New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
GRADUATION PLANS
 PERFECTED TODAY
St. Mary's School, Glass of 1916,
 Ready to Receive Diplomas

All details connected with the grad
 uation exercises of St. Marys school, which will take place Sunday after noon at o'clock in the church, have
 been completed. Solemn vespers will be sung before the exercises are com menced with the following guests Of fciating Rev. John T. Winters cele ] brant; Rev. William Krause, deacon;
 Rev. Thomas McKeon, sub-deacon;
 Rev. John D. Fay, master of cerc- monies. Professor F. F. Harmon will preside at the organ. At the close of Nespers, Father Winters will present the diplomas and the graduation ser mon will be preached by Rev. William
 o Brien of Thomaston, formerly of this city, Officers of the class are as follows: President, Cyril James Cur tin; vice president, Grace Mildred
 Foster; secretary Agnes Marie Me- Namara; treasurer, William Gerald Curtin.
 Gold medals of excellence for high est rank in scholarship will be award ed the following, each of whom led
 one of the four rooms into which the
 class is divided: Catherine Anne Bot
 ticelli, Agnes Marie McNamara. An drew Albert Rotosky and George John Lazorick. For second highest rank, gold medals will be awarded the fol- lowing: Mary Agnes McInerney, Ma
 bel Mary Lucey, Edward Joseph Fa- gan and David Clement Mahoney.
 Premiums for scholarship will be awarded the following: Julia Mary Burns, Margaret Mary Grove, Helen Lorraine Janelle, Marie Antoinette Massey, Anna Marie Cullinan, Gather inc Marie Heck, Alexander. Tutles, William Edward Hagerty. Everett Jo seph Arbour, Richard Philip Murphy, James Anthony Storey, George Ed ward Janelle.
 Premiums for English composition will be awarded the following: Mar garet Veronice Jackson, Rose Gather inc Arata, Francis Joseph Sullivan, William Gerald Curtin. The contest started by Rev. w. A. Harty Branch, A. o. II. for essays to be written by graduates, resulted in the following winners and prizes will be awarded them: First prize, "Mothcr McCaulcy' Bernadette Anna Conlon; Irish His tory" Catherine Mary Dalton; The Irish Soldiers Work for America John Aloysious KenneE; "EducatiOn,' David Clement MahoneN; second prize Irish Poetry," Alice Eliza beth Bart lett" "The Penal Laws.' Mary Agnes Malley; "The Irish Hero,' Thomas Francis Meaghen, Cyril ames Cur tin; 'Daniel OConnel," Frederick Anil Beloin. Honorable mention will be awarded the following: "The Af- hctions of Ireland," Mary Agnes Me- Inerney; "A Famous Hyphenated American" Helen Cecelia Connolly; Ireland, the Prosecuted" Selma Mary Dube; Thomas Moore,' Mabel Yer onica O'Marra; "The Irish in the United States,'' Margaret Veronica Jackson; '"The Isle of Saints and Scholars,' Rosalie Margaret Halli- nan; "Education in Ireland," Mildred Naomi Fitzgerald; Saint Columba,'' Helen Catherine Roche; ''The Irish in the United States," Alma Mary Berard; The End of the Milesian Rule,' Mary Agnes Donahue; Rob ert Emmett, the Irish Martyr" Jo- seph William OKeefe; John Boyle O'Reilley, the Irish Exile and Loved Poet" Harold Joseph Ward; The Hero of Quebec, Richard Montgom- cry" Francis Joseph Sullivan: The Hero of Temperament William Ed ward Hagerty; '"The Desire of the Irish for Independence" Alexander
  George Joseph Beckett; "Catholic Emancipation" George Edward Ja- nelle; "Isle of Saints and Scholars" George John Lazorick; Revolution in Ireland,' James Francis O'Brien; Treaty of Limerick" James Anthony Storey.
 Premiums will be awarded the fol- lowing for excellence in domestic science; Veronica Clare Noble, Mary Perpetua Reilly. The following re- ceive honorable mention for scholar ship; Mary Abetz, Grace Foster, Mary German, Marguerite Liegey, Berna- dette Conlon, Helen Conlin, Ursula Dricino, Kathleen Riley, Marian Cash en, Margaret Jackson, Mary Feore, Veronica Noble. Helen Con- molly, Helen Seman, Alice Bartlett, Anna Cunningham, Gladys Daly, Margaret Hyland, Anna Jack son, Alice Marshall, Marion O'Neil, Harold Ward, Cyril Curtin, John Ken ney, James Kelley, Edward O'Reilly John Meehan, Joseph O'Keefe, Fran cis Sullivan, Joseph Campbell, James Donahue, William Ramsey, Harold Brophy, William Grem, Thomas ker- in, Frederick Beloin, Hugh Coyle, Bernard Foster. Clement Grace. Will liam Humason, Edward Lyman, Ed