Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-27
THE SCHOOLS.
CLOSING EXERCISES YESTERDAY n
The PRIMARY DEPARTMENTS.
Sacramento Grammar School Promotions
The High school Classes
Exercises To-day.
THE SCHOOLS.

Yesterday morning the Ninth and street
and the Tenth and street Schools with the
exception of hrs. English's ffth.grade class,
held closing exercises and received their diplo-
mas and certificates. Directors Stevens and
Goodhue were among the numerous specta-
tors. The programme as published ia the
RECORD UNION yesterday was carried out,
and very much to the credit of the partici-
pants. Mrs. EDglish's class will meet at the
school-room this morning and receive their
certificates.
UEGRADED SCHOOL NO. ?.
At 10 o'clock a. N. yesterday the closing
exercises of Ungraded School No 2, Miss S.
NJ. Jones, teacher, were held in the school
room, D street, between Ninth and Tenth.
| The teacher and pupils had evidently be-
| slowed much attention and given much labor
| to the decoration Of The sch0olroom. The
walls were profusely drsped with the red,
white and blue, gathered in festoons caught
up by tri-colored rosetteE, while evergreens,
national flags and other patriotic emblems
were tastefully disposed throughout the
room, together with beuquess of flowers.
/
school.room in the city had there been at
tempted or secured such effective aud appro-
| pirate decorations. The pupils were promptly
in their seats, presented bright and attract
| i've appearance and manifested the liveliest
interest in the proceedings. There were
| present q number Of parents OF pupils and
other citizens, and also Superintendent Laine
and Directors Goodhue and Stevens. The
| programme of exercises was carried ont as
announced heretofore in the RECORD UNION.
and the children acquitted themselves with
| entire credit There was 8 promptness in
recitation and dialogue, and a yiYacity in the
class singing that testified to good training
and an absencs of embarrassment Supsrin
| tendent Lame, in delivering the certificates
| to the graduating clsss, bore testimony to the
excellence Of the school exercises, as he had
witnessed them from time TO time during the
school year. He addressed the pupils on the
importance Of intellectual training, and gavs
| historical sketches in illustration. r. J.
! Fletcher, in behalf of the coored citizens,
made an address, In which he sketcled the
history Of the school for ten years, and the
! efforts made 10 afford oolored pupils full edu-
catiOnRl advantages, and to secure teacher
willing to undertake the task of laboring in that
field, and testified to the satisfaction of the par
| ents with the teacher employed, and who had
! taught the school for ten years. Rev. j. b. |
! DWineil, D. D., next addressed the children,
! dwelling upoa tia necessity of sobristy and
abstinence from strong drink, Il they would
| grow up strong to q strong maturity and free
| from the slavery OF appetite. Mrs. Dorsey
| 10y request) addressed the auditors and bore
testimony TO the proficiency of the scholars,
| from her own observations during several
months. G. II. Cummings made few re-
marks, expressing his confidence in the prog
ress made by the school. Tie teacher then
| delivered to the lower grades the certificates
| Of promotion, read letter of kindly regard
for the school from Add. G. Hinkson, ex-
PRESSED her satisfaction with the manner IN
which tie pupils had acquitted Themselves,
referred touchiugly to one scholar, who is
upon a dying Red, and then dismissed the
school for the long vacation. TIE entire
affair was one of the especially pleasing
| school entertainments Of the season.
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Ungraded School No. 3, Eighteenth and
L streets Orphan Asylum also held closing
exercises yesterday forenoon. There was 2
large attendance of visitors Opening song,
How Happy Is the Child" by the class
song and chorus, " Mountain Maids Invita-.
ton :" song, 80 Come, Come Away" BY
the class; recitation, THE Gates AiaT,"
Lille Spinks; recitation. My Rosebud,
Ida Glennon motion song, Here We
Stand" by the clsss; recitation, Sweet
Little Mistress" Mamie Clark; songs.
