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Show COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM-THIRTEEN AUDITORIUM-THIRTEEN IN SENIOR CLASS Commencement exercises for tuu class of 1925 were held Friday evening. eve-ning. May 29, at the high school auditorium. au-ditorium. Diplomas were presented to thirteen pupils, the largest class since the school has been established. The following program was presented. pre-sented. Selection Milford high school orchestra. or-chestra. Selection -"Barcarole," The Senior Sen-ior glee club. Valedictory address Bessie Kil-lam. Kil-lam. Address to graduates Prof. Reynolds Rey-nolds of the University of Utah. Violin solo Macel Rogers. Presentation of diplomas J. F. Day. Orchestra selection Milford high school orchestra. Those receiving diplomas were: Best-ie Killam, Beryl Young, Ethel Stanley, Macel Rogers. Christie Mc-L-eod, Claudia Coleman, GertrucH: Baxter, Frances Sloan, Ruth Elmer, Arvilla Muir, Andrew Thomson, Geo. Gardner and Melvin Stanley. Following is the valedictory address ad-dress by Miss Bessie Killam: FRIENDSHIP "Have you ever stopped to consider consid-er what your friends mean to you,--what you would do without the many friend-ships you have made. Everyone in this world has friends. If he had not, he is not human. There is much truth in the saying, "Whosoever u delighted in solitude is either a beasi: or a god.;" for wrho but a beast or a god is so complete in himself that he has no need of friends. A beast cares for himself am' is an n-.'ipy to everyone else, whereas a gcd tna create his own happiness and is so complete that he needs no friends. But as we are neither beasts nor gods, our friends are ir.dispensi-i'le ir.dispensi-i'le to our happiness. Few of us know the meaning or solitude. There is more solitude in a crowded city than in a mall neighborhood, neigh-borhood, even though there are moiv people. One may walk for hours in a large city and never meet a frienu. Each face is but a picture, each on.j is on his way, never caring who you arc or where you are going. Then is I he lime one comes nearer to solitude soli-tude than any other. The small neighborhood neigh-borhood drives it away. Here every-er-e knows everyone else here they take you for what you are. not for what you appear to be. Friendship bears many fruits. Trie first and most beautiful fruit of friendship is ease and comfort one receives from discharging his heart to another. How futile our lives would bo if there were no on to whom we could tell our hopes, our longings and our troubles. A friend is like a soothing medicine, opening up the heart and easing it from its pain. A friend has also' been called a sharer of cares; some of them are sharers of our very existence. We go to them in despair; sometimes we even ev-en chicle th"m for not being more sympathetic, but they know what is best. If you have a true frinnd. put yourself info his care and see how quickly your troubles vanish. T1k greatest tribute we could nay our parents would be to call them our friends, for they are the sharprs of our enrs more than anyone el-e. Th'-y are the ones who worry and carry car-ry our troubles for us. And yet. th'-y are the least appreciated. We seem to ake them for granted. How happy wo would make them of wo v.-oul 1 only te1 them how precious they are to us. "Another great fruit of friendship is th"1 understanding we gain from association. To rialk to a frienu brine:- !i-!iebt ot of darkne s. As w ' r.ypress our thoughts fo fhem. ve so thr.i more clearly. We ar'ang0 thni in on! rly d!s - I'rse and as fhey flow from our minds, we become wiser. Ic would be better for a man to have a picture of a friend to which he could open his heart, than to rema... silent and let his thoughts lay idle. "Our friends, too, often act as coui. seilors, from whom we receive gooJ advice. There is no greater flatterer than one's self. Where we would flatter flat-ter ourselves, our friends would give us just criticism. Thus a friend' serves as a tonic whereby we keep our minds healthy and free from egotism. "The last and more precious fruit of friendship is the worry and care that is taken from our shouldera. How many things are there that a man can do alone without the aid of a friend. 'We all have friends who have taken our responsibilities into their own hands. We could not get along without them, though we do not realize it. They act as our d'epu-tie, d'epu-tie, performing tasks we should have done; and what boosters they are. How- far would we get of we tried to relate our own merits and virtues with modesty. Yet, these things come from the mouth of a friend. "All these fiuits strike home when we think of our happy school days. We have all made loving and lasting rriends What joy it has been to be ivith them, and what a comfort they have been to us. We should thank God for giving us such a preciou.. treasure. And now in conclusion, let us remember that a friend is one who can never stay too long, with who, presence is always a pleasure, and solitude a sympathy. "The making of friends: If nobody smiled and nobody cheereu ! and nobody helped us along; If each, every minute looked after i hiniiself, and goodJ things all went ! to the strong; 'if nobody cared just a little for you, I and nobody thought about me, And we stood all alone to the battle ! of life, what a dreary old world it ' would be. jLife is sweet just because of the ' friends we have made, and the things which in common we share. We want to live on not because of ourselves, but because of the people , who care. It's giving and doing for somebody else on that life's splendor depends, de-pends, And the joy of this world, when you've summed it all up, is found I in the making of friends. |