The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-05-30
Penn COMMENCEMENT
Forty-two Students Will Complete
Course of Study

Only two weeks and the Commence
ment exercises of Penn College win
be In full sway. Forty-four students
in the college and preparatory depart
ments. While the class is not the
their work in their respective depart
ments. While are class is net the
largest that has ever been sent out by
the institution, yet it is just twice the
size of the class of '03 and two larger
than that of 'O4 Last year the num-
Der was two larger than the present
one and 1906 was the banner year of
the college, when a class of thirty-one
was graduated from the college de-
partment alone. The attendance has
been gradually increasing throughout
the history of the school, but as is al
ways the case, the increase comes by
spurts. i
Among the speakers during the
week of commencement will be two
! prominent members of the alumni, A.
| F, Styles and DR.. r. H. Hartley. The
| former is classmate of Miss Mary
Eda Haskell and Irving c. Johnson
| of the class of '92 and now principal
of the New Providence Academy, at
| New Providence, Iowa. He will deliv-
err the address to the graduating class
of the Academy on the afternoon of
June 10.
DR.. Reuben Haines Hartley, now
pastor of the Westminster Presbyter-
ian church at Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan, graduated from the college in
1888 and has three classmates living
in this city-Dr. Samuel w. Clark,
and his sister, Miss Mamie E. Clark,
and l.. T. Shangle. Dr. Hartley, af-
ter completing the college course Sc
cured the degree of A. NJ. from Penn
| college and later that of ID. D. from
Wabash college and has held several
prominent pastorates in the country.
| His address to the Penn graduating
class on the morning of June II will
be looked forward to by many old &C.
quaintances.
The program tor the Commence
ment week is as follows:
June G, 500 p. m. Exhibition of
the Euphemian Literary Society.
June Z, 500 p. m. Prize Oratorical
Contest.
June s, 500 p. m. Exhibition of
the Argonaut Literary Society.
June 3, 400 p. m. Baccalaureate
Address by President A. Rosenberger.
June 10, $500 p. m. Address to the
graduating class of the Academy by
Principal A. F. Styles, class of '92,
| New Providence.
June 10, 500 D. m. Concert by the
Department of Music.
June IL, 300 p. M Alumni Grafton
by Charles S. White, class 'SS.
June IL, 1000 a. m. Commence
ment address, by DR.. Reuben Hartley,
Of Grand Rapids Mich, and confer
ring of degrees.
The members of the Academy gradu-
ating class are: Jennett Bailey, Jen-
ME Faye Briney, Lacey; Russell Bruff.
Atlantic; ]. Arthur Cartrite, Iowa
Falls; Abbie Beede Clayton; Ralph
Glen, Marshalltown; Earl Dusenberry
Beacon; Olive Graham, Lacey; Edith
| Hammond, lie Grand; Pearl HORNE;
Marie Kalbach, Grace Magee, Cora
Marley; Charles NJ. Maxwell, Eliza
beth Maxwell Ralph Meredith Rea
Ross, S. G. Rowe, Hazel Shafer, Eula-
liza Stanton. Anna Thomas, Beacon; G..
Gertrude Woody, Cedar; Floyd Ear
ing.
The College Glass consists of:
Classical Coure.
| Alice Colman, Fall River, Mass;
Gale Engstrom; NJ. Eunlce Lewis,
Newberg, Ore.
| Philosophical Course.
| Carl Painter, Keota; Lucille G. Rich.
ards, Richland; Coda Ruan, Beacon;
Fay Towns.
| Scientific Course.
Flora Canaday. Vermillion Grove,
ILL.,; Harry w. Coffin; Stephen ID.
Hoekett. Earlham; Austin Lewis;
Walter Lewis; Stacy ]. N. McCracken.
Richland; Hazel Painter, Spencer;
John G. Ryan. Peoria; Geo. r. Smith,
Ridgefarm, H.; Harry j. Sopher. Mus.
catine; Arthur c. Spurgln and H. Ross
y Wood New providance