Randolph High School - Vergisz Mein Nicht Yearbook (Randolph, OH)

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--AT- VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT PROF. E. W. WILKINSON, of Cincinnati, Who will make the commencement address. Friday evening, April 28th 22

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT that he received at home from his father and mother, this ambition was fostered and he set out to pre- pare himself for the work. He at- tended the first High School estab- lished in Randolph Township in the fall of 1881, and in the following April he began his work as a teacher, being yet a boy in his early teens. He further pursued profes- sional studies in a college. Later he became a High School teacher and Superintendent in his native township, and it is with no small degree of satisfaction that he has noted the growth and development of this High School to one of the best rural High Schools in the state. He is now completing his thirty-second year in the profession of teaching, twenty years of which have been spent with the boys and girls in the city of Dayton. The teacher's reward is not real- ized in dollars and cents, but in the satisfaction to some extent of be- lieving that he has helped some young lives by precept and example to a worthier and higher ambition to make a success in life. We wish to commend to the careful consid- eration of the young people now in Randolph Township High School the vocation of teaching. We be- lieve it is a God-given work, second only to the holy ministry of the Gospel. There is a tendency among too many of the boys in the country to leave the farm for what they think are the greater advantages and in- ducements offered by the city for success in life. With the rapid progress noted in recent years in rural education, especially in the teaching of agriculture in the schools, let us hope that more of the young men will choose farming as a life work. With the teaching of domestic science and domestic art to the girls in most of the best schools, there has come about a great change in the minds of our girls, and they are learning to ap- preciate that the' most successful life in the future for them may be realized as home-makers. Some of our young people do not fully appreciate the advantages that they have over those of their fathers and mothers, to prepare for life's work. Our advice to you is, to set up some aim, select some goal toward which you should strive to attain, and do your best to reach your ideal. Above all, learn to know that true Christian character is essential to the highest and tru- est success in any vocation in life. Many of the former students of Randolph Township High School are among the most successful business and professional men now in the city of Dayton and else- where, while many others are your fathers and mothers, who consti- tute the most successful and most sturdy people in the township at this time. Make every eEort to improve your time in school to the best ad- vantage, have a worthy aim in life, and the future will tell of the suc- cess you have attained. Dayton, O., April 1, 1916.

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT , PROGRAM Randolph Township High School Commencement FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1916 CONCERT BY HEIDELBERG ORCHESTRA 7:30-8:00 National Emblem March . . . .... ..... ..... B a gley Overture, Pique Dame' '... .....-... ...... S u ppe Invocation ............ ..... R ev. W. H. Smelker Perfect Day ....,.................................... ...... f acobs-Bond Vocal Solo, On the Road to Mandalay CKiplingj ...... .... Icy Speaks MRS. MAUDE PERKINS-VALLANCE Address ..... ................. P rof. E. W. Wilkinson, Cincinnati, Ohio Humoresque .....................,. ...,..,.................... D vorak Vocal Solo Cab Song of the Soul .................., ...... B reil tbl An Open Secret ..............,........ .... W godman MRS. MAUDE PERKINS-VALLANCE Presentation of Diplomas ....... Geo. O'Brien, President Board of Education Selection, The Blue Paradise. Benediction. Daughters of the American Revolution ......... ,.... L ampe PROGRAM OF BACCALAUREATE SERVICE SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1916-7.30 P. M. Chorus Cab Hail, Smiling Morn. Cbb Flag of Freedom. Invocation ...... ............... ' ..... R ev. W. H. Smelker Chorus, Landing of the Pilgrims. Scripture Reading. Selection .......,............................. Phillipsburg Male Quartet Sermon ..... Charles G. Heckert, A. M., D. D., President Wittenberg College Selection ..................................... Phillipsburg Male Quartet Chorus, The Lord is Great. Benediction: 23