Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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First Commencement of the Polytechnic HE. BILLINGS POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE will have five graduates this year-Emory Mudd and Otis Mudd of Fishtrap, Montanag John R. Jones of Whitehall, Miss Ruth Carl- ton of Deer Lodge and Miss Ruth Wheatley of Huntley. K This class of young folks has been laboring diligently throughout the year and it is the belief of the faculty that it will be hard to find a new school, whose lirst graduates are as cap- able as are the members of this class. Four of the class complete the regular course the pre- liminary work having been done in Western Montana under the Professors Eaton before coming to establish the Polytechnic. Miss Ruth Wheatley finishes the normal course. Commencement week will take place May 22 to 27. During that week will be gala services at the school, including an able address by the State Governor, the laying of the corner stone for the Losekamp industrial hall and for other buildings, which will be ready for the students the coming fall. Regular diplomas will be granted the graduates and they will long be cherished as the first to be given by the Billings Polytechnic Institute. SQ, WW Address of Class President--Miss Ruth Carlton ITHIN a few short weeks our lives as students of the Billings Polytechnic Institute will be ended and we will leave Alma Mater to step unto an unknown future. . The months we have spent in these walls have left a deep impression upon our mind that will be called back in after years, we know not how often. There have been times when everything went wrong and it seemed we could not go on. But we must forget these moments and remember only the brighter side of our life here. The days will seem like a dream-a dream from which we will not want to be awakened. In school we have formed many intimate ties and it is hard to realize the time has come when they must be broken. Commencement day is looked forward to eagerly as the beginning of our life work, but it is the breaking of our school ties. It is then we realize how closely we are bound to one another, how much we have in common. Although our paths may branch and lead us far from here we will al- ways have the memory of the days within these halls fresh in our minds. As a mother eagle puts her young out of the home nest to test their wings so are we to try our wings for the first time. ls it to be success or failure. Suc- cess we all hope. To THE BOARD or TRUSTEES.-AS we leave these buildings and step into the future we realize how much you have made it possible for us to be here. Through your belief in this young school, through your encouragement in time of dark despair, for the time and money spent in our interest and welfare we are deeply grateful. We realize how heavily you have been taxed to give us this opportunity and we appreciate the honor of being the first class to graduate' from this institution. As time rolls by and the graduating class increases in num- ber each year, we hope the members will ap- preciate this as much as we, the first class, do. To OUR DIRECTORS AND THE FACULTY. -To you we give many thinks. Through your

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kindness and patient bearing with us it is made possible for us to receive our diplomas and enter our life work well prepared. By the examples set by you we have been made nobler men and women, we have learned to care only for what is good and pure, our aspirations are higher and our ideals more lofty. You have helped us over the rough paths, you have aided us in con- quering the obstacles that beset our way and we are better strengthened for the future life. To THE STUDENTS.-There are many here who will return next year, perhaps some who will not. But to all, we hope you will always show your loyalty to this school. Through your influence will depend much of the growth of this school in future years. The institution was really not prepared to open this year, but think of the sacrifices made by the ones in charge. Think how they are giving their very lives to build up and strengthen it, and speak good of it always. CLASSMATES.-To you I give the closing word-farewell. It is hard to realize the part- ing day has come. At this moment there are two impressions on our mind-memory of the past and hope for the future. The past is slow- ly fading from our eyes and we see taking its place the future. We each have our different ambitions, our different ideals. We have built air-castles, we have dreamed our drea.ns-will they prove to be a reality? Let us always keep in our minds the training we have received here. Not only the training of our hand and mind, but the training of the heart. Our path may seem easy to climb, but as we go up and up we will often be met with tempta- tions. Perhaps it will seem life is not worth think of the while, but stop for a moment to hours spent here in school and you will be better strengthened to meet the foe. Let us always be true to the have been ever before us during our short life at the Polytechnic. Farewell class of 'l0. ideals which Faculty of the Polytechnic LEXYIS T. EATON, M. S., President of faculty and educational direc- tor. E. T. EATON. M. S., PH. B., Financial director. H. J. HUFE, PH. B.. Shorthand, Political Science and athletics. CRIS CRON, Mathmetics and Engineering. JAMES RUDDY. Instructor in shop work. E. S. CHAPMAN. Commercial Department. MISS JESSIE COLLINS. Department of English. O. XV. VALENTINE, Asst. Commercial Instructor and Bookkeeper. MRS. L. T. EATON. Literature and Reading. MISS EMMA JOHNSON, Normal training andindustrial work for girls. MRS. H. G. VALITON, hlatron of the Polytechnic. L. T. EATON. Eduzational Director. E. T. EATON Financial Director.