Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-31
|CLAss DAY EXERCISES
High School Graduates Entertain
Themselves and Friends.
SO CROWD N ASSEMBLY HALL
Merriment the Keynote Of the Even.
ing, Which Closed with THE Bum
myv'IIe Commencement" a Tcaves-
~ Presented by the Students.

one OF the largest crowd; that has
ever fnthered IN the assembly hall OF
he High school buildl,lg last night
attended the Glass Day exercises OF
the High School graduating class of
February. 1908" NTerrlmcnt WITS
the keynote OF the exercises ana the
entertainment that the IL graduate j;
furnished each other and the audience
was ut once interesting a.gl enjoyable.
The long AMI we'll arranged program
was divided into Two parts. the FIRST
lieing aftsr the order OF tho usual
Glass Day program. The second was
II distinct Innovation ana was the moro
ENJOYABLE on that account
Addresses OF welcome.
The class president. Mr.. phillip
Murray, opened the exercises with n
short address Of welcome and this was
followed by vocal solo rendered by
Miss Dorothy Garner. Miss Helen
Marian Thornton read the class poem
ana In 1t she succeeded in scoring
every cYa of her fellow classmates
MlsJ Sallie Pickett Corbell rendered
Two ENJOYABLE reciiations. the FIRST le.
ing by James Whltcombe ,Riley. AS
liners See us was the. tonic OF n very
amusing paper by Miss Mary Marrow
Stu<Ht. In the cb,rse of her article
the Young lady, laid bare the faults of
each graduate. The class will wa
read by Miss Florence May Blake and;
following thaE Misses Mary Isabelle
Richardson ana Mable Lee Powell rem.
, uered an Instrumental duet
Tho first part of the program was
brought 10 close with the PR senta-
ttcn Grafton, delivered by AIis; Fannie
blachnan. The young lady present
ed each member Of the class with
some slight gift representative OF the
work the graduates are to follow In
after life. This Grafton proved TO
be one OF the most enjoyable features
of the entertainment,
"Dummyville" commencement.
The second and final part of the
program was n trave:,y on the eladu.
atng exercises at the High school of
Dnmmyvillc. the location OF which was
not made particularly clear to the
audience. This part OF the enter.
tainment was unusually amusing and
the efforts OF the graduates were ,c.
warded with many hearty peals ot
laughter and rounds of applause from
| the audience.
Hon. 'rilerius Gncchus Smith miss
Kate Lewisl opened the graduating
exercises with n short. hut amusing
| address of welcome, while Prudence
| Priscilla Peace (AIiss Flora stuart
delivered brief salutatory address in
which she dwelt upon the ''high class
OF the education" Of herself and fellow
| graduates. Ccrindn Clotllda Summins
Miss Harry StuarU read the class es-
| iny, which de0lt with g,cse OF various
kinds. Madame Allegro ALE ghretti
(Aliss Dor,hy Garner) entertained
the audience with u classical" song.
The annual address was delivered by
Ernest llirlginbothom (AIr. Phillip
Murray. Following an Instrumental
duet by Arnbella Aranimta Atkins
miss S,lllic Corbeln and Eliza Ann
Hepslhah Thompson Miss Helen
flcrntop), Henrietta Charity Hawk.
ms (NIlss Edith Stcne) delivered the
medals" for scholarship. deportmsnt
and attendance to the forUunate gI4,,
dnates. Prof. John Charles L. r.
Donnerbltzen tMr. William Kr!tzerl
| awaded the diplomas In u speech In
which botn Dutch and English were
broken. Following comical sony
by the class, Love Lief Lyon (Mlss
Rlsgins) delivered the valcdo;ory.
The EXERCISES" ended with some re-
marks by the principal, Uriah Ross
Pert (Aiiss Lou Ware)
a class toast, proposed by MIR
Murray and drunk by himself alone;
and the class Yell, ended the enter
tn,ament OF the evening.
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