The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-06-16
DR.. ROY |. SMITH DELIVERED
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

The commencement exercises of the
Minot high school were held at the
high school auditorium Friday even
ing at which time 63 young men and
women received their diplomas.
The commencement address was
delivered by DR.. Roy l.. Smith, clergy
man and lecturer from Minneapolis
and without question it was one of
the finest commencement addresses
ever heard in this city. For an hour
and forty minutes he held his audience
spell bound and there were frequent
outbursts of laughter as he made
some humorous point.
While on the subject Of intellectual
living, DR.. Smith voiced warm tri-.
butte to the people of Minot who
'built this magnificent high school
and are making the schools the GEN.
ter of your community life before you
build a race track" He made an
earnest appeal for all communities to
slight public improvements if neces-
sary to provide education facilities for
the boys and girls.
Discussing the moral side of life,
the speaker said there is no boy prob
lem in the average community, it is
a man problem. If the men live right,
he said, the boys would live right.
And in this connection he compliment
ed the Minot Rotary club on its activ-
tiles in the interest of the boys.
He told of the Importance of re-.
ligion and condemned the man or wo--
man who said he or she could not 60
to church because of the presence OF
hypocrites. That Individual, he said,
was smaller than hypocrite because
he or she had to be smaller to hide
behind one.
Parents Remembered
DR.. Smiths concluding remarks took
the form of a tribute to the parents
of the high school students. Ad-
dressing himself to the graduating
class, he told several interesting stor-
les Of mothers love and closed with
request that they go to their parents
and thank them for affording them an
opportunity OF graduate from high
school. Many were in tears as he
paid tribute to the mothers of tho
graduates.
The diplomas were handed to the
graduates by John Lynch, represent
ing the school board. The names
were read off by Supt L. A. White
who also introduced DR.. Smith. The
high school orchestra contributed two
numbers and the high school chorus
sang group of songs. Invocation
was offered by the Rev. E. E. Keedy
while the Rev. 0. L. Jensen pronounc-
ed benediction.
Class HOnors Announced
J. H. Cotton, principal of the Minot
high school announced class honors
as follows:
Senior class honor roll: Vivian.
Frisby, valedictorian; Dorothy King.
salutatorian; Grace f. Mcintyre,
Alice NJ Devaney, Zeta Brunner,
Beatrice M. Wartchow, Sylvia K. Asp
lund, Alma Gilbertson, Herman B.
Brownstein, Maurice T. Johnson.
Junior class honor roll: Magda-
lene Larsen, Chester Rosenzweig,
Corrine Listerud, Margaret Malm>
Oliver Peterson, Geneva Emerson,
Mabel Swanson, Jonathan Blaisdeu,
David Hovey, John Brauer.
List of Graduates
The &c graduates who received their
diplomas follow:
Anita Alice Aitchison, Obert Jer-
old Anderson, Mabelle Elsie Arthur,
Sylvia Marian Katherine Asplund,
Herbert Wesley Benno, Drusilla Gel
este Billion, Herman Benjamin Brown
stein, S. Frances Brundage, Zeta Mar
ion Drummer, Harriet Louise Carlson,
Gail Carr, Dorothy Carroll, Florence
Ter, Alice Mary Devaney, Margaret
Beatrice Colcough, Anna May Dieb-
Elwynne Dickinson, Josephine Marie
Erickson, Mabel Pauline Evenson,
James Kenneth Falconer, Mabel Foss.
Vivian Celene Frisby, Alf Seyveren
Fugelso, Alma Christine Gilbertson,
Margaret Elizabeth Hall, Stella Owl,
dia Heskin, Hazel E. Hogy, Goldie D.
Irving, Maurice Theodore johnson,
Olga Kristine Johnson, Genevieve-
Kathryn Kelley, Vincent Kielty, Dor,
othy Ellen King, Wade Hampton
kruse, Ruth Cecilia LaFleur, Mil
dred Rosella Lamphier, Lucille Mar
garet Lindberg, Aida Dorothy Lock
rem, Lewis Rockmore Lowe, Cora
Lunde, Rhoda Letitia Malm, Sibyl
Mercedes Malm, Bruce Mcconnell,
Grace Violet Mcintyre, Edward Clair
McKone, Mabel Aileen Bertha Mid
wood, Herbert Edward Moore, Cecilia
Ann Murray, Alice Mae Nelson, Verne
Lawrence Norton, Clara Oen, Clarina
Oen, Charles Irving Olson, Efie a
Owen, Annie NJ. Peterson, Edna Chris
tine Peterson, Florence Evangeline
Pettis, Frances Lorraine Petite, Theo-
dore Grant Shaft, Ruth Sherburn.
Reginald Hughes Smart, Lydia Flea
nor Straod, Genevieve Fay Torger-
son, William Ray Truax, James Emil
Wankel, Beatrice Mary Wartchows
Eldon George White.
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