" Coming Through the Rye and ''Oar Own
Sweet Thoughts" by the class giving out Of
certificates closing song, "Glory Hallelu
jah"
The school at Twenty.seventh and
streets, known as degraded School Ne. l,
! Miss Helen 2. Waldron, teacher, was dis.
missed yesterday forenoon, the closing exe--
cises beginning at 9 o'clock. There were
| 70 ,f-E
programme rendered is as follows: "Snow
Lake" song by the school; dialogue. by
Florence Barber, Mollie Halligan, Kate Row,
Maggie EAsterbrook Flora Madden, Miriam
Bennett, Louisa Won Es5ton Lost in the
Woods song by eighth grade; What
Would You Do, Miss Pussy Cat p recitation
by Maggie Essterbrook; "Cricket," song
hy the school; 1.-The Fisher, recitation by
Frank Botsford; calisthenic exercise by the
class "DaybTeAk," recitation by Charles
Botsford ''The Face Against the Pane"
concert recitation by fifth grade; God,
recitation by Dan Williams; Lullaby"
recitation by seventh grade; song, Noble
HaliigsD; 'Q1srrelsome Kittens, recitation
By Charles johnson pictures OF Memory"
recitation by May Ramsden.
EXERCISES TO-DAY.
At 10 A. NJ to-day the graduating exercises
! Of the Capital Grammar School, Professor j.
W. Johnson. will be held in the class-rooms
ct ths school building, Tenth end @ streets.
Yesterday the rooms were being handsomely
decorated by the scholars, under the teachers
direction. The names Of graduates and of
| those premoted were published in the
RECORD UNION on Wednesday morning.
Yesterday afternoon the two fourthgrade
classes, taught by Mrs. E. B. Pernell and Miss
Lizzis McGana, received certificates of pro-
motion and were dismissed for the term, while
-. Il e
mar Sch pol Will assemble this morning and
receive diplomas snd certificates, but no clos-
ing exercises will be held. The list of grad
yates and promotions in the several classes in
/ this school are given below. The remainder
of the primary schools, not already closed,
will receive certificates this morning and be
dismissed. For the past two years there
have been no graduating exercises held in the
HIGH SCHOOL.
The certificates and diplomas viii be dis
tributed to-day. Following are toe names of
the senior class, with the rank in class
and average percentage for the thres years, the
figures in psrenthesis indicating the rank in
class
~ Hiram W. johnson, S.96; ~ lauren
W. Ripley, S 81; (3) William F. Renfro, S.79;
az Melaine Parsons. 10; (5) Kittie E. Brier,
$50; (6) Helen Briggs, As; "a Charles A.
Kleinsorge. Sal; lS) joey D. Richardson,
$50; (9) Katie Nj. Hughes, 81; (10) Henri
eta A. Hersum, %; (11l George Millikin,
$ IS; (12) Azzlia NJ. Bayless. 81 t13) Car
RE L. BeIlmer, S.26; Q4) Chsrles A Root,
S22; (15l Byrdie A. Bsggs, d; (16) 10 E.
Terry, 06; ~ Kistis II. Weinreich. 05;
QS) Alice NJ Wilson, sos; (19) Lucy L.
Gett, sol; l2O) Berthe Groth, 7.91; (21)
Miriam Govan, 7S7; t22) Theresa L. Mayo,
IA.
The class rank ard average percentage of
the middle class for two years is as follows
~ Mamie @. Barrett, s IS: ~ Mary F.
Tracy, s 90; (Sl Elmer Il Drew, %; 81
W. II. Devlin. Oh; t5l Fred B Lord, S.76;
l6) Teresa Byron, IS; % Rose Clarke,
S 81; (S) Minnie Daniels, S.5S; (9) Charles
W. Reed, 81 (10) Lizzie Dean, SAG; IN
Ada Syphus, s 45; ~ Ida Y. Foster, 4S
u.s. Harry Lsrkir, s. Al; IA Theodore Wei
sci, SO /; (15) Mamie B. Dsrson, 8 %; tl6)
AIi1nie Shore, s "a; ~ James J. Hart.
% t1S) Ben. Plant, S.19; G9l MiDnia
Richardson, SLY; COY Jennie T.. Powers,
500; (2ll Mamie Essterbrooks sos; (22)
Emma Kleinsorgs. sos; (2Sl Alice Nc
Manus, s %; (24) Maud Denison, 0S; (25)
Lizzie G. O'Brisu, 796; (26) Ed. NJ. Simp-
son, Isl; (27) John Duffey, 50; t2S) Min
, ME Joseph, Z 20; (29) Elite c. Skinner, 7.60;
1907 Hattie Davis z IS; (Sl) Emms Lovdal,
43; (S2l Lizzie Lynn, 1856; 1881 Will. J.
K1erth, &c; $50 Emma Elliott, 7.1S; 1851