Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-06-28
NORWICH TOWN
Closing Exercises at West Town
Street Sohool-Meritorious Pupils
General News.

The closing exercises Of the West
Town street school were held on Fri
day afternoon. The fifth and sixth
grades, Miss Mary E. Callahan, teach
er, gave the following programmes:
Song. Glad Vacation, school; Old
Lincoln. Gertrude Avery; A Laugh in
Church, Mary Olsen; Never Had a
Chance, John Council; Market Day,
Henry McNally; The Color Guard,
Fred Steiner; At School and at
Home, Helen Corrigeux; Old Glory,
Harry Karczeski; Know, Charles
Rogers; song, June Is Like a Little
Lassie, school.
Then followed a play A Little Girls
as follows: A Little Girl, Marguer-
lite Shields; Brownie, Walter Kilroy;
Fairy Ruth Woodmansee; Columbus
Arthur Hughes; Hiawatha, Edwin
Vergason; Minnehaha, Ruth Avery;
Japanese Carl, Mabel Corrigeux; Es-
kimo Boy, John Hubbard; Pilgrim
Girl, Mary Mentally; Arab Boy, Leroy
McNally; Paul Jones, Alfred Levan-
der.
Save the Union, Carl Levander; The
Soldier Boy, Peter Smith; song. Sum-
mertime, school; Reunion of the
States, Ralph Chapman; Chief-Scare-
EN- Blue, Leonard Clark; Ghost Fai-
ries, Leroy Leonard; The Captains
Daughter, Mabel Corrigeux; reading,
The Story Of Norwich; Gertrude Av-
cry; Salute to the Flag. school; Vaca-
ton Time. school.
The exercises were held in the pri-
mary room which was decorated with
peonies and roses. The work of the
year was displayed about the room.
On exhibition were little booklets con-
49,
decorated with postcard and a rose.
The best of these essays was by Ger
trude Avery.
Third and Fourth Grades.
In the third and fourth grades,
Mrs. Elizabeth Geary Dainty teacher,
the children spoke and sang as fol-
lows: Song, Glad Vacation, school;
The Birds and the Trees, Gladys
Chapman; Can You Catch Him? Char
lie McNally; The Queens busting,
Hazel Miller; Little Dandehon, Helen
Daley; Ten Years Hence, Dewey
Woodwork; April, Jessie Gembel;' His
Compensation, Joseph Clark; The
First Flag, Myrtle McCord; Hours
and Minutes, John Gembel; song,
June, school
My Neighbor, Agnes Filburn; Like
the Little Minute Men, Hugo Levan-
der; All Yellow, Mary Kelley; The
Maiden and the Bluebird, Helen Az
cry; Who's Afraid OF the Dark, Wal
ter Huges; Who Likes the Rain? Lila
McNally; Butterflies Wings, Johanna
Beswick; What They Say, James Nc
Nally; Which Name, Ruth Chapman:
A Brief Friendship, Nora Murray: A
Reggler Wriggler, Inez Woodward;
Johnny Jump Ups Next Door Neigh
Dor, Stanley Dickinson; song, Vaca-
ton Time. school.
Primary Grade.
The children in the primary room
under the direction of their teacher,
Miss M. A. Galligan. gave this pro-
gramme: Mixed Order, Thomas
McGarritv: Her Answer, Irene Wood
worth; Modest Tommy, James Daley;
When, Lila Chapman: A Frown A
Smile, Alice Rogers; Be Kind John
Fidburn Kind Thoughts, Olive Sax
ton: Peter Pringie, Henry Shahan;
Glad Vacation, school.
Simple Questions, John Mentally;
A Dream, Dennis Aspinwall: How
Johnny Jump UP Turned Into a Pan
sy, Sidney Avery; song. June Is Like
a Little Lassie, school; The Best, Carl
Yetke; Trees, by five children; A Rid
die, Helen Beswick; If, Charlie Daley;
Seven Mice, Percy Miner; song, Va
cation Time, school: Salute to the
Flag, school
In the two lower rooms the chill
dren's recitations were of great mer-
it; the many visitors present exam
ined their years work with interest.
Perfect In Attendance.
Those perfect in attendance in the
senior room of the West Town street
school, William NJ. Dugan, principal,
for the term ending June 25. 1909: Da-
vid Shahan, Edward Snow, Sadie