Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-11
COMMENCEMENT EVENTS

ENCEMENI EV ENID
The seniors last chapel which
properly ushers in the commence
ment week at Cony High school, will
be held on Friday morning at AS
sembly hall. This is an annual
event and it is the custom for the
senior class president to preside.
Frank Howe, the president of the
class, will accordingly take charge
Of the chapel.
AS has been the custom in past
years, the girls of the senior class
will appear in white middies and red
ties and those who do not have bob
bed hair will wear it in long braids
or curls. The boys will wear white
trousers and their school letters.
They will march into assembly hall
ito the music of the school orchestra.
Several of the well known and popu-
lar members of the class will be call
ed upon to assist with the program.
At the. conclusion of the chapel
the seniors will go to the Opera
House to practice marching for the
baccalaureate exercises and from
there to City hall to rehearse for the
The seniors will finish all their ex-
aminations by Friday night, while
the other classes will continue with
theirs through Monday and part of
Tuesday.
cony- Gardiner Dual Meet Saturday
On Saturday forenoon the annual
Cony- Gardiner dual track meet will
be held at Ruel Williams field. This
VIII be followed in the afternoon by
the annual Cony High Gardiner High
baseball game, which takes on more
than the usual significance as it de-
termines whether Cony will tie with
Hallowell for first place in the Ken
nebec Valley Baseball League, or if
Cony and Gardiner will tie for sec
ond place in the league.
Baccalaureate Sunday
The Baccalaureate service will be
held Sunday evening at s o'clock at
the Augusta Opera House and will
be public. The various ministers of
the city have been asked to attend
and to invite their congregations to
the service. Rev. II. H. Brown, pas
tor of the Penney Memorial United
Baptist church will deliver the bac-
calaureate address. Rev. Dan Hunt
ington Fem will read from the
scriptures and Rev. A. Z. Morris will
offer prayer. The other ministers
Will be seated, upon the platform.
The graduating class will march
into the hall to music by the high
school orchestra and several musical
numbers will be rendered during the
course OF the program by the Or
chestra, under the direction of Miss
Gertrude Thorne, supervisor Of
music in the public schools, and by
large student choir.
Senior Banquet Monday
On Monday evening the seniors
will hold their banquet at the Girls
Community club. George Randall
viii act as toastmaster and the vari-
Gus class parts such as the class
prophecy, class will. class history
and others will be presented at that
time.
On Tuesday the members of the
graduating class will enjoy a picnic
to Bear Pond Park in Turner. maxi
ing the trip by automobile. Mr.,
Cony and Miss Prentiss of the ia
Guilty will act as chaperones at the
picnic.
Alumni Reunion Wednesday Evening
The annual Alumni banquet which
was instituted last year and(proved
far more successful than was ex-
pected by those in charge, will be
held Wednesday evening. Twelve
hundred invitations have been sent
out to former students of the school,
through the courtesy of the various
commercial classes, and a large num-
Der of acceptances have already
been noted. The time for the re-
ceipt of acceptances has been ex-
tended until the end of this week
because of a delay in sending out
some of the invitations.
On Thursday evening the final So
cial event at which the members of
the graduating class will participate
as seniors, will be held. This is the
Senior Hop, an invitational affair
and one of the most pleasant affairs
of the entire four years.
Graduation at City Hall
City Hall will be the scene of the
graduation exercises on Friday night
at eight o'clock at which time ap-
proximately so members Of the grad
uating class will receive their diplo-
mas from the hands of Chairman
Frank Hewins of the Board of Edu-
cation.
Six students, chosen from those
elected this year to the National
Honor society will speak, their sub
jects being along different asrects
of the general theme, "Maine's Pre-
eminence." Lowell Leland will pres
ent the valedictory and EVELYN Nor
gan the salutatory. The members
elected from this years graduating
class as members of the National
Honor society will be initiated at
this time by Miss Leora Prentiss,
faculty advisor of the society, and
by Charles Nelson, member OF the
society from last years senior class.
Music will be furnished by the school
porchestra and by Miss Thorne's
Music class.
: The commencement week at Cony
High is one of great activity for the
members of the Senior class, with
the long program of events which
crowd the week. Pleasant they are
but throughout the week of gaity
there flows a current of sorrow that
they are soon to disband a class,
which has been for four years assoc
ciated daily, and are each to take
their separate ways through life.
Harold Kelley, who has been en-
ployed by the New England Tele-