The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-23

In the presence of a multitude of rel
atives, dear friends and members of the
under classes who had braved the
storms ana signs of a very disagree
able night one hundred and two stall
wart young men and fair young ladies
last night bade farewell to the High
school, where they spent the last four
years of their public school education
and held the commencement exercises
of the class of 1900, the largest class
that ever graduated from the institu-
tion, and the first really representa-
tive one. The members of the class
were:
Classical Course-Anna washburn Clark, Lor-
cncic Eleanor Dmmick, Wayland Dunn Gates,
Mary Greeley, Jennie Miller, Walter Phelps
Stevens, John Earle Coolidge. Randolph Irving
rockingham, Warren Parsons Grant, James
Lynn Mattcson. Charles Norwood Pitcher Min.
mic Mary White. Susanna Watkins.
Latin.Sccntihc Course--Wiam L. Ackcr,
Mary Tilden Bugdcn, Maud Mabel Capwell,
Grace Daniels Susan j. Dawson, william A.
Edgar, Bruce Wight rordham. Mary Belle Free.
man, Marguerite Gunstcr Ruth Pennan Ham,
Lucy Imeson, william Martin Kcullen, Ger
trude Long, Mary Gertrude Barrowman, Olive
Matilda Burral Bessie Chamberlain, Lena May
Davis, Arthur Edgar, Helene Christine Fellows,
Helen Fowler, Bessie Belle Fruunfclter, Mary
Margaret Haggarty Mary Magdalene IIefntr,
James Bernard Kelly. Allison Shepard KnSley,
Esther Pctthonc Markic, john Farnham Mcars,
Florence Evelyn Raftcr, Anna Russ, Jessica
SUBWAY Jesse Arthur Shower, Edward James
Sturdcyant. Nicia Monica Nealon, Margaret Mary
Ruddy. John william Schuer, Mabel Rozclla
! Sloat, Ralph Cuthbert Showdon, Lucretia Gar
| field Thomas, Marelda Louise Wiley, Rossrnan
Ingalls, Vail, Carl William Ziegler, Harriet zicg-
| Ter.
English Course-Margaret Veronica Blewitt,
| Frank Howard Cooper, George Arthur Ilarring-
| ton, William Henry Harris, Mary flarte, Jennie
Beatrice Howell, Bertha Powell, Kathryn Hide
| gard O'Neil, Margaret G. Richardson, Victor
Dana Thayer, Lou Evelyn Wade, Harry A. Walsh,
Warren Edgar Wrcback
| Commercial Course-Mae Augusta Barney Clara
| May Browning, Catherine Hannah Collins Martin
Dougher Ethel Irene Fellows, Gertrude CARMEL,
John Greiner, jr, Malvina Adrienne Knapp Mary
Loughran, Austin Wiford Moore, Henry Adam
Motchman, Lyman Walter Payne, Charles Daniel
| Schultz, Harry Freeman Stevens, Edna league,
| Kathryn Agatha Walsh, Lillian May Blaschke,
Edwin Randolph Bucnzle, Catherine Davies,
| Kathryn Magdellan Dunno. William Fowler, lisa
| bel Graves. Lydia Julia Huber, Elizabeth Linn,
Elizabeth Veronica McIIale, Annetta Norton I'd
ward Emil Muller, Myflnwy Powell, william
Walter Schcuer, Cecilia Loretta Sheerin, Rexford
| senfiuh.
IMPRESSIVE EXERCISES.
Impressive the exercises certainly
were. A ceremony OF this nature is
always impressive, and when accom-.
panied by the circumstances like those
connected with last nights commence.
ment they are especially so. When the
members of the class filed through the
audience and came on the stage ir
couples, with Bauer's band playing &
slow, gentle march and the rich drap
cries of old gold and blue, the clas.
colors, which formed the background
of the stage, swaying slightly in the
breeze which came thruogh the opeT
windows a picture was presented
which will live in the memories Of al
those who witnessed it.
Rev. c. NJ. Giffin, ID. D., OF the Elm
Park Methodist Episcopal church
opened the programme with prayer
in the course of which he made men
tion of the class motto, Truth Con
quers ALL" expressing his hope tha
the members will live in accordanc,
with 1t.
President Grant, of the High school
together with DR.. Gifin, Superintend
ent of the City Schools George Howell
and President of the Board of Contro
b. Il. Jayne sat together on the stage
President Grant announcing eacl
speaker. After the invocation the frs
speaker, Wayland Dunn Gates, saluta
torian of the class, spoke on "Russii
as a Menace to Anglo-Saxon Supre
macy" He opened his speech by wei
coming to the exercises all present. II
speaking on his selected subject he frs
told Of the general progress made il
the worlds history by the Aryan race
and in speaking of the Anglo-SaXol
races said they now stand, as did TIL
ancient Romans in the world of thel
: time. The Slavonians alone are power
full rivals, possessing all the necessar
attributes and ability.
He concluded with a strong plea 70
friendship between this country an
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