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17, f4+..i-.:l-.'lI'A'lI ll'lLlElR -ig-:i Top row: Phillips, Gilchrist, VVheeloek, Slutts, Chamberlain. Bottom row: VVade, Clements, Scott, Brown. The First Commencement HE class of 1881, the first class to graduate, extends greetings to the class of 1930, the fiftieth class to graduate from the Stevens Point High School. Incidental to the celebration of the graduation of this fiftieth class there comes to mind a flood of memories of the graduation of that first class on July 2, 1881. In more ways than one it was a momentous occasion in the history of the High School. It was the first in the long train of successive happy occasions which have brought into the Alumni of the High School upwards of two thousand promising young men and women, most of whom have gone onward and upward in the affairs of thc world, making good the fulfillment of the success in life expected of them. In the earlier years students entering High School studied on indefinitely until they felt other duties were more imperative than school work. It was not until the school year of 1879-80 under the direction of Supt. Frank I.. Green that plans were discussed for formal graduation. In 1881 the first class of nine students completed the course of study satisfactorily to the board of education and superintendent and was scheduled to graduate on Saturday evening, july 2. Although nearly fifty years have elapsed siance this little class of nine occupied the spotlight of that first commencement, the events of the days of preparation and the grand finale come to mind as if they had occurred 'but yesterday. Unlike the arrange- ments of today it was necessary to deliver an original oration or essay. This took weeks of strenuous work at that time. In those days the High School had but two instructors, the principal and one assistant, and let me say right here it was our good fortune to be under the leadership and kindly direction of one of the best of principals, Frank L. Green, and his able assistant, Miss Jennie Ferris, who is now Mrs. Emmons Burr of this city. 1 I x '-g- gf1gf g v 1 Page II
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