The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-05-12
tURy MEMBER Of
: GLASS MAKES THE
AvRAGt KtQUIREO
TWENTY-FIVE CERTIFICATES ARR
AWARDED AT MCDOWELL
SCHOOL.
IMPRESSIVE EXERCISES ARE HELD
Maybe" oerryberry High Honor Pupsk
Winning q Number Of Medals-NeaAs
For Larger School Building Empha.
sized-cIass Address BY J. !. FinnsE.

Class day exercises were held q
Mcdowell school Thursday and q.
class of twenty-five boys and grin
received the eighth grade certificates.
This is the first time in the history q
the class that every member of tho
grade passed the required examination.
and received a certificate It was 4
hundred per cent class.
The exercises were impressive and
appropriate and the school building
was filed with the parents and friends
Of the school, all members Of the ninta
district advisory board, the county So
perintendent and Capt. Hiram l. Heud.
ley director emeritus of the scho0R,
attended.
The following program was rem
dered:
Salutatory-Miss Frances McFalI.
Glass Will-Miss Marguerite Rus
SELL
Glass Poem-Miss Marion Heaton.
Glass Prophesy-Miss Sara Burns.
neutrality-suspicious. Derryberry.
Address to Class. |. Finney, editor
of The Herald.
Delivery Of Certificates-John r.
Graham, county superintendent.
Reading Grades-Mrs TomlinsOn,
principal.
Presentation of Medals-Dr. Samuel
D. Logan, pastor of the Garden Stree
Presbyterian church.
The medals wer awarded as fol-
lows:
Faculty Scholarship, Department and
observation-disclosures Derryberry.
Vogue (History)-Sarah Burns.
Knebel (Mathematics) -Mayhsw
Derryberry
Hendley (Spelling)-Boyd Gran
ford.
Primary, Scholarship, Departments
and Attendance-Eugene Afford.
Attendance.
Perfect attendance, neither absent
nor tardy during the term.
First Grade-Juanita Edmiston, Eu-
gene Afford.
Second Grade-Edith Handson, Mat
tie Russell, Cecil Eskew. Jesse Owen.
Third Grade-Charles Hanaway, s.
G. Patterson.
Fourth Grade-Allison Webster,
Jack Hill, Case Hopkins, William
Parks.
Fifth Grade-Oma Morton, Marquee
rite Martin, Mary Russell, Elise Stone,
VIM. Gordon, Homer Owen and VIII
liam Owen.
Sixth Grade-Helen Hopkins, Hilda
Journey, Elizabeth Armstrong, Frank
Watkins, Thomas Joyce, Webb Eskew,
George Hannaway, Charley Parks.
Seventh Granddaughter Derryber-
ry. james Morton, Houston Maxwell.
Margaret Russell, Frances Speed.
Frances McFall, Sarah Burns, Blanche
Stone.
Girls absentees In all Of the classes
for year, 35: boys. 46.
Highest Grades.
First Scholarship average,
Eugene Afford, 95; general average
Eugene Afford. IS.
Second Grade-Scholarsh average.
James Adkisson, 80; general average,
Edith Hanson, 90; Matte Russell, 80.
Tie
Third Grade-Scholarship average
Dorothy Steiner, So; general average
Dorothy Steiner, SO.
Fourth Grade-Scholarship average.
Case Hopkins. 3d. general average.
Almer Hanson, SO.
Fifth Grade-Scholarship average.
William Gordon. 81 general average.
Bruce White. "a.
Sixth Grade-Scholarship average,
Helen Hopkins, 939; general average,
Helen Hopkins, 93.9.
The exercises this morning made
plain the need for larger building.
The main auditorium of the school Ia
so small that not more than three OF
the seven grades can ever be seated
at the same time. It was necessary
this morning in order to make room for
the visitors, to request a majority OF
the children to remain at home, thus
depriving them Of the privilege and
pleasure of witnessing the class day
exercises, something that should never
be necessary. The visitor is impressed
with the fact that this elementary
school. one of the best in the state, In
lacking in one essential only but sadly,
sadly lacking in that, and that is an
adequate building. It is to be hoped
that the citizens of the Ninth district