The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-18
MANY TAKE PART.
Two Hundred Children Participate in
Assumption School Graduation.

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The closing exercises of the Assump-
ton school took place last night at
the Grand before a good audience COM
posed, for the most part, of friends and
relatives of the geo children who took
part in the performance. The program
was varied one including, songs, drills,
recitations, and a little operetta IN
three acts. The whole affair reflect
ed much credit upon the Sisters of the
school who so patiently drilled the
children, and the participants them
selves, who seemed to enter into the
spirit of the occasion. lacking COM
pletely the air of timidity which is
usually evinced in the case of youth
full performers.
The first number on the program
was a selection by the orchestra COM
posed of 1nandolins and violins. This
was followed by a song and dance,
THE Virginia 'Ristocrats." given by 90
tots in the lower grades, who were ap-
propriately dressed in colonial style:
They went through the Virginia Reel
with extreme grace and exactness and
were the recipients of a shower of
hearty applause from the audience.
The triumph of the evening was the
little operetta entitled 1.-The Pixies
Triumph" The story portrays rather
a threatening controversy between two
hands of little people, the Pixies and
the Fairies. The delightful realm oc-
cupied by the Fairies was once the
home of the Pixie race, who were BAN
ished from their haunts by a cruel
witch. Before her death the old witch
makes known to the Pixie king OF his
right to hold the title to fairy land
The Pixies at first decide to wage war
against the Fairy queen and her fol-
levers, but finally decide to conquer
the country by strategy. This was done
and the two races of little people agree
To dwell together in harmony. Irene
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Fairies. with her two associates,
Georgiana Metzger, and Elizabeth Nc
Auiffe, made a pretty and effective trio
1t was an effort we'll done, and each
performer is deserving OF much creolt:
Father r. NJ. Hayden, the priest or
the parish, assisted by Father HOFFMAN,
awarded medals to the honor pupils OF
the different classes, and diplomas 70
the graduates. Father Hayden made
a. few brief closing remarks. He said:
..Durine the past eight years since
these boys and girls have been under
our tutorage it has been our aim to
make boyhood ana girlhood a happy
neriod of life for them. and to leave
with them better. higher, and nobler
impression of life to fit them for the
higher schools of education which they
will enter. If we have succeeded In
doing this then our efforts have not
beeu in vain and the school for which
we are laboring has been a success.
The valedictory address was given by
Willis Monaghan. Although he is but
L years of age. his Grafton would have
done credit to one OF more mature
years. The enthusiasm of the audience
was sufficient proof that he had made
a decided hit
Those who received medals We're:
John Canon, Sth grade; Margaret
Farrell, 7th grade; Irene McKernan,
9Th grade; Katheryn Rossiter. 5th
grade; Emmett Dougherty, 4th grade;
Elizabeth Quaney, Bird grade; Marie
Monaghan, End grade; and Margaret
Wise, LIST grade. A special prize was
awarded to Isabel Cannon.
The graduates were:
Henry Sullivan, Walter Monaghan,
John Cannon, William Monaghan,
John Bauerlien, Joseph Zercher, John
Kelly, William Metty, James, McDon-
aid, Mary Mooney, Margaret Dolan,
Catherine McAuliffe, Alma Hamaker,
LYDIA FelI<ner. Louise Marshall, Flor
ence McKernan, Mabel Farrell, Flor
Stephens, Mary Zercher, Helen
Bradshaw, Bessie Cooper, Helen Sell
err, Mabel Griley, Mary walker, Wini-
fred Hartley and Mary ~Leahy-
The following are those who took
part in the closing exercises: Margar-
ct Farrell, Gail Mueller, Mary Fitz-
gerald, Barbara Fieger, Mary Obyrne,
Bessie Dyer, Louise Cannon, Charles
Fitzgibbons. Eugene Pryor, Maynard
Walker, David Wise, John Higgins,
James Lannon. Irene McKernan, Isa-
bel Cannon, Marguerite Eyer, Maud
Butler. Dorothy Lee, Teresa Foy,
Josephine Rafferty,, Marie Rafferty,,
Marie McGivern, Marguerite Hoar,
Mary Stevens, Bernadette Huycke,
Gertrude Lannan, Lillian Leaf, Annie
Finn, Margaret Finn, Georgiana
Metzger, Leo Brennan, John Higgins,
Thomas McDade, Francis Cronon,
John Zurcher, Joseph Lannan, Will
liam Cushing, Leo Wise, Mary Miller,
Katherine Rossiter. Nellie FItzgib-
bons. Katherine Dolan, Elizabeth Nc
Auliffe, Laura McGivern, Loretta Me-
Givern, Fay Mulvihill, Geneveve Schu-
Ter. Hannah Kelly, Marie Cooper,
John Gamlowski, Paul Gamlowski,
Michael Birmingham, Ralph Spurier,
James McGinnis, Margaret Birming-
ham, Ruth Coughlin, Monica Foley
Elizabeth Quaney, Alice Sullivan, Ell
la Woods, Jane Lannan, Rose Mean
drews, Mary McAndrews, Monica Nc
Donald, -EIva Couglin. Mary Garden
Donald, Elva Coughlin, Mary Garden
Lee, Margaret Corners, Arthur Sea-
hill, John Dimes, James Dimes, EN-