Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 13 Calendar of May Commencement Week 20 to 26, 1906 Sunil nil, Han 20th. 10:30 A. M. Baccalaureate Sermon, Episcopal Church, Bp REV. L. W. APPLEGATE. Monday, May 2 1st, 8:15 P. M . m. Miss Tofte’s Recital, High School Assembly Room. Gloss minted. Wednesday, Mar. 23, 8:15 P. M. Class Play, “She Stoops to Conquer,” Memorial Opera House. Thursday, May 24, 8:15 P. M. Commencement Exercises, Memorial Opera House. DR. GEORGE VINCENT, University of Chicago, Speaker. Friday, May 25, 8:00 P. M. Alumni Banquet, High School Building. Commencement Exercises PROGRAM 1 . Music, - Orchestra 2. Invocation, Rev. C. B. Beckes 3. Music, Orchestra 4. Address, Dr. Geo. Vincent, of Chicago University 5. 6. Spring Song, - Presentation of Diplomas Double Quartette. Mendelssohn Club 7. Music, Orchestra B. Benediction, Rev. H. L. Davis M 1SS Bertka Tofte s Recital Given in Honor of the Graduating Class of 1906 M iss Tofte assisted hy Miss Martha Sauerberg Miss Cora A ilson at the piano PROGRAM A Sweet Girl Graduate, (Phelps) A May Morning, (Denza) - - • The Boot Black, (Phelps) - An Irish Love Song, (Lange) How the Church was Built at Kehoes Bar, (Bennett) Lucky Pour Leaf Clover, (Wakefield Smith) A Red, Red Rose, (Hastings) The Shave Store, (Cooke) - A Summer Idyl, (Cooke) - I vash so glad I vash here, - - - - .Ensemble, Rock of Ages, (Dr. Hastings), Misses Wilson, Sauerberg, lofte Miss Tofte Miss Sauerberg Miss Tofte Miss Sauerberg Miss Tofte Miss Sauerberg Miss Tofte

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12 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. honey, even unto Flint Lake and they sat down together and did eat and make merry until a late hour and all enmity was forgotten and there was peace in the land. And it came to pass after many days that they were again assembled under the same wise counsellors save that Miss Dunwell, who speaketh a foreign tongue had been added unto them. And to the class was added one Irving, son of Jones, who came from out of the Land of Wheeler, and also Freda, daughter of Bruns, and for her great wisdom came this honor unto her. And Leon Harrington now in the second year of his ruling over the people called unto the Assembly in a loud voice saying: “ The time is now ripe that ye choose a class pin.” And there was chosen a disc of gold with magic characters upon it, even Y. H. S. ’06. And the year was drawing to a close and a handful of the maidens said unto one another: “ Come we wish to be teachers of the people, let us go unto the wise counselor of this whole tribe, even unto the man of peace and justice, Mr. Ilughart, and he will teach us many things whereof we know not now.” And it was so that in the Pedagogy class they came to understand even themselves. But these and many other deeds, behold, are they not written in the hearts of each one of these people who have sojourned in this pleasant land from the last days of McKinley, The Good, even unto the fourth year of Roosevelt, The Mighty. BERTHA TOFTE.

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14 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. The Ideal American. WON FIRST PRIZE AT PORTER COUNTY ORATORICAL CONTEST, APRIL 21 , ’ 06 . OUR long centuries ago there lay a vast continent, rich in natural resources, uninhabited and undiscovered by civilized man. One day, as if by magic, a man, daring enough to venture out upon the stormy seas, came su ddenly upon this unknown land and returning, told of its wonders and grandeur. Now and again, small bands of people, persecuted and oppressed, ambitious and industrious, made their way to this country in search of liberty. Years rolled on; the colonies became an independent nation growing in wealth, importance and power. But one thing America lacked. Her leaders, the men who held the national sceptre, were not her own. Their characters were due, not to American environment, but to that of England, France or Germany. America was waiting for a real American. At last he came, “ the new birth of our new soil,” not only the ideal American but an ideal man. lie was the product of lowly environment, endowed by Nature with those invincible qualities which lead men in the pathway of Fame. Honest, ambitious, courageous, with a soul so great and a spirit so humble, this man blazed his way out of the wilderness in which he was born, step by step, until he stood at the head of the nation. Loved by his equals, worshipped by the masses, we have today the noble example of the highest type of American manhood,— Abraham Lincoln. Born in the humblest of Kentucky cabins, Abraham Lincoln was indeed, “ a new Moses in the solitude of the desert, where are forged all great and obstinate thoughts, monotonous, like the desert, and, like the desert sublime.” A child was born to an inheritance of want; a boy grew up in a narrow world of ignorance; a youth took up the burden of manual labor; a man entered on the doubtful struggle of a backwoods career and was raised by his fellow-citizens from one position to another until the nation, realizing that he had come like John of old from out the wilderness for a great and mighty mission, pl aced in his hands the reins of government. The black clouds gathered in Freedom’s sky; the wrath of the slave- holders flashed as the lightning; the rending of the states followed like the thunder crash ; and last came the storm of prayers and curses of human slavery. Then the woodman, the son of the West, the descendent of the peace- ful Quakers, humblest of the humble before his own conscience, greatest of the great in the eyes of the people, ascends the seat of Empire. Before him a veteran army plods; behind, stands hostile Europe, ready, at a moment’s notice, to lower the uplifted axe; and in his hands, the riven nation. The pulse of many thousands throbbing in his heart, he arises in majesty, calls to arms two-