Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-12
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT,
Large Crowd Attends the Exercises at the
Auditorium Friday Evening.

ment of Marietta High School passed
into history Friday night and the
twenty-three young gentlemen and
ladies who composed the class bade
adieu auspiciously to the environment
that has held them and watched with
Jealous care their growth from child
hood to young manhood and young
womanhood. All commencements, and
especially those of the great American
system of free public schools, appeal
strongly to the parents and friends OF
the pupils who on such occasions are
surrendered to the world by the State.
Friday night was no exception to the
Commencement rule in MAJ ietta and
the Auditorium was filled with bril-.
liant audience to witness the exercises.
The brightness and aromatic flavor OF
the flowers and the beauty of number
less costumes contributed much to the
sentiment of the occasion. The gradu-
ating class, composed of nineteen
young women and four young men,
seated in u semicircular form on the
Auditorium stage, and the profusion of
beautiful flowers sent as goodwill
omens by loving relatives and friends,
constituted pretty picture that will
not soon fade from the remem brance of
the audience
The full Marietta orchestra was
present to delight all hearers and re-
lieve the long program Of essays and
orations.
The exercises opened with the invoca-
tion of the divine blessing by Rev. W..
E. Roe, Immediately followed by the
salutatory of Miss Mary Louella Glitch
ell. The regular program of exercises,
EN- bracing an essay or oration by
every mem Der of the class, was as fol-
lows:
Essay THE Pyramid OF Vanities'
Anna Mabel Bahlman.
Essay ...... ................The Power of Music
Ruth E. Armstrong.
Essay y........................ ............ Weeds
Sophia Catharine Brand.
Essay ............ .......... Heights and Depths
Minnie Julia Carter.
Grafton, Modes of Travel in the Nineteenth
Century.
Edwin Charles Angert.
MUSIC
Essay Observation-Disclosures. The Trend OF Sport
Nell Edith Davis
Grafton. n......................C Crime and Its Cure
j. Francis Hamilton.
Essay ....................,..... An Eccentric
Florence Mckinney.
Essay, Forty Centuries are Looking down
upon Us.
Alice Gertrude Cutter.
Essay y....................Th The Islands Of the Sea
Gertrude Virginia L. Dow.
Essay ay................... ......... Famous Rides
Florence B Dye,
MUSIC
Essay. ......... The Influence of Companionship
Mabel Erma Jordan
Essay y........................Afr Africa or Americ ::
Mary Wells Justice.
Essay. ay....................... The Tai Mahal
Bessie Grace McKenna.
Essay .......................... True Heroism
Emma Marion Scott.
Grafton. 90, .... ...."America for Americans
w. Walter Wood,
Grafton. ........... ..... Americans for America
Luther Thomas Cisler
MUSIC.
Essay ... The Evolution of the English Home
Lillian Clara Stoehr,
Essay y........ Why We Love the Buckeye State
Mae Latchaw Stamm
Essay .............. ........,. Pandora's Box
Dora Alice Wilson
Essay ................. .. ...... Aftermath"
Nannette Elena Williamson,
After the valedictory of Miss Anna
E. Hiebel, Supt. ". w. Boyd intro
duced to the audience supt j. II.
Shawau, Of the public schools of Co
lumbus, who delivered the Commence
meIt address. Dr. Shawan, referring
to Marietta as the Plymouth Rock of
the Northwest territory, spoke elo-
quently Of the lessons and influences of
the historic city. Following his ad-
dress was the presentation of diplomas
by President NJ. f Andrews, of the
Board of Educa ton, in brief and APP
propriate speech full of feeling and the
class fled from the stage by twos, car
rying with them the best wishes of the
great throng present.
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