Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-06-02
GRAMMHR SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT

commencement exercises were held
In the four grammar schools of the
Borough Friday afternoon. These
exercises with presentation of diploma.
which have been inauRuratsd by Bor-
ough Superintendent Gordy are a new
feature of our schools and one which
invests the grammar school oonrse
with new dignity aud Importance.
That the granting Of diploma in tina
grade below the High School should
prove a stimulus, melting the pupils
to study and directly resulting ia a
larger number of promotions to the
High School is only natural.
Before the day of grammar school
commencement and the granting of di-
plomas in that grade it was rars in
decd that the promotions to the High
School numbered forty five; they were
oftener below forty. Last year and the
year previous there was an increase.
This year tile combined number of
grammar school graduates is fifty-six.
The commencement program for each
of the grammar schools was printed in
advance in the columns of this paper.
The commencement in each of tho
wards yesterday proved to be all that
was anticipated. No one could fail to
be impressed not only with the dignity
and earnestness of the pupils who are
now ready to cross the threshold into
the High School. but also with the
thoroughDess shown and the evidence
of good work on tho part of the teach
ers.
That the full Significance of the gram
mar school commencement is fully ar-
preciated in each of tho wards was
we'll attested by the large turn out of
patrons AMI others. At each place the
, grammar school room was crowded.
The rooms we're most beautifully dec
Grated with evergre, rs, flowers, flags.
&c. The girl graduates were dressed
! in white and tho event in most re-
speoti WAS counterpart of High school
commencement. The diplomas in each
instance were presented by Borough
Superintendent Gordy. who by using
a horse and buggy was able to reach
the different wards as scheduled on
the programs. His appearance incress-
ed the interest very much and at each
ward as he handed out the much oovet.
ed diplomas lie made few appropriate
remarks, praising the graduates for
their diligence. congrstulating them
on their SUCCESS and welcoming them
to the High School.
The grammar school graduates are
as follows:
First Ward. Ethel Harrington. Isa-
bel Schoch. Orville Meyer. Margaret
Sidler. Margaret Russell. Anna Reif-
suyder, Lorena Gulick. Ethel Shan
non, Harry Latimere, Marie Roney,
Agnes Smith. Edward Price, Bertha
Cloud, Leah Daniel. Elsie Gulick.
Beaver Hollabaugh, Mary Gramm.
Second Ward Margaret Kimbel,
Edwin Jenkins, Bertha Mottern, Mar
ion Camp, Albert Swank, Lois WILL
Jams, Percy Hallman. Mae Brent James
Paugh. Edith Mitchell, Raymond Jones
I Alice McOloughan. Susie Bassett.
! Third Ward-Alice Dreifuss, Edward
johnson, Lillian Foster. Frank irwin,
Ethel Woods. Frank Cooper, Abbie
Mckinney, Harry Fish, Clara Fischer.
Alice West, John Mitchell, Helen Gear
hart, Frank Grove, Roy Cooper.
Fourth Ward.-Edns Dyer, Edna
! Gearhart, Lillian Nevius, Elizabeth
Hoffman, Esther Magill, Clarence
Cromwell, Walter Welliver. Samuel
Douglass. Garfield Cook. Joe Udelhof-
fen, William Breitenbaeh. Theodore
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