The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-06-09
SCHOOL NOTES

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held Wednesday morning, on the
lawn al. Patterson Hall. The ad-
dress to the 1922 Glass will be de-
livered by DR.. Edward E. Slosson
OF Washington, d. c., who will take
as his subject, Looking Backward
and Living Forward" The address
will be followed by the comforting of
degrees and the announcement of
honors by President Frank L. Nc
Vey. Among the members of the
graduating class are the following
from Bourbon county: College of
Arts and Science-Edna Dee Snapp,
Evelyn Baerlo Friedman, Robert Ed
ward LAWN; College of Engineering
Lawrence A. Soper, Jr., Chester
Clay Young; College of Agriculture
Fannie Geneva Heller.
Tuesday night the premier event
in week full of pleasant happen
ings for the school pupils was the
concert given by the Girls Glee
Club, of the p. H. S., which was
given in the P. H. S. auditorium.
The following program was render
ed, each participant acquitting her
self with credit: blue Danube, {"
Glee Club; Impromptu, Rachel Nc
Clintock; The Summer Wind, Music
of the South, Sole Milo, Marie
Collins and Chorus; Aloha De, Glee
Club; Only Dream of Summer,
Senior Glee Club; Florain Long,
Ellen Scott; Caballero, The Joys of
Spring, Barcarole, Glee Club.
Wednesday evening at eight
O'Clock the Juniors entertained in
honor of the members of the Senior
Glass of 1922, forty-six in number
Bringing to a close almost a week
of social happenings full of pleas
ure, and with some share of sorrow
over the parting of ways for many
of the pupils, and annual commence
ment exercises of the Paris High
School was held at the Christian
church at ten o'clock yesterday
morning. On this occasion the
| largest class in the history of the
school, forty-six, were graduated
and received their diplomas entitl-
ing them to the privilege of really
commencing" life, outside of the
school room. The large auditorium
of the church was filled with a
crowd of friends and patrons of the
school, and the sight was a most
cessional, the invocation was deliv-
cred by Rev. T. S. Smylie, pastor of
the Presbyterian church. a Rev. DIR.
Benz. j. Bush, of Lexington, deliv-
cred the commencement address to
the members of the class, after
which presentation of the diplomas
were made to the class by A. B.
Hancock, president of the City Board
of Education. After rendition of
number of musical selections Rev.
G. H. Greer, of the Methodist church
pronounced the benedicitiop, and
the commencement" of 1922 had
passed into history.
Last night was the annual re-
union and banquet of the P. H. S.
alumni, an event that always brings
with it a most enjoyable reunion
and mingling of the former students
of the. P. H. S. The banquet was
served in the Y. M. c. A building by
the ladies of the Bourbon County
Woman's Club
At the close of the present session
Of the Paris City School members of
the faculty will leave for summer
work at the various universities
Prof. F. A. Scott, principal of the
High School, will take work on his
M. A. degree at Columbia Univer-
sity; Miss Maude Asbury, teacher of
home economics, will study at Co.
lumbia University; Miss Irene
Evans, one of the new teachers for
the coming year, will study at the
University of Chicago. She is a
graduate of the University of Ken
lucky and taught in the Stanford
High School during the past year.
Miss Zerelda holland, teacher of
English, Miss Mary Louise Lillard,
Miss Louise Harbold and Miss Nell
Robbins will go TO Columbia Univer-
sity Every teacher in the Paris
City School will be in some summer
school this summer, either as stu
dent or teacher.
At the class day exercises of
Pennsylvania College, held in Nor
rison Chapel, Wednesday afternoon
the feature was playlet, "Class
Day Exercises in 194O," written by
Miss Elizabeth Clark, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Clark, of
Paris. The cast of the play was
made up of Pennsylvania students
especially selected for the purpose
The playlet was voted by the stu
dents an unqualified success.
Prof McHenry Rhodes, of the
University of Kentucky, delivered
the class address Wednesday morn
ing to 104 eighth grade graduates
of the Bourbon county schools. The
exercises were held in the audito-
rum of the Paris High School. Su-
perintendent of County Schools j. M.
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