Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-23

Frayer-Rev. Dr. Lewel1yn Pratt. Music: Selections from I'll Trovatore, '
 Verdi .Musica, Club. directed by Eugene
 Waliner.
 Essay: The Life of Father Damien, 1 Sarah Lifschitz. Essay: The Arts and Crafts Move
 Ruth Antoinette Hamilton. Essay: An Incident of the Arena,
 Mildred Marie Fillmore Essay: Robin Hood and His Merry Men,
 Dorothy Louise Jones. Music; Hahanera ........... Monteros Music: Jota ............G .Gimenez
 Musical Club.
 Essay: The Life and Work of Jacob
 A Riis.
 Gladys Estelle Latimer. F. say: The Youth of Mary Queen of
 Scots,
 Gladys Sinclair Walker. Valedictory Address.
 | Lima Grierson.
 Each essay was of much interest, being we'll written and finely given, and to each of the readers much ap- plause was accorded. The numbers by | the Musical club were likewise given with the characteristic skill of the or | ganization and won much applause. | The valedictorian's address was one of much merit and she was loudly ap- | plauded.
 Address by the Principal.
 The class was then addressed by Principal H. A. Tirrell as follows: It is my pleasant duty in presenting you with your diplomas to remind you briefly of the significance of the grad uation day.
 I wish to emphasize especially rhe idea of your responsibility. You are among the comparatively few people that have had a secondary school edu- cation. Through the sacrifices of par ents and friends you have been en- abled to spend four years in self im- provement. Unless this means that you will be better citizens, more ear- nest, more intelligent. more useful in this world, then the time might better have been spent elsewhere. But if you have taken what you might from these years life will mean more to you than it otherwise would. You will carry with you higher ideals of service, a desire to satisfy your own con- sciences as well as to please other peo- pie, an honorable ambition to make your lives tell for the right, whatever may be your occupation.
 Henceforth you are graduates of this school, and we look to you to jus- tify the public approval that the acad- emy now bestows upon you.
 Principal Tirrell presented to the class the diplomas, after which Presi- dent William L. Leavenworth of the class of 1909 presented as the class gift the sum of $50, to be used for an unnamed purpose in the new Academy building at the discretion of the board. Dr. Lewellyn Pratt accepted the gift in well chosen words.
 Prizes and Medals Awarded.
 Principal Tirrell announced the prizes and medals awarded in com petition as follows at 5.45 o'clock:
 Williams prize, $15, for bookkeeping, Katherine J. Conant; honorable men tion Helen Eadie. Williams letter writing prize, $15. Mary R. Gibbs; hon. orable mention. Rachel Thayer. Will llams Reading prize, S15, Mary R. Gibbs; honorable mention, Agnes E. Armstrong, Helen E. Coughlin.
 Perkins bronze medal in Latin, Ber- tha Greenberger; Perkins French medal, Miss Ruth Hamilton; honorable mention, Miss Ruth L. Potter; Perkins Greek medal, Marion S. Walker: hon. orable mention, Winfred c. Young; Perkins German medal Bertha Green berger; honorable mention, Sarah E. Brewster; Perkins English compost ton medal, Marion $. Walker; Per kins chemistry medal Jennie M. Smith; honorable mention, Mary L. Kingsley; Perkins drawing medal, Miss Ruth Hamilton, with which goes a scholarship in the art school; Perkins mathematics medal, Bertha Gallup; honorable mention, James Timmins; Perkins ancient history medal, Evelyn Lewis; honorable mention, Mary E.. Lippitt; Perkins, Reclamation medal, Louis A. Swatzburg; honorable mem tion, B. E. White, James E. Woods.
 Jeremiah Halsey prize, $20, United able mention, Helen Eadie, Helen p. Murphy; Halsey English history prize, $20 Annie McNamara; honorable men, tion, Edna A. Bentley.
 Class of 1904 prize of $2.50 for spell ing, Emmons E. White.
 Mary E. Evarts prize of $20 in Eng fish, divided between Gladys B. Lat able mention, Lima Grterson.
 Robert Sayles prize of $40 in phys ies, George B. Wilcox; honorable men tion, Louis A. Swatzburg
 William B. Birge prize, s5, in Latin for junior class, Marion B. Stark; al- zebra, Minnie Greenberger; English and history Florence A. Sauer; W. B. Birge S7.50 prize for best historical essays in school, Agnes L. Bellefleur; second ($2.50), Sarah Lifschitz.
 Prizes of s1o and $5 for pupils who have made the greatest improvement in the year, first, Marion S. Walker, second, Robert B. Cross.
 William Allen $5 prize for mechan- ical drawing, Thomas K. Hendrick; honorable mention, Frank A. Wilcox.
 The exercises closed with the singing of the hymn Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds, which was sung at the dedication of the Academy and the benediction by Dr. Lewellyn Pratt.
 The honors went as follows:
 First classical scholar-Gladys Es- teile Latimer%
 First English scholar-Lfna Grierson. Leading scholars in order of rank Clsdys Estelle Latimer, Sarah Eliz- aLeth Brewster Marion Sinclair wnlk- CT Bertha Greenberger, Winfred Charles Young, Mary Agnes Cecilia fierdrick Florence Estelle Wilcox, ECrothy Louise Jones, Helen Eadie end Sarah Lifschitz.
 *Miss Letmer, on account of other studies outside of the Academy, has t'ken a five year course.
 Members of 1909 Class.
 The members of the class follow:
 Classical course - Thomas Gilbert Frcwn, Edmund Latham Douglass. Ed ard Whitehead Jewett, Edward Stan ley Lawler,s HartweH Greene Thomp- { n, Emmons Eaton White, James En- right Woods, Winfred Charles Young,