The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-01-27
SENIORS ATTEND
ANNUALBANQUET
Mid Year Faculty Senior
Banquet Staged at Elks
Club on Monday.
THE PUBLIC Is INVITED

Covers were laid for forty-four at
the semi-annual Kenosha High school
senior-faculty banquet in a private
dining room at the Elks' clubhouse at
$3.50 o'clock Monday evening. Arnold
Yabs and Miss Eva Schaefer formed
the committee in charge of the affair,
arranging a most attractive appoint
ment scheme and entertaining after
dinner program.
Urban Zievers, as president Of the
1921 mid-year senior class, acted as
postmaster. 1t was the first time in
years that Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, SUI
perintendent of the Kenosha public
schools, was not present, and Jay
Glerum, president Of the school board,
expressed the regret for the assem-
blage in his comment on the illness
which made it impossible for her to
attend. Mr.. Glerum continued with
brief resume of Mrs. Bradford's accom-
plishments. He also regretted present
conditions which make it impracticable
to concretely develop new high
school which seemed certainty of the
Mr.. Glerum encouraged higher educa-
ton, pointing out that an ever increas-
ing number of Kenoshans attend coll
lege or university He anticipates the
day when Kenosha will rank 1000 in
high school students who have con-
tinued their higher education, as the
times already are pointing to the ad-
vantage of the college trained.
Social and Cultural Advantages.
John Maloney and Principal G. N.
value of education from a cultural
standpoint. They stressed the oppor
tunities for intellectual growth and
development of social consciousness
offered a student in a high school be-
cause Of the intimate contact with
faculty members who have made that
a life study and life work, and whose
ambition is to give as much to the
student body as possible. 1t was
pointed out that student who is
only moderately seriously disposed to
the opportunities offered in school can
obtain a training in these two fields,
intellectual and social, in a compare
lively short time. Because Of suscep-
tible age and because of the fact that
conditions are made as conducive as
possible to that sort of training the
student is enabled to acquire more in
four years of high school training than
in great many years of ordinary liv
ing. The point was stressed that such
training was not only acquired under
the direction of specialists at an age
when there is a peculiar susceptibility
to training but that training of that
sort can be made useful in later years
when one wants to put his energies
into the special interests he may have
in business or professional life.
AS a purely cultural investment Mr..
Tremper enumerated broader hori-
zon, more varied outlook on life,
wider acquaintance with books and
literature. He encouraged cultivation
of books and literature as the highest
type of friends possible, friends who
would never fail in times when life
appeared particularly cold and unin-
viting.
Commencement Week Program.
Further activities of the senior
class during commencement week will
be the class play, Believe Me Kan
tippe," at the Rhode at 8:15 Thursday
evening, class day exercises at the
High school assembly at 2:30 Friday
afternoon, and commencement exer-
cises at the Washington school audi
forum at 500 o'clock Friday evening.
A special invitation has been extend
ed to the public to participate in the
mid-year commencement activities.
Heretofore it has been impossible to
accommodate very large number at
commencement exercises because of
limited sesaing capacity. The new
Washington school auditorium, how
ever, can seat approximately $50 peo-
pie. There is no admission charge and
those in charge have expressed the
hope that the general public will take
advantage of the opportunity thus of
fered by the use of the new school
auditorium to attend and become ac7
quainted with high school activities.
The speaker for the evening, Prof.
Waldo of Kalamazoo Normal school,
is especially recommended.