Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-03
GOOD WILL HIGH
GRADUATION OF
1916 PROVES A
GRAND Event

|
of 1916 of Good Will High school were
held Friday forenoon at Moody Memo
rial Chapel. The program was:
Music; prayer; music; Salutatory by
! Averil Louise Varnam; class history by
Raymond Lafayette Cannon; music;
grafton, 1.-The American Indian" by
Earle Gerald Clement; essay, Women
in the Hall of Fame" by Lillian Cert
rude Harding; prophecy by Rudolph
William Locke; music; grafton, The
True American Spirit" Edwin Atwood
Mailing, Valedictory by Loring San
ford Strickland; music; awarding Of
diplomas and singing class ode.
The members of the class of 1916
are: President, Edwin Atwood Mailing;
Vice President, Lillian Gertrude Hard
ing; Sec, Helen Bendickta Anderson;
| Treas, Earle Gerald Clement; Arthur
Newton Belyea, Nellie Alberta Booker,
Fred Hood Center Harold Wilson Con-
nor, Raymond Lafayette Cannon, Eve
Ign Christine Joy, Rudolph William
Locke, Ruby Nina Packard. Loring
Sanford Strickland, Arthur Asa Neal,
Averil Louise Varnam.
OF the graduating class Nellie AL
berta Booker Loring Sanford Strick
land and Averil Louise Varnam have
| received an average rank Of not less
than 80 per cent for three years. Fred
Hood Center and Raymond Lafayette
Cannon Of the same class have re-
ceived an average rank of not less than
IS per cent for three years.
The highest departmental honors
which indicate an average rank Of not
less than 95 per cent in three courses
in any one department, were awarded
in mathematics to Edwin Atwood NAL
ing, Loring Sanford Strickland and
Averil Louise Varnam.
The Departmental honors which in
| dictate an average rank of not less
than 95 per cent in two courses in any
one department were awarded in
mathematics to Fred Hood Center
The honorable mention which indi-
Gates an average rank Of not less than
| 80 per cent in three courses in any
one department was given in English
to Raymond Lafayette Cannon and
Averil Louise Varnam in mathematics
| to Raymond Lafayette Cannon.
The 1916 class colors are Maine blue
and white.
7 The following were among the prize
winners Of the class of 1916: Fresh
man prize speaking: Second Prize, 1918,
Edwin Atwood Mailing; Second prize,
1914, Earle Gerald Clement: Thrall
prize, defamation, 1914, Edwin Atwood
Mailing; Lamoureaux prize. Declama-
ton, 1915, Edwin Atwood Mailing;
King prizes, Reading, First Prize, 1915,
Lillian Gertrude Harding; Second
prize, 1915, Nellie Alberta Booker;
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Second prize, 1914, Raymond Lafayette
Cannon; First prize, 1915, Raymond
Lafayette Cannon; Utility diploma,
1915, Earle Gerald Clement.
The Senior class reception was held
Friday evening at Moody Hall. The
usual enjoyable march order was car
ried out, interspersed with vocal and
instrumental selections. This proved
to be one Of the most enjoyable parts
of the program of the week.
Good Will Alumni Day passed off
very pleasantly. In the morning, last
chapel was conducted by the Seniors.
Fred Hood Center announced hymns
and readings Raymond Cannon Of
fered prayer and Edwin Mailing sang
a solo, END Of a Perfect Day" The
exercise closed with the audience sing
ing, "Auld Lang Syne." At noon the
Good Will Band gave a short concert
on the ball field followed by the Alum
nj baseball game in which the Alumni
were beaten 1873. Arey made a great
stop of a grounder and Nutter showed
that he still had his batting eye by
polling out a long two Dagger were
among the features. The wind made
good playing out Of the question.
The day was fittingly closed by the
Alumni banquet and reception presid-
ed over by Norman H. Hinckley, pres
ident of the Alumni Association. The
banquet was served in the Moody
Building Charles F. Nutter, as chora-
gus, led singing in his inimitable fash
ion The Alumni gift of two busts of
Shakespeare and Tennyson were pre-
scented by Lillian Gertrude Harding,
G. w. H. S.. '16 and acknowledged by
Rev. G.. W. Hinckley for the Good Will.
Walter Palmer Hinckley, secretary of
the Good Will Home Association made
a splendid address on the challenge
of the future in which he outlined
what might be expected of Good VIII.
The evening closed with an Informal
reception, letters from absent Alumni
and Alumnae and songs.