Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-05-26
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Week of Festivities End With Com
mencement Tuesday Night.-Rev. f.
o Chelgren Delivers Commencement
Address.
The climax of a weeks festivities in
connection with the closing of a very
successful school year at North Star
College, was reached on Tuesday even
- ing this week when the twelfth annual
commencement was held in the pres
ence of large concourse of people.
The exercises Of commencement week
began on Wednesday evening of last
week when piano recital was given
by music students in the intermediate
grades. On Thursday evening the adj
vanced students of piano and voice rem
-dered program Of high class music
What was much appreciated by the large
audience present. On Friday after
moon the beginners in music rendered
their program, many of the pupils sur
prising their parents and friends by
playing very difficult selections.
Miss Helen Lockwood, the only grad
uate in the Conservatory Of Music this
year, gave her graduation recital on
Friday evening. Miss Lockwood rem
dered high class program, containing
selections from Beethoven, Grieg,
Chopin, List and other great COM
posers. Her skill in manipulating the
keys and the feeling with which she
.plays, shows that she has received most
- excellent training in the art, and also
that she possesses musical talents of a
high order. Mrs. F. G. Wittensten,
soprano, and Henry Halvorson, tenor,
assisted at Miss Lockwood's recital.
All the musical programs given were
we'll rendered and highly appreciated by
the audience that assembled to hear
them. After listening to one or more
- Of these programs, one realizes that
music has a high place at North Star
College and that the teachers of music
are most thorough, painstaking and
efficient
Class Day Exercises
The Glass Day exercises were held
on Saturday evening when an inter-
esting program was rendered, opening
with piano Duet by Helen Lockwood
and Margaret Patterson. Ferdinand
Swanson, class president, made brief
Introductory remarks, followed by a
cleverly written class history by Marie
Wick and Edith Johnson. Glass Stats
,tics prepared by Eddie Pearson and
IArnOld LaRoche gave the combined
length, girth, weight and other inter
testing facts in connection with the
,gradua ting class, A piano solo by
Marie Wick came next, followed by the
'"Class WIZ by Guida Gilbertsoil and
tile Glass Motto: He who hndeth
knowledge, fndeth life" by Arthur
Hagen. The "Class Prophecy in which
Dora Nasinec as seer revealed to Fer
dinand Swanson the destiny of each
member Of the class proved full of hits
and very amusing. Next Ferdinand
Swanson sang a solo and Julia Krava
gave a select reading.
President c. E. Sjostrand next
awarded Judge Holm's Gold Medal for
excellence in penmanship to Miss Marie
Wick. A piano solo by Helen Lock
wood closed the program, after which
was held sale of articles made by
.students for the benefit Of the school,
e. F. Peterson crying the SALE Lunch
WAS also served for small fee
j The Baccalaureate Services
- On Sunday evening the baccalaureate
Services were held at the Swedish Lu-
.theran church, Rev. S. w. Swenson
preaching a sermon that was replete
with valuable admonition to young peo-
;ple making a start in life. Special
music was furnished for the occasion.
Commencement Concert
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given at the college chapel by the War
sren Oratorio Chorus, when selections
from the three great oratorios, Faith
and Praise, Messiah, and The Great
Light, were rendered. Warren's best
singers participated in this program
(Which was appreciated by all lovers OF
Eclassical sacred music. Mrs. F. c.
lsWittensten, Mrs. Ed. Bratrud, Mrs. H
nc. Naeseth and Aug I. Bystrom ap
3peared as the solo singers on this pro
gram. Miss Agda Wennerberg is the
d1irector of the Chorus and Miss Olga
\ Iermanson the piano accompanist.
The Graduation Exercises
IL A large audience witnessed the
| graduation exercises on Tuesday
| tevening which brought the school veal
| Ito an suspicious close. While the pro
| occasional was being played by Misses
! ,Hermanson and Wennerberg the facul
| ty, graduates, speakers and members
| Of the Board of Trustees entered the
| chapel Then after a hymn by thu
7 Ihudience Rev. s.. w. Swenson Offered
| 1.-THE invocation. Miss Vera Peterson
| the salutatorian Of the class, then step
! ped forward and delivered in grace
| ful manner and with clear, wei
| $modulated voice, her choicely wordet
isalutatory, introducing the class O.
1920. This was followed by a plane
Nsolo, LA Campanella" from Liszt, b!
I EAiss Olga Hermanson.
President G. E. Sjostrand in intro
sducing Rev. E. o. Chelgren, of Carlton
sMmn., the commencement speaker
Mcalled attention to the fact that Rev
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