Forty Seven Seniors And

Nine Normal Graduates

To Get Diplomas.

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DR. E. A. ROSS TO

DELIVER ADDRESS

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Student Honors Awarded By Principal Stewart At This Time.

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Graduation exercises of the New Ulm high school will take place at Turner Hall, Friday evening, May 29, at 8 o’clock when Dr. A. E. Ross, of the University of Madison, Wisconsin, will deliver the Commencement address. His subject will be “Is The World Getting Better or Worse?” Forty-seven seniors and nine graduates from the Normal Department will receive their diplomas which will be presented by A. W. Mueller, president of the board of Education. Superintendent Arnold Gloor will present the speaker of the evening and will also present the class of graduates to the School Board. The High School orchestra and the girl’s glee club will render the music of the evening and Principal R. J. Stewart will announce the honors of the year, including the scholarships, the winners of the Legion cups and pins, and other contests which have been held in the school during the past year. The public is cordially invited to attend these exercises. Dr. Ross will prove an interesting speaker as he is a lecturer of great repute. On Saturday evening, Dr. Ross has consented to deliver an address at the Methodist Church at 8 o’clock being as his subject “The Social Revelation In India.” Dr. Ross speak from experience on this subject, having spent some time in India studying the situation there.

Enroll In Colleges

The following article which was written for the Graphos, high school paper, cleverly outlines the plans of the graduates of 1925 to continue their education. The majority of the members of the class know where they will enroll in September while others are undecided as to what line of study they will pursue.

The Mysterious Puzzle

“With the approach of spring comes that feeling of restlessness and a longing to hide away your books and cease studying. Even the call of the birds seems to beckon us to the great out-of-doors. On one of these days I was sitting rather lazily in the Assembly, not knowing what to do. A welcome little breeze came in thru an open window and blew across my face. It carried with it a small scrap of carefully folded paper, which seemed to come from nowhere in particular, and deposited i t near my desk. I stooped down and picked it up. Upon unfolding it; I found it to be a cross word puzzle. As I was rather interested in cross word puzzles and saw in it a good way to shorten the dreary minutes while waiting for the bell to ring, I made a careful analysis of the puzzle. To my surprise and delight I found that it was one concerning the class of 1925 and that it was partly solved.”I looked over the columns which had been “filled in”. In No. 1, horizontal I found “American University.” Upon looking over the definitions I found that to be the solution of the question “Where is Roland Hohn going next year?” I then remembered having heard that Roland was going to attend the American University at Washington, D. C. The next few spaces were blank so I looked over to No. 11, vertical, in this column I found “St. John’s I discovered that the definition was,”At what hospital will Esther Poehler be found in 1926?” In the next column I found “Downer”, which answered the question as to which school in Milwaukee Marian Reineke was going to attend. Of course, I could not enjoy all this by myself so as soon as Mr. Stewart, who had charge of the Assembly during that period, left the room I hurriedly let my neighbors know about what I had and we all began to work the puzzle together. In No. 2, vertical, we found the statement,”That place to which Alice Altmann, Hazel Erickson, Marguerite Pfaender, and Frances Schiefert are going to school in 1926.” We found that to be the Mankato State Teacher’s College.

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At this moment Mr. Stewart came into the room so I shoved the puzzle underneath my book and stared blank-y at the pages. However, to our satisfaction, he soon went out again, and we resumed our former task. The next definition which confronted us was “Where are Alpha Backer, Verval Mueller, Charlotte Bockus and Hilda Steinmetz going to spend their time next year?” It had ten spaces, so we put in “University” which we later found out was correct. In No. 15, horizontal, we found the statement” Where Alice Meile is going to continue her education.” After much thought one of my neighbors remembered having heard that Alice was going to St. Mary’s at Faribault. That must have been correct because it exactly fitted in the blanks. The next question was not difficult to solve. It was,”Which school are Hertha Hackbarth, Della Inhofer, Della Pfieffer, Winnifred Scheeppe, Catherine Poynter and Marie Volz going to attend?” The solution was the New Ulm Normal. The next definition was,”What are Viola Block, Florence Hartl, Ione Schroeder, Leona Werdan, and Gladys Wagner going to become?” The answer was “Stenographers.” No one in the neighborhood where we were knew a place with seven letters to which Francis Hartl and Fred Lippman were going, so I wrote a note to one of my other classmates, asking for the needed information. The answer proved to be “College.” By working various other parts of the puzzle we found that Joe Keckeisen is going to the South Dakota State College, and that Adeline Ritschel is going to St. Catherine’s. There was one long definition left and that was “What are Ivan Nage, Alfred Neiman, Arnold Oswalk, Luella Loesch, Amanda Krahmer, Carl Theis, Harold Voegelpohl, Anna Ziese, Joce Zschunke, Helen Sans, Roman Schaefer, Fredreick Sallet, Elmer Tomschin, Nona Dorn, Edna Borchert, Ella Buggert, Edgar Fechner and Lena Fix going to do?” We were all so interested in figuring out that solution that we did not either see or her Mr. Stewart come into the Assembly again. He didn’t see very much of it though, because a gay little breeze picked it out of his gingers and carried it thru the open window. Thus the puzzle disappeared as mysteriously as it came and the last part remained unsolved.

New Ulm Review,

May 20, 1975

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