The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-06-16
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES Held

The commencement exercises held at
the Douglas county high school last
Friday evening were largely attended
and altogether the most gratifying and
enjoyable of any similar occasion at
the high school auditorium in the past
year.
Following a piano selection by Miss
Emily Robertson and a song of nations
by the high school pupils, the grad
yates, together with the members of
the board OF education, the commence
ment speaker, Governor Boyle, Prin-
cipal Hargraye and Rev. Willis took
their places on the stage and at the
appearance of the nine graduates. they
were greeted by laundering applause.
Mrs. II. F. Dangberg, member of the
board of education, sang solo in her
usual pleasing manner and was warm
ly applauded by the large audience.
Governor Boyle was introduced as
the speaker of the evening and opened
his remarks by stating that as COVER
nor 1t was the last time he would ad-
dress a gathering on a similar oc-
casion and termed his address as his
valedictory He declared that it was
pleasing to him to be here as speaker
at the occasion of the commencement
exercises and declared that the people
of Douglas county were just a little
different from others of Nevada, be-
cause they had asked him to speak the
second time. This remark by the Gov
ernor was made merely to get his
hearers In good frame of mind and
after he had done so, he launched into
what was one of the best speeches
that Neyada's brilliant democratic
governor has ever made to local peo-
ple
He called attention to the drift from
the rural to urban communities by
young people seeking to wear white
collars and keep their hands soft
During the past one hundred years
this has continued until sixty per cent
of the people of the United States live
in cities, declared Governor Boyle and
at the present rate 1t will be less than
fifty years when the country is entire
ly depopulated. An education is not a
guarantee for a soft job, declared the
speaker, and at this particular time
the rural communities have need for
those graduates that are worth while.
The successful management of a farm
requires trained thought equally with
the manufacturing and business inter-
ests of the land and he urged the
graduates to remember this. He also
called attention to the splendid state
university at Reno and declared that
nowhere could students finish their
education with any better results than
at the University of Nevada.
Principal Hargrave presented the
class of 1922 to the Board of Educa-
ton for graduation and stated that
the Institution showed that the cost to
Douglas county was 1000 for each
graduate and termed IL as a nine
thousand dollar class
In response Fred Settelmeyer re-
sponded and in well chosen words con-
graduated the graduates and also
spoke In the highest terms of the
splendid work of Principal Hargrave
and his excellent corps of instructors.
In presenting the diplomas to the class
of 1922 each graduate was warmly
applauded when handed their dlplo-
mas.
The exercises closed with a bene-
diction pronounced by Rev. Willis.
The Everett orchestra played for
social dance which was held in the
auditorium following the exercises.
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