The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-22
COMMENCEMENT
WEEK IS HERE
EXERCISES WILL BE SERIES OF
MEMORABLE EVENTS--LIST OF
PRIZE WINNERS - LARGE
CLASS.

While the program for the High
School commencement of Friday
evening has not yet been completed,
it is probable that the presentation
address will be made by Professor
| Murphy, of the University of Flori-
da. The music will be furnished by
| the High School Glee Club, which has
done such excellent work during the
year under the direction of Mrs Nita
| Osborn Benn, and the Girls, decla-
nation contest, for the P. K. Young
medal. and the boys contest for the
| A. f. Paderick medal, viii be interest
| ing features of the program.
Tickets will be delivered TO the
| senior class on Monday morning, be-
ginning at nine o'clock, five to each
member of this class, and on Tues
| day morning, beginning at the same
| hour, the members of the Junior class
/ will each be presented with one ticket,
| with the privilege of purchasing two.
! 1t has been necessary for the past
| two years to charge nominal sum
! for the admission of the public, ow-
/ ing to the fact that it is now impos-
| sible to extend a general invitation,
/ the senior class having so increased.
| In 1910 there were nine graduates, in
| 1911 there were nine; in 1912, ten
/ 1913, fifteen; 1914, there were twenty
/
1 four. This makes a total of more
| than one hundred and fifty admits
| sions for the senior class alone.
The small sum charged is used to
/ help defray the expenses of the com
meneement. The tickets to the gen
| eral public will go on sale at the
| Central Pharmacy on Wednesday
morning, at fifteen cents apiece.
| The young ladies who have entered
q a u M a
/ are Erma Graham, Minnie Reed,
| Norma Holt The young men who
will contest for oratorical honors are
Dixon Carter, Reginald DeSilya, Den
! I'll Coleman, Bryan Vaughn.
The medals will be presented to
! Reginald DeSilva, winner Of the
| Blount composition medal, and to
| Clarence Friedman, winner Of the
| Shakespeare medal. The graduating
1 class is the largest in the history of
| the High School, numbering thirty
| four, and includes Matilda Brown,
Katherine Friedman, Eleanor Mitch
ell, Norma Holt, Jake Kahn, Julius
| Bowes, Clarence Friedman. Erma
Graham, Ethel Dewberry, Margaret
Dewberry, Sam Barrow, Emma Day
Wolfe Adelaide Garfield, Eunice
Gerson, Minnie Reed, Ben Solomon,
Bryan Vaughn, Dixon Carter, Denzil
Coleman, Rebecca Soloman. G. J.
Oerting, William McLane, Mary Fair
Irwin, Forsyth Caro-, Vesta Dilger,
Reginald DeSilva, Lola Thompson,
/ Harold White, Billy Roberts Ruth
Hayden, Rose Lybrand, Rob Mobiles,
VIII Daniel. Kathleen Van Pelt.
Seated on the platform with the
students will be Professor C. w. Cole
man, principal; Mr.. William Tyler,
| business department: Mr.. II. l. De-
Wolfe. mathematics and science; Miss
Josie Loftin, English; Miss Bitch,
Latin; Miss Maude Suter. History, and
French; Miss Helen Carter, Domestic
Science and Art; Miss Irna DeSilTa,
English, Latin and Spanish; Mrs. NJ.
Il. Sehornhurst; Science and mathe-
natics; Miss Flora Cox, mathematics.
From now to the Alumni banquet on
Saturday evening. May 9th, the p
| H. S. students have the week filled
with various school pleasures and
activities, including Glass Day exer-
| cises on Wednesday afternoon. the
Domestic Science and Art exhibit Of
J Miss Helen Carters class, also a fea-
, ture of wednesday. the High School
play on the evening of Thursday, and
a bay party for the Juniors on Wed
nesday evening, and a number of in.
J formal pleasures besides.
Glass Day Exercises.
Introduced into the school by the
, tin, in 1914, the class day exercises
= come to represent to the student!
one of the most sacred Inspire
tional of school institutions, and or
Wednesday, afternoon at four O'Clock
| a program will be rendered in the
High School auditorium, followed bS
. the beautiful Flower Walk on tht
; campus.
At this, the last class meeting Of
the seniors the friends of the stu
) dents will be entertained with a pro
gram both humorous and serious in
its scope.
The emblem given by the class OIL
) 1914, an ak symbolicaI Of mora,
) strength, will be presented to the
Juniors by the senior class, repre-
sentative of class ideals.
The Flower Walk has been planned
= very carefully by Miss Josie Loftin.
, who has taken SO much interest in
this feature since it was introduced
by her into the school, and the girls
in their dainty white dresses, with
/ the long chain Of green studded with
the class flower, the sweet pea, will
! make a beautiful picture on the
school campus. But II is not the
| beauty OF the celebration, nor the
? / pleasures which are enjoyed. which
, are features dearest to the hearts OF
| the students; it IS the class LOYALTY
and conservation to the conceptions
of duty which are tXpified in the
beautiful program. which is as fol
lows:
Professional.
Piano solo-Marguerite Dewberry.
: Glass History-Norma Holt.
, Reading-Mary Fair irwin.
Glass Statistics-Dixon Carter
Vocal Soio-Irma Graham.
Glass Prophecy-Eunice Gerson.
Class Will-Denzil Coleman.
Glass Song-Words by Norma
Holt
occasional.
| Flower Walk.
{ CLASS PLAY.
This year for the first time IN ths