South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. « -------------------- ------ U RIENDS, in the name of the class of ’92, I give you hearty welcome JL here to-night. That your interests are with us is evident by your attendance on the evening's festivities. I am particularly glad that the South Side is so well represented; for we now have the opportunity of thanking its residents for their kindly interest, generosity and support. Our thanks go also to the Board of Education in response to the kindness and impartiality shown in their relations to our class. You are aware that the program to-night appertains largely to class affairs, and owing to local mention and personal hits some points may be obscure to the uninitiated. In this we crave your patience. In the commencement program of another evening the subjects will be broader and of more popular interest. As to the truth of the history and prophesy I will say this. Our Historian belongs to the gentler sex and of course would never stoop to fabrication. More than this she has sworn by Shakespeare to tell nothing but the truth (except where it was detrimental to our interests.) But when the Prophet is called upon to cast our futures you may depend upon it you will witness the event of your life time. She is a really trustworthy and reliable personage and extremely well versed in oriental magic and witchcraft. Yes, she comes before you this evening as the greatest sorceress of her size in America. To our teachers, above all, do we express our heartfelt gratitude, for they indeed have been the principal means of our reaching the position we occupy to-night. Ye have occasioned them trouble, no doubt, but that was previous to the attainment of the stability of character and breadth of conception which we now possess. And we now have but two final requests: Take care of our Juniors and don't get married. Our greatest apprehension has always been the fear of losing you by Cupid’s dart. Now we beg of you, for the sake of the afore mentioned class, at least, to postpone for another year any matrimonial prospects you may lie entertaining. To you my class mates, L have but a few brief words. I wish to thank you, not only for the honorable office to which you have elected me, but also for your untiring sympathy and help which you have ever shown me in this capacity. My deeds have doubtless been open to criticism, but be that as it may, my heart has been in the work, and all that

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PROGR UnFiE Class TVf$Kt Exercises. March,.........................................Lulu Boynton. Invocation,............................Rev. W. H. Geistweit. President’s Address,...........................Fred Dustin. Chorus,—“ Little Jack Horner. ” Class Poem,—“ Last Words,”........................Mary Weir. (COMPOSED BY ADELAIDE WINTON.) Oration,..................... Piano Duet,................. Class History,.............. Address to Juniors,......... Reply,...................... Chorus,—“ Mountain Land. ” Statistician’s Report,....... Class Prophecy,............. ..........Warren Roberts. Misses Allen and Brueoger. ...........Carrie Holgate. ..............Peter Holm. ...........Stephen Somsen. ...........Edith Hookey. ...........Grace Miller. Class Song. Commejvcejneivt Exercises. March,......................................................... Invocation,......................................Rev. J. L. Lee. Essay, “The Cream of Life and How to Skim It,”.. . .Lizzie Luce. Essay, “Spiders” (Original Drawings),.........Florence Wheeler. Chorus, “Hark, the Curfew!”..............................atwood. Essay, “Our Education,”............................Nellie Yates. Recitation, “ Mice at Play,”...............................Maude Amonson. Vocal Solo,...............................................Sophia Petterson. Discussion, “Resolved, That Rip Van Winkle was More Sinned Against than Sinning. ” Affirmative—Fred Dustin, Henry Somsen. Negative—Amy Horton, Della Kirtland. Chorus, “ Inflammatus”—“ Stabat Mater ” rossini Soloist, Miss Clara Williams. Oration, “Thoughts on Commencement,”......Henry Byorum. Essay and Valedictory, “Paradise and the Peri, ” Kate MacDermid. Supt. J. E. Bradley. Presentation of Diplomas,

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has been accomplished has been for your sakes and in your interest. We have, in the course of four years, passed through experiences of widely diversified character. Both joy and sorrow have been our lot; the usual pleasurers of student life, in school and out, together with the pain incident to the removal of our friends and schoolmates by that cold and heartless monster Death. These experiences have taught their lessons, and though the wounds have been deep and hearts were heavy with sorrow, I am sure we have been left better prepared for the great trials and assailments of the life upon whose paths we are now about to enter. It is strange that our class is so peculiar. We have but two points in common: wisdom and good looks. We have the tallest, the youngest, the wisest and the handsomest members of any class that has ever graduated from the schools of Minneapolis. We are distinctly the class of originality, Class Colors, Class Motto, Class Enthusiasm and Class Yell. The first three you can see for 3'ourself, and the latter you will hear at the close of the program. Classmates, we are standing to-night at a critical point. Some of us are yet undecided, some will take a college course, while others will enter upon some professional career, placing themselves under actual business tuition. In the course of a few years great changes will have taken place. We will be of the struggling masses then, while our parents and older friends will have retired more or less from business activity or lx? lying in their graves. Such is the inevitable course of nature. So friends, let us lje very careful in the next step, for on it may depend our future happiness and the honor of our names. Let us think, pray and act, and may a power greater than all earthly forces bless our decision. Fred G. Dustin.