The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-06-16
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Class of 1923 Bids Farewell to
High School Amid Pleasant
Scenes and Surroundings.
ADDRESS BY DR.. BRUMBAUGH

No graduating class ever entered
the world of business or professional
life better advised or cautioned ag-
ainst what they would find confront
ing them than did the 1928 class of
the P~leasantville High School. For
mer Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh,
of Pennsylvania, delivered an address
that was brim full of advice, which
vas worth more to the graduates just
budding forth as the business men
n ONE of to-day n tomorrow
than money could buy for them. Then
Robert Burrell, salutatorian, and Ruth
Glendenning, va~ledictorian, each con-
tributed logic and sound sensible ar
guments that stand out as shining
lights of what a High School educa-
ton can do for a boy and girl of to-
day.
Burrell talked of Opportunity, and
when he had finished his essay there was
by a man of mature years to improve
the story he desired to tell in a parting
admonition to his fellow students. and,
indeed. many of the elders present could
well profit yet by the advice and counsel
he gave. Miss Glendenning. following,
gave an equally fine address to the stu
dents and well she admonished her class
mates, that if they forget everything else
she said, to remember always to Get in
Line. Here again the parents and
themselves to learn for then, personal
benefit in life and the general good of
the community in which they live.
In cap and gown the graduates pre-
scented an appearance that argued well
for the school system of the CITY,. Their
faces beamed, and their "at ease man
ner, as they faced the crowded auditori-
UNI and rendered the commencement pro-
gram, spoke at every turn a finished pro-
duct in education. Well may the Board
of Education, the faculty and the city at
large. feel proud of the class of 1928.
DR.. Brumbaugh, man of experience in
life of many phases, complimented the
and seen the thing through. He said
that America always does that in every
great crisis. He argued on three great
this world? How am 1 going to get out
of it? What am l going to do under the
circumstances?
1t was the latter one that he enlarged
upon in saying in part, You are left an
inheritance of a cruel, needless and
shameless war, There is a national debt
this debt. This Republic never repudi-
ated a debt, and Thank God it never will.
Our obligation is Industry and Fru-
gality. We must work and saw to pay
our debt, but the sad truth is We are
neither industrious or frugal. we are
only 65 per cent. as efficient as we were
in 1914. We are resting on our iaureis
and drifting with the tide. The Ameri-
can Republic is not working and paying
its debt as it should. When a people
enter a period of extravaganza the NOR
ais of the people decay. We need moral
leadership more than anything else.
LAS bi-~products of education l want to
mention three things. First: That virtue
of civilization, Courtesy. We must learn
to rejoice with others when they rejoice.
The meanest thing on earth, more than
any other thing. is jealousy. Second;
Reliability, plain, downright honesty:
stand by your post when the rivers of
opposition rise about you. Be Dependa-
BILE. Third: Humility. There comes a
time to all when mans inadequacy is
shown. then is demonstrated Gods com,
pleteness. When you and all men and
women fail we will recognize Gods su-
premacy and power to sustain"
Rev. S. Monroe VanSant PRONOUNCED
the invocation and benediction. The
Seniors were encored when they sang
choruses. and Miss Mae Cullen was re-
called when she rendered a beautiful solo.
Former Assistant Prosecutor Herbert X.
Voorhees, presented the debating banner
won by P. H. S. this year, and Superin-
tendent William c. Sullivan presented
the class to the Board OF Education:
Principal Charles o. Wilson presented
the Rensselaer, Institute medal and the
alumni cup, and President Warren q.
Marshall. of the Board of Education, pre-
scented the diplomas to each graduate
The audience Joined in singing "Amerl-
ca as the closing number of the pro-