Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT THE MONNETT ACADEMY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT THE MONNETT ACADEMY.

Miss Erma Marie G4nson the Graduate and Miss Winifred Chappell the Principal Speaker. Althougth the weather man failed to provide favorable weather for the occasion, commencement day at Mon' nett Academy proved to very successful. The exercises and songs were well rendered, delighting sill present. They were closed by a farewell recitation by the sweet girl graduate Erma Marie Ganson. Miss Winifred Chappell, assistant principal of the Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions, delivered yery nobly an address which she directed chiefly to members of the school. jShe chose as her text, “I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise, and to the jmwise.”— Pauls Epistle eo the Romas, 1:14. Following is a very brief survey of

her enlargement of the text. ‘‘Paul surely did not owe anything financialy to the world, and yet he was deeply in debt. We are always in debt to people because we have something which they have not. I am very much in debt to the world, not because I have much money, O no! But I r like Paul,, have something which many have not and I must give it out. The great idea has been to forever take in and take in all we can possibly for your own good. But we are coming to a better realization of what we owe to the world. We are learning of the great joy to give out and give out our very best and all we have to the world for the en’ richment of all around us. We think we cannot give much, but we* can smile, we can say a kind word to one In sorrow. I haven’t much to give—but I can give a cheery smile. I hope

I know how to do that. Here is a little child I would like to help, but I have no money. Why cannot I give a bright smile —she needs it? We can give much to help besides money. “God has given us each some gift for the world. Here is one who loves music. But she cannot give the world great pleasure by her talent alone. She must put forth a strenuous effort to develope that talent. She must Bpend many wearisome hours of practice before she can cheer and soothe by her sweet music. You little girls perhaps, seeing the lives of your teachers, think you would some day like to be a teacher and give out much to the world. But you cannot do much to help, even if you are naturally fitted for a teacher, unless tou study hard and develope the gift God has given you. I know of deaconesses working in the slums of the great city and in darksome paths of sin, who are giving out all their beautiful lives to the world for its betterment and Eternal welfare.

“Let us all develope to the best advantage the gift which God has given us for the world, then give it out freely and gladly and spend and be spent for Christ”

Miss Chappell herself is a worthy example of the altrinstic life. A young woman of naturally bright mind, she has developed that which she was given to the best advantage. The daughter of parents in moderate circumstances, she was forced to educate herself and therefore learned the true value of tin education. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, of Chicago. After graduating from the Chicago Training School in 1902 she was immediately put on the teaching force there and promoted in 1910 to assistant principal. When we remember that no deaconess receives a salary but only SIO.OO a month for allowance, we can truly say that Miss Chappell with all her talents illustrates the self-sacrificing life of service, in very truth a copy of the noblest of all types, the lowly man of Galilee. Below is a copy of the program: Song “Springtime Monnett School Girls Invocation Rev. C. L. Harper “Bchool Greeting” .. Emaline Meyers Recitation “Sumiyer is Coming.. Charlotte SObaefer Song “Golden Day”, Monnett School Recitation "Jack in the Pulpit. . ................ Doris Nicholson

Recitation “Discontent” . ■.. i Dorothy Richards Solo “Abide With Me”. Erma Ganson Recitation “The Little Flower”.. Ruth Pierce Recitation “Forget-Me-Not” .... Vira Apger Recitation “My Garden”. Jennie Ganson Song “Harvest Fields are Waiting < Monnett School Girls Recitation “School Days” Gladys Thornton Address .... Miss Winifred Chappell Solo “in the Summer Land of Song” Charlotte Schaeffer Valedictory . : Erma Ganson Presentation of Diploma. Miss Bowman School Song Monnett School School VeU.

Miss Winifred Chappell