Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-22
56 STUDENTS To.
De GRADUATED On.
WEDNESDAY HERE

ters must be relegated to the back
ground.
The class of 1916 is the largest in
the history of the school and perhaps
the largest to be graduated this year
by any high school in Georgia. Just
by way of comparison, the Albany
High school, full accredited school,
has six graduates only, and the
Americus High school has fifty-six to
receive diplomas Wednesday evening at
the High school auditorium.
The exercises will be full of inter
est. Hon. C. Murphey Gambler, chair.
man of the railroad commission OF
Georgia, and one of the best known
men in the state, will deliver the lit
erary address.
Frank Harold, Jr., winner of many
declamation medals, will be valedic
torian, and Miss Ellen Estes, who won
the district recitation medal in 1915,
will deliver the salutatory. Cliff
Wheatley will be class orator.
Special Reserved Seats.
Special reserved seats have been ar
ranged in the center of the auditorium
for lhe parents of the graduates. The
rsembers of the board of education and
tlieir wives will occupy the front seats
in the section of seats on the right of
the chapel This has been arranged in
order that the parents of the graduates
may be assured seats.
Tuesday evening comes the big COM
mencement debate, when contest will
be held for the medal offered by a
citizen of Americus for the best de-
tater in the school, This debate is
open to students in every grade, and
six have announced for the contest.
The subject, Resolved, That The
Welfare of the United States Demands
That a Further Restriction be Placed
TN immigration" is one that is being
H. oil a
country. The admission will be free
and the public is cordially invited to
come and hear heated discussion
between debaters who are thoroughly
acquainted with the issue in hand The
speakers are: Affirmative, Frank Har-
rold, Jr., captain Charles Dunaway
and Wilbur Giddings; negative, Cliff
IIheatley, captain; Edward Mathis and
Henry Allen. In this lineup are three
seniors, Harold, Mathis and Wheatley;
two juniors, Giddings and Dunaway and
one sophomore, Henry Allen.
The senior class this year is divided
Tito two sections, the A. and B. Will
liam Adolphus Dodson, Jr., is presi-
dent of Section A, and Thelmar Wilson
Stewart heads Section B. The entire
senior roll, who receive diplomas We'd
resday evening, are:
Gust Anderson, Emmett Bolton,
Charlie Chambliss, Bill Dodson,
Sherrard Horne, Roy Johnson,
Edward Mathis, c. j. Sherlock,
T. w. Stewart, Henry Walker,
Bennie Webb, Daniel Witt, Cliff Wheat
ley. Frank Sheffield, Henry .Lumpkin,
Carroll Clark, owen Poole, Frank
Harold, John Gray Cary Harden,
Charles Crisp, Miss Kathryn Argo, Miss
Elizabeth Davis, Miss Elizabeth Ed
ridge, Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Mary
Glover, Miss Matte Lou Horne, Miss
Mary Hudson 'iss Gladys Hutchison,
Miss Cordelia Gatewood, Miss Anna
Murray. Miss Mary Hawkins, Miss
Ellen Estes, Miss Annie Allen, Miss
Bessie Bivins, Miss Verna Johnson,
Miss Susie Mae Law, Miss Minnie Lee,
Miss Eugenia Parker, Miss Genevieve
Prather, Miss. katherine Smith, Miss
Alice Perry, Miss Edna Monahan, Miss
lois McMath, Miss Nellie Weeks, Miss
Ruth Tomlinson, Miss Reva Dupree,
Miss Mary Cranberry, Miss Beauford