The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
But ONE THIS TINE
Shawnee Graduates Limited in
College Scholarships.
Miss Josephine McNeaI Leads
All the Rest.
HAS AVERAGE OF 92.5.
VIII Get Only College Favor
Offered.
Others With High Grades Given
Lesser Ones.
HAS AVERAGE OF 92.5.

OF the IS pupils who viii receive
diplomas as graduates Of the Shawnee
county district schools, Miss Josephine
Mcneil. Of the AvondaIe school. south
Of Topeka, leads all the rest with a gen
eral average OF s2-5. Miss Mcneil, in
passing the best examination and Sc
curing the highest grade, wins the col
lege scholarship and can choose her
scholarship in any of the denomination
al colleges in Kansas
County Superintendent Carter has II
scholarships to award and the sixteen
ranking graduates, as decided upon. viii
have a chance to choose which scholar
ship they viii take in the order of their
Standing, Miss Mcneil having the first
cholce- The 16 graduates receiving the
highest grades, and their standing, are
as follows in order OF their rank.
Josephine Mcneil, So; Roy HOtze,
So-S5 IDA ZlckaIoOse, $50. Lizzie Howell.
s8l' Onetha Roy, SIS. Rena Eddy, S7-3;
Pearl Van Nice. S7-3: Mary WELDON. 81;
Shirley Parr, S6-9s Harry BenOy, S6.8;
Edith Reser, So; Mabel Stewart, S6.4;
Anna Cooper, S6-4; Luella Mason, S6.2;
Dudley Pratt, jr-, S6-1; Mabel Spencer
Miss Mcneil is particularly fortu-
nate IN heading the list OF graduates
this year as she viii be the only one
who VIII receive college scholar
ship. Heretofore half a dozen Kansas
colleges have offered scholarships for
Shawnee county graduates but this
year but one graduate viii receive a
college scholarship as the Kansas col
leges have formed (. combine
The II Kansas UNCONVENTIONAL col
leges not long ago formed a combine
and decided that the II together
should offer one scholarship in each
county and that the graduate winning
the scholarship shall choose which one
Of the colleges he or she viii attend.
Miss Mcneil will have the choice of
Washburn college, of Topeka; the
Southwest Kansas college, at Winfield;
Baker university, at Baldwin; Bethany
college, at Lindsborg; Campbell uni
versity. at H0ItOn; the College Of En-
pOria; Cooper Memorial college at
Sterling; Ottawa university: FAIR
mount college, Wichita; Friends col
Iege, Wichita; Kansas City university.
Kansas Wesleyan, at Salina; McPher-
son college or Midland college, at
AtchisOn- President P O. Bonebrake
of Campbell university. at HoIton is
secretary of the college association
The other scholarships to Shawnee
county graduates are 10 from the
George Z. Dougherty shorthand
school. three from the Topeka Bust
ness college and three from Miss
Canan's Standard Shorthand school
some time in June graduating exer-
schools viii be held at the High
school in Topeka. Superintendent
Carter has been very busy as over
three hundred pupils in all took ex-
aminauOns. Only about IS of this
number took the full examination. the
others taking what is known as the
half term examination, but the ax-
animation Of all these papers has been
q big task.
The s. graduates from the country
schools Of Shawnee county are as fol-
lows
Ethelyn Andrews. Rossville.
Harry Benoy. Elmont-
Ollie Beal, Valencia
Alma Becker, Merideu.
AIDE Bushor. ROssvilIe.
Edith Burns. RossviIle.
Frank Carr, RossvilIe.
Annie Cooper. Av0ndaIe-
Minnie Clark, South FairvieW.
CaIIie Carroll Wakarusa
Bertha Chinn. Wakarusa-
ora DeMOss, KaW Valley.
Harry Eddy. Wanamaker.
Rena Eddy. Wanama ker.
Elsie Elliott, Valencia
Iuez Fisk. District No. So
Thad- Grimes. South Pleasant Valley
Fred Hook, ROssville-
Agnes Howard, RossviIle-
Mabel Harmon, Dover
Clara Herman Sea brook.
Lizzie Howell, Silver Lake
Lavauche Hardick. District No. 13
Roy HOtze. Richland
Ida Bennett. Kaw Valley.
Flora Kraemer. Sutherin
Bessie KreiDe. Tecunseh
Gertrude Kreipe, Tecumseh.