Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-11

VVOVUVUV OooVUOUvS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Tuesday afternoon marked the 99th
commencement exercises at Coburn
Classical Institute, the graduation Of
the class OF 1919, the exercises taking
place 1T the First Baptist church.
Music for the opening exercises was
furnished by Harold Morse. who
presided at the organ. but the music
for the remainder OF the exercises
was furnished By the school orches-
ira, which was at its best. Prayer
was furnished by DR.. Arthur 8.
Phelps Of the First Baptist church.
In the essays which were delivered
at the exercises unusual ability was
shown in the way they were whit
ten and presented. The program was
as followG
1.-The Little Grandmother" Miss
Mary Elizabeth Warren; "All Amer
lea for All Americans" Harold Her.
bert Young: Theodore Roosevelt,
American" Oral Glenwood King;
"The Cartoon and the War;" Fred
erick Gardiner Fassett. Jr; selec-
ton by the orchestra; IAN American
Composer of Note" Agnes Eleanor
Holt; "The Menace Of Bolshevism."
Allen Carter Hodgkiss: "a Couse in
Household Arts" Harriet Nina
Pierce; THE Great Gray General OF
Humanity" Leo Arthur Daviau;
music by orchestra. The prosecution
of diplomas was made by Principal
Drew T. Harthorne.
The prizes and awards which were
presented at the close of the after-
Moons exercises by che principal. Drew
r. Hawthorne, were as follows: The W..
Scott Liboey prize Boys. Oral Glen
wood King, New Portland; girls. Flor
ence May Russ. Mt. Vernon. and Mary
Elizabeth Warren of waterville. The
prize was divided. Colby prize scholar
ships-Boys, Frederick Gardiner Fas-
rett, Jr., of West Medford. Mass. and
Harold Herbert Young. Waterville;
girls, Mary Elizabeth Warren. Water
vile.
Honorable mention of one-year stu
dents in the graduating class receiving
unusually hiph RANK: Raymond Harris
Daniels, Hudson, N. H.; Colby Walter
Robinson, Bingham: Lenora Ruth Mar
BILE. Raneeley. Prise for best Coburn
spirit-Boys, Tilson Fuller Maynard.
Palestine. Texas: Harold Herbert
Young. Waterville: girls. velma Lydia
Boivin, Watcrville; with honorable
mention of DeTherlow Smith Of Water
vile.
The following students won the Ut
Prosim pin and received the honor books
for the year. having been on highest
honors for the three terms: 1919. Fred
erick Caroline. Fassett. Jr.. West Med
ford. Mass, presented with Cicero and
Emsrson's Friendship" Harold Her.
bert Young. Waterville, Roosevelt 8
True Amerieanism:" 1920. Marion Doton
Brown. Waterville. Ruskin's Sesame
ana Lilies;'' 1891, Doris Wentworth
Hardy. waterville. sheridan's "scnool
for Scandal" Clara Martha Hafthorn,
Watefville. Gaskell's "Cranford;" Ma
rion Elisabeth sprowl. Searsmont, Ste
venson's "Virginibus Puerisque"
Honorable mention to those students
who during the year were on highest
honors for two terms and on honors
for the third term: 1919, Harriet Nine
Pierce. East Vassalboro: 1921, Caroly-,
Boyer. Waterville; Ethel Childs. Wa
tefville: 1929. Florence Louise Norton.
Winslow; Girlandine Priest. North Vas
salboro: John Alexander Salmond,
Winslow.
Prize for best Coburn song, which
was awarded in 1905 by Major Harold
Leon Pepper Of this city. to Arthur
Clayton Hall. Oakland. author. and
Miss Velma Lydia Boivin, Watervi]le,
composer.
The students then sang the school
song. written by Arthur Hall and COM
posed by Felma Boivin, which was IN.
titled THE Crimson and the Gold" and
the exercises came to close.
The members of the graduating
clas fors tie year 1919 are: wilfred
Laurier Clair. Waterville; Leo Ar
thur Daviau. Waterville; Frederick
Gardner Fassett, Jr., West Medford.
Mass; Mary Elizabeth Warren.
Waterville. Of the classical course:
Oliver Percy Agger. Portland: Maria
Lucfetia Allen. Wilton; Raymond
Harris Daniels, Hudson. N. H.:
Florence Jane Deering, Old Town:
LoLthrop Ivan Dow. waterville:
Arthur Clayton Hall, Oakland; Allan
Carter Hodgkins, Waterville; Agnes
Eleanor Holt, West Sullivan: Oral
Glenwood King. New Portland: Le-
nora Ruth Marble. Rangeley; Frank
Patrick Mcbride, Wolfboro, N. H..
Harry Emerson Pendegast, Winslow;
ulysses arthur Ponsant, waterville:
Stanton Augustine Reynolds, Bing-
ham; Colby Walter Robinson. Bling
ham; Florence May Russ, Mt. Yer
non; Melden Edwin Smith, Water.
vile; William Herman Whipple.
Waterville: Harold Herbert Young.
Waterville Of the scientific course:
Dorothy May Game. Clinton and
Harriet Nina Pierce, East Vasalboro
OF the English and household arts
course.
Following the exercises at the
church. the parents and friends of
the students were invited to Hanson
hall, where the members of the
household arts department had on
exhibition some of their work which
had been accomplished during the
year. The hall was crowded for a
while and thu exhihits 1vA~. go.