East High School - East Echoes Yearbook (Green Bay, WI)

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The First Class With All the World Before It - In 1875 MAY THOMAS Ua J1 UtfliMjg uaYLukij U l : mkki$ FRED WHITE ROBT. NATHAN Xi AKA K, Oouia I EOiA5ED A Prophecy Fulfilled - the Success of Fifty Y ears On a June night in CS 75 the first formal commencement of Hast I lij»h School ur Liir Ureen Bay High Sclwot as it was known in those days, was held rhe class nu tribe red six. fou r girls and t wo hoys. Ail lt t lie lapse of (i ft y yea rs t heir successes u re oul t anding. Louise Norris, line valedictorian and honor student, lx came a successful business woman, t ler name is now Mrs Alfred Dana Ryder and her home is Kansas Cite Mo. Robert Nathan, saint atorian and honor student is now a successful broker in New York City L.ast year his sister, Maud Nathan, a graduate of Lhe Glass of i rr acid now a prominent social and civic worker of New York City, presented a group of interest ins historical pictures to her Alma Mater May Thomas of the famous class is now a member of the faculty of Ohio State Universitj Fred hitc. now a retired business rsliin, has been traveling abroad recently, Mary 3 . GouEd, who served as a leather in the Milwaukee City Schools, died some years ago, Unfortunately the Aeroplane was unable to obtain her photograph. The member of the class of 1K75 whom present East I is h students know ix’SL is Miss Katherine Gaylord. As an efficient teacher in the Junior High School she has guided the educational InoL steps of many hoys and girls. Green Bay owe:- her a debt of gratitude for her years of community service I heir former teacher, Mrs. Cooke, speaks of them in itjij us follows As I look over the many classes it strikes me that few of them have a larger percentage of successes than the firsL two or three of I 75 ?7- Pa.fi Tan

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‘Sculptors of Long -Ago ’ LS [XJN W. IlHKitiS MRS. ILXVUOtUXKS UOOKk l.yJon Y E 3 riggs served as. principal nf the E jigh School .in. I supervisor of grades on the I :nst side of the river from tSr l 10 iS??. J-te had a Civil Vv nr record, having served With the Seventh Wisconsin Eiattcry 1 lying Artillery from 1861 to I Spf It is said that to him is due the real organization of the seEtools into well defined grades and a separate high school department. It was under his direction that the first formal commencement tens held in t 7s Ml ' Brings later became one of Wisconsin ' s fare- most educators, arid mas connected with Oshkosh Normal School up to the lime of his death hi itfr? Mr. Briggs had an able assistant in Miss Ida Cordon ol E- ' ond du Lae a versatile instructor, who could present all of the high school subjects, it is said, except zoology. She was elected city superintendent in 1891. As Mrs. . D. Cooke r her home is m ( keen Bay m here she it. Mill keenly interested m things educational. bite is young in spirit and Last E ligh of u i considers her as one of its most loyal friends. Pa£?yii]f

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As They Use To Do It Below is the program presented b the ( -lass of iS The original was printed by the Green Bav Globe, a weekh newspaper of the time The elans motto was We Will Work. ’ COMMENCEMENT OF 1875 tUti JE.K. CC l-.XliKClMO- N Eusic Piano Solo R. F. Nathan Home. Sweet Rome. Thalbetg E r WEH Music “BlAUI ll-TJL VlLNIce-: Salutatory , , ... Essay There Were Ciiiinls m Those Days Essay — ' What Vocation , Music Du til Let Us Gather Bright E ' lo ers OKATitee ' The Centennial Essay — The Kaleidoscope of Life fusic Instr,um£NTA e - Dlt i -Qui Vive pftXtioM — “Wanted, Men - Essay (With Valedictory)— Buildere’ 1 Duet — ' C hanges of the Bells . k ■« Ml sic CjHTtLS R. F. Nathan S. M. Thomas Kvn G ayt oris Ci-:.u-;u. I.]vQ.aihk PlIILSIL LlClAIRL F. S. White Myhy F. Gould Lucy Crandaii Lcli a Linsixy R. I r , Nathan Louise Norris | CilCLU LtQ lire-. D LeOjURE “The Wailr Lilies ' S 11 ynd Chorus PeRc Hifit-n