Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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THE MEMORIAL STONE Some years ago Armistice Day began to be observed. The Austin Senior High at that time began what has grown to be a school observance. On that day one class of Low Eleven Seniors put a few flowers on the monument that had been erected to the boys of the Austin High School who fell in the Great Wara-some nineteen in all whose names are as follows: William B. Basford, Lewis Bell, Carl Stone Benedict, Edgar L. Bergstrom, Richard P. Bull, Marvin A. Caldwell, Calvin Clark, Leroy 'B. Creaton, Edwin Hutchings, J. S. Lind- sey, Albert S. MacDonnell, Eugene D. Penn, Charles .E. Pickney, Walter T. Scherding, Thomas Roy Taylor, H. Grady Turner, Alvin Ulit, Arthur Wil- kins. . From this small beginning grew the really beautiful observance of Armistice Day this year at the Senior High on Rio Grande Street. Early in the morning of that day the stone was removed from the old grounds on East Ninth Street to the new building. Upon arriving at the new grounds, the stone was placed upon its new base, a wide concrete step some twelve inches in depth. -. ' The services were held on the grounds as follows: The twelve eagle-scouts as a guard of honor formed a half circle in front of the stone, behind whom stood the classes, each with its representative, headed by the Low Elevens with their wreath. Behind them stood the school body, and a little to the left and to the rear, the band. ' . The Programme: Procession of the class representatives with flowers; America, the school standing at attention; Prayer by the Reverend George Green; The calling of the Honor Roll of the Dead by Captain Hubert Jones, A. E. F; Placing of the Wreath; Address by the Reverend L. H. Wharton; Placing of the class flowers; The Star Spangled Banner; Prayer by Captain Ashmore, Chaplain of the 36th Overseas Division; Taps.