The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-03
COMMENCEMENT OF
The GRADED SCHOOL.
An Even Dozen Girls and Boys
Receive Diplomas.
interesting Exercises Witnessed by a
Very Large and Interested Audience.


The closing exercises of the Graded
School were held in the Opera House
last Thursday evening, beginning
promptly at s O'Clock. The
house, as usual, was packed
and many who came late stood
throughout the exercises. The pro-
gramme as arranged and as carried
out was designed, not as an entertain
ment, but as an exempli6cation of
the regular work Of the school, or, to
be more exact, it was designed to show
the results that the pupils who have
completed the course have accomplish
ed. The exercises naturally we're full
of vital interest to the audience and
the attention never tagged from first
to last. The Second Regiment Band
with its wonted public spirit furnish
ed delightful music to Eli the inter
missions and give variety to the pro-
gramme. Prof. Schumaker, the director
of the band, gave two violin solos that
were exquisite gems of melody that only
musician with the soul of an artist
could have rendered.
The songs by the school we're ex-
cellently rendered and the improve
ment in this department Of school
work has been remarked each year
since regular instruction in vocal
music was made part of the regular
course. The children are we'll taught
and they sing with feeling and ex-
preston.
The essays by graduates were well
expressed and we'll delivered, showing
what had been accomplished in mind
training by careful instruction and
earnest effort.
The prize drill by a picked squad of
fifteen from the school military COM
pany was one of the best features Of
the programme. The boys, some Of
them very small chaps, are well nigh
perfect in the marual of arms, and
The exhibition they gave would have
done credit to a picked squad from
any military academy of the best
class. The judges in this contest we're
Cat. T. S. Dear and Lieut.. J. z.
Minis, and their task was no easy one.
Robert Cooper won the medal, but
Barlow Walsh, Jr., stayed with him
till the last, and few in the audience
could name the winner until the
Judges announced their decision.
After the presentation of diplomas to
the graduates, Supt. Edmunds stated
that, if the School Board had not
abolished the custom heretofore in
force of giving a medal to the first
honor member Of the class, Leon M:
Green would have received the medal
this year, and that he felt that the
statement of the fact was due in
Justice to the boy who had done such
satisfactory work throughout his
school life as to win the entire COM
mendation of all his teachers.
The programme was as follows:
PART I.
Invocation-Rev. Fl. B. Browne.
Song by School-Nazareth-Gunod.
Words of Welcome-Miss Edna
Broughton.
selection-Violin Solo-Prof. Schu-
maker.
Acknowledgements to the
Gladiators-Bentley Gibson.
Song by School-Star of Freedom
Donizetti.
Declamaticn-The Dwellers in Ap-
palachia-Judge Emory Speer-Leon
Green.
Selection-Second Regiment Band.
Observation-Disclosures Education
and haracter-Guignard Jones.
Song by School--Wiegenlied- Brahms.
Declamation-New CLEANS Creole's
Plea for tie Ancient Languages
Dozier Lee.
selection-Violin Solo-Prof Schu-
maker.
Observation-Disclosures Plea for
Cuba-Edward McCutchan.
Curtain.
Overture-SecondR Regiment Band.
PART II.
Song by School-Evening Bells.
: Glass History-Miss Elizabeth Sat-
terwhite.
selection-second Regiment Band.
Glass Criticism-Miss Celeste Hugh
son.
Awarding prizes of the Dick Ander-
son Chapter of the U. D. c.. for best
essays on "South Carolina's Part in the
War Between the States" to Dozie
Lee, 10th grade and Robert Cooper
9Th grade. Pies presented by Hon. j.
H. Clifton.
Awarding the Rhame Declaimers'
Medal, to Dozier Lee, by Horace Har-
by, Jr., Esq.
Vocal Solo-Mr. Rambo Presenta-
tion of Certificates to the Glass of
19O3-Supt. Edmunds.
Curtain.
Prize Drill by Squad selected in
Competitive Drill.
Awarding Medal to the best drilled
member of the Squad. Won by Robert
Cooper. Presented by Maj. Marion
Noise.
Song by School-Our Bright Starry
Banner-Ofenbach.
Curtain.
March-Second Regiment Band.
Glass of 1903-Elizabeth Sinkler
Boykin. Edna Earle Broughton, Mary
Eliza Gaillard, Leon Myer Green,
Guignard Richardson Jones, Edward
Douglas McCutchen, Emma Boyle,
Mary Evelyn Cunningham, Bentley
Gordon Gibson, Celeste Hughson,
Richard Dozier Lee, Jr., Elizabeth