Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1909 — Graduation Week Closed With Alumni Banquet. [ARTICLE]

Graduation Week Closed With Alumni Banquet.

The commencement week is at a close and thirty graduates are launched on the sea of life to begin the mariner’s problem of reaching the goal of success. The class motto was “Launched for Success” and the schooling that the young folks have received has given them first class equipment to start out on the long journey. The last of the events was the alumni banquet Friday night. The supper was served at 6:30 o’clock and consisted of creamed chicken, ham, potato chips, lemon ice, pickles, whitebread, brown bread, jelly, coffee, tomato salad, wafers, white cake and brick ice cream, served in four courses. The spread was followed by an interesting toast program, where graduates, past and present vied with each other in an effort to amuse and entertain and enliven all present. The program proper consisted of six numbers, as follows: Launched for Success Ralph Hammond, ’O9 Conceit Alice Shedd, ’Ol The Head and the Heart.. .C. W. Coen Microbes Dr. A. R. Kresler, ’96 The Auto Martha Parkison, ’OS Old Times Louis F. Hopkins, ’9O All numbers were thoroughly enjoyable, and that of Miss Parkison particularly so. It was prepared in rhyme, and was very clever. After the toast program-was completed the evening was spent in dancing. The school children of the grades returned to the school house yesterday afternoon and were given their grades and promotion cards, and all seem to regard the past year, both in the high school and throughout the grades as a very successful one. This is doubtless largely due to the superintendent, I. N. Warren, who has maintained the very best discipline among teachers and pupils throughout the school.