Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-19

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history of s. II. S. The class vice
president. Miss Velma Berry. cordial
lily responded and gave pleasing
ispeeeh in which she pledged the 10y
,alty Of the class of 1922 to its, alma
mater.
The nominating committee of the
association composed of Roy Symons.
G. Allen Wentworth and Gridley r.
Fogg, through Mr. Fog, presented its
report nominating the following of
ficers to serve the coming year: Pres
ident, Mrs. Mabel Phillips; vice pres
ident. Attorney John Lewis; seere-
tary, Mrs. Blanche B. Friend: treas
| urer, Miss Anne M. Caswell. This re-
port was accepted and Mr.. Fogg was
/, instructed to cast the ballot for the
same, who were elected to serve the
association for the coming year.
Miss Page announced that there had
been some talk of changing the time
of holding the banquet to midday at
mid summer time instead of at grad
uation.
The president expressed the regrets
of Attorney F. G. Harrington of Au-
gusta. who was the principal of the
school for three years, who had been
Expected to speak but who was I'M
| able to do SO because of the serious
| illness of his father.
| The first speaker of the evening was
Mrs. Bertha Merrill Lobeck of Mad
ison, Wis. Mrs. I.obeck said that she
was not a speech maker and that at
| the present time in her ~1mily, her
husband did the public speaking, and
her little daughter did the greater part
of the speech making in the home, and
upon both of them she urged the value
Of brevity, and that she was going to
remember it herself in this speech.
Mrs LObeck said that it was fourteen
years since she was graduated from
S. H s. After her graduation FROM
Wellesley college she became a teach
er at S. H., and 80 she looked back
upon the school from both the pupils
and the teachers standpoint with
HAPPY memories in both instances.
The second speaker was Karl r.
Phlbricll, who has just completed his
junior year at BOwdOin college, and
who spoke for the colleges urging the
members of the graduating class to
go to some college Mr.. Philhricl
mentioned the tribute paid by DR.. Nit
chell, a professor at Bowdoin, who de-
Ilivered the baccalaureate address be-
fore the class of '22, to the students
at Bowdon from s. II. s. and to the
teachers of s. H. S. and especially to
Mr.. Leighton.
Mr.. Philbrick stated that there were
at Bowdoin college at the present
time. II men from S. IT. S. and that
they We're as We're the s. II. S. students
at the other colleges doing well and
rejecting credit upon S. II. s. and its
teachers.
The principle speaker of the evening
was Attorney Clyde Church. S. TT. s..
who was afterward graduated from
Colby college and Harvard Law
school, and is now located in Mime
Iapolis, Mimi, and who with Mrs
Church arrived in town Thursday
evening, coming at this time to at
tend the graduating exercises and the
banquet. Mr.. Church expressed his
pleasure at being again in SkoWhe-
gan, which he always thought of as
home and said that if any one of the
company had been on much needed
vacation and had been called upon to
speak at a very short notice he knew
lcXactly how he felt. He said that Miss
Page asked him to tell what he was
doing and where he lived so he prcfac-
cd his address by saying that his
present home is in Minneapolis. Mimi.
the queen city of the northwest and
that he hoped that many more Of the
S IT. S. Alumni association might Wis
it the city.
To the members of the graduating
class especially he urged the letting
OF service be the keynote in their
lives. BE useful and he said that cdu-
cation was an important tool. with
which to increase ones usefulness
He said that at the present time every
boy and girl who wishes may go to
college. He said that experiences
gained during school days make one
able to grasp and to make use Of op-
portNnities.
Mr., Church said that there is, and
has been, the presentation of a doc
trine Of common level, which he en-
phatically stated was a false doctrine
and tended to drag one down instead
of upward. He sail that one of the
best assets n community can have is
Sood schools and especially a good
high school and that, the Skowhcgan
High school has always been. He
urged the members of the association
to support the school in every wav
and he proud that they are graduates
Of $. Fl. S. He sail in closing. that
the country was now demanding much
or the young mon and women and that
TO them it was looking to offset the
doctrine OF common lcvCl. Mr.. Church
was listened to with the closest at
tention of those present. who were
happy to hear him and have him
speak.
William Whittemore, who resides in
st Paul, Mimi, was also present ana
spoke briefly, expressing his pleasure
at being present.
William A. CloI i of Rumford, who
is member of the class of 1897. spoke
and said that although no had never
lived out of Maine, that this was The
first time he had attended a reunion OF
the association. Mr.. Clough smoke OF
ms pleasure of bcin. present. and soid
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