Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-26
PUPILS
WILL Be GRADUATED
Orations Based on Modern Events
Will Be Given at Thirty-first
Annual Exercises

Realization OF their hopes and
dreams OF years and the attainment OF
the goal for which they have striven.
will come to the forty-seven members
in the Senior class of the Steelton High
School at the thirty-first annual COM
mencement exercises in the high
school auditorium tomorrow evening.
Late this afternoon a squad of stu
dents set to work decorating the big
hall for tomorrow evenings exercises.
Long streamers of blue and gold, the
class colors; myriads of pretty PEN
nants and many potted plants were
arranged to lend touch of color to
the hall.
Under the direction of the high
school teachers and Principal c. S.
Davis, the class representatives re-
hearsed their parts for the last time
Everything is now ready for the exer-
cises
The exercises will commence at S
o'clock with a march. Flag of Vic
tory" by the Steelton orchestra. The
Rev. George y. Lauffer. of ST. Johns
Lutheran Church. will offer the invo-
cation. This will he followed by the
salutatory oration, "One of Natures
William Gus jefferson. Paul James
Kirby will then give a defamation
entitled, symbols of the Republic" :"
by Chaplin.
Modern Grafton Themes
Another selection. 81 Lombardi," by
Verdi, played by the Steelton orches-
ira, Bryce Atwood Newbaker will de-
liver his grafton on Present Day OPP
portunites.' Miss Margaretta Kelley
Gault will then recite The Night
Run" by Elmore Elliott Peake. This
will be followed by a vocal solo, 20,
How Pleasing to the Senses" from
Haydon's Seasons by Miss Rebecca
Marie Millar. James Allen Smith will
then give his defamation, our Army
and Navy" by William T. Sherman.
An grafton. Motion Pictures" by Miss
Mildred Keith Griffee. will follow
The Steelton orchestra will then play
Southern Memories" by Hecker. The
next place on the program belongs to
Mss Marie Meyer Alleman. but Miss
Alleman delivered her grafton. THE
Past and Present" at the anual trans
liam Tolbert will follow with his ora
ton on THE Panama-Pacific Exposi-
ton"
Presentation of Diplomas
This will be followed by the valedic-
tory essay, Step by Step We Ascend" ;"
by Miss Lucetta Elizabe McElheny.
Miss McElheny's Grafton is based on
the class motto. The class song,
Come Gentle Spring" from Haydns s
Seasons" will follow.
Professor Charles H. Albert, of the
Bloomsbury State Normal School, will
deliver the address to the class A Sc
lection by the orchestra will conclude
the program. The diplomas will be
presented to the following graduates
by ". F. Darby, president of the
school board:
Marie Meyer Alleman, Edna Marie
Anderson, Martha Louise Armstrong.
Margaret Rogers Attick. Catherine
Leona Barnet. Esther Ellen Baugh-
man. Arthur Blackwell. Norma Hen
derson Brandt, Earl Brown. Charles
William Cocklin, Mary Elizabeth
Critchley. William Ward Crump. viii
liam James -Dayior. Catherine Eliza :
beth Ffckes, William John Gardner.
Margaretta Kelley Gault. Mildred
Keith Griffee, James Eugene Ham
mond, Frank Weaver Hoffer. Emily
Elizabeth Howard. William Guss JEFF
terson, Harry Cauffman Johnston,
Eliza Christine Jones, Cameron Dolson
Keim. Paul James Kirby. Lucetta
Elizabeth McElheny, Sarah Kreider
Mengle, Chester Legrand Merryman,
Rebecca Marie Millar, Allen Russell
Miller. Myles Clinton Morrison, Bryce
Atwood Newbaker. Leonore Rice
O'Brien, Naomi Virginia Payne. Rose
Bertha Roth, John Paul Rupp. Phoebe
Elmtra Shelley. Mathew Stanley O.
Shupp, Clarence Shutter. James Allan
Smith, Anna Genevieve Smothers.
Hilda Luella Snyder, Marie Alberta
Sponsler, Edna Mae Stahler, James
William Tolbert. John Fred Ulrich,
George Granville Wren.
The class officers are: President.
Myles Clinton Morrison; vice-presi-
dent, James Allan Smith: secretary.
Norma Henderson Brandt; treasurer,
William Ward Crump. The class
floWer is the pink rose, and the class
colors are blue and gold. Step by
Step We Ascend" is the class motto.
The faculty includes: Charles 6.
Davis, principal; l.. B. Nye, assistant
principal; Mary r. White. S. Ellen
McGinnes, Viola A. Helm, Roscoe
Bowman, Paul D. Miller, Joseph H.
Hurst A. G. Hottenstein, Linnie Y.
Hess. Eva F. Stoner. art and drawing,
and William NJ Harclerode. music.
Ihe members of the school board
are: W. F. Darby. president: ]. b
Martin, vice-president: W. n. Nell,
secretary: w. A. Attick. treasurer;
j. X. Reider, NJ. C. Zerby and II. G
Wright. L. f McCinnas ic .,nor;..