El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-23
PAGEANT AND MASQUE FEA TURES
OF GRADUATION WEEK IN Ell PASO

- RADIATION week approaches.
How much it means to everyone,
~ and especially to those who are
about to stand upon the stage plat
form. the observed Of all observers"
who are to hear their last lectures,
have their final meetings and frolics in
the schools that then become their
Alma Mater" To the graduates II
means two things, the completion OF
their period Of training, and the en-
trance into new sphere OF usetul
activity in the great busy world
Sunday in many pulpits through the
country. ministers will be impressinS
these things upon the sweet girl grad
yates, and the boy graduates too.
For those who have graduated and
entered the busy wOrkaday world
graduation week many times means a
reunion with former classmates, and a
visit to the old Alma Mater, but II
always means q reawakening Of mem
ory TO school life with its happy care
free days, and its wonderful dreams
Of hope and achievement
Graduation week is going TO bring
TO FL Pasoans two events Of impor-
lance The presentation Of the his
tOrIcal pageant Of the southwest oy
the 800 high school pupils, and the
presentation of the alleROriCal maSque
The maiden comes into her Kingdom
at the FL PasO School for Girls. Both
are Of interest in being departures
from the time hOnOred custom Of hav-
ing stiff and conventional programs
and spectators, when the program was
lengthy, and the sweet graduates,
Eowned in the lates word Of fashion,
delivered all their pent up knowledge
in one long and often labOred effort
The Pageant.
The pageant which FL PasO is 10
have the privilege Of seeing this week
is the biggest undertaking ever at
tempted in FL Paso- Its scope is ire
mendOus and as inspiring as It is big
Fl Paso in which history has been
made is still making history.
The pageant takes the beholder back
to the cliff jewellers, whose ruins
abound in neighboring New Mexico.
The AZtecs. that wonderful race which
Correz and his Spanish Adventures
that followed. found through this part
of the country The indian and his
pueblos are depicted with the coming
of the Friars religious enthusiasts,
who in their zeal 10 add souls TO their
masters Kingdom braved dangers and
underwent hardships that outdld the
mercenary adventures even IN their
greed of conquest Down through the
ages the pageant narrative goes
ever. scene being in this section and
within a range Of 500 miles OF II
Paso. finally coming down 10 the GAYS
in vivid recollection OF many II
PasOanS. when the COWBOY Win ms
ready six shooter ana leather or fur
chaps with juggling spurs, was a IA
miliar figure here The pageant rep
TnEnnrE entire EGnOOL year u ~ VI X
on the part of both high school pupils
and the high school FACULTY
The Commencement MnsOue-
The school for Girls commencement
masque will be given Monday night,
out of doors, and viii be a thlng OF
aesthetic beauty in every particular
The allegOry depicts the coming OF
the maiden, equipped by the lessons
taught by patience, diligence 1oTu-
tude. love, sympathy ana all the other
E---E=-=a~4% that nnEnIOn char
acter TO help the worlds need and
fulfil the worlds desire
The graduation exercises OF st Jo-
seph's academy. and Of St Mary's
school will also be held this week, St
Joseph's commencement occurring on
Thursday morning. and st Mary s on
Friday morning at the SCHOOLS For
the graduates Of these various schools,
a number Of both formal and informal
social events viii occur
The directors Of the School for
Girls viii entertain the girls and their
friends with a party at the Country
club Tuesday night
The Graduates.
FL Paso's high school graduates are;
Katherine Glenn, Eunice Anderson,
Christine Moelich. Rose Clayton. Their
esa XOungberE. Minnie Lee Lassiter,
Lena Burchofsky, Nellie Mulcahy.
Charles Carter, Elizabeth ROutledge-
Antoinette Matkin. Elizabeth Lucas,
Bernita Thomas. Matte Clark. Mary
Hating. AHnetta Henning. Dorothy
GOuEQOlr BdEUaIa LoE GLs AdLlAtcn
Faris, Eunice Preston, Alice Bishop.
Edna Richardson. Clarinda Corbin,
Mamie HammOnds, Alfred Black.
Shelley WarnOck. Lucas Bacon. James
German, Elgie Means. Steve Lattner.
Idus Lambert. Eldon ROutledge. Reed
Harlan, Chris Jungjohann. Eugene
Smith. Ramiel Jungjohann D. E.
Stearns. Ruy DarnalI. Earl Weisiger,
Ralph O'Nein. Walter POnsford.
OF the Fl Paso School for Girls the
graduate is Madeleine Stafford
The graduates of St. Joseph's acad-
envy are Valerie LOrig and Nora Young.