The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-30

The Graduation Exercises of Cabot High
School.

School.
The graduation exercises of Cabo,
high school took place last week. Their,
was, first, the bacealaureate sermon or
Sunday, the 18th, by Rev. d. H. Hill
lizard of the Congregational church "A
very practical and yet eloquent dis
course. The audience was composed OF
the Congregational and Methodist
churches, Rev +. II. ,Currier, pastor Of
the Methodist church. assisting, last
Wednesday evening the usual class re-
ception was given to the graduating
class. The program was arranged by
the lower class students and consisted
of music, vocal and instrumental, and
various recitatons and readings, pleas
ingly rendered. At the close light re-
frehments were served, and a pleasant
social hour was passed. The closing ex-
ercises of the school year were held Fri
day evening, June 90 Three marked
features of these exercises should be no
ticed; ~ The music For this service
the Norma Quintette club of Burling-
ton had been engaged This club Is
composed Of Madame Jordan, pianist, her
three daughters, Miss Sylvia. first violin,
Miss 1rma, cello, Miss Marion tll years
of age), flute, and Miss Helen Barnes,
second violin. -Four selections were rem
dered by the entire quintette besides
there was a violin solo BY Miss Sylvia
Jordan, flute solo by Miss Marion
Jordan, cello solo by Miss Trina Jor-
dan, and flute and cello duet by Misses
Marion and lrma Jordan On account
of her age and the excellence of her ex-
ecution, Miss Marion ATTRACTED most at
tention. Encores followed almost every
selection. and were promptly and cheer.
fully responded to. ~ The prize speak.
ing contest. The prize speaking was
marked feature of the literary portion
of the program. The contestants were
all prize winners in previous contests.
Two prizes of SIS each were offered -
one to the young men and one to the
young women. Four contestants en-
tered the lists in each class. The Sc
lections had been carefully made and
contained range of literary productions
from the pure humor Of James Whit
comb Riley and Mark Twain to the
pathos Of Edwards and Paine. The CON
testants had all been carefully trained.
The judges were Ralph Hoyt Of Cabot,
Miss Boyd one of the district school
teachers of the town. and Rev w. II. II.
MeAllister of Tilton, n II. One of the
female contestants, Florence Eleanor
Houghton, was unable to speak on ac
count Of sore throat. The parts were
all carefully committed, and were de-
livered with but single break in reel
tation Where all did so well, the part
of the judges was made difficult in the
distribution of the prizes. One of these
was awarded to Merrill David Barrett,
the other to Jennie Elizabeth Webster.
While there was individual disappoint-
ment, the audience heartily applaud
ed the decision. The prizes were pre-
graduation exercises. There were but
two students in the graduating class
Paul Eastman Hopkins, who also took
part in the prize speaking contest, and
Leslie Joseph Russell Each OF these
young men read carefully prepared
original essay, Hopkins choosing for his
theme, "The Boy Scout Movement" and
Russell, international Peace" The d.
plomas were presented by Principal Gil
more with appropriate remarks. As Mr..
Gilmore closes his services as principal
Of the Cabot high school at this time.
he took occasion to make some farewell
in which he expressed his
strong attachment to the place and peo-
pie, his delight in his work, and his re-
greet at leaving. Mr. Gilmore has been
4 hard and faithful worker during his
two years charge of the high school here.
and has left not only an intellectual
but strong moral impression upon the
pupils who have been under his train
ing. He has hosts OF friends, parents,
scholars and citizens, generally, whose
good wishes will follow him wherever
he may 90.