The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-06-13
Exercises Held In High School
Auditorium Thursday
Morning
DIR. ELLIS DELIVERS !
THE CLASS ADDRESS
Diplomas Presented By Pres
ident Vail Of The Board
of Education

Sevcnty-tnree young people COM
pleted the course of study in the Mt.
Vernon high school this year and
were awarded their diplomas at the
50th annual commencement which
occurred Thursday morning at 10
o'clock in the high school auditor
ium.
The platform was artistically dec
Grated for the occasion in syringas
and brilliant red geraniums, while
yards of blue and gold crepe paper,
the class colors of the senior class,
were used in making the decorations
complete.
The auditorium was filed with rel.
atives and friends of the members
of the graduating class.
AS the members of tho class
marched to the stage, Whites or
chestra rendered march, Gel Cap
itan." The invocation was then
pronounced by Rev. ID. G. NCoburn of
the M. p. church. A selection from
William Tell by the orchestra fol-
lowed.
DR.. Alston Ellis, president of Ohio
university, Athens, O., delivered the
address to the graduating class.
DR.. Ellis, in his address, spoke of
commencement day as time for
cheerful thoughts, rather than pessi.
mistic ones; a day of youth, when
you look forward to the age of ac-
compIishment.
DR.. Ellis emphasized the fact that
mere intellectual education is not
all, but that a strong moral basis
stands above everything. He said to
put education into a man without a
moral basis was the same as putting
a sword in the hand of mad-man.
The leading thought in his address
was that character is higher than in
tellect, and mere intellectual attain
ment is not scholarship.
AT the conclusion of the address
by DR.. Ellis the orchestra rendered a
: selection and diplomas were pre-.
), sented to the young graduates by
Mr.. Clinton B. Vail, president of the
board of education.
Following is the list of graduates
receiving diplomas:
College Course
, Mary Alice Ball, James Reed Bark
, er, Genevie Elizabeth Barr, Mary
Charline Bebout, Rusler Hasson Bell,
, Eva Ladonia Burson, George Chase
Clements, Bernice Coe, Jane Eliza
beth Copper, Frances Baldwin Coup,
Julia Ellen Doup, G. Rector Dye, Mar
gene Olive Faddis, Helen Lucille
Huntsberger Lennabel Lafever, Ur-
sci Marie Layman, Yetta Carolyn Lur-
lie, Orlo Glenn Masteller, Edgar Les
lie Mill, Malcolm Chapman Morrison,
Murl Irene Nixon, Evelyn Alice
Schaeffer, Gladys Justine Scottie, N.
Leroy Sharp, Richard Stanley Shut,
Harold Il. Stewart, Harry Paul Tai
madge, Ralph Alfred Thompson, Ruth
Anne Trott, Harold Thompson Win
termute, j. Dwight Wyker, Alice Dow
Wysner.
English Course
James Willis Bell, James Franklin
Biggs, Martha Angeline Blair, Sara
Cannon, Chester Cring, Jocelyn Mae
Emsweller, Ruth Elva Fletcher, lsa-
selle l.. FOrry, Gladys Irene Gorsuch,
Carroll Ivan Greer, Katherine j. Hill
lier, Elinor Cornelia Hobbs, Merrill H..
Jackson, Helena Louise Koppert,
Charles Ivan Mcdonald, Julia Garcia
Mann, Eleanor Augusta Months, Paul
j. Poland, Helen Mae Purbaugh, Alva
Drake Ryan, Clarissa Ann Schnebly,
Phoebe Louise Schnebly, Victorine
Sears, Mabel Marguerite Smith, Mar.
garet Clendenning Walker, Mary Eliz-
abeth Wills.
Commercial Course
Kenneth Clifton Beach, Ethcle Lu-
cile Chrisman, Lester Dennis Craig,
Harriet Anna Cutler, Rozella Edna
Farquhar, Paul q. Gamertsfelder,
Dora Agnes Grosscup, Lloyd r. Hoff-
\ man, Margery Martha Myers, Sara
Elizabeth Myers, Clarence Harold
Sleeman, Dorothy Jean Spence, Har-
iiet May Willett, Charles Edward
Sweet
Scientific Course
David Guy Tucker.
The benediclion was pronounced
by the Rev. w. Hamill Shields, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church, and
as the audience left the auditorium,
"A march was rendered by the orches-