St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-05-27
Class President Clifton Keen Vaedctoran Bonnie Noses
Essayists Myrtle Sharp and Wynne Nourse All Make
Showing That Reflects Credit Upon the Faculty.
HON. DELOS R. JOHNSON ADDRESSES THE
GRADUATES WITH SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE
More Flowers Sent to Reward the Efforts of the Young
Speakers Than They Could Garry Without Help. It
Was an Occasion of, BY and For the Graduates.

The large auditorium Of the Cow
ington school building was crowded
to overfiowing Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights. Tuesday night the ex-
ercises were devoted to the primary
ana grammar. grades; Wednesday
nfxht. the high school graduating
class. The stage was beautifully
decorated with green foliage. Easter
lilies, magnolias, potted plants and
chss colors.
PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR
GRADES.
Program.
Third Grade-Playlet, ''valedtc-
tory" by Frank Ellis, William Reed
Or, Mildred Ward, Frederick shef-
aeld. First Grade-Song, Mother
Goose Rhymes" by the class. Sec
ond grade-Dialogue, Three Little
alothers," by Cathrine Burns, Doro-
thy Brown, Irene Reeder. Fourth
Grade-"A Doll Lullaby" by Alice
Brooks, Sophie SECOND. Doris Shef-
Geld, Inez Del Corral, Marietta
Aoueille, Elvira Does, Mary Cham
pagne, Vera Pechon, Augustine Blow,
Isabella Dutsch, Adrian Lloyd. Ethel
Jones, Josephine Leblanc, Mamie
Claud Denman. Fifth grade-Flow-
er Drill, by the class. Second grade
song. Bye Lo Land" by the class.
sixth grade-Playlet tom Sawyer,
By Edward Del Corral, Earl Leblanc.
John Wadsworth. Fourth grade
Song. "Pickanny Babe by Alice
Brooks, Sophie SECOND, Doris Shef-
4 deld, Inez Del Corral, Marietta Ooue-
4lle. Elvira Boes, Mary Pechon, Au-
justine Blow, Isabella Dutsch, Odri-
au Lloyd, Ethel Jones, Josephine Le-
Blanc, Mamie Claude Denman. with
James Bradley as the nanny. Fifth
Hrade-"Our Examination Day." BY
the class, Alma Heintz teacher, Isa-
bel Del Corral visitor, Edward Le-
Blanc bad boy. Fourth grade-Reci-
I tation, Corporal Punishment, by
Dkhel Dossat.
Seventh Grade Graduating Class.
Glass History, BY Clio Clark; pre-
y asentation of a pin to Miss Lucille
Wilbur, for furnishing the music
Marshal Brown.
Presentation of Certificates by
President N. H. FitzSimons of the
School Board, to the following men,
I bers OF the class graduating to the
High School:
Grammar School Graduates.
Eddie Quave, Joseph Ostendorf,
laura Perreand, Cleo Clark, Mar
garet Burns, Mollie Cooper. Thelma
ouave, Dorothy Montgomery. VIII
liam Ellis, Katie Seller, Aline Ken.
nedy, Eruh Brumfield. John Fava-
ron, Jonas Hatch, Adolphine Fred
erick, Louise Meeker, Claudia LIE,
Blanc, Marshal Brown, Elton Ran
son. James Clam.
C0mmencement Exercises OF h1gQ
School Senior Glass.
The interest taken in the High
School commencement exercises wa
greater than has ever been shown
before. and the papers read have
never been of higher order. Sew.
eral of the graduates were out-oi-
town pupils, which in an important
fact, considering the usefulness o
the school not as confined to Covfng
ton, but as an institution that II
available to parish students who may
zAnd opportunity to attend. Clifton
Keen, class president, who read an
Interesting address, lives near ADlte
Springs. He has made daily walks
.<of quite distance in order to catcl
4 the electric car to Covington. AND
the creditable showing he has made
has won the appreciation OF his FAC
1lty and class mates, and indicates
how important it is that the schoo
should remain an accredited school
With nine months term, so that 3ucs
pupils may have an opportunity te
enter college without further prep
saration.
The essays of Miss Myrtle SharT
and Wynne Nourse were most excel
lent papers and won the applause
of the audience. Miss Sharp was un
able to gather in her arms the now
ers that were showered upon her.
Miss Bonnie Moses, the valedic,
torian. recited her paper from mem
DRY, with an uninterrupted smooth
Ness that was remarkable. The ex
4 cellence of her valediction. her pres
ence and delivery was an accomplish
. Aent Of which she may we'll .
y proud. She was the winner OF tn
4 scholarship at the State University
having an average of 96L. the high
seet for the year. We publish shts
PAPER in full, as follows:
VAIlEDICTORY.
When the greatest German poet
md philosopher of the nineteenth
sentury was on his death bed he