The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-08
Prof. James DOnahue of
State University
at B. III. S.
TROPHY RECEIVED
BY TRACK CAPTAIN
Then Presented to School Amid Tre-
mendous Applause - Principal War
rem Announces Honors for Class Day
at Opening Exercises Today.

Presentation of handsome silver low
ing cup by Prof. James Donahue OF the
University of Vermont and announce
ment of class day appointments by Prln-
cipal Julius Z. Warren were received
with pandemonium of applause at the
opening exercises in the Brattleboro high
school this morning. The cup has been
placed on display in the window of c. +.
! Thomas's drug store.
While the cup was won by the high
school track team at the annual inter
scholastic meet in Burlington in the early
summer of 1919, a series of unavoidable
circumstances, including the scarcity and
extremely high price of silver, had made
it impossible to secure the cup from the
makers until about a week ago and ar
rangements were made Immediately for
Professor Donahue to come here to make
the presentation.
After the regular opening exercises OF
the school Principal Warren made some
announcements regarding elections for
the Dial board and stated that beginning
: next week the afternoon session would
be but one hour long, from 3 TO O'Clock,
giving the pupils and faculty an oppor-
tunity to be out doors all the time pos
sible during the spring. He then an
nounced that the faculty and committee
. had made the appointments for class day
and read the list as follows:
II Presidents address, Francis Austin; !;
Y class oration, Perry Maynard; class es-
1 say, Alice Bullock; class history, Rich
ard Aplin for seniors, Ruth Howe for
juniors, Charlotte Robbins for sopho-
mores, Clara Thurber for freshmen; ivy
Grafton, James Savery; ivy ode, to be
contested for by Helen Miller, Florence
: Adams and Arthur Woodworth; class
prophecy to be contested for by Thyra
Morrill, and the one in second place for
r ivy ode.
r With fitting remarks he then intro
d duced the representative of the Univers
% ity of Vermont, but before Professor
If Donahue had opportunity to acknowl
. edge his introduction Miss Jane Daley
d cheer leader for the school, stepped Il
d the front and led in the school yell which
al closed with three rounds of professor
a. Donahue."
lie The speaker referred to his great in
to terest in high school athletics, saying b.
taught several vars in high schools be
e, fore he took up college work. He spok
e on The Value of Athletics. They are o
5: value to the individual who participates
ID he said, as they make a good, strong
ID healthy body They are of value becaus
of the influence on the mind and the in
fluence on character, and because the,
build up good craftsmanship. Then, too
they are of benefit to school. The Brat
> tleboro high school is known throughou
- the state as a school which sent won
derfully fine team to the interscholasti
od meet, and here he paid a personal trit
- ute to the team
- The entire country, said Professo
X Donahue, is benefited by young men i
~ ~ athletics The main purpose of til
- -. school is to give good training fc
good citizenship and the athlete is
better condition to receive the trair
ing Reference was made to the a,
founding results of the physical exam
he inations for men for the governmer
ed service in the recent war, which shove
an that larger proportion of the me
'er from the larger cities passed than {
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