Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-22
BL OOMFIE
GIVES PROGRAM

ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT BE-
GINS JULY % AND CLOSES
JULY 90.
Bloomfield. July 21.-(Special.)- 1.-The
seth annual commencement exercises
of the Southern Iowa Normal school
will begin Thursday evening, July %.
and last up to and including Thursday
evening July 20. The exercises will
take place at the college chapel. The
bae calaureate sermon will be delived
by Rev X. Alexander, the Presby-
terrain minister, at the Christian church
Sunday evening, July %, at 8 o'clock.
In many respects this has been the
most succe ssful year in the history of
about forty, eight departments being
represented. The program and dates
Of the various classes follow:
Thursday evening. July 20, S O'clock
-Declamatory Contest:
Piano solo-Garnet Taylor.
THE Man Without a Country
Belle Biggs.
"sombre." story-Golda King.
1.-THE Christmas Play."-Eva Lock-
man.
Violin solo-Tris Burgess.
Derrick Sterling."-Nellie Neon
nell.
"The Heart of Old Hickory."-Tilie
Plessner.
Going of the White swan."-Faye
Shook.
Vocal duet--Miss Holiday. Mr.. AL
theide.
Decision Of the Judges
Friday Evening, July %. Union
program Of Literary Societies:
vrcation-President Brown.
Fiano solo-Hazel Bence.
Grafton, "Footprints."-Miss Beulah
Biggs.
Vocal solo-Naomi Evans
Reading Buying shoes.-Faye
Shook
Grafton, "self Mastery."-Harry
Brown.
Piano solo-Dessie Goode.
Reading, How Cassie Saved the
Spoons. sylvia Fleming.
Vocal solo-Bessie Holiday
Grafton Finding Ourselves. Myrtle
Marshall.
Claytonian Reflector-Guy Petit.
Mixed auartet-Misses Turpin, Hart;
Messrs. Petit.
Philomathean progress Harry
Black.
Piano solo-Ova Turpin.
Motto, Ola ytonians "F|inem Respice";
colors yellow and white; Philomathean
"Quam Videxe," colors blue and white
Monday evening Julp rs, Music and
Elocution Classes:
Grand valse de Concert, Mattel
Misses Goode, Bence. Wildman and
Dabney.
stnr Nyo
abesque, Wrangell-Miss Wildman.
Reading. 1.-THE Man Who Opened
Miss Shook.
"Witches Dance."-Miss Bence.
Cradle Song."-Miss Evans.
"Marche Triumphale."-Mi Goode
Miss Dabney.
"a Spring Idyl."-Miss Shook.
"Militarmarsch."- Bence, Miss
Dabney.
Colors-Lavender and White.
Flower-Sweet Pea.
Tuesday evening July 27.-Commer.
cial and Shorthand Classes:
| Invocation-Rev. F. D. Ferrall.
"Zenda.'-C. G. Orchestra.
! Grafton, Grace and Dignity o.
Labor."-Golda Estella King.
| Glass History-Rollo Mcconnell.
Forest Glee."-Mixed quartet.
| Class Jingles."-Lela Montgomery.
| Golden Rode. c. Orchestra.
Ballad of the East and Vest
| Mrs. A. L. Hartzler.
l. Quartet-Messrs. A1theide, Brown
Petit.
Glass Prophecy-Tillie B. Plessner
Jolly New Yorkers."-C. c. Orches
ira
Colors-Purple and Gold
Motto-"L Launched, not Anchored"
| F1ower-Nasturtium.
Wednesday evening. July 2s.-Nor
NAL Glass;
commencement March, Miller.
"Kellerman WaItzes. "-Marse.
Invocation-Rev. J. X. Alexander.
Salutatory address-Mabel wildmar
Glass History and Poem-Zoe Nc
Cornell.
Grafton. "Your Place in the World.
I-Frona Fuller.
Kisses Observation-Disclosures
| Grafton, Love Of Country."-Wil
lard J. Brown.
Grafton Revelations Of Stone
Fave Wright.
Vocal solo, "a Dream."-O. Petit.
Grafton. Greater Than Wealth.
Nettie Helsel.
| Grafton, "The Reward Of Persist
ence."-Belle Biggs.
Miss Propriety March.-Morse.
Glass Prophecy-Marie Paramore.
Valedictory-Lester E. York.
~. S. Cadet March."-Hale.
Music by Johnson's Orchestra.
Colors-Old Rose and Gray.
F1ower-Sweet Pea
Motto-"Try, Trust Triumph"
Thursday, July 2s.--Class Day Elk
ercises:
Alumni meeting o'clock a. m.
Address-Rev. VIM. A. Hunt, '06, g
10 a. M, college chapel.
Evening program at 8 o'clock.
Vocal music, mixed quartet-Misse
Turpin, Harl; Messrs. Petit.
Glass address-Rev. H. E. Van Horl
Capitol Hill Church of Christ, De
Moines.
Presentation of Diplomas and Cor
ferring of egress-President Fl.
Brown.
Benediction-Rev Fred B. Tucker.
STOCKPORT.
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