Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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Annual 5 Harralaurratr § rrmmt POSSESSION FOR SERVICE. By Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, D. D., Pastor First Congregational Church. Josephus, speaking of the national ideals of t he Jewish people, says, “ Our ground is good, and we work it to the utmost; but our chief ambition is for the education of our children.” So say also the American people. Unlimited are the natural resources of this well-favored land, and the alert American works them to the utmost; but America’s most valuable resource is her boys and girls, and America’s greatest pride is her educated young manhood and young womanhood. We believe with Horace Mann, the great educator, that 11 schoolhouses are the republican line of defense,” and we consider a class of high school graduates a greater asset to our country than a whole battalion of soldiers, and one school- house a stronger defense than a dozen garrisoned forts. AVe are therefore proud and happy to welcome to this service the class of 1913 of the Medina high school. The event of high schood graduation marks an important epoch in the life of every young person. For months and years you have been traveling towards the promised land

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4 Annual (Calendar nf (Unmmeumneut Sunday, June 8, 7 p. m . Baccalaureate Sermon, Congregational Church Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, D. D. Monday, June 0, at 8 p. m. Grammar School Commencement, Primary School Yard Tuesday, June 10, 8 p. m. Class Day Program, Primary School Yard Wednesday June 11, 8 p. m. Class Play, Primary Sjchool Yard Friday, June 13. Annual Alumni Meet GRAMMAR SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT. Monday, June 0, at 8 p. m. “ SCENES FROM LITTLE WOMEN ” This play is produced by special permission of “ The Ladies’ Home Journal,” Miss Alcott’s heirs, and the publishers, Messrs. Little, Brown Co. CAST OP CHARACTERS. Mrs. March Meg Jo Beth Amy Hannah Laurie Mr. Lawrence Mr. Davis Schoolmates — Orol Watt, Kern, Ethel Sprankle, Marguerite Gardener, Helen Hunt. Marie Hurlebaus Mabel Thompsett Margaret Borger Dale Coons Inez Brockway Irene Bostwick Derwin Nettleton Raymond Bennett Bryan Gray Elizabeth Branch, Luella Amy Slater, Ruth Boyden, Zolo Turner, Ruth Gilbert, Scene 1. — Christmas Time. Scene 2. — School Scene. Scene 3. — Pickwick Club. Scene 4. — Telegram. Scene 5. — Beth’s Sickness. Scene 6.- — Return of Mrs. March. Oration, “ Life of Louisa M. Aleott,” Mahlon Walker Piano Solo, “A Scottish Tone Picture” . Leo Bartunek LONGFELLOW PROGRAM. Music, “ My Lady, Sleep ” Leo Bartunek, Leland Longacre, Harold Baque, Wynn Boyden, Harold Waite, Welton Ferriman, Bryan Case, Raymond Bennett. Solo — -“The Rainy Day” Welthene Fenn Reading — “The Birds of Killingworth ” Lester Campbell Piano Solo — “ Hungary,” Carl Koelliny Metta Dell Green Presentation of Certificates. Song — “ The Day is Done ” CLASS DAY EXERCISES. Tuesday, June 10, at 8 p. m. PART i. Invocation Rev. Mr. Kelser Class Address Sherman Maple Class History Ruth Wright Class Statistics Arbie Carlton March and Finale — “Concert Stuck,” by Weber.. Lucile Hunsberger Class Will Fred Kelser Reading, “The Going of the White Swan” Caroline Simmons Class Prophecy Helen Hobart Valedictory Naoma Gault Presentation of Diplomas PART II THE ROSE MAIDEN A dramatization of “ Das Rosen Madchen ” By Zoe Prouty Boult DRAMATIS PERSONAE Spring.. Ceylon Woodruff Rose Maiden Marion Branch The Gardener’s Daughter Helen Hobart Forester Fred Kelser Elves. . ..Julia Anderson, Lucile Blakslee, Marcella Fisher, Helen Clark, Helen Ganyard, Nao- ma Gault, Marion Gleason, Helen Hobart, Caroline Simmons, Maude Whipple, Myrle Pelton, Ruth Wright, Evelyn Thatcher, Zelma Renz. Foresters . Sherman Maple, Arthur French, Ceylon Woodruff, Fred Kelser, Wayne Anderson, Robert Beach, Erwin Brought, Arbie Carl- ton, Glenn Geisinger, Oscar Culler, Layton Ganyard, Marion Garver, Ralph House, Wm. Rauscher, John Renz, Ralph Sned- den, Leland Walton, John Weber, Carl Lowe, McKinley Ewing. Pianist Lucile Hunsberger Wednesday, June 11, 8 p. m. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER By Oliver Goldsmith DRAMATIS PERSONNAE Hardcastle Mrs. Hardcastle Sir Charles Marlow. . . . Young Marlowe Hastings Tony Lumpkin Miss Neville Miss Hardcastle Miss Hardcastle’s Maid I iiggary Stingo, Landlord Bar Maid Annie, Servant Servant Slang Aminadab Tom Twist Muggins lohn Weber . . . Helen M. Ganyard . . . Ralph E. Snedden Carl C. Lowe ..Ceylon N. Woodruff ...Arthur P. French . . Marion W. Gleason Helen M. Clark Myrle E. Pelton Sherman Maple Erwin Brought lulia Anderson Marion Branch Glenn Geisinger Robert Beach William M. Rauscher Fred Kelser ...Marion H. Garver Act I, Scene 1. — A chamber in an old English house. Scene 2. — Scene in an English country tavern. Act II, Scene 1. — A room in Hardcastle’s house. Act III, Scene 1. — Same room in Hardcastle’s house. Act IV, Scene 1. — Landscape. Scene 2. — Same room in Hardcastle’s house

