New Britain herald., 1924-06-26
PainuiM Neus
1. 5. MILLS MAKES
 ADDRESS TO PUPILS
Graduation Exercises Of Glass Of
 1924 Impressive and Entertaining
GAS METER THEFT REPORTED

Special Parish Meeting-Teachers
 Leaving for Home-W. C. T. l..
 Members In, ited to County Picnic
 Plainyillc Briefs.
 Graduation exercises of the Plain vile Gramn.ar school tcok place yes t,rday afternoon at o'clock :n the Congrega tional church. The :radu ales won the praise ot their parents ard friends for the manner in which then ren6ered the numbers on tn } lrogram and each received his or her certificate or graduation from the 1 lainvile graded schools. Following the exercises, the claSs was photo- graphed and the members and teach CTS 'epaired to the Rialto Soda Shopoe, where they w!re tho guests CT the proprietor,
 l.. :. Mills. secretary of the Plain Vile school committee and acting a. school visitor, presented the diplomas and addressed the graduates. -iis talk
 
 schools anl was as follows;
 In behalf of the town school com m,ttee and people Of the town, it is | great pleasure 10 receive this class class of 1924, as certified to us this afternoon, They have spoken 10 ua ably and well.
 "I do want to thaik all the towns
 people, in behalf Of the committee, In cooperating with us in connection with the new school building just go- ing up on Linden street, It is 10 be a nine-room grammar school building It will be completed before ,chooi opens in September. We plan definite ly to put four grades, l-s-S 2 lin the building when it opens, and at least two rooms for high school. The course Of study for high school has teen printed and is in the handa of the pupils who arc qualified and most Of the parents have seen it. IL ap- pears now that in addition to the four grade rooms we will probably need 10 open another grade. That will be de- clded after school opens. As the com- mittee has seen the problem, our new school building will care for our chil- drcn for the coming school year and one more school year--ihat is, two ytars,--anl. then it means, az far as wc can see. either part tims again or more schools We think We ought 10 have a high school Of course, many of you are not familiar with the group Of over hundred children tn tho rfistul and New Britain high schools
 rhis class enters this year in our own
 high school and after The following year it will be only very short time
 when Ne will have over . hundred lupils, needing anyway probably niN teachers, principal and a buldins oi at least ten rooms lt is to be sure that 1t Is q large undertaking. The town of PlainNllls, fully believe, i' equal 10 another school
 "rhe class that graduated veal ago in June from this platform "hn atnt to Bristol made good, in such a splendid way that pf1nclpa Cottle wrote our committee in May that they were an asset to the Bristol High school and he should recommend that
 they be kept for the coming year and because they did so well. they will re- msln for the coming school year.
 "we hope that this class will attend our own high school and do equally as well. We hope you will do all you | possibly can io encourage them in l their work. We hope that your co- operation will help us to have good i figh school in Plainsills. We will br unable 10 teach quite all inc subjects
 which ars taught in Brisl ol and New | I'ritain. but what VIC do we can dc
 thoroughly and wei.
 "Membors Of the class Of i9.i. tho [ fownspeopie and committee are glad and proud to sec you here this after noon. Your motto. 'Effort Then Sus- | e Ss." is a splendid motto. There nrs l many boys and girls. and men and ! N Nomen Hho like to get success with. cut efert but Y cannot he done. Nou are on the journey you have beer i travelling for several years. Some oi ! your class who started with you art not here this afternoon. They chose some other road than 10 climb ur into the hills. l don't know where ] ttey arc and yOu probably don'i i ether. lnn they are not with us. "Un this journey which you art l ttavcIIius. as t were. there is per | raps river at your icft, going slow ll 1 through The years. and road that is easv fo travel. but 7t the right thcr i Is a road going ID into the hills. Noui i fsthars. mothers. and townspeopis as- =pmbIad here have been travelling these roads longer than you. Ho" ] rgr iher have climbed up in'o ths lsits YOU and they can determine. oi neither they haze foaied on th' ] river or travaiiei inc lsyri ros !. Ar'
 they climbing up or down What arg ] they doing?
 "Great men in inc past. whom we study about in history. climb. T'e- ginning with the Egyptian civilization, there is Ramsses First and Second,
 Merodak Baladan. Nebopo ro1azzer oi rerian. Darius. Themisiocies. soion ! Socrates of Greece. Cicero. Caesar autbonv. Marcus Aurfl lius and others I of Rome. CharlemaEne of the Mid dls Ages. ronmsr1ius. Charles aartel { ef ,ba Middle Ages. William the Con- aueror. Rousseau. Columbus. AleEaH- ! der Hamilton. Patrick Henry. George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. Theo- dore Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson. Cal tfn Coolidge and tsst numbers Of oih- CTS who climbed upward into the hills While their comrades slept. they were toi1iue upward in the night. The lives of these great men and women slt re- mind ne that as and you may make