The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-29
LARGEST CLASS EVER Gradual.
ED FROM CITY SCHOOLS.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL CLASS '00
Opera House Was Decorated for the
Occasion and Was Filled WIZ
Mothers, Fathers and Friends
OF the Graduates.


standing room was at par, the occa-
sion being TO witness the graduating
exercises OF the pupils in the gram
mar school Ardmore schools are In
nourishing condition and toe Na
year has marked one of the most pros
porous terms since the establishment
of the city schools. The patron and
trustee days of last week at which
time the fathers, mothers, relatives
and friends were urgently requested
to visit the schools was a demonstra-
tion of the splendid school system We
are now under and awakened me-
interest in the hearts of the parent.
The class last evening was the
largest in the history of the schools
that has graduated from this grade,
and if their advancement in the tu-
ture is as rapid as in the past ere
long they will have reached the top
most round.
The opera house was in gala attire
and high school colors, red and white,
quite in evidence and were fostoonod
about the stage and yards OF bunting
draped from pillar to pillar. The
senior graduates were seated in the
lower box to the left of the stage
which was profusely hung in banners
and flags. To the right were the
/ juniors in an upper box which was
dressed in their class colors, laven-
/ der and white with "O9' in silver
above. and to the occupants of the
boxes 1t was quite a dressy occasion
When DR.. j. NJ. Gross had invoked
| divine blessing on the vast assem-
blage, a program was rendered, the
Third and Fourth wards giving lIia-
watha in drama. This poem being
the nearest approach to an American
epic yet written and is one of Henry
W. Longfellow's masterpieces, should
the writer have Witnessed the play
last evening he would have doubtless
claimed them as his Original char
actcrs so real We're they in their a,-
signed parts. The Indian daGcc made
one think of the early da.c of the
new state. The costuming was per
feet and the stage setting IL every
scene was realistic
The arrow drill by the glrl, was \
much praised feature of the evening
as was the smoking of n, pipe OK
peace, also the tableaux.
Hawatha's wooing, the wedding
feast the famine, the death OF Mime
haha, Hiawatha's farewell To his peo-
PIE and the transtorma lon scenes
were splendIdly portrayed.
Julian Murphy took the par. of Fia.
watha and his stage ability qudo sur
/ prised his friends. He was especially
fine in the famine scene and has a
good voice.
Too much can not be said o. NJ S.
Sallie Joe Duston as Minnehaha. She
was charming Indian maiden such
as would captivate the heart OF any
man. Miss Jewel Wheeler as Noko
mis- was fine representative and be
ing a brunette Of marked beauty made
typical Indian character.
Part two b. the class pupils Of the
First and Second wards was an ope
retta, while Mortals sleep" and
was equally as entertaining as Hia
watha. There we're FIVE scenes,
early dawn dance, in which a mum
ber of dainty little fairies aud fuun!
brownies took part; sihool children
lose theier way in Fairi land. fairies
and school children meet. Rober
Gardenhire played the part Of Prime,
and who could have made bette
one? He was dignity and statellnes
itself and with a voice like his hJy
could the fairies help kneellrg at hi
shrine? In scene four Moth Coos
was played by Miss Olive Thompson
Santa Claus by Master Willie Young
Bo-Peep Miss Allie Elicit; Little
Boy Blue, Master G. l.. Hall; Littl
Star, Miss Lorena Cruca; Haryes
& ma Bowman; Dawn, Miss Pearl Hutch
Miss Eaie Lane; Rainbow. Nj E,
ins; North Wind, Master Lawrenc
, Tarver,
The dances were specially good,
and the breezes were represent d
Misses Myrtle Stlckley. Dee Lynn
Ruby Dyer, Janet Answorth, Matt
Cheney and Edith Williams.
J The high school orchestra furl's
ed splendid music throughout tn
: evening.
At the close OF the program Supe
intendent Eyans appropriately a.