Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-06-24
Hebron commencement Week.

| Hebron Commencement Week.
An attendance even larger than usual
aud high degree Of interest In all tn
activities, of the week, marked com
mencement week at Hebron Academy
from the baccalaureate service on sun
day until the close of the reception Wed
nesday evening.
Mondays special event, previous =
the evening, was the game OF base oa!
between the school team and the alumni
The alumni had a number OF players o
some note In base ball, aud succeeded u
de feating the school team In a goo'
game by score of Q to l.
In the evening was held the annua
junior prize debate. The team prize
S12 was awarded to Forrest Il. Thomp
son, Spriugvale, Margaret e. Adams
Spruce Head, and John B. Matthews
Troy, N. T.; individual prize OF " 4
John B. Matthews.
To fill vacancies on the Board of Trus
tees caused by the designations OF Kew
A. r. Crane, Rev. C. M. Emery and W
Scott Bearce, the following we're elected
Rev. NJ ]. Twomey of Portland, Henr.
W. Poor of Audover, and P. Il. Carey o
New York.
Officers of the Board were elected a
follows:
President-Hon. John D. Long:
vice. President-N: NJ. Marshall, N. d.
Secretary-Albert NJ. Richardson.
Treasurer-William e. Atwood.
Tuesday afternoon the class day exer
cises of the class of 1918 we're held In tn
church, with the program as alread!
published. The concert Tuesday evon
ing, by the Lotus Male Quartette OF Bos
ton, and Miss Cowlishaw, reader, wa
one of the best ever heard there.
| At 10 o'clock Wednesday the gradual
ing exercises were held in the church
The program has already been given.
| At the close of the exercises the list o
scholarship prizes awarded for the year
work was announced as follows:
Scholarship prizes: $40, highest ranh
in Greek, divided between Nsseeb Ma
louf, Mt. Lebanon, Syria, and Aubre!
Charles Minister, Gardiner.
$40, highest rank In Latin, William
Mckinley Damn, Swanville.
SO, highest rank in English, Alice
Helen Clark, Caratunk.
$40. highest rank in German, Kath
ryne Mary Sturtevant, Pownal.
$40, highest rank in French, William
Mckinley Damn, Swanville.
80, highest rank In mathematics
Marston Leadbetter Beverage, Nortf
Haven.
$40, highest rank in sciences, divided
between Lucy Cakes league, Buckfield
and Miner Reginald Stackpole, Sanford
$40, highest general rank in all studies
for the year, William Mckinley Damn
Swauville.
$40, first priz, in music, Esther Fran
ces George, Hebron.
IS, second prize 10 music, Florencs
Iua Sawyer, Lagrange.
Scholarship: $40, given to the labora
tory assistant, Dexter Henry Marsh,
Springfield, Mass.
Prizes in in defamation and compost
ton have also been awarded during the
year as follows:
Defamation: Girls, first prize. SO
prize, IS, Stella Getchell. Dallas; boys,
first prize, $40, Harold Mills Crockett,
North Haven; second prize, IS, Naseet
Mahfoud Mslouf, Mt. Lebanon, Syria.
The Leavitt Composition Contest
Three prizes, aggregating $40, the gift OF
Mrs. William Leavitt, we're offered to the
freshman class for the best composition
on any temperance subject. First prize,
S., Ruth Gott Pearce, Glenarm, Md;
second prize, So, Thea Leone Hamlin
Milan, N. H.; third prize, 50, JOSEPH
Vincent Tracy, Allston, Mass.
In addition to these, Naseeb Mahfoud
Malouf was the winner of the third prize
of SIS in the Lyford interscholastic
speaking contest at Colby College.
Walter L. Gray of South Paris, presi
dent of the Alumni Association, acted as
:oastmaster at the alumni dinner al
Sturtevant Home, and the speakers were
Hon. John D. Long, William Schoppe
Rev. A. r. Crane, D. D., Louis Cobbett,
T. II. Clary, Professor Wilmot B. Mitch
ell of Bowdoin. Miss Nellie Whitman
and Principal W. E. Sargent.
The annual reception Wednesday even
ing closed the weeks exercises. Music
was BY the Empire Orchestra of Lewis
ton. Rev. F. NJ. Lamb of Buckfield
sang several vocal solos, and Miss Alic'
K. Barden of the graduating class SANG
''The Rosary"
The class of 1918 left as its gift the
sum of 5000 to be expended In cement
| walks about the buildings They alst
left a statue of a young girl as me-
mortal to Miss Betty Fairclough ant
Miss Dorothy Grose, two members OF thu
class who lost their lives In the automo
bile and train collision at South Pari:
last fall