The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
DIPLOMAS WILL
Be PRESENTED
TO TH|RTY-SX
High School to Graduate Ex-
ceptionalIy Large Class
ON THURSDAY EVENING
Class Banquet at WalIoomsac Inn
Friday Evening Followed by
Annual Dance.

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class, 36 members. will graduate from
the Bennington high school Thursday
evening. The exercises will be held
at high school hall beginning at 8
| o o'clock. Because the seating capaci-
| ty of the hall is limited the pupils of
| the school, outside of the members of
| the junior class who will act as ushers,
will not be presnt at the exercises. 1t
| is desired that all friends of the gradu-
ating class and all residents who are
interested in the school have oppor-
tunities to attend. In order that the
pupils of the school may not be de-
prived of an opportunity to participate
in commencement week there will be
full rehearsal of the graduation for
their benefit tomorrow forenoon.
The annual banquet of the gradual
ing class will be held at the Walloom-
sac Inn at o'clock Friday evening
and will be followed by the annual
dance The program for the exercises
Thursday evening is as follows:
Professional
High School orchestra
Invocation Rev. w. G. Towart
Grafton, Education and Democracy"
Wilbur Cornelius Lambert
Essay,
The Development of Settlement
Work"
Laura Irene Buss
Solo, "To the West Wind Salter
Helen Margaret Carpenter
Essay,
"The Effect of War upon Litera-
ture"
Helen Elizabeth Lalley
Grafton, "The Man of the Hour"
William Henry Armstrong
Piano Solo, "Fantaisie Impromptu'
Carl Mater
Dorothy Lois Patchin
Essay, "Americanization'
Eleanor Margaret Murphy
Grafton, "Our Duty
Raymond Francis Percy,
President of Glass of 1917.
Music, Paradise of the North"
Bennett
High School orchestra
Presentation of Diplomas.
Music, The Star Spangled Banner"
The audience is requested to remain
seated until after the class has passed
out
The members of the class are:
William Henry Armstrong. Marcia
Mae Baker, Harriet lockwood Burt
Mildred Luella Brown, William War
rem Edward Brown, Laura Irene Buss,
Helen Margaret Carpenter, Mary Jane
Cole, Josephine Sophia Elwell, Mary
Pauline Enright, Wilhelmina Fischer,
Ruth Matilda Godfrey, Alice Emily
Green, Walton Cartwright Harwood,
Pauline Mary Hathaway, Marion
Hathaway, Helen Elizabeth Lalley.
Wilbur Cornelius Lambert, Anna
Mary Leahy, William Joseph Lunder-
gan, Eleanor Margaret Murphy,
Margaret Honora Nash Mary
Bridgid O'Brien, Dorothy Lois
Patchin, Ella May Potter, Fillmore
Ray Paddock, Harold Craig Peart,
Raymond Francis Percy, Lulu Rath-
bun, Josephine Frances Shea, Henry
Tuttle Stickles, Helen Vernoica Sulli-
van. Esther Louise Thompson, Minnie
Belle Thompson, Ruth Winifred Walk
er, Beulah Hannah Whiteley.
The Huling Carter elocution prizes
were awarded to Eleanor Chapman
Hutton and Frederick John Beecher.
Those perfect in attendance for the
year were: Sophia Phoebe Cole,
Aileen Mortimer Culliton, Madeline
Alice Plunkett and Ruth Winifred
Walker.
The baccalaureat sermon was de-
livered Sunday evening at the Baptist
church by the pastor Rev. G. w. To-
wart. The church was prettily deco
rated with lilacs and red and white
triliums and many friends and rela-
tives of the graduating class were
present in the large audience.
Rev. F. l.. Dow, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, read the scripture, and
Rev. George S. Mills offered prayer.
The sermon based upon the theme of
new wine in new bottles, was an i'm
pressive exhortaion to the young peo-
pie who are about to begin their real
life work.
There were vocal selections by the
choir, composed of Mrs L. II. Ross,
Mrs. Walter Townsend. William An
drews and Claiming Fletcher, with
accompaniments by Miss Elizabeth
Welch.