Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-07
Sixty-Five Students in Ottumwa
High School to Graduate.
JUNE II is COMMENCEMENT DAY.
Final Preparations Made for Closing
Week of School Year-Presdent
Bradley of Iowa College to Address
Students.

school, all of whom will probably be
given diplomas at the commencement
exercises to be held on Thursday even
ing, June IL. Twelve of this number
graduated in January, while the fate of
the remaining fifty-three is still hang
ing in the balance, and whether or not
they all remain in the senior class and
graduate in June will not be known
for week or ten days. Beginning
with Friday, June 5, which has been
named as class day, until the follow
ing Friday, the high school teachers
and students, more especially the Sc
niors, will lead a busy life, preparing
far the day that marks the eliminating
point in the school life of the men,
bers of the latter class.
Class Day Exercises.
| The final preparations have been
made for commencement week On
Friday evening, June 5, the senior
class will be seen in the Shakespearean
drama THE Merchant of Venice" at
the Grand opera house. The cast was
4 selected from among the members of
1 the senior class, and the production
| will be given in place of the usual class
day exercises. This plan was tried
last year, when the seniors were seen
1 in CAS- You Like it," and those
who witnessed that production were
A struck with its excellence. Miss Helen
4 Holden, teacher of elocution at Iowa
I college, GrinneH, who drilled the
4 students last year, was again retained
to instruct the seniors for their class
day play, and a repetition of the sue
cess achieved by last years class is
anticipated.
!, The Closing Week of School.
j School will be in session Monday
and Tuesday of the last week and
Wednesday will be day of prepare
ton for commencement day. On this
day the middlers will decorate the op
era house out of respect to the retir
ing class, which has been the custom
in former years. Thursday, June III
i will be commencement day and the us
= ual exercises will be held in the even
ing at the Grand, opera house. The
address for the occasion will be deliv
: cred by President Dan F. Bradley, o
Iowa college, Grinnell A special mu
steal program will be given under thu
direction of Mrs. Frances p. Clark
! and the diplomas will be presented t.
! the members of the graduating class.
Eighth Grade Graduation.
The eighth grade exercises will b
, held on Friday, June u, and the neN
), : class will be ushered into the hig
u u school with appropriate exercises. !
;. the evening the annual reception to tn
: alumni of the institution will ais
: be held and the officers for the ensuin
? year will be elected. All the student
: in the high school from the 'preps
: to the seniors are deeply interested i
;, the coming events and the interest wi
. continue until the graduation of tn
i present senior class will mark the Ell
= try of new class to the school and tn
advancement of the remaining stu
e dents. The names of the 1908 elias
n follow:
"a January Glass.
w Lulu Isabelle Aumack.
4 Anastata C. Feehan.
. Ethel Grace Gray.
~ Henrietta A. Hills.
w Lillian Marie Hurd.
leila Lorene sherwood.
lie Paul Augustus Lewis.
Il. Francis Halle Powell.
" katherine NJ. Rhoades
- Edith Carolyn Tullis.
" Gertrude NJ. Van Der Veer.
lie Jeanette A.. Wind.
J., ~ June Class.
i'll Vera Mary Armstrong