Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-09
1900 SEE DIPLOMAS GIVEN
LARGEST GRADUATING CLASS
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Ruth Landers Awarded Highest Scholastic Hon
ors for Four Years Work in Great Falls
High School.

The limelight Of public interest
allowed on the Central high school class
of 1922 Thursday night when 154 sem
iors were graduated. With a capacity
house of 1000 the annual commence
ment exercises were held at the Palace
theater, where the class was present
ed for the comforting of diplomas by
S. D. Largent, superintendent of the
schools of Great Falls.
C. D. Eliot. chairman of the board
pf school trustees. distributed the d.
splomas at the close of the exercises,
which featured the Homer Ten" of the
class.
Ruth Landerg.a as valedictorian was
awarded highest scholastic honors for
her four years work and was also an
nounced as the scholar who has the
most conspicuous scholastic record of
any student who has ever been grad
uated from Central high school. her
percentage for her work during her
four student years being greater than
that attained by any other alumnus.
This percentage of 1855 per cent en-
titled her to the Woehner medal.
awarded for the highest average grade
attained in all studies. The medal was
presented by F. c. Lampen, a member
of the board of trustees.
Plea for Real Teachers
In her valedictory address, Miss Ian
ders pointed out the necessity for the
preservation of education. She made
an eloquent plea for real men and real
women to enter the teaching profession,
explaining the need for them in the
training of children. whom she said.
were in many instances at the present
time receiving misguided instruction.
She pointed out that in intelligence
tests that have been given throughout
the educational institutions of the
United States, those who have chosen
teaching as q profession have ranked
lower as a class than those who have
entered other fields.
Even more necessary than the pres
srvation of education. is it's careful di.
"tion. was the speakers contention.
In a country where the average per-
son has not advanced beyond the fifth
grade. the need for education is great.
she said. and scored a legislative sys.
tenn that feels any project is more i'm
.portant than education.
Miss Landers explained the Towner-
Sterling bill as a measure that has for
its aim the exemplification Of educa-
ton. The removal of illiteracy from
the land should be the aim of an edu-
cational system. she said. The efforts
of herself and of her classmates of the
graduating class of 1922 were pledged
to this end.
"PIay the Game
In her salutatory address. Margaret
Arthur compared the entrance of the
class into the various fields of endeav-
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to a football game. She cited the
philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt and
repeated his advice. PLAY the Game"
It is preparedness that counts in the
game of life, was her assertion, as she
concluded her remarks with a recon-
mendation that her fellow students
keep healthy and it to feel that they
"owe the world a light and that the
world does not owe them a living.
1--WE must be able to see the blue
sky in the mud puddle" she said.
That graduation should be consid-
erred a beginning and not an end was
the opinion expressed by Otis Pyatt
in an address in which he outlined tie
aims that the graduates should have
in mapping out the program for their
future.
Continuous effort. is the only route
to success and along the way one
should not dream too much OF the fu-
ture or brood too much on the past"
he said. !
Interesting and well presented were
the addresses of Gertrude Jorgenson.
Carlton johnson, Howard Beers, and
Helen Christian.
"Superstitions"
Il "Superstitions,' Gertrude Jor-
genson pointed out that mankind has
and always will be to a certain ex-
tent, governed by superstitions. If
these superstitions are used as step
ping stones to progress their influence
may be considered influential and
worthy of a place in the worlds his
tory, she expressed as her belief.
A clear and concise account Of the
Great Falls zinc plant and the pro-
cesses used in refining the ore used !
in the manufacture of zinc was given
tby Carlton Johnson.
The. Danish system- of cooperation