Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-15
Final Exercises for
Graduating Class

| = friday night again saw the Opera
| House packed with parents and
| friends for the ..nal exercises of the
] graduating class of Lawrence high
school.
| The plass, 20 in number marched
upon the platform to the strains of
| the opening number Mars March
from Alfalfa (Mendelssohn) played
by the orchestra, prayer was Their Of
fered by the Methodist minister, Rev.
T. c. Chapman, after which the fol-
lowing most enjoyable program was
given: Music, Melody in F" (Rubin-
! stein) L. H. S. orchestra; esay THE
| Wonder Workers." Franklin Angus
| tus Whitman; music, selection from
Bohemian Girl (Balle) L. H. S. or
| chestra; chestra; esay, 1.-THE Origin
Of the Names of the Thirteen Orig
inal state" Mary Ella Piper; violin
solo, Simple Aven" IF. Thorne)
| Dorothy Irene Carter; presentation
of class gift, a statue of Minerva, the
goddess of wisdom, Cyril Giles Clou-
tier; acceptance of class gift. c. P.
Steward; introduction of commence
ment speaker, Wardwell Stevens
Sibley; address, Rev. Roderick j.
Mooney, D. D., pastor of the Univer-
salist church, Fairfield; music, Hope
March, l.. H. S. orchestra; confer
ring of diplomas by Supt. Merlin c.
JOY; class ode; benediction, Rev. 7.
c. Chapman.
| Glass roll: Margaret Joan Barnes,
Robert Parkin Brown, Dorothy Irene
Carter, Cyril Giles Cloutier. Murray
Alexander Cocker, Evelene Eva Cur
Melissa Fenalson, Mildred Eleanor
| Ir1;~f Coropo (tI1rfiS Hatch Camilla
Dorothy Longley. Raymond Miles
Norton. Mary Ella Piper, Juanita
Pearl Richardson, Wardwell Steven
SHIRLEY, Mary Elizabeth st. Hilaire,
| Edward Frank st. Peter, Pearl Eliza
| beth Tapley, Vaughan Melville Tot
man. Florence Evelyn Wheelock,
/ Franklin Augustus Whitman, Violet
| Glass motto, Labor Omnia Vim
cit; class colors, orange and black;
class officers-preSident, Wardwell
! Steven SHIRLEY; vice president, Cyril
Giles Cloutier: secretary and treasr
| urer, Lillian Hildcgarde Dyer. An
| interesting feature of the evening
was the gift to Mary Ella Piper of a
bank book with a deposit of $40.
| This prize had been offered by Rev.
r. j. Mooney at the beginning of the
school year to the student in the Sc
nior class who should make the best
use of his or her time during the
year in upholding the standards of
the school. This was in order that
the students should develop the idea
of thrift Of time.
The following students hav e re-
ceived membership certificates in the
Order of Gregg Artists for legible
and artistic notes in Gregg short
hand, as issued by the Gregg Pub
| fishing Company in the New York
office: Margaret Barnes, Vaughan
Totman, Hattie Fenalson, Evelene
Curtis. Mary st. Hilaire, Camilla
Typewriting awards won on the
Underwood and Royal typewriters
for fifteen minute speed tests, writ
ing at the following rate words per
minute: Juniors-Olive Works. 30.2;
Victor Totman. 1904: Bertha Henry,
3o.5; Doris Clifford. 30.7: Byron Clou-
tier. 31.7: Charlotte Parsons, 800;
Doris Kent, $40; Frederick Hicks,
35.5; Ethel Marcoux, $40; Frances
Berard, 800. ! acknowledgement
Barnes. 80; Evelene Curtis. SO: Vio-
let Written, 35: Mildred Flint. So;
Camilla Longley. As; Pearl Tapley.
IS.
AFTER the exercises at the opera
House the senior class. Supt. and
Mrs. Merlin G. Joy and the teachers
were delightfully."- entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Brown and their
son, Robert, at their home on Main
street. Delicious refreshments of ice
cream. cake and punch were served
by Muriel Brophy, Gwendolyn Belyea
and Ruth Park. Songs were sung,
cheers were given and the long
looked forward to commencement
day of the class Of 1925 was over.
Our superintendent. Merlin C. Jov.
was given a surprise last Monday