The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-06-09
COMMENCEMENT
OF HIGH SCHOOL
THIS EVENING
Exercises Will be Held in
Kentucky Theater...Dr.
Claxton Orator.
Class Day Exercises Drew
Large Crowd.
RECEPTION WAS A SUCCESS.

twenty-five graduates OF the 1910
lass Of the High school viii re-
oeiNe their sheepsk.ns tonight when
the annual commencement exercises
will be held at the Kentucky theater
The advance sale of tickets has been
large. and a filed house Is assured
for the exercises. The sweet girl
graduates with their spotless gowns
of white will make an effective
scene. This year as usual the school
trustees viii enforce the edict that
: flowers may not be received by the
graduates on the stage. However
the stage will be decorated with pot
ted plants and flowers.
The honor pupils OF both divi-
sions of the class will deliver the
address for the class. while the ad-
dress on the evening will be deliver
ed BY DR.. p. p. CLAYTON, of the Uni
versty Of the South, of Knoxville.
Tenn. The members of the faculty
will be seated Cn the stage with the
graduates, while the school trustees
will occupy a box. The program is:
,, Music
Invocatlon-The Rev f. b. Ian
dis.
Music.
salutatory for January DIVISION
'Kentucky Roseiar "-Miss Ellen
Rutter.
salutatoru for June DIVISION
"Duty"-Miss athleen Garrow.
Address, Education for the
sta'o"-Dr. p. p. Claxton. Ph. d.,
u. J.. ID.
Valedictory for jane division
The End Comes the Work Miss
Pauline Hank.
Valedictory for January division.
The Best is Yet TO Come"-Miss
Jessie Acker.
Presentation Of diplomas-W. ].
Hills. president of school board.
Benedictlon-The Rev. G. W
Banks.
The graduates are: January divi-
Misses Jessie Elizabeth Acker,
valedictorian; Ellen Rutter. saluta-
torian; May Pratt Bonds. Elizabeth
Weemer. Virginia Lucille Harth,
Lillian Mary Phillips. Marjorie Fle-
gle. Katherine Steionhauser. Mildred
Pper. Marguerite Jean Carnagey.
Alice Byrne. June division-Paul-
inc Hank. vale1.ctorlan; Agnes
Kathleen Garrow. salutatorian; Mar
tina Ann Cope Eloise Grace Hills.
Marguerite Merlgod, Katherine
EslelIe Anderson, Nina Lee Savage,
Clara Belle Stewart. Lorraine Mayes
Suut herland, Grace Theresa Nc
GlatheIy and Ruth McChesney.
The commencement. of the colored
schools will be held tomorrow night
at the Kentucky theater.
Glass Day Exercises.
Larger seating capacity than the
High school auditorium was needed
/ last night to accommodate the
friends of the graduating class at the
class day exercises. The auditorium
was packed until II was impossible
to secure standing room. Before
this large audience the young grad
yates won frequent applause for theiI
clever class day program.
The first part OF the exercises was
given over to the members of the
January division Of the class, and an
illustrated monologue, "Old Glass
mates Of Mine" was given. Modelled
after the poem of James Whitcoml
Rley's "old Sweethearts of Mine,
the reader. Miss May Bonds, saw th'
visions of her classmates five year
from commencement BY the use o
1.-THE spotlight the scene was made un
usually attractive. As she recalled
her old classmates. they appeared OF
the stage as living pictures. TIT
pictures represented we're: Miss El
len Rutter. "A Little School Girl;
Miss Jessie Acker. IAN Athlete
Girl" Miss Elizabeth Weemer, 9TH
lPrima DONNA" Miss Alice Byrne
"Professor of Latin" Miss Marjori
Flegle. "The Winter Girl" Miss MI
dred Piper. "The Summer Girl;
Miss Lillian Phillips, "The Riding
Girl" Miss marguerite Carnagey
''The Debutante;" Miss Lucfle Harth
"The Merry Widow" Miss Kat
steinhauer. "The Tourist"
II proved novel entertainment
A.. for class day. Miss Adah l.. Brazel
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