The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-12
BETHEL
IS Diplomas Were Awarded at the High
School Commencement.


IS Diplomas Were Awarded at the Higl
School Commencement.
The high school graduating exercise,
We're held last evening at the town hall
which was well filed Notwithstanding
the rainy weather. The marshal wal
Averill Rogers, 10 who first guided his
classmates to the front row of seats II
the auditorium and then led the IL mem
bers OF the senior class to chairs on the
platform. The musical talent in thu
class was very much in evidence through
the double quartet which sang twice
Leonard Fish, also OF the class, accom-
panying the singers on the piano. The
essays and orations OF the evening were
unusually well memorized and well deliv-
cred. John j. Wilson, on presenting the
! diplomas, took occasion to comment on
the faithful work of the teachers, not
only of the high school, but of the grades,
and said the payroll OF the district was
the largest last year it has ever been.
He also announced that University of
Vermont scholarships with 800 each year
for four years had been awarded on mer
it to Veda Davis and Philip Noble The
class motto was, Deeds, Not Words"
Excellent music was furnished by Gil
sons orchestra enlarged to eight pieces.
The salutatory essay was by Dorothy
May Church on "The Making of Great
err Vermont and the valedictory was by
Veda Belle Davis on american Immi
Igration." Other oratons and essays were
on unseen Forces" by Kenneth Elton
Spaulding "The Submarine" Leonard
Willis Fish; "The Ancient Types of
Man." Philip Durkee Noble; and Origins
of Customs" Mildred Elizabeth Shaw.
Charles H. Scott of Plymouth is can
didate for appointment 10 an assistant
judgeship of Windsor county left vacant
by the death of Milo S. Buck of Caven-
dish.
Commencement visitors included Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph P. Shaw of Norwood,
Mass, and Mrs. B. G. Sterling of Mont
pelier.
Seth M. Washburn has returned from
his trip to the Pacific coast.
Miss Mae Campbell of Lyndonville is a
guest at A. Lee Cady's.
George A. Ingalls, has been i'll most OF
the week with a hard attack OF gravel,
from which he is somewhat better :.
The class of 1915 just graduated from
high school enjoyed ride to
Barnard to-day.
Children's day exercises will be held at |
the Methodist church tomorrow at lO:45
o'clock, followed by the Sunday school. |
State Highway Commissioner S. b. |
Bates of Derby was here yesterday.
Z. ID. Gushing and family have returned
from the Dean academy commencement |
at Franklin. Mass, where Misses Mary
and Irene Gushing were members of the
graduating class. Miss Mary Cushing
was awarded the gold medal as the most
popular girl in the school, by vote of her
associates, and also won prize for the
,est prose composition.
Diplomas certifying their completion
If eight grades of study were presented
afternoon by John Wilson,
hartman of the school board, to the fol.
owing 10 young people at the close of
interesting exercises at the town hall:
darion Bates, Amy Boyce, Enid Datson,
Annis Davis, Edward Davis, Marion !
rant, Edna Hanna, Alice King, Geneva |
.illcy, Mary Marsh, Gilman Marshall, Al I
ert Minner, Roland Newton, Grace
,wen, Dorothy Parker, Roscoe Perkins, .
florence Persons, Earl Spauding and /,
'uth Warden The program was as fol. /
ows: Prayer; welcome song BY tn. I
school; sanitation and rollcall. >
lbert Minner recitation, Ruth Warden. =,
lass history, Gilman Marshall; canoe I
Dng by the grammar school: class proph. /"
~. Alice King, recitation, Marion
rant; recitation, Edward Davis: pres r
NATION of gifts, Geneva Lllley; trio, 3
dns Hanna, Ruth Warden and Marion
rant; recitation, Roland Newton class
Ill, Annis Davis; yaledictory, Dorotny 8,
arker; presentation of diplomas, John );
Wilson; class song by the eighth grade
eference was made to the good work :
Miss Pearle Ralph, teacher of the sew. =,
lth and eighth grades. who will return "
'xt year. In his address to the class -
r. Wilson recommended the classica
urse in high school as the most salts :"
Glory. There was a good audience, but
e enjoyment OF the program was .a
AIRED by heavy rain falling upon the ~
Of, which rendered much that was said
audible. This was the eighth grammar 81
hool graduation held by the school and 'e
2 class was equal to the largest The
tito, Work and Win" appeared in gilt "a
tiers upon the evergreen background u
is r. c. Putnam had charge of the mu- IL
, Miss Marion Adams was piano ac.
npanist, and Albert Minner violin &C. IN
npanist. AZ
Wallace Batchelder spent part Of the SCI
ek in Chelsea attending Orange county
art, where he had three cases.
Misses Edith and Esther Gilman are Ia
me from New York City, where they tn
mt the year In college. IN