Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-06-08
NINETEEN GET B. A. DIPLOMAS
Commencement Events Close with
Alumni Banquet Friday Night

One OF our most successful COM
mencement weeks of recent years
came to close Friday night with the
annual Alumni banquet held at Hotel
Barton when about 100 former grad
yates and friends of the school en-
joyed good food and good post pran-
dial exercises.
Prin. r. D. Merrill presided as
| toastmaster in very graceful man.
ner, calling on Mrs. G. c.. Brooks to
welcome the class of 1921, and upon
Clyde Walcott for response for the
class. Supt. C. j. Batchelder, Wal
lace H. Gilpin, and Prof. G. A: Burn
ham were on the toast list. The pro-
readings by members of the Verde
Monte entertainers of st. Johnsbury,
and all numbers were heartily ap-
plauded.
Officers elected were Harry C. Con-
nor, president; Miss Mildred Ford,
vice president; Mrs. C. C. Brooks,
secretary-treasurer. Mrs. J. F.
Batchelder presented the school with
an honor roll of B. A. Graduates who
were in the war, for which she was
given vote of thanks, as well as for
her Is years service as secretary
treasurer.
Exercises on Class night, Wednes-
day, were attended by an audience
which filled Alumni hall and the pro-
gram was as follows:
School chorus under the direction
of G.. A .Burnham. Glass history,
Alice E. Drew; reading, Clifton L.
Drew; piano solo, ''Valser Gentle" !"
Nevin, Mary E. Stone; last will and
testament, Ava M. Bean; prophecy,
Mildred c. Ford, Nellie M. Pudvah;
violin duet by Misses Dorothy Dow
and Bernice Ray; presentation of
gifts, Helen E. Buck; presentation of
Key fo knowledge, Clyde H. Wal
colt; acceptance of Key of Knowl-
edge, Roy Valley; school chorus. The
decorations were by Florence M. Lam
gevin and Mary E. Kenneson.
Graduation exercises in Durkee's
hall Thursday night drew a full
house. The hall was tastefully dec
Grated by Marjorie Bean and Mildred
Larabee. Music was by the New
Harmony orchestra of Orleans, both
for the program and for the dance
which followed and which was enjoy
ed by large number Of couples. The
program follows:
Orchestra; invocation, Rev. J. j.
Hutchinson; salutatory, Mildred M.
Langevin; essay, Immigration"
Harold C. Carter; essay, 'The Worlds
in the Skies" Leona B. Moulton;
essay, "Trees," Clarence A. Hazen;
essay, "Robindranath Tagore," Flor
ence M. Cook; orchestra; essay "The
Fishing Industries in the United
States" Leigh P. Comstock; essay,
physical Training Of Ancient
Greeks" Dorothy M. Emerson; vale
dictory, Clyde H. Walcott; orchestra.
Prin r. D. Merrill presented di-
plonas to the following 19 graduates
with a few well-chosen remarks, as
well as presenting U. V. M. scholar
ships to Clyde Walcott and Mildred
Langevin.
Ava Marie Bean, Marjorie Mary
Bean, Helen Elizabeth Buck, Harold
Cowdrey Carter, Leigh Page Com
stock, Florence Mildred Cook Alice
Eliza Drew Clifton Luther Drew,
Dorothy Mary Emerson, Mildred
Clara Ford, Clarence Arthur Hazen,
May Eliza Kenneson, Mildred Amelia
Larabee, Florenre Margaret Lange-
vim, Mildred Mary Langevin, Leona
Belle Moulton, Nellie Mae Pudvah,
Mary Elizabeth Stone, Clyde Harold
Walcott.
The class motto was: Excelsior"
The class colors, green and gold, and
the class flower, the yellow rose.