Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-06-18

sLory on lis organization and growth,
WAS listened To attentivelv. II WIS
organized about eight wears ago and
has grown from a few members IN
~ The Junior orchestra. IN which
the pupils receivs training before
entering the Senior orchestra now
has L members.
Another interesting fac- Miss
Amgnt brought out was the fact ttnt
tins year the first step was taken IN
Gardner toward the giving credits
fur MUSIC in school This plan be
gan in 79B2. The first school IN
ADOPT such plan WIS Chelsea
Mass. in 1906 This wear Gardiner
mas started In a small way by the
giving Of letters for orchestra work.
similar I'd the letters which are given
fDr athletics and debarinE.
Miss Knight closed her vaIeoicror,-
with parting words TO superintend-
emf school board. faculty and class
mates
The Class ODE
Inc class ODE by Miss Madeline
Marsnau, sung 10 the tune Of Carp
lima Sunshine" was as follows:
CLASSMATES dear, tonight we start o,,r
On life S way
a. LEI n US an ne kind and true,
Lei US help each other CAV by cfav
IN whatever we may DO
bid farewell
To our friends we love sa dear
1Aiio our teachers who nave helped US
Throughout every happy year.
Chorus
Now our high school GAYS are pver
anu tonight we bid adieu
10 our teachers and our comrades
Who have been SO true
eachers VINO nave been SO faithful
FRIENDS whose love Will 1,ever fiie
We small have To love and leave them
And dear old Gardiner High.
-Four long years we've worked together
SIDE by side
May the memory of our school
AZ ouf hearts with happiness and
pride.
Teachings nf the Golden Rule.
IhrouEn the many trials we nave safe
~ passed
HardsilIps that have blocked our
way
Now the parting hour has come al
Let US Join our hands and say:
Chorus.
Following The custom of several
wears past. through the renerositv nf
Mrs. Laura Z. Richards. the Life
and Letters Of Or. Samuel Howe"
and The Life Of Julia Ward Howe"
were presented to Catherine H
Knight and Arthur O. Wiley for ex-
cellence in scholarship.
The diplomas We're presented by
Mayor c j. Bragdon and the singing
OF The class ODE and the playing of
the Hungarian Dance" of Brahms
by the orchestra concluded tire e,,er-
clses.
The Class
The graduating class WIS corn
posed Of fourteen boys and tweut7-
SIX girls. They were Fred Babinea1.
Ruth Frances Barber. Waneta TAYLOR
Blake, Beatrice Hight Brown. Ruth
Emma Cation, Teresa Agatha CLARK
Linwood Ear Cock. Florence Eve
lyn Cusick. Winfield Johnson DeBuw.
Mary Remission Downing. F7arold Lie
Durgln, Elwood Ellis Foyc Lucy
humce Genthner, Jaunita Elizabeth
Glldden, Alfred Bronkings Harper.
Edna Martha HAYES john Bernard
Jamlson, Catherine Hill knight.
Charles Forest Landerkin. Roland
Benni1 Erwin Leighton. Helen CeceIia
MacAdam. Madeline Emma Marshall.
Grace Marion Martin Bertha
Lavipnia Ma1thews, Eazel Lillian
Matthews, Dorothy Evelyn Merrill.
Elsie Mae McCausland, Catherine
Frances McGrath. Lewis Maxwell
Mooers. Mary Catherine Morr1ssey,
Earle William Norton. Donald Henry
Porter, Gladys Fair Powers. Edith
Madelyn Reed, Anastasla Rellis
Donald Stanton Ross. Eva Marie
Sanford, Jessie Reed Turner. Ruth
Adeiia Weeks, Arthur Osgood Wiley.
The class moUtn was We finish
that we may begin" Class colnrs.
red and white: class president Lin
wood Z. Cook. class secretary and
treasurer. Catherine Il Knight