The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-21
GRADUATION Of
CLASS OF 1922
Address One of Best Ever
Given at B. HI. S. Com
mencement
HONOR LIST AND
AWARD OF PRIZES

Certificates to Teach i'm Vermont Award
Ell This Year for First Time. Re
eipients Being IL in Teacher-Training
Class-CIass Roll
Thrift, hard work, a new reverence
for established law, and cooperation are
the four important lessons to be learned
if civilization is TO be saved, declared
Rev. James Gordon Gilkey, pastor of
the South Congregational church of
Springfield, Mass. last evening in adj
dressing the % members of the graduate
ing class of Brattleboro high school in
the annual exercises in the Auditorium.
The address was one of the best ever
given before graduating class here.
As usual much interest was mani
tested in the exercises, which began at
S o'clock, practically every seat in the
Auditorium being occupied at 7.45 and
many persons standing when the pro-
gram began.
Members of the prudential committee,
speaker. high school faculty and post
graduates who had taken the teacher
training course occupied chairs on the
north side of the stage. while the mem
bers of the class of 1922 occupied chairs
on the south side. The class marched
down the aisles in the Auditorium and
up inclines over the orchestra pit at
either end of the stage.
As has been the case every year since
the first AuStfne prizes were awarded
there was great interest in the an
nouncement of hOnorS, award of prizes,
presentation of the class to the pruden-
tial committee and presentation of di-
plomas.
The Honor Roll
The honor roll Of the four classes con
tanned the names of 23 students. nine
being in the senior class, six in the junior
class. two each in tie sophomore and
freshman classes, and four post-gradu-
ates. The Austine prizes We're awarded
TO Howard Crosby Rice. jr., Philip
Henry Wheeler. Mary Catherine Grady
and Marion Esther Laughton, each re-
ceiving a check for S112.50. These awards
are from the income of n bequest TO the
school by the late Col. William Austine
of Brattleboro and are given each year
to the four members of the graduating
class maintaining the highest scholar
ship marks throughout the four-year
course. No University of Vermont
scholarships were awarded this year as
none of the pupils who stood in line for
such award plan to enter that institu-
ton.
Following are the names of those on
the honor rolls of the various classes,
having maintained an average of so per
cent or over for the entire year:
Post graduates-Evelyn Hamilton,
Mildred Taft, Amy Johnson, Beatrice
Glass of 1922-Evelyn Austin. Mary
Butterfield. Gladys Chaplin. Mary Cath
crime Grady. Marion Laughton. Rhona
Patterson, Howard Rice, jr., Frank
Shumway. Nina Wood.
Glass of 1923-Howard Aplin,. Alice
Boyden, Dorothy Edwards Mary Put
nam, Ruth Reed, Cheney Williams.
Glass of 1924-Archie Adams, John
Russell.
Glass of 1925-Mary Crane. William
Williams.
The program opened with The Mil
selected chorus, while the high school
orchestra, under the direction of Earl
A. Braman and with Miss Jessie L.
Hawley at the piano. played. The. or
chestra then rendered Mendelssnhn's
March of the Priests as the marshals,
eorted the graduates to the platform.
The invocation was offered by Rev DIR.
Herbert p Woodin. Dastor of tho Gem
tire Congregational church. and Princi-
pal Ernest r.. Caverlv introduced Rev.
Mr.. Gilkey. whose subject was, Can
Civilization be Savedg
DIR. GiIkey's Address.
The speaker called attention to the
fact. IN opening. that civilizations of
the past have not been guaranteed inn
munity from disaster. ard mentioned
the nations which have gone down. add
ing that the saving of civilization IS not
a rhetorical question. but a great ques
tion which is being faced by the world,
for the solution of which the young
people are trained.
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