The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-11
GRADUATED TODAY
WAS LARGE CLASS
High School Seniors RecsiYed
Their Diplomas fl6m
Prof. knouff !
THREE HONOR s70oeNTS
THREE HONOR s700eNfs
MADE THE HIGHEST GRADE
STATE SUPERINTENDENT Alley
WAS SPEAKER,

The program for the thirty-ninth
annual high school graduation today
was featured by the address of DR..
Robert ]. Alley, state superintendent
of instruction, and formerly prominent
as an educator at Indiana University,
the subject of which was, The Weight
of Man" Also musical numbers by
the high school orchestra and by Miss
Ruth Peltz and Miss Lucille Townsend.
two members of the graduating class.
There was a large sized audience, in
cluding parents and friends of the
class.
The stage of the large auditorium
was beautifully decorated with palms
and a vase Of cut flowers, placed on
a table to one side Of the stage. For
the background large American flags,
draped over the windows and wall
were used. Seated on the stage, the
thirty girls, dressed in white, and the
eighteen boys, made the effect very
beautiful.
The Honor Students.
The souvenir program leaflet distrf-
buted among the audience, with the
program, contained the class roll and
the announcement of the scholarship
honors. These honors were given to
Miss Elizabeth Hunt Morris, with a
grade OF 95 1914; Edna A. Marlatt
with grade Of 95 24-41: and Harriet
A. McMullen with grade of 90 17-41.
These grades represent the work done
by the students during their four years
at the high school, in acquiring the
required "a credits necessary to receive
a diploma. Others of the class made
excellent grades also, but space pre-
vents listing the entire number, and
the grades received by each individual.
Suffice to say that the members of the
faculty regard the class, as a whole,
as one of the brightest and one which
adapted itself to the conditions of the
school the best that ever graduated
from the institution.
The time worn custom of the pupils
receiving the best grades delivering
the saluatory and the valedictory ad-
dresses was discontinued this year.
Prof. C. W. Knouff is not in harmony
with such custom. believing that it
too often happens that the best stu
dents are usually the poorest speakers.
consratulates Class.
After a short talk in which he con-
graduated the class for its able work
during the four years, and especially
the last. with which he is only famil-
lar, wishing the class the best of sue
cess and admonishing them to strive
for the better things of life, as consid-
cred by DR.. Alley. Prof. Knouff present
ed the diplomas to the class. All the
members, with the exception of Bcr-
nard Henry Knollenberg, responded
when their names were called. Mr..
Knollenberg could not be present ow-
ing to illness. Those who received
diplomas are:
Charlotte Ruby Bayer, Ralph Waldo
Brown. William James Chapman, Julia
Cook, Jessie F. Crane, Vera Elizabeth
Crome. Arthur Allen Curme, Seth
Crawford Dingley. Blaine Edwards, Ma
ry Katherine Fisher, Rosa Alice Gates,
George Gray. Elmer Johnston Grosven-
or, Ada c.. Heath, Russell Alvin Heit-
brink, Mary Elizabeth Highley, Donald
Bond Johnston, Elaine Allen Jones,
Agnes Rifner Kelly. Paul Retiring,
Alice Vance Laning. Charles George
Maier, Edna A. Marlatt. Francis NJ.
McMullen, Harriet Ann McMullen,
Maud Iris Miller Elizabeth Hunt Nor
ris, Raymond Thompson Myrick. Oliv-
er Sumner Overman, Ruth Elizabeth
Peltz, Erma Ramona Pickering. Ray
mond E. Richards, Josephine W. Rich
ardson, Norma Mary Runge. Marguer-
ite Rush. Abby Conway Schaefer, Ruby
Helena Schneider. Martha Marguerite
Scott, Gertrude Dorothy Smith, Carl
Wilbur Sudhoff. Eric Clarence Sudhof,
Robert Starr Thornburgh, Lucille G.
Townsend, Hubert l. Wann. Edith
Olive Watson. William Arthur Wfssler.
Crystal A. Wright.
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