Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-24
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
VIII be Held in Opera House
Next Wednesday Night.
THE GRADUATING CLASS LARGE
Consists of 81 Young Women
and 81 Young Men.
The Final Examinations Now CLOSING
teresting Glass Day Exercises To-mor-
row Evening-Tbe AIumni Preparing for
Pleasant Entertainment. tNBt

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On next Wednesday evening the
Grand Opera House will be a scene OF
youth. beauty and gaiety. The occs-l
sion will be the annual commencemsnt
OF the Wilmington High School, and
will mark the termination Of the public
school work of 62 Wilmington lasses
and 27 young men, making graduating
class of SO. A portion of the class
finished their school work lust Feb-,
ruary. while the emainder are finish-
ing now. The final examinations are
about to close.
Arrangements have been completed
for making the commencement the
happiest hour in the lives of the
graduates. while parents and friends
who attend are sure to be we'll enter
tanned. A list of the members of the
class of '97 follows:
February class Misses Mary Carlisle
Baugh, Martha a. Conway. Carrie
L. Cooper. Sadie Fayetta Coursun,
Averala Crossan, Agnes G. Crumlish,
Jenness Merrel Driscoll, Sybilla Strait
ner Feldmeier, Eleanor Brynberg For-
man, Harriet Dorsey Hammond, 4
Georgiene Lewis Heckman. Elizabeth
La Rue Hellings, Clara Gibson Jack,
Edith May Johnson, lice Eta Law
renee, Norma Watts Leitch, Helena
Turner Mask, ArabeIla @. McLear,
Sara Cecilia McFadden, Ella McIntire,
Helen Ford Megaw, Lena Mills. Caro-
lyD Clayton Pierce. Susan W. Rambo,
Hannah Fulton Reed, Mary Elizabeth
Sayers. Anna Wallace Simmons. Helen
w. Speakman, Edna Emile Taley,
Elizabeth Reybold Tatuall, Elsie B.
Thomas, Harriet Boulder Walters and
Elizabeth Stroud Wyatt, and @. En-
NETT Adams, Charles Leslie Bonham,
Jesse B. Brnunstein, Herbert E.
Brown, Harry Dunn Eliason, Waiter
A. Frederick, ]. Bayard Hearn, Alfred
7. Hope, Harry X. Hyland, Paul r.
killiam, Allison Nailor KINNEY, Roy
S. Latimer, Henry Goodman McComb.
George Jackman Middleton, Abner
Ray oyerdeer, Charles F. Perkins.
Robert Walter Simmons, Charming
LeRoy Simmons, Ralph Franklin
Swartz and William II. Swift.
June claas-Misses Estelle Moore
Council, Mary Elizabeth Doto, Clara
Frances Dougherty. Mary Watson
Frances Robinson Forman, Anna Viola
Haislett, Maple Flowers Hamilton,
Jennie Hansell, Bessie Edith Hartford,
tahtthn iIotpio hSoppy anna
Hume. Elizabeth Burling johnson.
Daisy Emma kemble. II. Gertrude
King, Anna Kathleen Lacy, Sarah
Frances Martin, Sarah Burns Miller,
Mabel O'Connor, bertha Vera pennell,
Lucretia Mott Reed, Mary Agnes Ryan,
Martha Chapman Shaw, Rosa Mask
Thompson, Mary Eleanor Thompson.
Sarah Mabel Walter, Jennie Meta
Weaver, Winifred Weldin and Louise
Deacon Van Trump, and Robert Gilbert
Bruce, Harry p. Carbon, George Lou
Coppage, Frank S. Matchett, Samuel
}. OFT. Herbert Everett Penley and
Clifton Tyre Vansant. vi
The class day exercise Of the class
will be held in the assembly room OF
the school Tomorrow evening. The in
yitations for the occasion arc out
The Alumni Association has arranged
to give the boys of the class a reception
at Eden Hall on Friday evening. July
I'd. The principal feature will be
supper, at which f. L. Hanna will be
the caterer. At the same time the
annual meeting of the association will
be held. s