St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-06-26
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES
Ninth Grade Graduating Exercise
Given Over to St. Johnsbury Histor

Ninth Grade Graduating Exercises
Given Over to ST. Johnsbury History
Arthur f. Stone gave an in
teresting talk on the postal service
at Summer Street Ninth grade Wed
nesday morning.
Mrs. Beatrice May Ranney receiv-
ed a diploma for the Palmer Method
Writing course she has just COM
pIeted.
The fifth grade held a picnic for
their closing day. The ninth grade
observed their annual Field. Day at
the golf links, June IA.
To help in the commemoration Of
the 126th birthday of the town, the
graduating exercises at the ninth
grade, Summer street were devoted
entirely to some phases of St.
Johnsbury's history. Between two
and three hundred friends of the
school were present and at the close
of the exercises DIR. Edward T.
Fairbanks asked those who had TAX
en- part for copies of their essays
to file at the Athenaeum.
The Summer. street schools regret
the resignation of Miss Laughlin of
the eighth grade, who enters Mission
work in New York city. The chill
dren in her grade presented her with
picture to show their appreciation
of her work. In the retirement of
Miss Laughlin the st. Johnsbury
schools have lost a powerful infiu-
ence in developing the characters of
the boys and girls.
The Horton Bird prize was won
by Ludger Toussaint of the ninth
grade, Summer street. 1t is of in
terest that some member of this
class has won this prize for five
consecutive years: 1912, Ludger
Toussaint; 1911, Lesley Cady; 1910,
Helen Ross; 1909. Dorothy Adams;
1908, Bertha Robinson.
The teachers at Summer street
spend their vacations as follows:
Miss Harding and Miss Pierce at
York Beach; Miss Barney at Barre;
Miss Meade at Lyndon; Miss Wilde,
Mrs. Ranney and Miss Woodruff at
st. Johnsbury; Mrs. Beck at Mont
reaI Miss Fraser at West Burke.
Miss Nellie IAaughlin who resigned
the position of teacher in grade
8, Summer Street school, will be sue
ceeded by Miss Ella Moore of Island
Pond who has taught the same grade
in Littleton. Miss Mildred Fraser
will be succeeded by Miss Madeline
Randall who will assist in reading,
physical training and other subjects.
Mrs. B. G. Peters has resigned as
teacher of music and her place has
not yet been filled.
Grammar School Graduating Glass
The folloing pupils were gradua-
ted from the schools this June:
dorothy Cornelia Adams, Robert
F. Allison, margaret Louise Bail
ey, Dorothy Magdalena Beck, mil
dred Vera Beck, *Maud Alice Ben
nett, Gladys NJ. Bigelow, Curtis B.
Brown, %Charlotte Newell Bundy,
Ada Mfllicent Burns, %Lesley Eliz-
abeth Cady, Clifton G. Campbell,
MARY Cheney Carpenter, Alice Edith
Carter, Harold r. Caswell, *Inez Ma
rion Christie, Earl Clark, Wendell
Holt Cowles, Kathleen Mary Cox,
Gertrude Howe Cramton, Hilda Mi
nerva Day, Ina Ruth Day, *Gladys
Alfredo Dean, Eugene Nelson Den
mis-, ~Harold B. Donley, Wendell
Newell Drew, Reta Hazel Drown,
Raymond S. Ellis, Paul Noyes Farm
ham, Ellen Marguerite Farr, Joseph
\ inc Emily Fisher, Ebert L. Gala
\ CHER, Frank S. Gallagher, Paul
Walker Gilman, Mabel Gray, %Alex-
/ ina Essie Hall, Frederick Stanton
Harris, Albert Hill, Mary Flora Hill,
Joseph H. Hopkins, Mildred Emma
Houghton, Edward John Hudson,
Archibald Stuart Hunter, Beatrice
May Hurley, Ralph ]. Johnson, SD