News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-06-21
PEOPLES ACADEMY SEND OUT
CLASS OF %

Week at Peoples Academy was the
graduation and dance held at the
town hall on Wednesday evening,
June Id. The attendance surpassed
the seating capacity and many were
obliged to stand.
Prin. w. HI. Hosmer presented the
following prizes The, prizes given
by the alumni to the girl and the
boy writing the best essay were
awarded to Aldelena Raymond and
Wallace Peck, whose subjects were
The Price of Success and Hannibal.
The judges made the decision on the
basis of originality.
A prize awarded each year by the
Hon. T. C. Cheney for progress dur
ing the senior year was won by Mary
Russ.
A prize instituted this year by Levi
Munson to the student graduating
from the commercial department
with the best record was awarded to
Mertie Sulham.
| A prize made available by Dr.
George L. Bates to- the pupil in the
school who should submit the best
| definition of Americanism was Won
| by Miss Addie Freer of the class of
'23, honorable mention being made of
Faith Edmunds % and Paul Cornell
'23.
Prizes for the best work in Latin
during the year were given to Arthur
Brown, class III; Marguerite Margie,
class w; Ralph Graves, class V, and
Mildred Stewart, class vi. These
prizes were the gifts of Principal
/ Hosmef.
Supt. C. D. Howe awarded the
Huntley and Herman Huntley.
Diplomas were presented to the
graduating class by c. H. A. Stat
ford of the school board. Following
the benediction pronounced BY Rev.
E. E. Pender, the graduating class
held an informal reception upon the
stage. Following this dancing was
indulged in until late hour. Dun
bars orchestra from st. Johnsbury
furnished excellent music for the oc-
casion.
The graduates were: Frances
Marie Bates, Marjorie Bickford,
Evelyn Mary Camp, Evelyn Barbara
Eaton, Viola Faith Edmunds, Ray
mond Smith Gates, Porter Claude
Greene, Madeline Huse Hill, Leota
Alice Howard, Stewart Chase Hoyt, |
Hermon Tabor Huntley, Velma Flora
Huntley, Ralph Lloyd Patch, Wiley
Wallace Peck, Aldelena Catherine
Raymond, Edith Lesla Richardson,
Mary Olive Russ, Bernice Isabelle
Silloway, Mildred Hope Stewart,
Mertie Elozia Sulham, Chrystabel !
Ellen Wallace and Carl Harold Will |
borg.
The honor students were Hermon |
Tabor Huntley, Raymond Smith
Gates, Velma Flora Huntley, Mildred |
Hope Stewart, Porter Claude Greene,
Frances Marie Bates, Stewart Chase
Hoyt and Edith Leola Richardson.
The class marshal was Eben Bar
rows.
The program was as follows:
Overture, "Jolly Robbers" Suppe,
March" from "Athalia," Mendelssohn,
orchestra; invocation, Rev. G. E.
Goodliffe; music, "Minuet," Bee
thoven-Branscombe, girls chorus;
oration with salutatory, Oil, Raymond
Smith Gates; trombone solo, ga
Dream" Bartlett, H. Guy Dunbar;
address, "The Fateful Hour" Prof.
r. B. Flint, Norwich University;
serenade, Drigo, orchestra; Grafton
with valedictory, Public Calamity, a
Mighty Leveler, Herman Tabor
Huntley; flute solo, selected, Mr..
Simanton; presentation of prizes,
Prin. w. H. Hosmer; presentation of
C. H. A. Stafford; benedic-
tion, Rev. E. E. Pender; triuus5hal
march, "Aida," Verdi, orchestra. The
music was by Dunbar's orchestra of
st. Johnsbury.
Alumni Banquet
The banquet of the, Alumni Asso-
citation of Peoples Academy was
held in the vestry of the Congrega-
tlonal Church with a record breaking
$50 being served.
Mason S. Stone of Montpelier, a
former principal, was POSTMASTER.
Toasts were responded to by Princi-
pal Hosmer, Henry George '89 of
Pasadena, Calf, Carrie Shaw Mer-
riam '89 of Bellows Falls, Gertrude
Camp Puffer 'S8 of Richford, Clara
Brown Mills of Waitsfield, c. H. A.
Stafford, Maude Chaffee 'O2, DIR.
Hugh Tyndall 'O5 of Hoboken, N. j.,
and Harold Willborg, representing the
class of 1922.
Mrs. Glee Morse Raymore '01 and
Mertie Sulham '22 rendered vocal
solos, while Eleanor Downey '19 rem
1ered a piano solo.
Letters were read from B. L. Jen-
nings, W. A. Beebe and E. E. Foster.
the father of the Alumni Associa-
ton.
1t was big boom for Peoples ,
Academy. Much credit is due Mrs.
Laura Morse, president of the asso- ,
,iation, and her able committee for ,
is success. There was more enthus-
asm shown at the banquet this year .
han ever before.
Farm Bureau Picnic at Lake Eden