FASD — 1937 Alumni Archives

The first commencement exercises were held in 1904 when a class of three were graudated. At the close of the school year 1936-1937, two-hundred thirty-five young men and women will receive diplomas.

The graduates of the Farrell High School are now engaged in industry, in business, in the professions, in politics, and in home making. Many of you have attained prominence in your chosen field of labor. All of you, I am sure, are better citizens, and are rendering a greater service to the community in which you live and labor because you have had the advantages of a high school education. Hundreds of you continued your education through higher institutions of learning, preparing you for teaching, for law, for medicine, for dentistry, for journalism, or one of the many other vocations.

At the beginning of the present century, few boys and girls remained in school after completing the eighth grade. At the present time few boys and girls quit before graduating from high school.

I congratulate you men and women who were wise enough to avail yourselves of the opportunities to secure a secondary school education. I trust that your school has exerted a lasting influence on your character, that it has helped you to appreciate the most worthwhile things in life, and made you better able to secure them; and that your entire experience in this school will always be a source of general satisfaction to you.