Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-21

MARKING the successful CullnlndtlOn
of four years of diligent application
to study record class of 1O2 stud
| ents received their diplomas Friday
evening at one of the most interest
ing graduation programs evere pres
ented by a graduating class of Cony
! High School. City Hall was filled al
most to capacity with relatives and
friends of the graduates who came to
! witness the impressive ceremonies.
Following the example set by the
| Glass of 1928 this years program
featured the public initiation into
| the National Honor Society Is Of the
! members of the class chosen as the
highest in scholarship for the full
four years. This ceremony was con-
Quoted by Roland Cony, Faculty Ad-
visor of the Local Chapter and Mer-
rift Hewett honor student of Cony
'23.
The principal theme Of the stud
ent participation in the program was
THE American High School" Es-
says branching from this general
theme We're varied and their presen-
tation by the students was given the
closest attention. Numbers by the
Cony High School orchestra were in
terspersed between the essays.
Marshalled by Charles Poor, carry
ing q baton woven with the Cony
coiors of red and white, the gradual
ing class entered the auditorium in
double file to the rhythm of the pro-
cessional march played by the School
orchestra. The class impressively
moved down the east centre aisle and
took the seats in the centre front sec
tion reserved for them.
Following the initiation ceremony
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tional Honor Society, Principal Per-
kins announced the winners of the
three special prizes. Each of the
prizes was a SIS gold piece. The
Delta ri prize for highest attain
ment in scholarship during the four
year course was captured by Janet
Chase. The Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution prize, representing
the most progress made in the study
of United States history fell to Will
liam Perham. The Mrs. E. A. Hus-
sey prize. an annual prize OF So to
the student who has shown the most
unselfish spirit of helpfulness went
to Charles Nelson.
The presentation of diplomas was
made by Mrs. Robert Partridge, a
member of the Board of Education.
The Is students initiated into the
National Honor Society were: Jessie
G.. Alexander, Ards B. Chase. Janet
Chase Mary Colburn Mildred i.
Dixon. Rebecca j. Higgins. Donald b.
Hewett, Beatrice E. Milliken. Charles
p Nelson, William S. Reid, Laura NJ.
Waugh, Helena c. Michaud, Evelyn
T.. Scars, Mary II. Davies and Ruth
Hill.
The program of the exercises was
as follows:
General subject: The American High
School
March, Cony High School Orchestra
Charles Poor marshal
Prayer, Rev. II. Howard Brown
Salutatory-The Remarkable Growth of
the High School,
Mildred Francis Dixon
The High School as Character Build
err, William Sidney Perham
Music, High School Orchestra
Some Things That modern High
Evelyn Emma Sears
The High School as a Factor in Bust
ness Success, Donald Brown Hewett
Music. High School Orchestra
How the High School Trains for Citi-
zenship. Charles Pembroke Nelson
valedictory-The High Schools Contri-
button to Happy Living.
Initiation to National Honor Society.
Ceremony conducted by Mr.. Roland
Cony, faculty advisor of local
chapter of National Honor Society.
and Mr. Merritt Hewett honor stu
dent. Cony, 1929
Awarding of Special Prizes
Presentation of Diplomas.
Mrs. Robert Partridge. member of
the Board Of Education
Members of the graduating class and
their courses of study as follows:
Academic Course-Jessie Geneva
Alexander, Norman Aubin, Margaret
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Carleton, Ards Beverly Chase, Janet
Chase, Ernest Goodwin Church,
Mary CoIburn, Phyllis Victoria Cole.
Mary Brooks Davies, Mildred
Frances Dixon. Theodore Roosevelt
Dow. Marion Elizabeth Duncan,
James Leonard Fleming. Russell
Eaton Foster. Rebecca Friedman,
Paul Giddings. Wilson Sidney Hay
den. Donald Brown Hewett. Ansel
Lorenzo Hill, Madeleine Eleanor
Hussey, Cecil Leroy Knowlton, Ur-
sula Maher. Beatrice Emma MILL
ken, Charles Pembroke Nelson,
Doris Jessie Overlook, William Sid
ney Perham, Mabel Hortense Rand,
Reid. Robert Patrick Sawyer, Mary
Sturtevant, Dorothy Viles, William
Payson Viles, Eleanor Wilcox,
George Briggs Yeaton..
General COurse.-Helen Madelyne
Allison. Daniel Martin Berran, Clay
ton Delmar BlaisdelI. Edwin Bur-
leigh Boyd, Hilda Ellen Brown, Vivi-
an Carolyn Brown. Capitola lie Noir
Clough. Richard Orrin Coffin, Anna
Louise Golfer. Charles Horatio Cook
son. Ernest Rexford Cookson, Del
mont Linwood Cooper, Bernadette
Cote, Vivian Louise Currier, Della
Marie Cyr. Ida Marie Cyr, Marguer-
lite Calista bennett. Alice Kathleen
Dyer. Fred Herbert Ellis, Ethel Mel
lish Enman, Anne Olive Faulkner,
Henry Earle Folsom, Hazel Mae