Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-07
WATERvILL.E
GRADUATION PUFILS
PLEASANT ST. SCHOOL

The City Opera House was filled
Thursday evening with proud and
happy parents and friends Of the
pupils of the graduating class Of the
Pleasant street school.
The graduates were IS in number
and were all seated on the stage.
The class was marshaled in by the
president, Ernest j. Pooler whose
baton was wound with the class
colors, red, white and blue. and each
one wore a badge of the tricolor The
girls were all in white and wore white
ribbons on their hair.
Music was furnished by the class
orchestra, consisting of Carl Hoxie
and Abbott Smith. piano; Kermit
Lecman. Madeline Perry. Edgar Cyr,
and Theodore Hardy, violins; Ken
meth Smith, cornet; Miriam Rice.
cello; Maurice Hoxie. drums. The
work of the orchestra was most *
cellent and vas trained and directed
by Miss Eva Towne.
Superintendent Charles N. Perkins
was chairman of the evening. Rev.
4 feature of the evening was the
singing The Lord is Great" from
"Athalie" by Mendelssohm by the an
tire class, which was remarkably we'll
rendered. Mrs. Rena Barker Jones
accompanied and Miss Eva Towne Ii
rected. The chorus also sung For
the Flag and America"
The address of the evening was by
Rev. William r. Wood of Augusta
who. after expressing his pleasure at
being present on an occasion SO full
Of interest. told them an old legend
OF ciockmaker. who had a vision
end applied it to the young grad
yates. He said that he stood in awe
among them because they had in their
hands the destinies of the world.
He spoke of the great danger con-
fronting the country by the large
number Of children leaving school 20
30 to work, and while there is an IL
ement of patriotism the time would
come when the skilled workers would
come back and those unskilled work
ers without knowledge would be
y.
! He urged the young people to stay
in school that they might be of more
service to their country
Following the presentation of the
diplomas by superintendent Perkins,
the class sang in chorus. Keep The
. Home Fires Burning, which was en-
Enthusiastically applaunded. The clos
W.
the orchestra
/ Ora duatcs-Lorretta Eleanor ,Au-
Get Francis Firth Bartlett. Marcus
EVarts Bowman. Joseph David
Briard Lorena Edwina Bourque. &C.
7 ctlc Leone Bushey. Beatrice Evelyn
Bowker, Marion Evelyn Carey. Isa-
+ belle Mary Clair. Incz Mae Chase,
Abraham Cohen. Louise Madeline
Collins, Dorothy Dawn Cooksor, Ed
na Pauline Cote, Earle Dana Craw-
/ ford, Edgar Raphael Cyr. Abraham
Milton Davis. William Stanley Daye.
Ethel Ferne DeRoehn. Leo Francis
Donovan. Beatrice Addie Dore. Car
incline Featricc Dogtie, Clifford AL
phonse Dulac, Adolph Dutile, Jr.,
/ Hazel Louise Emery, Arnold Altertoi
Fleming, Elsie Mitchell Frost. Charles
Zero. Leland Henry Giroux. Leonil
Bernard GirouX. Lewis Had!ey Gil
rouX, Raymond Austin Hadlev. Her
bert Orrin Haines, Paul Wilson HAM
iltoH, Marion Esther Hapworth, Jo-
scph Homer Hcrard. Clarence vii
l;ngton Hobbs, Francis Desisle Hold D..
kias. Carl Henry Hoxie. Maurice
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Ter. Mary Gladys Joler, Mary Eleauo:.
! Johnson. Everett Cecil Jones, Fran
ccs Madeline Kelley. Ethel Iris Lam
cey, Kermit Reynolds Leeman. Per
cy Levine. Pauline Amanda Lunr,
Mildred Ibis MacPhce. George Maic,
Madeline Adelaide McCoombs. Irv-
Perry Mckechn;e. Raymond Orlando
McKcchnie, Theresa Mary McLaugn-
lin, Lillian Frances Markee. Clarence
Everett Maxwell. Earle Frank Mitch
ell. Charles Henry Monbleau. Berlc
Nira Morrison, jeannette Abigail
Marquis. Philip Elias Nagem, Cecilia
Parent. Madeline Violet Perry, Elsie
/ O. Peterson, Freeman Almon Phil
lips, George Alton Pillsbury. Caro-
! lyn Pomerleau. Ernest Francis Pool
er. Wilbur Napoleon Pooler. Dorothy
Eve Pouliotte. Gladys Elizabeth
Presley, Edmond Joseph Rancourt.
Lawrence Franklin Rancourt, Alma
Nary Reny, Mary Elizabeth Roder-
icG, Philip Rosenthal, Viola Beatrice
Roy. Lillian Edith Rudman. Cora
Ethel Shores. Arthur Fl. r. Smpsoii.
Abbot Emerson Smith. Annie Jose
Prime smith. Kenneth jefferson
Smith, Raymond William Arthur
Sterling, Phyllis Clyde Stevens. Eth.
el Archer Terry. Mary Stevens Toll
man, 9vonne Eiolette. Florence May
White, Florence Thelma wiilette.
Le15aron WiSeman, Katherine L.
woods, Gwendolyn Merle Worth.