The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-06-06
fine AUDIENCE At
SCHOOL EXERCISES
GRADUATION NIGHT
COL. WEBER DELIVERS A SPLEEN.
DID ADDRESS TO THE GRAD.
YATES.
A fine SPIRIT PREVAILED
Miss Vera ScWell Won The Herald
Medal for the Essay on Citizenship
With Percy Moore Close Sec.
ond.
High School Graduates.

Mabel Allen, Mary Cooper Boyd,
Naomi Howard Estes, Eva Craft Gill
bert, Lula Maya Hardy, Irma Dene
Irwin, Bessie Belle Matthews, Roz-
zie Ezella Morton, Marguerite Jane
Page, Bessie Church, Roberts, Lera
Margaret yssefy, Ella Williams,
Katherine W4ters Wright, Ray Lee
Bates, James Anderson Hardison, En-
win Cecil H&rdison, Edmund Ollie
hunty Looney. Herman Kelley Nor
ton, Cannon Robert Page, Horace
Rainey, Jr, Clifford Walters RUSSELL,
Coy Richard Smith, Mary Elizabeth
voss, Carrie Burton Hayes, Wayne
Thomas Harrison.
Winners of Medals.
Miss Vela Sowell Herald medal
for the best essay on Citizenship.
Miss Lula Maye Hardy-Sanior
Latin.
Miss Vera Sowell-Junior Latin.
Miss Margaret Hardison-Second
year Latin.
Miss Jenneit Jeter-First year Lat
! in.
Clarence Johnson--All round ath
lete.
| Miss Kate Wright Spelling.
Wayne IIarGison- Special recogni
ton for extra work.
The last exercises of the High
School were rendered ct the New
Grand Thursday night in the award
ing of the diplomas and the medals
as above mentioned, and the delivery
of the address to the class by Col. H
C. Weber, of the Columbia Military
Academy.
Seated on the stage together with
the graduation class, the speaker and
members of he faculty, were large
number of the high school beard, the
county board and the city school
board, and Mayor Dedman.
The opera fouse was filed to over
flowing long before the opening OF
the exercises, and the determination
of the MANAGEMENT to keep the balco
ny closed had to be set aside and the
doors opened, This was soon filed
There was q we'll defined schoo
spirit throughout the entire audience
and there were people in the audi
ence from man, sections of the coun
try for several miles surrounding the
city, and the interest was intense al
times.
! The address CT Col. Weber was fill
ed with fine thoughts and almost the
first thing he said placed him in hear
ty sympathy with the public school
He made distinction between in
formation and education, stating tina
education was the ability to ust
knowledge TO practical benefit
while information was knowledge
without the ability to get benef
therefrom. Tie talk was short blu
was intended to impress the mem
bers of the graduating class with TIT
idea that they were indebted to thu
public schools TO, their education ant
that it should be counted a duty Il
see that the public schools should b.
improved with each year.
In making the announcement
Supt. Harris stated that of the TWEEN
/ ty-five graduates eighteen were from
the rural districts of the county
The awarding of the diplomas wa
simple and impressive, and whel
Supt. Harris reached the medals HI
did away with the usual suspense tina
is always So trying on the audience
and went at once to the medal ant
then to the name.
Miss Vera Sowell, who won The
l
Herald's media, for the best essay OF
citizenship, is a member of the ju
nior class anl is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Wallace Sowell, who own {
home in the country, but also have E
home at the corner Of Ninth and En-
barge streets. She is one of the
brightest pupils in the school, ant
also won the Latin medal awarded tc
the class.
Percy Moore was such a close sec
ond that he was given special and
honorable mention. There we're more
than sixty contestants for this medal
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by the High School Orches
ira, under the direction of Miss Cone