The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-03
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Auditorium Packed
For Bismarck High
School Graduation

presented ~ tne DlSmaTCk COHCeTC
orchestra.
80 Awards Are Made
Awards made Friday morning in
cluded:
Music letters 1.-TWO years In orches-
tra)-Ione Noggle. Dorothy Tiedman,
Melvin Thorson, Russell Arnot, James
Hyland, Evan Kennedy, Maurice ia
cobson. Evelyn Ellingson, Jane Smith
and Eleanor Cook.
Debating-Frances Cox, Lloyd Ode
and Junior Birdzell.
Basketball - Edward Agre. Robert
Finnegan, Wade Green. Ernest Man
ney, Gus Schlickenmeyer and Lester
Cohn.
Track and field-Gilbert Benzon.
Neil Beylund, John Boelter, Lester
Dohn, Wade Green, John Heiser
Lloyd Murphy, Frank Potter. Wood
row Shepard and Marvin Welliver.
Girls athletic letters-Betty Barnes,
Abbie Guthrie, Elizabeth Leach,
Ethelwyn Schafer and Evelyn Wick.
Cheerleaders letters - Doris TAFT
Frances Cox and Robert Bob" Guss-
ner.
Graduates Face Challenge
"As you step out into this world
you are met with very definite chal-
lenge," Shaft said in his address to
the graduates. "You and every other
high school graduate upon every COM
mencement platform throughout the
country this evening must face the
challenge. You are going to be called
upon to answer, through the years to
come, this question, rs high school
education worth while?' BY your life
you must answer 1t. BY your life you
will answer it, either affirmatively or
negatively, whether you wish to or
not"
He told the class that each men,
Der has rs times the chance for sue
cess that the eighth-grade graduate
has, and 104 times the chance Of the
person with no schooling.
Us high school education worth
while?" Shaft asked. ITO you, yes. To
your parents, yes. But there is still
another voice asking the question.
Ehis other voice represents another
party vitality interested in this trans
action. This other voice represents
persons who will not be satisfied with
mere personal success or fame upon
your part. This voice represents per-
sons bound to you by no sentimental
ties. This voice represents persons
who have made direct investment
Of their own hard-earned dollars in
your education. This voice represents
the American taxpayer, the North
Dakota taxpayer, the Bismarck tax
payer. He's looking upon you tonight,
with cold and appraising eye, he's
analyzing you, setting up your assets
against your liabilities, and wondering
whether or not he has made good
investment. No sentiment here. AS
a cold, hard, business proposition, is
he going to realize anything on his
investment"
$l4,OOO,00 Each Year
North Dakota spends nearly $14.-
000, 900 a year upon graded and high
schools yearly, the assistant attorney
general said.
Your school board and your faculty
cannot answer the taxpayer. he said
to the graduates. mo one in all the
world can answer-eXcept yourselves.
And you cannot answer in words. You
must answer in Deeds"
The graduates first duty is to him
self and his family, the speaker said.
His great secondary duty is the ad-
vancement of the social economic and
political welfare of his country.
How long will our educated men
and women permit the present situa-
ton to continue. and what path will
be taken out of the present situa-
tion?" he Intercepted. 1.-THE nations
of the world are in spirit of unrest.
Communism, fascism. revolution, die
tatorships, assassinations, wars and
strife abound. The greatest depres-
sion in our nations history hangs over
us and the rest of the world. Stories
of unspeakable crimes fill our news
papers. Gangs rule our great cities.
Desperately we seek our way out OF
the morass. What is going to be the
outcome of 1t all? Which way shall
we turn! Men and women, in the
panic of desperation, may do foolish
things. The hands of the clock OF
progress may be set back hundred
years. It is the duty, the privilege Of
those equipped with the tools of an
education to find and to build the
road out of the labyrinth of despair
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