The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1918-05-26
CLASS EXERCISES ARE TO
BE HELD THURSDAY
NIGHT.
TEACHERS NAMED
Trustees Hect Practically
Complete Faculty For The
Ensuing Session.

Next Friday will mark the close Of
the 1917-lS session Of the public
schools of the city, and the com
mencement program will be inaugu-
rated Thursday night, when students
in the eleventh grade will hold class
exercises at the Stephen D. Lee High
School On account of the fact that
another grade has been added to the
curriculum, there will be no gradu-
ating exercises this year, but class
officers for the ensuing session will
be installed Thursday night and the
program will embrace other interest
ing features, while on Friday night
a number of the students will apear
in a minstrel performance.
The election for the ensuing SEES
sion was recently held and resulted
in numerous changes, three new teach
ers having been added to the High
School faculty, while others were
named to fill vacancies caused by
designations. Prominent among the
new teachers elected is Prof Leland
Hume, who Is son of Vice Chancel-
lor Hume of the University of Missis-
sippi, and who last year was a mem
berofthe public school faculty at West
Point. Other notable additions to
the faculty are Miss Irene Bass, Of
Greenville, and Miss Bonnie Jean
Byrd, of Newton. both of whom last
week received diplomas at the Missis-
sippi Industrial Institute and College.
Both Prof r. NJ Good, who last
year served as principal of the High
School, and Prof. J. F. Lee, who
directed the business course, have
rendered their designations, but their
places have not yet been filled
Prof. j c. Meadows was reelected
superintendent at al increased salary
and the salaries Of teachers were also
increased. The scale for grammar
school teachers, which formerly rang
ed from $55 to $40 per month, now
range from $65 to Ss5, while high
school teachers, who formerly were
paid SIS per month, are now on
sliding scale ranging from s75 to 800
per month.
The following is the complete
faculty for the session of 191S-19:
Superintendent, Prof. ]. c. Mea-
dows.
Stephen D. Lee High School-Miss
Thelma West, Miss Lenora Wood
ward Miss Mary Lou Peyton, Mrs.
f. B. Stinson, Miss Irene Bass, Miss
Bonnie Jean Byrd, Prof. A. G. Mat
ney, Prof Leland hume.
Franklin Academy-Miss Beulah
Smith, Miss Adele Erwin, Miss Ella
Mosby, Mrs. Laura Beard, Miss Ethel
Whitaker, Mrs W. B. Patterson,
Miss Tillie Webb, Miss Olivia Leigh,
Miss Mary Eckford, Prof s s sar-
gent,
Barrow Memorial School-Mrs. A.
! T. Sale, Miss Mary Stokes, Miss Dolly
Locke, Miss Frances Bishop, Miss
| Dorothy Leigh, Miss Ozie Jordan,
Miss Mamie Locke, Miss Bessie
Weaver, Miss Caro- Armstrong.
The program for Thursday night
follows; Invocation; Address of
welcome Theodore Patton. presi-
dent Of senior class; Chorus-Senior
class; Address to the class; Debate:
Resolved that the Monroe Doctrine
as feature Of our foreign policy
l oUuulO uf hbdIuuHcut AHllHdbiNEs
Glare Bradley, James Lee Negative
Frances Woodward, Atwell Williams;
! Delivery Of Wilde Billups Morgan.
D. A. R. medal; Delivery Of W. L.
( Lipscomb medal
The program for Friday NIGHT fol-
lows: Dear Old School Days; The
Ruggles Family; Song When Yam
kee Doodle Learns to Parlez vos
Francais; Look out for Hezekiah:
Henry's Trouble; Scat; Song The
/ Call Of the Flag; Have you ever no
ticed that: Jean desprez; Song
When the Bows Come Marching
! Home; The Stars and Stripes in Elan
ders. Debate between Boakertea
College and University Of Africa;
Sorg- With Tear in One Eye We