before ouI
I ewes, and may we. really live, believing
; and acting Impossible is un-Ameri
: can y
/ The Vermont Farmers Great Oppor
d tunity was the subject of the class ora
tion by Forrest Graves Harmon, whC
4 gave a resume of the opportunity o1
+ farmers in general and said that un
i der the impetus which the spirit of wal
n had brought, the farmer has done hi
/ utmost to meet the demands thrust upol
IS him and that now an even greater tasl
d is awaiting him. He said in part: = Be
b. fore us are times of greater unrest thar
n we have ever known. Suppose tn
lie farmer fails to feed the masses of tn
ID earth, From starvation springs anarchy
ID One started, where does anarchy end
r In such a crisis, neither the farmer him
es self, nor any other living person ca
to spare any power within his means t
make conditions so that the farmer Wi
ly not fail in his great task. The integ
es rity of the world in the coming genera
or ton will be determined by his loyalt
10 to this vital task All these things al
i ply as well to the Vermont farmer. II
called attention to the necessity O
adopting new and up-to-date method
and availing himself of the scientifi
knowledge furnished through the gov
Is ernment, state and farm bureaus and G
the cooperation of farmers in any con
munity and cited instances of the r,
r. suits of such cooperation. The CRATIC
1T closed with the following statement &
ay confidence: Upon the tradition;
is pride and fealty of the best type of We
as mont farmer, we can depend. He wi
's- not lose his ventures; he will be borr
IN on the very crest of the tide, and sa'
les ing himself, he will help to save Il
I,world.' -
We The class essay, What 1t Means to Be a
is American, was delivered by Beatrice A.
~ gusta Scovell. "Before we can appr
ciate what Amerieanism is and what
means to be an American we must loo
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