Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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C 1 II S H It ( 1 I Harriet Mae Bailey. Jennie Carstens Bauman. Ethel Elizabeth Beall. Vida May Black. Alida Cynthia Bowler. Lucia Loveland Bowman. Beulah Barbour Brown. Clarence Quinton Burkhart. Dorothy Eleanor Buss. George VVilmot Carhart. Margaret Vinot Cartwright. Marie Elizabeth Dawson. Irene Viola Degenhardt. Emly Gertrude DcMonbreun. Edward William Enos. Mary Lucille Ewers. Charles Woodside Freeman. Robert Burroughs Goff. Frieda Carolina Gossrau. Emma Cathrine Hartmann. Emily Rachel Hazelton. Frances Corilda Hazelton. Robert Emmet Hubner. Arthur Lea Johnstone. John C’arv Keene. Edna Marie Koch. William I larold Kocline. Theodosia Margaret Lampert. Percy Carlisle Lewis. Helen Gertrude Lynch. Mary Loretta McHenry. Josephine Mary McPike. Euscbia Newell Martin. Gertrude Cecelia O’Neill Pearl Isabel Robertson. Helen Clare Ryrie. Carrie Harriett Shelton. Truman Young Stelle. Olga Estelle Volz. I larris Smith Weld. MOTTO: “TRUTH CONQUERS ALL THINGS.

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Class of 1900. COMM ENCEM ENT At High EXERCISES School Auditorium, OF THE ALTON HIGH Friday, June Sth, at 10:00 a. in. A A SCHOOL. Program. Piano Solo.......................................................Vida Black Invocation ............................................ Rev. M. W. Twin Music—‘Praise Ye the Father”.............................High School Giorus Salutatory ..........................................................Eusebia Martin Vocal Solo ...........................................................Frieda Gossrau Address—“Our Age; Its Demands and Our Opportunity”............. Rev. Frank G. Smith, Pastor of the Warren Ave. Congregational Church, Chicago. Music—“The Angel’s Serenade”.............................Senior Quartet “The Mission of History,” and Valedictory ................Alida Bowler Presentation of Diplomas, by T. H. Perrin. President of the Board of Education. .........................Vinot Cartwright and Helen Clare Ryrie Piano Duct

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32 TAIL K Hr A L K 1 T K K F H O M N E W Y O K K . EYERAL years ago, I attended a series of lectures, by Professor Moulton, of Chicago University, on “The Moral System of Shakespeare.” I remember his emphasizing again and again, how in Shakespearean plays, “the deed always returns to the doer.” It is several hundred years since Shakespeare lived and wrote, but it seems that the same maxim still holds good at the present time. For, behold, after a year of grace there comes a request from the Alton High School that the class of teachers that graduated in June. 1906, write graduating essays, for honorable dismissal. And in the good old-fashioned and time-honored way we are left to choose our own subjects, and to write essays as long as we wish, but—again in accordance with a time-honored custom—they must be in on a specified date, a date far enough removed to invite procrastination and encourage a hope of inspiration. You see how the deed returns to the doer and the writing of an essay falls to the lot of a teacher. Nevertheless I appreciate this opportunity of communication with the teachers and pupils of the Alton High School, for just now as I must look forward on the one hand, to associating myself with another school, I cannot but glance fondly hack, on the other hand, with a feeling of loyalty to dear old Alton High. 1 have been considering for sometime what kind of subject 1 should choose. Once I thought to make the article instructive by writing on a very learned and high-sounding subject, such as theses are written on; but since one of the Columbia professors has pronounced all such productions “abominable stuff. I decided it was not a suitable presentation to make to a favorite band of friends. Resides such “drv-as-dust” subjects are very scarce at this time of year in a community of candidates for A. M. and Ph.D. degrees. The only left-over subject I have found in my search was on “Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophital extemporaneousness of the conchy baceous superimbrication of the ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed bv the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisidactylous aspects.”