The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-05-06
Class of Nineteen Fifteen to Re-
ceive their Diplomas Next
Friday Night
SEVEN BOYS AND ELEVEN
GIRLS WILL GRADUATE
p,.fessor Bratton Of Whitman College
win Deliver Commencement
Address at the High School

Next Friday evening, the 14th,
eighteen young people will receive
their diplomas and conclude their
.chool work in Kennewick. The COM
rencement exercises will be held in
the gymnasium as usual and will COM
mence promptly at eight o'clock.
professor Bratton, Of Whitman Col
leee has been selected by the class to
deliver the address.
The class especially requests that
no presents or flowers be sent to the
hieh school for the graduates, the
same custom as heretofore being fol-
lowed of having such gifts sent to the
homes Of the graduates instead of to
the schoolhouse.
The graduating class Of the present
wear is composed of seven girls and
eleven boys. OF this class seven MEM
bers, Margaret Zwanzig, Linnie Witt,
Orlin Fisher, John Hamilton, Walter
Hessler, William Schuster and Ber-
nard Slaugenhaupt, finished the 9Th
Grade in the local schools, the rest
having done their elementary work
in many different places. In spite Of
having been gathered together from
different schools the class Of 1915 has
record Of accomplishment through
out its high school course and leaves
vacancies in the school activities and
leadership that can hardly be filled inn
mediately. The class members have
pa1ticipated in all kinds of school
activities, including BASEBALL basket
hali. football, debating, chorus work,
MtA khool plays and operettas, and
have the satisfaction of having initial
ed tie first Campus Day" ever held
in tie Kennewick high school. They
also leave as a permanent memorial
to the school fine Elson photograv-
ure, ''The Shepardess," by Lerolle,
costly as well as beautiful picture.
The individual record of the class
follows:
Alice Baxter finished j the eighth
grade at Lewis, Iowa, coming to Ken
newick in 1911 and entering high
school that year as a freshman. She
has participated in basket ball and
slee club and chorus. work and was
2 member Of the Drum Major cast.
her thesis deals with domestic science
The Art of Arts" and she graduates
from the scientific course.
Dorothy Cline finished her elemen-
tary work at Kahlotus, this state, and
entered the freshman class at that
place, later going to Walla Walla
1or her sophomore and junior years.
She came to Kennewick in 1914 and
mas completed the senior year in the
local high school. She has played
basket ball, and is q member of the
slee club and high school chorus. Her
course is English and her thesis
DEALS with the labor question, being
entitled Women and Labor"
Giadys Dague had completed the
elementary work at school district No.
10 Of Benton county. Upon entering
'ne Aennewick high school in 1911, she
cnose the scientific course. She is a
member of the girls glee club and
the high school chorus. She also took
part In the Drum Major. Her thesis
ton"
Mariila Meikle finished her elemen-
saty education at the Cowlitz Bend
s.nooi In Lewis county. Coming to
Aennewlck from Redlands, California,
unere she was a freshman, Marilla
pursued the English course besides
taxing part in basket ball, glee club,
snorus and dramatic work. At pres
cut she is president of the class. She
mas called her thesis political Parties
IN the United States.o
oeulah PEBBLES finished her grade
"o,k at Fairview, Idaho, and contin-
=. .u az ner work for the next three years
arangeville, Idaho. She came to
:. leWick ~ enrolling in the high school
A,.s e beginning of the school year.
n ;aougn a.a Beulah did not participate
n atnletlcs AL here she engaged in them
~ TIE earlier mart of H. LII
conrs She has taken the scientific
Use and has made the subject of
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