The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
SCHOOL IS CLOSED
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ARE
 EE HELD.
Four Medals Are Awarded And Diploma Presented to Sole Graduate, Mss Cecile Morgan Chiffon,
 During the Morning.

q 4 E r The annual commencement exercises of Starke's Montgomery School for Girls were held at the school building yesterday morning at 9:15 o'clock.
 The exercises, which consisted of the distributing of the certificates, the awarding of medals in the three de- partments and the bestowing of a diploma on the graduate of the school for this year, were witnessed by many visitors and parents of the pupils of the school
 The exercises wer opened with the distribution of the certificates of dis tinction for the two examinations which were held during the year. It is necessary to make a mark of 75 per cent on an examination to pass with distinction. Some of the little ones in the primary department made distinction on every study they had ! during the year. Miss Cecile Chiffon who graduated this year, obtained eighteen distinctions out of twenty ex- aminations since the close of school last year.
 The names of those on the honor roll were read. To be on the honor roll, a pupil must have made 752 out of a possible 800, daily attendance count ing as 200, examinations 100, class standing 300. punctuality 100. and de- pertinent, 100. making the total of 800.
 Miss Dorothy Thigpen made the highest snark In the school, winning the medal in the primary department by mark of 795.7S out of possible 500.
 The snames of those making the honor roll in each of the three depart ments are:
 College preparatory-Cecil Chiffon 7S2.06; Amelie Hill 77s.06; Mabel Chil- ton, 7749S; Elizabeth Coleman, 774:33; Margaret Coleman, 762.44 and Miss Olivia Bogacki. 752.79 ...
 Academic--Minnie Holloway FOLIO; Allen Ray, 770.64; Lucy Durr. 764.00; Ophelia McLemore. 761.1S: Mary c Tyson, 75S.5S; Virginia Tyson, 756.33; and Sara Gaston 756.16.
 Primary-Dorothy Thigpen 795.7S and Adeline Douglass, 769.29.
 The standings of the contestants for the English medal founded by Mrs. c. A. Thigpen, were announced by the principal. MT. Starke. The years work, examinations. and composition writ ten on some subject not known in ad- vance, and written without books or references of any kind, were all talk en into consideration in finding the standings of the contestants
 Miss Elizabeth Coleman won the medal with a mark of 93.95 per cent. Miss Margaret Coleman and Miss Flor euC0 NUT WoOu WClo tiC hCAt hi5 AC0e contestants. There were ten contes- tants in all. The merits of the com positions were judged by Dr. R. M. Smith.
 Rev. E. E. Cobbs awarded the medals to the four winners, Miss Cecile Chil- ton in the College preparatory, Miss Minnie Holloway in the Academic. Miss Dorothy Thigpen in the primary and the English medal to Miss Elizabeth Coleman. 4 ,% +lt -'tal
 The last event on the program was the bestowal of the diploma of gradu- ation on Miss Cecile Morgan Chiffon Miss Chiffon Is the first young lady to graduate from the school She won her diploma by her exceptional work and merit, completing in several in- stances two years work in one. MT. Starke. in bestowing the diploma, said he felt hardly able to do justice in words to the splendid work of Miss Chiffon He thanked her for setting such high standard to the school.