The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-14
CREDIT TO TEACHERS
Grammar School and Junior High School
In Excellent Shape-A Commence
ment to be Long Remembered

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The closing exercises commenced
Friday evening, April 3Oth, when the
eighth and ninth grades entertained the
graduating class in the Improvement
Club hall, the evening being spent in
various amusements, aud closing with
splendid spread of refreshments.
This was followed by the Baccalau-
rate sermon by Archdeacon r. H. John
stone, in the Improvement Club hall,
Sunday morning, May End, notice of
which was given in our last issue.
The main exercises were contained
in the programs of last Friday after
noon and evening, and Monday evening
when the curtain dropped on the final
act of the public school for the term
of 19O8-9.
The program of Friday Afternoon
was a. follows:
Chorus, Florida" ....,...,..........., School
Recitation Kittens and Babies James Hopkins
Recitation, Snakes" .......,......F Frank Beviile
Chorus. I Double, Double Dare You" Third Grade
s ss W"s Hma James s Md G ssf hsSs
Chorus. my Dixie Land ,,..' Fifth Grade
Recitation. Little Alexis Bear Story Lya Pyles
Recitation s Bon. Bon. Buddy. Alfred summern
Good Night Drill .......... Second Grade, Girls
Music .....,............,...... School Orchestra
Each and every number was most
excellently rendered, but especial
mention should be made of "Motion
Song" by primary boys; recitation,
"Kittens and Babies by Master James
Hopkins; Color Drill" by sixth grade;
chorus, II Double Double Dare YOu''
by third grade, in which little Miss
Thelma Feigel, the smallest in the
class, acted as leader; the reci-
tation, 1.-The Quarrel"by Mildred Jack
son; song, "Red Wing" by Alma,
in Indian costume, with bows, arrows
and tomahawks, acted and sang their
song in a splendid manner; daisy
Drill' by primary girls; chorus, MY
Dixie Land by Fifth grade; and "Bon
Bon Buddy by Alfred Summerlin, in
negro costume.
The Friday evening program was de-
voted to the graduates of the Grammar
School and the students of the Junior
High School After an opening num-
Der by the school orchestra, Judge A.
d. Penney addressed the graduates in
very able talk, and took occasion to
also warn the people of Fort Pierce
that unless every effort was put for
ward to raise the public school to
Senior High School, by installing the
eleventh and twelfth grades, the ten
graduates of the JUROR High School
must seek further education elsewhere
or abandon hope of further advance
ment.
Mr.. Penney then presented the diplo-
mas for the Junior High School and
the Grammar school, and presented the
medals and prizes awarded, as follows:
Graduates of the Junior High School:
Ethelyn Cramer, Johnnie Van Dit
mar, Jessie Moore, Ethel Tyler, Ruth
Alderman, Laura Penney, Berta OAR
dis, Rodman Backus, Howard Horton
and Malcolm Moore.
Graduates of the Grammar School:
Pearl Futz, Annie Brown, Theda
Horton, Myrtle Edwards, Florence
Stetson, Lislie Tyre, ois Davis, June
Summerlin, Nan Alderman, Grace An
drews, Blanch Dittmar, Ray Saunders,
Clayton Almond, John Andrews, Har-
Olu LOTu anu TTltcndru mart.
Award Of Medals TRIBUNE medals
for essays, first Will Hunter second,
Malcolm Moore. P. P. Cobb declam-
alton medals won by Jessie Moore and
Phillips Platts. Honorable mention
Theda Horton and Lille Trowell.
Award of Prizes-Johnnie Van Dit
mar, Phillips Platts, Jamie Cowan,
Pearl Swain, Jewell Swain, Lowell Hill
George Kimball, Blanche Dittmar,
Myrtle Edwards, Pearl Fultz, Margaret
Tyler, Ruby Swain, Anna Laura Sim
mons, Hazel Underwood, Alfred Sum-
merlin, Louis Drawdy, Lydia Wilson,
Sossie Register, Mabel Wilson, Paul
Moore. These were special prizes off
cred for attendance by the teachers of
the various grades. Phillips Platts re-
ceived special mention, coming from
White every school day during the year.
The balance Of the evenings pro-
gram was devoted to the defamation
contest for the gold medals offered by
Mr.. P. P. Cobb, the conditions being
that one medal should be contested for
by the girls and ore by the boys. The
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