The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-21
The B. H. S. Commencement
The Banquet Ball and Graduating Exer-
cises Very Successful.

clses Very Successful.
The senior class banquet was served at
the Baptist vestry at p. m. June 18Th
The room was very simply decorated
with yellow and purple, the class colors
Yellow drapery was hung at the doors
and the supporting pillars were wound
with strips of crepe paper. The table
decorations were principally yellow tulips
The seniors were seated on the STAGE
over which hung their class motto, "On-
ward and Upward" in purple letters on a
yellow surface. After the guests, in
cluding parents, relatives and friends,
were seated the class marched in and
took their places at the tables reserved
for them. The menu was abundant and
delicious, including cold chicken, salads
of all kinds, relishes, hot rolls, assorted
cake, ice cream and coffee. Ralph A.
Bramhall, B. H. s. 1909, the toast master,
was detained at his duties as cashier of
the City National Bank on the Liberty
Loan sale, and the informal speeches
were omitted. Principal William T.
Faulkner presided, and after few humor-
Gus remarks which were greeted with
applause by the school, announced the
class history by Howard White Hatch.
The class numbered Al when it entered
the school; 55 the sophomore year, 90 the
junior year and graduates with 26 mem
har A trib r,oiI To To,
Littlefield, who died in his sophomore
year. Two members left in their senior
year, Vaughn E. Hayes, to accompany
his parents to the Pacific coast, and Ben
Parker to enlist in the United States
Navy. AS juniors the class was promi-
nent in the Senior Athletic Association.
They had representatives in the Lyford
speaking contest at Colby College and in
the Discussion League at the University
of Maine. The oldest member was %,
the youngest 10; the heaviest weighed
169 and the ightest 95 pounds; the short
est was feet and inches and the tallest
about feet 1t was a good paper and
well presented.
The Misses Dexter and Macomber were
bright, witty and perfectly natural as
they presented the class gifts, in every in
stance to the embarrassment of their
classmates and the merriment of the un-
dergraduates. The gift table resembled
a toy shop.
In behalf of the Athletic Association
Archie Robinson presented Principal
Faulkner with beef steak set. Later
the seniors presented him with clock to
match the desk set from the freshmen
The juniors also presented Mr.. and Mrs.
Faulkner with a pyra casserole and sugar
tongs The school presented Miss Achorn
with an electric table lamp, and the
senior class gave her cut glass and sill
yer pitcher These three teachers had
resigned.
The prophecy by Archie Robinson and
Pembroke Carter was received with re-
peated applause by the undergraduates.
who knew the conditions that prompted
these prophets to see ministers, doctors,
dancers, suffragists, old maids, singers,
families, etc, in the seniors who had
monopolized the school dignity for the
past year.
The class will was read by Howard
Edmund Wilson He very graciously
left the rear of the assembly room to the
juniors to use as they pleased to the
sophomores the ability to decorate as
well as the juniors of 1917; to the fresh
men the French grammarS; to the or
chestra, tuning forks to take the place of
Miss Dexter, pianist There were many
minor bequests that showed clearly the
generosity of the class of 1917 to the B.
H. S. teachers and pupils.
The program folders for this occasion
were neat and attractive and included
the names of the senior class and it's
officers as follows:
Gladys Bradford, Charles Pembroke
Carter, Doris Vera Coombs, Madeline
Orilla Coombs, Edna Verena Curtis, Har-
old Sturgis Dexter, Lillian Gray Dexter,
Florence Mabel Donnell, Ruby Olive Fair
brother, Charles Everett Getchell, How
ard White Hatch, Bernys Pratt Holt,
Frances Hester Macomber, John Benja-
min Parker, Marion Estelle Parsons,
Ralph Warren Peavey, Ola Belle Redman,
Archie Robinson, Donald Merle Shute,
Rachel Caroline Tibbetts, Ira Sylvester
Trundy, Mildred Louise Ward, Keith
Bernard Weymouth, Howard Edmund
Wilson, Kenneth Bertrand Wyman, Grace
Margaret Mitchell.
President, Harold Sturgis Dexter; Vice
President, Grace Margaret Mitchell; Sec
retary and Treasurer, Bernys Pratt Holt.
Later in the evening all the pupils ac-
companied by their teachers went to Odd
Fellows Hall which was never more at
tractive than that night, when it was dec
grated in the class colors for the ball. The
doors were hung with yellow draperies,
held back with purple ropes and rosettes.
and the stage where McKeen's orchestra
was stationed, was in the same colors, a