The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-05-30
commencement Exercises of ths
Dillon High School.

the Dillon High School began Tues
day evening. May 21, with orator
ical contests between boys and girls
OF the Woodrow Wilson Literary
Society. These contests were unique
in that the orations were the origi-
nal compositions of the participants
The young lady contestants and
their subjects were as follows:
Miss Rosa Bailey, The Fire Scene
Miss Julia Bethea, Boys and Girls,
You are the Hope of the World.
Miss Estelle Brady. The Part the
Red Cross is Playing
Miss Julia Bethea was decided as
winner in this contest
The young men contestants and
their subjects were:
Douglas Salmon, Why We Fight.
Eddie Barlow, The Great Evil
America is Fighting.
Mr.. Barlow was awarded the de-
cision in this contest
Other features of the program
were (1) jones by Miss Louise Biz
zard, and CD music by members of
Miss kritZ's department.
On Wednesday evening there was
given IN Operretta by the pupils of
the elementary grades under the di-
rectIon OF Misses Ragsdale, Black,
Cloud and Coppedge. The presenta-
ton showed good training of pupils,
which WAS the principal purpose of
the play y secondary purpose was
TO add 10 the library fund to help
pay for two valuable sets of books
recently added TO the library: Cd
Child's Book OF knowledge and the
international Encyclopedia. The total
proceeds We're $4,000 and the eX-
penses OF buying curtains and other
things called for We're about $500.
On Thursday evening were gradu-
atlng exercises. The class of 1918,
consisting Of seven boys and thir-
teen girls, was the largest in the his
tory OF the High School. The Class
program was as follows:
Salutatory-Miss Edith Squires.
Class HiStory-Mr. Eddie Thomp-
son
Class Poem-Miss Doris Caldwell.
Class Prophecy-Mr. Osborne Be
thea.
Scrapbag - Miss Christine Ed
wards
Class Will-Miss Estelle Brady.
Naledictory-Mr. Dexter Evans.
Music by members of the class and
pupils of the music department.
The great feature was the address
by Congressman j. W. Ragsdale
II a
to see the class graduate.
The following medals and prizes
were presented:
I. B. Stackhouse medal To the
writer Of the best Tenth Grade es-
say was presented to Mr.. Dolph Brad
d. by Mr.. J. B. Gibson.
The Bcll-Jordan medal for the
best orator was presented to Miss
Julia Bcthea by Rev Mr.. Chandler.
Fhe Morris Fass medal for the
be- boy orator was presented to
Mr.. C...rIos Barlow by Mr.. Moore.
The Ma. Fass medal, for the best
"ound 81" in the high school
Va. arded IL Mr.. Dolph Brady.
The 49,. W. Is. uncan prize of
$500, for NE best ii iory of Dillon
county. was awarded i, ir Dolph
Braddy. by Mr.. Muller.
The prize for the best boy actor
in the opel>ltta was awarded to Pow
ell Jones.
The prize Iur the best girl actor in
operretta was awarded to Miss Ber-
tha Fass.
Commencement exercises closed
with recital OF Miss Adele Kritz's
Music Department Tuesday evening
May rs. The recital was very high
class and was fine testimony to the
fine work of this department. An
interesting feature of this recital
was the Little Tot Drill of the pri-
mary department, presented by
Misses kritz and Mckenzie.
For best home practice medals