The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-29
HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES
Have the Centre Of the Stage
at the Maple Ave. School
Friday Morning.
HONOR ROLL FOR ATTENDANCE

Crowded to the doors, filled with
relatives and friends of the graduates,
was the chapel Of the Maple avenue
school building Friday morning at the
commencement exercises of the Nor
ristown high school. Miss Clara
e. Brown, vice principal, presided
over the exercises which were
opened by sprayer by the Rev
William Russell Bennett. Inc
several Z essays read showed deep
thought upon the part of the writers
and we're able and interesting papers
They included essays by Miss Helen
Muir on The Developement of Sten-
ography,a read by Benjamin Blanch-
ard /: Miss Susie Beers on German
Legends - Miss Minnie Gillespie
writing on Modern Caricatures; =
Miss Genevieve Jones on !" The Pas
sion Play" read by Miss Margaret
Buckle and Miss Agnes Leonard on
"a Trio Of Scotch Writers"
The graduates, the board OF educa-
tion and County Superintendent HUI
sart occupied seats upon the stage.
Miss Helen Muir and Miss Margaret
O'Brien were at the piano.
TheS music was of the usual hign
order and included a chorus from
Mendelssohn's "Athalie," Heaven
and thesEarth Display; Henry Par
ker,s q Who Knows What the Bells
Say ~ Paul Rodney's 1.-The Clang Of
the Forge"
Thomas Facer's Rest Thee My
Little One !" and "The Heavens are
Telling chorus from Haydn's Crea
tion. The music was under the direc.
tion of Professor Edward M. Young.
Diplomas were presented by DR.
Pierson to the following graduates =
College Preparatory Minnie I GILES
pie, Agnes Leonard, Helen S. Muir
Margaret O'Brien, S. Alice Prost anc
Frances o. Bockoven; Commercial
Lillian A. Ball, Susie e. Beers, Ada
w. Eccles, Emma 9. Sweeney, Benja
min T. Blanchard and Robert FL. Hip
son General Margaret Buckle, Har
old J. Blackford, M. Genevieve Jones
Catherine T. Murphy, Martha Z. Cara
brant, Samuel M. Benson, Albert II
Holland and Sidney A. Sheerin.
The honor list, of those pupils who
have not been absent nor tardy was
read by Albert Holland and was as fol
lows:- Nine years. EDNA Sheerin; Eight
years Beatrice Lippman Seven years
Ruth Craig, George Ensminger anc
Violet Smith; Five years Jennie
Bockoven, Viva Gordon, Clarence Rotf
Norman Tomlinson and John Yawger
-Four years Ethel Bockoven, Mildred
Brown, Joseph Murray and Emma
Sweeney Three years--Mary Brown
Edsall Brown, Gilbert Holloway, Anna
Jorgenson, Ira Lindsey, Harry Mitch
ell and Grace Stone Two years-Rob
ert Damitz, John Elliott, Madeline
Foley, Louisa Jones, Harold johnson
Florence LeFurge, Grace Leprohon
Lester Meeker, Stanley Rogers, Flor
ence Steele, Harriet Sturgis and AL
pheus Yawger.
One year-Walter Anderson, Arthur
Baker, Ruth Barkman Ruth Bleeker
Leslie Bockoven, Margaret Buckle
Lillian Burnett, Charles Butera, Mel
son Butera, Gertrude Clarke, Marguer
lite Cobbett, Francis Cregar, Francis
Cullen, John Denman, Helen Dickson
Emily Eccles, Foster Ensminger, Fred
erick Eccles, Almeda Fioroni, Basi
Floyd, Gertrude Green, James Grove
Oscar Hayes, Ruth Hipson, Bessie
Hirschman, Arthur Howard, Susan
Howard, Cyril Jackson, Marion Jack
son. Joseph Jones, Arthur Jorgensen
Clarence Lanterman, Carlton Mer
chant. Frank Merchant, Russell
Moodey, Harold Pierson, Reginald
Rogers. Hyacinth Rogers, Robert
Sheerin, Edward Steele, GeneVieYe
Stilwell, Gertrude Stilwell, Zella Stur-
gis, Anna Taylor, Enid. Taylor, Clara
Trowbridge, Thomas Urmy, Martha
Voigt, Martin Weise and Norman
Zeek.
In behalf of the class Of 1909 Robert
III. Hipson presented the school with
a handsome framed photograph Of the
late superintendent Of schools, viii
liam L. r. Haven, and 1T was formally
received by DR.. PierSon.
Robert Ii. Hipson is president OF
the class of 1909; Miss Helen Muir,
vice president; Miss Minnie t. Giles
pie, secretary Francis 0. Buckle,
treasurer. The class motto Is Labor
Omnia vincent"
Frank Buckle will enter Stevens
and Albert Holland the Columbia
Medical school in the fall.
Bar Association Favor amendments.
At a meeting Of the Morris County
Bar association held in the court house