Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-12
Seniors Last Chapel
CHS. Friday Morning

warning against the over en-
phasis of athletics in High school
was given by the speakers at the
Seniors Last Chapel Friday morn
ing at Gardiner High. Leo Hickey,
the first speaker declaring that
studies were important, athletics
necessary, while the proper combi-
nation of the two was ideal. He re-
ferred to the recent storm Of protest
that swept the country against the
over stressing of the Importance of
football, and said that it was justi-
fed. He emphasized the two ideals
of Gardiner High, craftsmanship and
fair play and said that Gardiner
High teams had often been con-
graduated by visiting coaches for
this excellent spirit. He pointed out
that in the present senior class there
was tendency to- studies more than
to athletics, although 1925 had given
the school some fine players. He
asked the juniors to carry on the
heritage Of craftsmanship and
showed that It was their duty to
lead the school in athletics as well
as all things.
The seniors were marshalled into
the auditorium by their class presi-
dent, Albert Henderson, the girls in
attractive white linen dresses, COM
bined with blue, their class colors,
while the boys were dressed in the
conventional blue. The march was
played by Mrs. Helen Harlow of the
faculty. The brief services were
conducted by President Henderson,
who led the responsive reading on
Wisdom" from Proverbs, Chapter
8, 11-31, and the Lords Prayer. This
was followed by the Pledge of Allie
glance to the Flag. The high school
orchestra played under the direction
of Miss Towne, and then the various
speakers were introduced.
The address to the girls was given
by Miss Myrtle Brewer who named
the three necessary requisites of
girls as they went out to take their
places in the world as honesty,
trustworthiness, and reliab Utility. She
urged the girls who are going on to
higher education to face college with
a deep purpose, not merely for a good
time. Disappointment are newt
able. declared the speaker, and when
they come Is the time when ones true
self is shown. She paid the highest
tribute to mothers, and asked the
members of the graduating class to
keep their thoughts pure and clean
and such that they would not be
ashamed for their mothers to know
them. She said that graduation time
was one of the happiest of all to
mothers for they saw in their daugh-
ters at that time the possible fruition
Of their own unfulfilled hopes.
Harold Small in speaking to the
boys of the school asked them to
allow the same motives that had
characterized their successes in their
High school course motivate their
success on the greater school of life.
He pointed out the importance of
studies, and said that they should be
considered more than athletics.
In speaking to the undergraduates
Frances Collins asked the juniors to
prepare for their responsibility as
seniors, and leaders of the school.
for the .sophomores to make the most
OF the two years remaining to them,
and if they were planning to change
their course to give it proper con-
sideration. She asked the first year
class as they entered their second
year to remember their own troubles
as freshmen and to help smooth the
way for the freshman class of next
fall. To all the students she gave
the earnest Injunction you will get
out of your High school course Just
what you have put, into it."
Dorothy Rose in giving the fare
well address to the buildings and
grounds referred to the excellent
manner in which the seniors had
kept the building in first class con-
dition. Four years ago when they
entered as freshmen they found the
building immaculate, one year old.
and they had endeavored to keep it
so. The grounds have been beau
titled in the past several years so
that now the surroundings rival that
OF any public school building in the
state. The speaker predicted that all
through life workers would be influ-
enced by their surroundings, and in
closing asked the undergraduates to
carry on the work which had been
done, and keep the. building clean,
and the grounds unspoiled, and in be-
half of the graduating class she ex-
pressed their appreciation Of the
beautiful environment which had
been their privilege during the four
years at Gardiner high. At the close
of the exercises the customary cheers
were given by the seniors to the
faculty and classes while the lower
classes cheered the graduates Of
1926