Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-27
COLCHESTER
Graduating Exercises at Bacon Aead en1y - Institution Completes 1oe Years of Usefulness-Menorial Tab lets to Founder and Benefactors.

The annual graduating exercises of Bacon Academy were held in the Con- gregational church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock The church was crowded with relatives and friends of the grad uates. The church was decorated with the academy colors and flowers. The following programme was well pre- sented: Music Kelly & Lyman's or chestra; invocation; music, To Thee, O Country, academy chorus; saluta- tory Miss Bernice Allen; address, A Backward and a Forward Look, Wilbur F. Gordy of Hartford; music, the Storm Fiend, chorus; valedictory, Miss Mary Magdalene Shugrue; presenta- tion of diplomas, Hon. Erastus s. Day. award of the Otis constitutional prizes. Hon, Hamilton Wallis music, King of the Forest Am I, chorus; unveiling of memorial tablets, Edward M. Day Of Hartford: music, In Praise of Song, chorus; benediction; music, orchestra. Class motto: Vitam Impenden VerO.
 Classical course-Bernice Allen, the sis, Life of Washington Before the Revolution Hattie Belle Brown, Home Making as a Profession; James Royal Case, Why I Have Chosen Forestry as My Profession; Dorothy Sara Cliff ford, Child Labor; Monica Cecelia Clifford, Schubert and His Music; Sid ney Nathan Hewitt, Charles Dickens. the Man and His Works; Benjamin Nathan Neleber, The Best Preparation for Citizenship; Edward How'd Norton, Scientific Methods on the Farm Albert Chapman Phelps, The Economic lm- portance of Agriculture; Mary Mazda lene ShUgrue, The Drama as a Means of Education.
 General course: George Cutler, An ! cient versus Modern Methods of Farm ing. Elmer Harrison Foote, Fruit Growing in New England; Hyman Gel lert. Success and Failure Louis Ralph Hershatter. The Crisis in Russia; Dan iel Gott Horton, Agriculture in Rural High Schools; Rose May, Levin, Life in a Russian Village Ida Martha Minsk, Some Colonial Women; Rose Mintz, The High School of the Future Bessie Hall Randall, Colonial Money and Barter; Moses Rather, The Amer ican Jew; Elizabeth Fitzgerald Shea, Success Through Perseverance.
 Memorial Tablets.
 Bacon Academy opened in 1893. II was made possible by the bequest of | Pierpoiut Bacon. The income from this fund and from subsequent gifts has supported the school, which for l 10e years has contributed to the edu- 1 cation and culture of the youth oI Uhe town. The trustees felt that II was due those who so generously contrlout ed to the welfare of the school and ol the place that some memorial shoulc be placed in the academy building. ano accordingly have had made two mar ble tablets, on one of which the names of the large contributors are engraved and on the other the names of those who contributed to the centennial func raised in 1903.
 On the first tablet is the following Donors to Bacon Academy. founded il 1eO3: Pierpoint Bacon, S35,0OO; PhilG GiIlett. William Kinne, Asa Otis, Ma. thaniel Hayward Chauncey c. Palmer Amasa A. Brainerd, Judah Lord Tain. for s. Lewis Gillett.
 On the other tablet are the name' of 64 who contributed to the centen' nial fund in 1903. The tablets are tt be placed in conspicuous places in tn academy building.
 Personal Mention.
 David A. Elgart returned Tuesday from Ann Arbor, Mich, where he hal been attending the commencement ex. ercises of the University of Michigan