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throughout the 10 years of schooling
received by the eight graduated Mon
day night, the forty-third annual com.
mencement of st. Vincent de Paul's
high school was of most instructive
and interesting nature.
The commencement exercises, of a
type rarely found in recent years,
where each individual to be graduated
had part in the exercises and whose
part reflected the benefit gained
through the schooling now completed
as well as the painstaking care and
labor that had been bestowed in prep
aration in order to display the very
best each speaker had to offer, were
most pleasing in their variation from
the usual commencement exercises.
The auditorium was packed to ca
pacity with highly appreciative au-
dience and many more crowded the
entrance to hear the efforts of the
seven Seniors to be graduated as they
entertained with educational, histor-
lCdl anu musical NUMBERS.
The auditorium was beautifully dec
GRATED with the class colors, purple
and gold, and the stage decorations
of seasonable flowers and shrubbery
were most tastefully arranged.
The essays delivered by the mem
bers of the graduating class we're all
nf q biob Ordar opd u,ara bopdIad
with the ease that only training and
thorough knowledge of the subject
can give.
From the time of the opening piece
on the piano by Miss Marie Harring-
ton until the close of the class ad-
dress by Rev. FIR. Teipe of Danville,
the audience voiced its appreciation
of the numbers by hearty applause.
Worthy of especial note were the
musical numbers: as There Any Bet
ter Country Than the g. S. Az" by
the boys chorus; "The Coquette,"
violin solo, by Miss E. Seibold, accom-
panied by Miss Harrington on the
piano; the selections by the three
part vocal chorus, and the four-part
vocal chorus and piano solo by Miss
E. Williams.
In presenting the diplomas, Rev. L.
w. Mulhane spoke of the pleasure it
gave him to wish success and good
fortune to the young people with
whom he had so long been associated
as they stood on the threshold of life.
and also of the pain caused by the re-
Election that his association with
them could not be so close in the fu-
ture as it had been in the past.
He urged the class TO face the
problems of life with the same cour-
age and determination that they had
displayed with those of the class
room, and referred to the teaching
accorded them in the school course
which tends toward the making of
good citizens, namely: the fear of
God, the love of country and pas
sion for knowledge.
He then presented diplmas to the
following: Mary M. Bennett, Cecilia
Rose Drake, Carl A. Durbin, Esther
e. Feeney, Ellen Mary Ogg, Loretta
G. Mccormick and Catherine L. Web
err
The class address by FIR. Teipe of
Danville was very short. FIR. Teipe
said at the beginning of his address
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ter congratulating the class upon the
attainments signified by the COM
mencement, the speaker urged upon
them a steadfastness in their faith
and an application of their talents
and energies to life's tasks that would
win for them the respect of their fel-
low men and individual success for
themselves.
Previous to the presentation of di-
plomas, the certificates of admission
to the high school were awarded to
the following members of the eighth
grade Coreta Weber, Mary Boyle,
Irene Weber, Catherine Andreas,
Louise George, Elsie Williams, Helen
Boyle, Dorothy Starner, Edmund Nc
Cormick, Frederick Oborne, Robert
Flanagan, Lee McDonough, John
Meade, Louis Krempel and Louis
George.
In addition to these, Western Pen
man certificates were awarded to the
following: Louise George, Dorothy
Starner, Irene Weber, Elsie Williams
and Paul Blubaugh.
Those receiving Palmer certificates
were. Catherine Andreas, Helen
Boyle, Robert Flanagan, Louis Krem'
pei, Louis George, John Meade, Ed
mund Mccormick, Lee McDonough
Frederick Oborne and Coreta Weber
Martin Thiel of this city received a
message Monday evening from his
wife, who has been at the bedside OF