The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-04
LAST DAY SCHOOL
In Topeka 9,56S Children Close
Up Their Books.
War Memorial for Seven Heroes
at High School.

Today many school age persons
have a more optimistic view on life
than they have had since early last
September. Small boys-and high
school boys-whistled lustiry this
morning and small girls and their big
sisters sang merrily as they began the
day. No grief is on their program to-
day, which is the last day they are re-
quired to report for the instillation of
learning until the beginning of an
other educational siege next fall.
The joys of vacation are ushered in
for 7,642 grade school children, 32S
junior high school pupils and 1902
high school students, as well as nearly
four hundred kindergartners, and
school buildings, three junior high
schools and four colored grade
schools.
MOI to be overlooked in the interest
of high school and college commence
ments are the eighth grade graduat-
ing exercises which are on today's
program at Branner, Central Park,
Clay. Lew1nan Hill and Polk schools,
as well as at Buchanan, Mckinley.
Monroe and Washington, the colored
schools. Approximately 2S9 eighth
grade pupils win receive diplomas.
Eighth Grade Graduation.
Girls in dainty white dresses, boys
in new suits (many of them in their
first long trousers), beribboned di-
made most interesting occasions of
the eighth grade graduating exercises.
Programs were held at the respective
schools, with the classes including the
following numbers. Branner. S5;
Central Park, SO; Clay, 26: Lincoln,
Quincy, %: State Street, 10; Sumner,
"a; Buchanan, 5; Mckinley, 6; Mon
roe, IL, and Washington, 6.
High School Closes.
The high school will officially close
its doors to classes at 1880 o'clock
today. The high school commence
ment exercises will be held Monday
evening at the city auditorium. when
one of the largest classes in the
schools history will be graduated. 1t
is estimated that 225 will be eligible
for diplomas. OF that number fifty
two completed their courses in Feb
ruary. The class baccalaureate serv-
ice will be held Sunday morning at
the First Methodist church. with the
sermon by DR.. Edmund J. Kulp.
The closing assembly at the high
school this morning was in charge of
the senior class and the class day
program was given The program in
Brehm; class will, Charles Crews;
class poem. Margaret Lovewell; read
ind Iris Langhart; piano solo. Lillian
Jacobson; piano solo. Mary Higgins;
numbers by the senior stringed quar-
| tet; and numbers by a quartet of SEN
ior boys including Gene Painter, Har-
old Hotter. Grant Peterson and Ru-
dolph Larsen. The quartet gave sew
eral clever original songs. Senior
class faculty advisers are Miss Grace
Elmore and Miss Merle Fowler.
High School Memorial.
A special event of the closing day OF
high school was the dedication of a
memorial to seven high school war
| heroes who lost their lives in service
Those whose memory is SO honored
are Harold Olson, Kenneth Sutherland
Lyman Rice. Victor Blakely. Robert
Melton, william Bolinger and Crosby
Deacon.
The memorial stone is a three-ton
glacial boulder known as kansas
granite" found near Topeka. 1t was
placed at the corner of Eighth and
Harrison streets.
I Parents of the dead heroes were
grouped about the memorial. Near
them stood fourteen high school boys
who had been in service and in semi
circle facing the memorial stood the
entire student body. George Baker
ex-service student. unveiled the stone
the Boys G1ee club sang America, "
preceding a short, impressive Sdedica-
| tory address by the Rev. John A.
| McAfee, pastor of the Westminster
Presbyterian church and American
Legion chaplain.