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Annual of “ Commencement,” your eye fixed on its delectable summit. To-day you stand on that summit, and like to Moses of old, it is to you a mount of vision. Behind you lies the land of bondage where you were often obliged to make bricks without straw — that is, give a good recitation when you were out the night before and had no time for preparation ; where your backs were often bent under the taskmaster’s lash — metaphorically speaking’, of course; where you passed through the “ ten plagues ” in the form of final examinations. Behind you lies the tangled wilderness of grammar and rhetoric, Latin and German, physics and chemistry, science and mathematics, and you wandered in that wilderness, lo, these four long years. But all these things are now past, and before you stretches out the vista of the promised land, a land that flows with the milk and the honey of the possessions and services of life. That last phrase suggests the theme that I will endeavor to bring to you to-night — Possession for Service. 1 submit two texts, both from St. Paul, a New Testament writer who was also a college graduate, and therefore had the educated man’s view of life: 1 Cor. 3:22, “All things are yours;” Rom. 12:11, “Serving the age.” The latter text in the Authorized Version reads “ Serving the Lord,” but an alternate reading is “ Serving the age.” The meaning is the same. No man can serve the Lord without serving his own age, and no man can serve his own age without serving the Lord. “ All things are yours ” — Possession. “ Serving the age ” — Service. We may combine the thought and say, “ All things are yours to serve your age ” — Possession for Service. The purpose of my message to you graduates tonight will be to arouse your thoughtful consideration of the magnificent sweep of “ all things ” which are yours whereby you may serve the age in which you live. I. The Past is yours. God, in his plan for the evolution of the race, has wisely or- dained that each generation shall build upon the understructure left by the preceding generation. Each new generation begins where the past generation left off. The progress of humanity is like the building of a tower. A generation of men places a circle of stone on the ground. The generation passes, but the circle of stone is left. The next generation places a new circle of stone over the first circle. The third generation adds a third circle on the other two, and so on and on, each successive generation building the tower a little higher. Were it not for that wise divine provision which permits each succeeding genera- tion to inherit the achievements of the past and build on them, humanity’s progress would be like ten thousand sejjarate desolate circles of stone never rising higher than the first layer. ■ The tower on which you young people are called to build has already been reared to no mean height. Every high school class likes to excel its predecessors in some respect, and I congratulate the class of 1913 because its graduates enter into a greater inheritance of the past than any previous class. And a glorious inheritance it is! Yours all the past achievements of all the “ Hards, patriots, martyrs, sages, The noble of all the ages, Whose deeds crown history’s pages, And time’s great volume make ! ” The past lays at your feet all its treasures of literature, history, art, science and invention, and bids you possess them and use them to serve your age. The legacy of literature makes yours all the keen thought of the past. Rightly does Channing say, “God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.” Yours this flower of the world’s literature, the book which Coleridge said he knew was inspired because it found him at greater depths of his being than any other book — the Holy Bible, in which is the record of how “ God made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.” Yours all the poetry from Homer to Walt Mason, the philosophy from Aristotle to Henri Bergson — “ the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”