St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-24
FIRST GRADUATION
Large Number of Students Finish
Work In Graded Schools
The Closing Exercises.

| 9th grade of the Summerville school
took place in the main hall of the
school building on Portland street at
o'clock Thursday evening. The
hall was filed to overfiC ing and
very interesting program was rem
dered by the graduates. A large
bank of evergreens, with the class
motto, Forward, Not Backward" in
gilt letters, stood at the back of the
hall, and exhibitions of the work of
the scholars, in art, were hung on
the sides.
The graduating class, "a in all,
! took their places on the platform and
| gave the opening number, praise
| 'Ye the Father" by Gounod, in an ex-
cellent manner. Rev. Paul D. Moody
offered brief prayer, which was fol-
lowed by five scenes from Longfel-
lows "Courtship of Myles Standish.' -
This was we'll given, and the boys
and girls showed that there had
been much time and labor spent in
the preparation. The cast of char
acters was: Mae H. Hall as Priscilla;
l.. Dow Farnham as Myles Standish;
Frank H. Hastings as John Alden;
Miner H. Carpenter, the Elder; Rob-
ert S. Blandin as the Messenger.
Part | was concluded with a Sc
lection by the chorus, Home to Our
Mountain" from ell Trovatore."
Part II opended with violin trio,
sextette from Lucia" by Maude Me-
nut, Vera Genge and Robert Blandin
Following came one Of the prettiest
parts of the evening, the Folk Dane
es. Five girls danced the Swedish,
"Reaping the Flax; six gave the
Norwegian, Mountain March; and
little Alene Gilman danced the
Highland Fling in so excellent a man
ner as to win the highest commen-
dation from all.
A lullaby by the girls glee club
was given in a very pleasing MANNER,
following which six youths gave
highly interesting and amusing In
dian club drill. Miss Elgie Taft
played the Second Mazurka most
skillfully. Supt. Palmer addressed
few words to the graduating class
and presented them with their di-
plomas and certificates for free tH-
ition at the Academy.
The closing number. rendered by
the chorus, was the Damascus
March," by Costa. It is worthy of
note, and of great praise to the 9th
grade teacher, Miss Smith, that over
half of the graduating class this year
were honor pupils.
Graduating class: *Rae Astle,
Milton Batchelder, *Pauline Beck,
%Robert Blandin, Sarah Brigham,
John Brodien, Miner Carpenter. Dow
Farnham, Vera Genge, *Alene Gill
man, *Mae Hall *Vivian Hall,
*Frank Hastings, Ralph Hovey, *Be-
atrice Lamere, Maude Menut, *Mau-
rice Moore, $ArIene Perrigo, *Hazel
Powers, Dorothy Scribner, *Charles
Stuart, *Elgie Taft. Lyle Tillotson,
Ruth Tisdale.
Indicates honor pupil.
AT Summer Street School
The upper hall of the new school !
building on Summer street was filed |
Friday morning when over 200 par
ents and friends of the 9th grade at
tended their graduation exercises. |
The hall was not decorated except |
for the bank of evergreens and yell
form, and shields bearing the mot
toes of the last four classes to grad
uate, on the south wall. The motto
of the graduating class, Row, not
Drift" in the class colors, green and
gold, hung at the back of the plat
form. The shield bearing the mot
to was made by the boys of the man
1al training department.
The opening number of the pro-
gram was Rockets "Storm Fiend,"
given by the chorus Rev. George
4. Martin offered a brief prayer, fol-
lowing which the girls glee club
sang 1.-The Merry May" by .Mallard.
Miss Katherine Boynton gave a most
excellent essay on the class motto.
Miss Marjorie Cramton gave Wal
er's "Prize Song" from the 'Meis-
ersingers,'' by Wagner, in a truly 4
Sister Dora by Miss Florence Ben
lett, gave a picture new to most of
he audience The Message to
Garcia" by Miss Edna Streeter, was
most appropriate. The "Slumber
song" by Emile Ober tLOffcr, suing
" Miss Bessie McEncore, with Gel
o obIigato by Katherine BoyntOn,
vas most enjoyable Miss McEncore
as a sweet voice and shows great
romise. The essay, "A Real Hero" :
nd "The Little Lady of the White
Touse," by the Misses Madeline
,ary, and Doris Sidwell, were very
rell given and extremely interest
lg. The chorus next rendered the
Red Scarf by Bonheur, following
rhich Miss Helen Stearns gave an
xcellent essay on "St. Christopher"
cornet solo by George Mcleod
as enjoyed by all.
The prize essays for the prizes Of
cred by Miss Brownell, the music
lstructor, and Miss Kelly, the art
lstructor, were given by the win
ers, the Misses Masten and Burden.
he girls elee club gave HandeIS
Largo 1t was followed by a scene
ON the Merchant of Venice" This
as one of the finest parts of the
rogram and was greatly enjoyed
terry Waterman was an excellent
assanio. Edwin Woods the naughty Il
rince of Arragon, Henry Bishop the
rince Morocco, Irene Powell all
FARMING Portia and Eleanor Sidwell
ar maid. Nerissa. The violin solo II