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Show GRADUATES OF jflfiH. FIFTY-FOUR GIVEN DIPLOMAS AT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Juniors Kidnap Merlin Stone, Who Ef-fects Ef-fects An Escape In Time to Deliver Oration. The program and list of graduates, which include the classes of 'OS 1-2 and '09. follow: Overture, "Reverie" (Roberts) Ogden High School Orchestra. Invocation Rev. G W. McCreery. Oration, "Phiical Education" Merlin Mer-lin J. Stone. Chorus, "Voice of the Western Wind" ( Darn hy) Class of 'OD. Commencement Address Rev. Elmer El-mer I.'Uoshen. Ogden High School Song Class of OD. Presentation of Diplomas Supt. John M. Mills. Overture, "Hungarian Dance" I (Brahms) Ogden High School Orchestra. Or-chestra. GRADUATES ; ; Class '08'2. -Classical Course Frances Huffman. Bessie McCrcady. ScieutMc Course Rex KellyrJ. Lc- U Tho seventeenth annual commence nieut exercises of the Ogden High Echool wero held at the Grand Opera house, last night, and while some of the audience who attended the commencement com-mencement for years past, declared that this year's exercises were somewhat some-what tame, there were enough features fea-tures to hold the appreciative an-1 undivided un-divided interest of all. There . was tho usual commencement address; the student orator with hs first attempt to hold an audience's attention; tho presentation presenta-tion of diplomas; the "rah rah" boys, 1 1 as boisterous as ever, and last, but Ijnpt least, a real well-planned college kidnaping, with tho victim escaping The plotters at the last moment, n time to take his part in the program of the. commencement. The exercises were opened by an overture, "Reverie," by the High ', school orchestra, composed of girls and boys of that Institution, followed Immediately by an invocation by tho Rev. G. W. McCreery. The next number on the program laud Carlson. English Course Pamela Spargo, Ida Reberg, Elleu Burke. . Class '09. Classical Course Frances Van Namee, Beatrice E. Roche, Lula Browning, Martha Chaussee, Elva Llt-tlefleld. Llt-tlefleld. lone Wilcox, Hazel Hartog, Dora Smith, Merlin J. Stone, Dorothea Dor-othea Blgelow, Viola M. Clancy, Louise Pierce, Helen V. Gibbs, Fern Hlgloy, Allle Gunnell, Elsie Browning, Luclle Rogers, Roy L. Clark, May Cook, Edna Staley. Scientific Course Robert McDanlel, Ralph Edward Clark, Theron Little-field. Little-field. Tsutomu Yaraada. Albert Whit-meyer, Whit-meyer, Jay A. Redfield, Irving Pugh, Peter R. Koch. English Course Amos Belnap, Frank Frost. Marguerite Hamill, Elsie R. Forrest, Florence Lucas, Inez Cor-tez, Cor-tez, Lalla Lundy. Raiuond Morrlssey, Mildred Cortez. Irraa Doxej, La Verne Fulton, Mary Helen Forrest, Lote Kinney. Kin-ney. Stephen A. Keogh. Rubv Hcrdtl, Rosa E. Burgan, Mary E. Williams, j Alice E. Johnson, Mary W. Abbott. was an oration. "Physical Education," to be delivered by Mr. Merlin J. Stono, a graduate in the classical course. Mr. - Stone was to make a plea to the alumni and the people of Ogden for an" up-to-date school gymnasium, but ; Principal Cross announced that "Mr.. Stone was unable to be present," saying say-ing that his address would be printed In 'the morning paper. Some surprise sur-prise was expressed by several mora- W bers of the audience at this announce-? announce-? ' ment, for it was known that Mr. Stone j was in tho very best of health, and prepared to make his debut as an orator or-ator on this occasion. The mystery of his failure to appear ap-pear was explained a half hour later, when the young man arrived, slightly tousled and nervous but still deter mined to fill his part of tho program. He explained that he had been ' kidnaped kid-naped hy a party of juniors; carried to a point on Twenty-seventh street; bound securely and held long enougn as the plotters supposed, to prevent him from delierlng his oration. He took the center of the stage, and after a prolonged "Rah, rah, rah, Stone, Stone, Stone" from tho guilty juniors, who haj gathered at the rear of the playhouse, he proceeded with his address. Ho urged the necessity of a first class "gym" at the High school, and declared that if the people of the city would only recognize the need of such an addition, the board of education would make it their business busi-ness to secure a portion of the state appropriations made for sucn purposes. pur-poses. Tho orator spoke in a clear, pleasing manner, no nervousness, as a result of his trjlng experience, being be-ing perceptible. His anrument was not quite forcefully enough but probably due to his rough handling while in the hands of the Juniors. The graduating classes then arose and. accompanied by the school orchestra, or-chestra, joined in a pleasing chorus. "The Voice of the Western Wind." The commencement address was delivered de-livered by Rev. Elmer I. Goshen, ol Salt Lake City. Mr. Goshen advised the young people to remember the Dlblical adage that "A man reaps but what he sows;" urged them to be honest, hon-est, ambitious, and Blucero during their future life, whether it be spent in a university or in the business world. Ho spoke against the growing prejudice of the younger people to the shop, and the dislike manifested to J the work which is done by the hands. J The speaker declared that it was better bet-ter for a man to earn a salary of $30 , or $40 per week In the shops at some 'honest trade, than to spend his time I behind a ribbon counter at half that j wage simply because he had tho prlv-I prlv-I liege of dressing as a gentleman il J he could on Buch a pay. I Rev. Goshen startled the audience I somewhat by referring to the undeslr aDio ciass or people which was emigrating emi-grating to the United States from Southern Europe and tho Asiatic Old World. He declared this influx of "the scum of Europe's and Asia's outlaws" out-laws" was a menace to the American homo and the American wage-earner, and closed with a few congratulatory remarks to the young graduates. Supt. John M. Mills then presented the diplomas to tho successful students, stud-ents, but not before he doclared to the audience that each anH every' one of the "sheep-skins" had been earned by the pupils as a result of their faith-f faith-f ful attendance to their studies during their four years stay in the school Frank Frost, Merlin J. Stone, Stephen Ste-phen A. Keogh and Tsutomi Yamada, tho first Japanese to graduate from tho local high school, were greeted in a vociferous manner by the juniors who took- advantage of the opportunity to exercise their lungB In their sharp "rah rahs." Miss Mary W. Abbott was J the only young lady to he o honored. |