The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-01
Largest Class Ever Turned
Out Below University
in State,
FIRST IN NEW PLANT
List of Diploma Winners in
the Various De-
partments.

The Fairmont State Normal school
will this year graduate the largest
class in the history of,the school when
on Friday, June 8, diplomas will bo
handed to 12S young men and women
of the state.
This is not only the largest class
ever to graduate from the Fairmont
Normal, but is believed to be the larg-
est ever to be graduated from any
state institution with the exception Of
the West Virginia University.
Peculiar interest .centers around the
commencement exercises this year
owing to the fact that this will be the
first to be held in the handsome new
100000 building which was dedtcat-
ed early in April.
Complete plans for the commence
ment week have not been outlined as
yet but will soon be made, A IMAM Of
prominence will be selected to deliver
the commencement address and thu
baccalaureate sermon will ALSO De
preached by an out of town divine.
The Inter society contest will take
place on Thursday evening preceding
the commencement day exercises anG
this will attract large nun ! Aof t4le e,
X te6I teres
The following Is the class which VIII
Rbe graduated from the Normal on Fri.
day, June s, 1917:
NORMAL SENIORS. = Clara Bald
win, D. P. Baughman, Margaret Bebout,
Laura Bradley. Edith Bradshaw, Rosa
Conway, Bertha DIlgard, Anna Don.
ham, Jeannesse Downs, Mary Evans,
Violet Fike, Della Funk, L, C. Furbeo,
Ethel Gantz, Mar" Gildhardt, Gail
Grant, Georgia Gregg, Anna Hammond,
Virgean Hill, Virtue Horner, Helen
Irvine, Grace Kelley, Frances Kinsey,
Guy Kuhn, Mary Laird, Nellie Lam
ham, Nellie McIntire, June Moore, Ger
trude Morgan, Blake Nelly, Frank
Payne, S. o. Phillips, Jean Pollock,
Emma Rexrode, Florence Richardson,
Nell Seckman, Pauline Sntder, Eliza.
beth Stephenson, Dale Stout, Naomi
Straight, Lucy Summers, Paul Thomp
son, Daisy Watkins, L. c. White, Hazel
Whitlatch, Ruth Wilderman, Agnes
Wilkinson, Olive Woodburn, Elizabeth
Roome, Hazel E,lyorth, Edith Stevens
SHORT COURSE SENIoRs-Maud
Anderson, Marguerite Arnold. Virginia
Atkinson, Sally Baker, Marie Barnes,
Eva Bishop, Gertrude Bishop, Lillian
Bobbit, Ruth Borgess., Nina Brooks,
Flossie Brownlee, Marie Cassell, Les
lie Cook. Hazel Crigler Mabel Orig.
Iler, Georgia Critics, Nan Crowley, Ava
Curtis, Lillian Davis, Edith Dodd'
Lucy Foftney, Tressie Frame, Rutn
Gibson, Susan Gibson, Marion Goodins'
George Gregg, Ruth Hamilton, Flor
ence Hawker, Harriet Hicks, Vaiile
Irons, Marie Koehler, Florence KIM
mons, Hazel Lanham, Lulcte Lawson,
GLADYS Tough, Norma Tough, Opal
Mackey, Helen Manley, JAMIE Mat
thews, Caddig Matthews, Maude MeF1i-
field. Irene o'Neil, Mildred Parsons.
Leo Patterson, Caroline Post, Mildred
Penshaw. villa Robinson, Ora Sparkle,
VILLA stenhenson, Ralph Snider,
Madge smith, Ruth Smith, Mary Shinn'
Sadie Sadie shaw, Blanche Sharpe, Rena
Stone, Charlotte Vandiver. N D. WADE,
PHYLLIS Walker, Gail Wells' Aoeialoe
Woodford, osa zinn.
SENIOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bak.
ar W r Bridges, ]. NJ. Dunn, Macel
Findlay, Frank Freeman. J. d, Live
Iy W. D. Miller, Fonzo Prather, Rus
sell sturm, Byron Tenant Harry VIM
cent, D. E. Wells.