The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-07
High School Exercises
End Fine Commencement
TWENTY GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
FIRST HONOR GRADUATE TAKES
TWO GOLD MEDALS.
Happy Exercises by Grammar School
Henry Rikard Wins Medal-Schol-
arly Addresses.

The graduating exercises of the ee
Newberry high school, held in the
opera house on Tuesday evening,
brought to fitting close the most Ella
borate and the most successful COM
mencement in the history of Newber-
rvs schools.
The opera house was crowded with
an interested and appreciatiye aud
ience; the exercises were highly credi-
table; there was a fine address by DR..
Howard Lee Jones, of Charleston; the
medals were happily presented;
there was inspiring music by the New
berry concert band; there was wild
erness of flowers for the two sun
flowers and the eighteen American
Beauties" who graduated; there was
a wagon load of candy and other ,
presents for them; and the whole oc-
casion was a fine success.
:
James Campsen Kinard, the first
honor graduate, received both gold
medals offered in the high school
the Otto Klettner scholarship medal
and the 1. H Hunt history medal For
the scholarship medal James Lance
SwindIer, the second honor graduate,
pushed him close, and for the history
medal Miss Trent Keitt came within
one-half of one per cent. of his mark.
On Monday evening the scholarship
medal for the grammar schools was
presented to Henry Rikard, with hon
orable mention to Kathryn Harms, and
little Miss Harms, for the fine mark
which she made, was presented with
a gold locket, the gift of the principal
of the Pope school and the teacher of
the seventh grade, Misses Mary Car
vile Burton and Pearl West.
The high school graduates, with
their averages, were:
James Campsen Kinard, "Maxima
cum laude";; James Lance Swindler,
"Maxima cum laude"*;; Florence Nor
ris; Mamie E. Paysinger, "Cum
laude"**;; Margaret Elizabeth Nc
Crackin; Ruth Louise McCrackin;
Bessie Anita Lake; Moriet Eloise
Hayes; Annie Elizabeth Jacobs; Lois
Lucille Hipp, "Maxima cum laude"*;
Marion Webster Jones, "Maxima cum
laude'*;; Annie Kibler, Cum laude"**;
Clara Bowers; Estell Caldwell; Cora
V. Mayer; Kate Neel Neel, Gum
laude"**;; Alice Cannon, Magma cum
laude"***;; Sophia Rose Herbert, Cum
laude"**;; Sarah Simmons; Nancy
Werts, "Maxima cum laude"s.
Mamma cum e"*-Yearly
average of 95-1OO per cent.
Magma cum Yearly av-
erage of 93-95 per cent.
Cum laude"**-Yearly average of
90-93 per cent
The Exercises.
The exercises were opened with
prayer by DR.. J. Henry Harms, and
the salutatory was delivered by the
second honor graduate, James Lance
Swindler. This young man had
well-prepared salutatory, and he deliv-
cred it with marked ease and grace.
He designated the two boys and tkv
eighteen girls of his class as "tMo
sun-fowers and eighteen American
Beauty roses" and this happy desig-
nation was taken by the speakers of
the evening and ran through the whole
exercises.
Chairman klettner.
Hon. Otto Klettner chairman of the
board of trustees, in his Introductory
remarks, paid a high tribute to the
superintendent, principals and teach
ers of the schools. He reviewed briefly
the condition of the school and con-
graduated the people of Newberry up
on the magnificent equipment He
thanked Mrs. James A. Burton for her
presentation, in behalf of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, of the first
picture for the high school, saying
that he knew when she made this pre-