The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-06-15
SCHOOL Is NOW OVER.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT is HELD
AT KEMPER HALL.
ELEVEN STUDENTS GRADUATE.
Miss Mary Draper, of This City. Delivers
the Sa1utatory While the Vale
dictory is Delivered by
Miss Virginia Grant.

Today was the closing day of Com
mencement week at Kemper Hall and
the beautiful grounds, which through
out the week have been crowded with
visitors and which have resounded with
the jolly shouts of one hundred happy
girls this afternoon, are now silent and
deserted. The echo of the closing
strain of the class song had scarcely
died away when the young ladies were
hurrying to the trains in order to reach
the long vacation as soon as possible.
The Commencement of 1919 has been
the most successful in the history of
the institution. The closing exercises
we're held this morning at Armitage
Hall. A feeling of sadness, a sorrow
of parting was plainly evident and
while the girls may be proud that they
have completed their course there was
not one of them but what would will
ingly remain for another year at KEN
| per Hall.
Armitage Hall was Respondent in it's
decorations for the exercises this
morning. Marguerites, the Kemper
Hall flower, were everywhere in evil
dence and over the stage was fashioned
in the school flowers the class motto,
I" Not by Words, but by Virtues".
The annual march of all the students
opened the program and after the
eleven members of the class, clad in
white dresses and decorated with the
most beautiful flowers ofthe year, were
seated on the stage the first members
of the class appeared when Misses
Florence Finch and Adele Leszynsky
favored the large audience with duo.
This was followed by the CRATIC Saluta-
toria, which was delivered in very
pleasing manner by Miss Mary Draper,
of this city. Miss Helen Buckley, of
Chicago, rendered a beautiful solo
entitled When Celia Sings", after
which the Valedictory and farewell to
class and teachers was delivered by
Miss Virginia Cooper Grant, of Lans-
ing, Mich. Following the Grafton and
farewell, which brought tears to the
eyes of many of the class the entire
class sang the Bach Gounod Gave
Maria" in beautiful and impressive
manner.
The address of the day was delivered
by the Rev. Alfred Wilson Griffin, of
Louisville, formerly chaplain of
the school, Following the commence
ment address Miss Buckley sang the
" Fleur des Alpes" by Wekerlin, and |
the exercises at the hall were concluded |
As the Glee club sang the Kemper |
Hall song the great crowd of visitors
who had attended the commencement |
exercises crowded over to the little |
Chapel where the final service of the |
occasion was held. The entire student |
body of the institution wearing pretty |
white wells, were seated in the Chapel
when Bishop Nicholson presented the
different prizes and testimonials includ
ing the diplomas to the eleven gradu- |
ates. After the services at the Chapel
the crowd repaired to the porch where
the ceremonies of laying the GLADSTONE
were enacted. After the stone, which |
will keep bright the memory of the
class of '99, was placed in position the
final benediction was pronounced and |
the year at Kemper Hall was at an
end. After the ceremonies were over a
luncheon was served in the refectory
at which a large number of guests were
present.
The members of the senior class
who received diplomas were: Ellen
Jeanette Dermont, Trout Creek, Mich
Mary Chandler Draper, Kenosha;
Leone Maud Fay, Chicago; Florence
Dudley Finch, St. Paul, Mimi; Virginia
Cooper Grant, Lansing, Mich; Grace
Sands Gunther, Chicago; Mabel Fran
ces Kilbourne, Aurora, ILL.,; Adele
Cooley Leszynsky, Racine, Wis;
Evelyn Newton Lynas, Chicago; Caro-
line McClintic, Monroe City, MO; May
Catherine Thompson, Chicago.