Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-19
JEWETT CITY
Winners of D. A. R. and Harmony Club Prizes at Graduating Exercises of Riverside Grammar Sehooi-Art Ex- hibit-Weddinq.

The graduating exercises of the class of 1914 of the Riverside gram mar school were held in FInn's ope.a house Thursday evening. The plat form was decorated with laurel plos- soms. The class colors, cardinal and black, predominated in various places. The class of 27 pupils and the princi- pal, Mrs. Nettie Johnson, Miss Pearl Jackson and Acting School Visitor A. C. Burdick were seated on the stage, the chorus of 50 singers marching to the platform for each selection. The following programme was given with much ability: Invocation, Rev. J. Allan Spideil. $. T. D.; music, Awake! Iris Buddy Morn, G. A. -Vezie, school cnor- us; essay, The Art of Basket Making, Helen Gray: What Makes a Nation, w. D. Nesbit, Minnie MageI; The Bell of the Atlantic, Sigourney, Yvonne Pigeon; piano solo, Madrilena, Fan Rioux; essay. A Modern Chicken Farm. Leslie Hyde; music, Night, Ergmann, school chorus; Independence Bell. anonymous, Martha Morgan; valedictory. What America Means to the Emigrant. Anna Gaska; class loved Donizetti. Cb) Peace I Leave With You, J. V. Roberts. school chorus {; presentation of diplomas: announce ment of prizes; drill, The March of the Nations; singing, America, audience.
 The drill was very picturesque the girls of the class participating, having different colored sashes and rosettes. and carrying flags. Alice Moore played for the drill. The class song was com posed by Helen Phillips; Ruth Stewart recitation of The Bell of the Atlantic a bell made from a piece of the orig inal was tolled by Postmaster W. H. Brown. who obtained it and had it made.
 The steamer Atlantic. plying be- tween Norwich and New York, was wrecked on Fishers Island Nov. 27, 1S46. The bell of this steamer. sup ported by a portion of the wreck. con- tinued to toll, for many nights and days, as if in mournful requiem Of the lost.
 The singing of the chorus under the instruction of the music supervisor, Miss Pearl Jackson, was notably good. The voices showed careful training and the harmony and expression were ex- cellent. Miss Alice-A. Brown played for the chorus singing.
 The diplomas were presented by Acting School Visitor A. c. Burdick, who gave the children a few words of good advice. The prizes in history and geography given by Anne Brewster Tanning chapter, D. A. R., were given. first in. history to Ulderic Jodoin, sec ond to John Barnett; first in geography to Ulderic Jodoin, second to Anna Gaska. The prizes in language and arithmetic. given by the Harmony club. went. first in language to Ulderic Jo- doin, second to Helen Gray; first in arithmetic to Jesse Wilcox, second to Anna Gaska.
 The ushers were Stanley wheeIcck. Irving Thornton, Everett Hiscox,& Jr., George McArthur. Fred Clarke -anl Robert Olsen. The class motto twas What We Do, Let Us Do We'll There are 27 in the class. those on the honor list being Anna Gaska, Helen stsrays Leslie Hyde. Martha Morgan. Jesse Wilcox, Lucille Rioux, Yvonne Pigeon. Minnie Magel, Thomas Melady and Josie Cotter, The remainder ofs the class are Lester Blanchard Joseph Driscoll. Walter Gray. Irene Havey. Sadie Haddad. Harold Jeffers, Anna