Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-06-06 | Page 15 | 1300 to Receive Certificates of Graduation

1300 TO RECEIVE CERTIFICATES OP OF GRADUATION Students Leaving Schools Will Take Up Forms of War Service By Selma Miller The fishing pool the hole hose the back lawn and other attractions of vacation time for Just boy and girl will not be the only one this year for the students of the tile public schools have pledged themselves to carry war into Germany with the hoe and pitchfork with the and scissors and other Implements right here In Salt Lake Lale public school in Salt Lake Lakein LakeI in 1918 1917 has hag been somewhat differ differ- ent than titan In lit past years yeara for besides wrestling with the three Rs and the theother theother other public school rudiments students have havo clenched for fOl nine long months with the tho enemies of Uncle Sam namely vegetable war gardens and empty money chests and depleted comfort chests for the But notwithstanding all this tills the army of public school graduates has mobilized the spirit of 76 of 65 and 98 In the spirit of 18 and in patriotism enthusiasm in school work and Americanism the soldiers of the public school diplomas diplo diplo- bias mas have gone over the top Ready to step into the shoes of the departing high school students are more than six hundred junior thigh high school graduates of the c city ty who enter the senior semor high schools of the city next year with advanced subjects to their credit The East West and Junior high schools are heavily represented on the graduation lists this year Happy days in the offing with not a cloud in sight is is- the forecast of Salt Lakes Lake's school skipper for the city's crew of students who will leave the good ship Schoolhouse tomorrow bound for the brig Vacation Time after a voyage of nine months on the time high seas of learning For students of the high schools of the city service in hospitals over there preparatory to aiding Uncle Sam over there the farm the office the Red Cross workroom and the army or navy all all beckon to each one for vacation this year will mean more to them than it has in the past Many I high school boy graduates and upperclassmen upperclassmen upper- upper I classmen arc are expected to join some someI I branch of or service upon leaving school this year and numbers of the sweet girl graduates not to be outdone will I lend l support to the tl o. o government in clerical stenographic and other lines or will forsake the charming summer frocks frocks- for coveralls and service in I Utah fields Pigtails and starched aprons and their complement knee pants will be j somewhat passe passo after tomorrow In Salt Lake for young America over thirteen hundred strong will troop from the doors of the public schools I armed with diplomas and fully prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared for the next venture on the ladI ladder ladder lad lad- der del of educational progress I I