The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-28
CHAMBER HOST TO GRADUATES
 OF Z SCHOOLS
Robertson Stresses Ne e C for Organized Effort in
 Community Work

o&A0 NNtaOdtAOlA Oll W4Qt OCdlt possible, declared R. E. Robertson, who for the Chamber of Com merce welcomed members of the graduating classes of the Juneau High School and Parochial High School at today's weekly meeting.
 Tt is the Rabbits of life who make things go round; who keep plugging along day in and day out; and our Chambers of Commerce and similar organizations are com posed of Rabbits" N asserted.
 Stresses Teamplay Value
 Pointing out that many people do not realize the value of these organizations to their communities, MT Robertson stressed the im- portance of the teamwork which they provided. Only through or ranized effort, in civic work and business as well as in sport and other amusements, are the best re- 5ults obtained.
 The present generation which is carrying on the community's work must have successors, and they are found in the pupils of the schools. He urged upon the gradu- ates the duty each owed to the town to assume their shares when the time arrived.
 'The Chamber of Commerce is mighty proud Of the graduates, The years class of the Public High School is not only the largest in the history of the Juneau schools, but the largest ever graduated by any school in the entire Territory. The 1881 Class of the Parochial High chool is the first in it's his- tory" He congratulated the stu dent guests upon the completion of their High School courses.
 List of Graduates
 MT. Robertson introduced each of the graduates to ths Chamber They are: Public High School Misses Dorothy Bakke, Alice Mer- ritt, Mary VanderLeest, Lena Jack son, Mary Simpkins, Murial Jar man, Maisie Rogers, Edna Rien- deau, and Messrs. Edward Powers, Arnold Hildre, Edward Rodenberg, Billy Sparks, William Rodenberg Robert Hurley and Edward Laurie.
 Parochial High School-M iss e S Lucille Norton and Habel Ritter and MT. Leonard E. Forrest.
 Girls extette Scores
 The Girls Sextette, under the direction of Mrs. Leo Osterman, Glee Club Director, scored real hit with four numbers, and fur nished some of the most enjoyable entertainment the Chamber has ever had. They sang two groups of two numbers each, the second an encore.
 Their opening selections were: Water Lilies and Kentucky Babe" They closed with "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" :" and Brown Bear" the last being dedicated to Stewart Edward White by Acting President E. M. God dard.
 Members of the sextette are. Misses Edna Riendeau, Dorothy Bakke, Matilda Hoist, Muriel Jar man, Maisie Rogers, Eleanor Rog- CTS, and Miss Hlen Torkelson, ac- companiest.
 Go To College
 John Dorsh, former student of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and for the past two years with the Anaconda Cor poration in South America, intro duced by E. c. Guerin, spoke brief ly. He urged the student-guests of the Chamber to "go to college now and get it over with" and added: Right here in Alaska you have the world beaten as a field of opportunities.
 N. l.. Troast, architect and for merly connected with the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka, another guest, said he had moved his head quarters to Juneau and would re- side here in the future. He is the architect for the addition to the Blomgren Building on Front Street, and for the Industrial School being erected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Shoemaker Bay, near Wrangell.
 Chamber Is Criticised
 Seward Gateway editorials taking issue with the local Chamber on it's recent stand relative to Secre- tary Wilbur's advice to people in the States to come to Alaska were read to the Chamber by Secretary Walmsley. However, the Chamber did not recede from it's position that persons coming to Alaska seek ing employment or other openings for a livelihood should have suf- ficient means to finance them III their quest and to return to the
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