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| VALDER COLLEGE. |
| Commencement Exercises to be held at the Grand, Friday Evening, June 25th, 1897. The graduating class in the Normal department of Valder Business College and Normal School, of this year, numbers twenty-six, and carries representatives of a wide territory extending from Decorah to Canby, Minn. The graduating exercises will be held at the Grand Opera House, on Friday evening, next week, at which the following program will be rendered: |
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Muslc....................................Orchestra invocation.................Rev. L. L. Lockard Oration......... Internationalism Alice Estella Owen. Oration...................The Wandering Jew Ivan Bert McMartin. Oration.................Voyagers on Life's Sea Minnie Mae Reed. Tenor Solo............. ..Selected S. Halvorson. Oration.................Don’t Give Up The Ship Roy Kenyon Pierce. Oration................ Memories Jennie Ruth Elwick. Oration.............Home, the Heart of a Nation Charles Wesley Reed. Music...................................Orchestra Oration..............The Scholar in Politics Theodore Kittelson. Oration................ ...Prisoners of Plenty Martha J. Helland. Oration.................Valley of Decision William Andrew Caldow. Clarinet Solo........................ Selected M. J. Soukup. Oration..................Reserved Power William Emmons Roney. Oration ....Reciprocity, or Measure for Measure Isabel Louise Gilbertson. Oration .............Perils to Our Nation Louis H. Heinberg. Presentation of Diplomas G. A. Oliver, Associate Principal. |
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By a unanimous vote of the class twelve students—the foregoing—were chosen as speakers without reference to rank in scholarship: but each member had prepared orations upon subjects as indicated below: |
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Oration...............................Shadows Ida Blanche Reed. Oration.......Adversity, the Grindstone of Life Mira Bell McIntosh. Oration...................American Monuments John Stork Dayton. Oration................The Aim of Life Maude Elizabeth Holcomb. Oration ............Conservation of Energy Thomas Torkelson. Oration.....................ideal in Public Life Ole Ensrud. Oration................................PIuck Charles Edward Trzcinski. Oration..........................False Success Mae A, Owen, Oration................................Be Yourself Alice Maude Rollins Oration................What Minutes are Worth Verena Matilda Walter. Oration......................The Nameless City Flora Estella Buettell, Oration.......................Childhood Josephine Sophia Mybro. Oration ................. A Miracle in Stone John Jacob Trzcinski. A nominal admission fee of ten cents will be charged. |
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