Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-10
THE CLASS OF 1902
sixty-two Young People Will
Graduate From High School.
EXERCISES TO Be HELD JUNE 10
Class Day VIII Be Celebrated With
Rendition of "As You Like It," We'd
nesday, June Encouragement
About Complete for Annual Event.

hSHuitloH OF 'AS you Like lt, Weo- |
nesday, June Encouragement
About Complete for Annual Event.
The class of 1902 of the Ottumwa
high school, whose graduating exer-
cises will be held at the Grand opera
house on Thursday evening, June 10,
will consist in all of sixty-two young
men and women, ten of whom finish
ed the course prescribed by the rules
of the institution in January. The
other fifty-two, while they have prac
tically finished their school work, will
not complete their studies until one
week from today, after which time
they will lay aside their books, some
of them forever and others for only
few months or until they enter upon
college courses for which the high
school education is preparation. The
class of 1902 will be the thirtieth
class to finish the course of study in
the Ottumwa high school, the first
class, consisting of three people, two
boys and one girl, having graduated
from the institution when it was To-
Gated in the old Adams building in
1873. This years class is the largest
aggregation of students ever graduated
and the first one to consist of two dis
tinct and separate sections, the Janu-
airy and June classes. The January
class entered high school four years
ago last January and was an indie
pendent organization throughout the
four years course.
Commencement Season,
The last week of the school year
will see very little study, but will be
given over almost entirely to the prep
arations for commencement. On We'd
nesday evening the seniors will present
Shakespeare's "As You Like It." They
have been practicing since about
| Christmas for this one production and
have been under the supervision Of
Miss Helen Holden. one of the instruc-
| tors in elocution in Iowa college at
Grinnell. The costumes will be secur-
ed from Chicago firm. These facts
promise something specially good in
the way of amateur theatricals and
the rule regarding the general run of
high school foot light ventures is apt
to be broken. This play will take the
place of the regular class day program
which is generally held on Wednes-
day afternoon or evening of COM
mencement week. The class of 1902
determined to be original and to do
away with the time-honored customs
usually observed on class day, and in
dications are that the effort will be
crowned with complete success.
Cast of Characters.
4 IL.
to take the different parts in the play
were selected by committee from the
class and the faculty, and the list is as
follows:
Duke Living in Exile-Bert Enoch.
Frederic, brother to the Duke,
usurper of his dominions- Albert
Cheadle.
Amiens, Jacques, lords attending
upon the duke in exile-Paul Roam,
Chas. LaForce.
i LIE Bean, courtier attending upon
Frederic-Arthur Stice.
4 Charles, Frederic's wrestler-Paul
Ream.
4 oliver and Orlando, sons of Sir
Roland Debois-Will Bullock, Fred
4 Cooper.
/ Adam, servant of oliver-Harvey
Schamp.
Tombstone, a clown-Ambrose o.
Cornell.
! CORN and Silvius, shepherds-Jul
ian Fullen, George Morrissey.
4 William. country fellow, in love
with Audrey-Frank Peach.
Rosalond, daughter to banished
Duke-Miss Edythe Stewart.
q Celia, daughter of Frederick-Miss
Frances Stoltz.
Phebe, a shepherdess-Miss Fay
McIntire.
Cast of Characters.
Audrey, country wench-Miss Hell
en- Brockman.
!, Lords-First Lord, Harold Blake;
Second Lord, Oswald Baker.
Il Other Lords-Charles LaForce
George Morrissey.
Foresters Harvey Schamp, War
rem Perdue, Frank Peach. Harold
Blake, Oswald Baker, George Morris
1sey.
Attendants-Misses Lillian CRUDE
Elizabeth Daum, Helen Lowenberg.
Commencement Exercises.
On Thursday afternoon the time il
taken up with the last preparations
flor commencement. The Middlers al
ways decorate the opera house at this
time, this being the only work that is
] lifted from the shoulders of the sen
ious throughout the grind of arrange
ments for the closing of the higf
school course. The building is to be
beautifully decorated throughout with
ferns and flowers and the class col
ors.
On Thursday evening, June 10, tn
commencement exercises will takt
place The members of the advanced
chorus will be seated on the stage
the graduating class at the front. Ar
elaborate musical program is being
prepared by Mrs. Frances e. Clark
the instructor in music at the public
schools, part of which will be the rem
dition of the cantata, "The Wreck O
the Hesperus." A prominent educator
will be secured to deliver the address
to the graduates, and this, together
> with the musical program, the presen
tation of diplomas, and the singing O
the class song, will complete the com
mencement program. The words fol
the class song were written by Mis-
Lizzie Price and Harvey Schamp anf