Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-06-13
CLOSING WEEK OF
SCHOOL EVENTS
Important Speaker Tonight. Com
mencement Tomorrow Evening
and Alumni Meet Friday.

This is a busy week in school cir
cles. Every evening marks some
event.
At 8 o'clock tonight occurs the
grammar school graduation exercises
in Alumni hall and G. NJ. Hill will be
the speaker. Mr. Hill is supervisor
of the Junior high school work of the
state and a welI-known educator. He
will bring a message on educational
topics worthy of a large audience.
The regular commencement exer-
cises of the high school will take
place in Seaver's hall tomorrow eve
ming. Following is the program.
Musical selection, Orchestra
Invocation, Rev. Wilmond A. Warner
Salutatory, Miss Daisy M. Sherburne
The Possibilities of Alaska,
Clifton r. Dunham
Piano solo, Miss Florence M. Blair
The Virgin Islands,
Miss Clara NJ. Barnard
The Russian Revolution,
Lee E. Emerson
Trio, The Misses Florence z. Miles,
Theda M. Dunham, |. Lillian
Mason.
The Future Farm of America,
Albert D. Gilmour
Silent Places,
Miss Rose M. Sherburne
Musical selection, Class Ode
Presentation of Gifts,
Miss Hazel NJ. Brahana
Valedictory, Miss Vera M. Carpenter
Musical selection,
Training Class Song
Words by Miss Elizabeth Y. Simon,
music by Miss Florence NJ. Blair
Presentation of Diplomas,
Dr. J. A. Pearson
Benediction, Rev. Wilmond A. Warner
Musical selection, Orchestra
There viii be dancing from close of
program until 1900.
Friday evening the Alumni associ-
alton will meet for a social event IN
Alumni hall. The usual banquet
is to be omitted as q wartime exam
pie of economy. In the afternoon
class reunions will be held in the hall
at 2.30 o'clock.
Last evening the grade pupils gave
a musical entertainment IN Seaver's
hall which has come to be an annual
event looked forward to by pupils and
public. The entertainment was in
the form Of folk dances and songs of
the nations by the youngsters of the
lower grades. Many nations were
represented, each national group
having a standard bearer carrying
the flag of the nations. The opening
and closing numbers showed Uncle
Sam and the stars and stripes as the
predominating nation and the singing
of ''The Star Spangled Banner"
brought the very successful enter
tainment to a close. Miss Ruggles,
music teacher, had the training and
oversight of this event and she is to
be congratulated.
The junior reception to the gradu-
ating class at Alumni hall Monday
evening was a brilliant affair. The re-
ceiving line was long, the music fur
nishedns by the high school orchestra
goods the dancing and promenading
enjoyed and the refreshments boun-
tiful. The orchestra is composed of
Elizabeth Cutler, piano; Henry Cut
Ter, violin; Neil Gardiner, drum and
Perley Drew, clarinet. The hall was
not elaborately, but very neatly dec
Grated
An event which cannot be called a
strictly commencement-week event,
but nevertheless deserves mention,
was the Japanese operetta, Princess
Chrysanthemum," given in Seaver's
hall Wednesday evening of last week
by the glee club OF the academy. The
cast was printed last week and the
work of the young people is to be es-
pecially commended when it is known
that many of those in the cast were
out of school doing farm work, which
made rehearsals almost impossible
AS someone remarked, the presenta-
tion was really dress rehearsal, but
so good one that the audience was
high in praise of the event. Miss
Ruggles also had charge of this en-
tertainment.