Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-26

states represented, New York alone
not voting.
At the conclusion of the voting
Miss Vivian Russell appeared,
dressed as Mrs. John Adams and
sang 1.-THE Ship of State' in a very
beautiful manner. 1.-THE Spirit of
'76" was also again introduced at
this point and the curtain closed.
The members of the congress were:
Speakers for the Declaration: John
Hancock, President, Howard Stiles;
Richard Henry Lee, John Elmore;
Roger Sherman, Bernard Knight;
Benjamin Franklin, William F'lynt;
Samuel Chase, Richard Bell; Joseph
Hewes, Norman Haskell; Patrick
Henry, Horton Flynt; Thomas JEFF
ferson, Roland bennett; Against
the Declaration: Edward Rutledge,
Robert Lee; John Dickinson, Erman
Knowles; George Walton, Gladys
Young: Robert Morris, Mary jack
son; Charles Thompson, Secretary.
Other members Of Congress-Jo-
siah Bartlett, Melvin Frain; Steph-
en- Hopkins, John Murphy; William
Floyd, Grace Macdonald; Charles
Carroll, Mildred Stackpole; Samuel
Chase, Paul Blanchard; Benjamin
Harrison, Vincent Lathbury; Ly-
Wolcott, Theodore Lishness; Ell
bridge Gerry. Rachel Maher; Will
liam Hooper, Edith Daggett; Ben
jamin Rush, Edwin Boulthee; Rich
ard Stockton. Kenneth Dinsmore;
Caesar Rodney. Royal Overlook;
Robert r. Livingstone, Melvin
Mower.
The final scene consisted of
tableau of washington Giving
Thanks, at which the part of Mar
tina Washington was taken by Sell
va Spencer; Little John GUSTS, Hell
en- McCaughey; Little Nellie Gus
tbs, Maxine Saunders and Attend
ant, John McAuley. Washington
resignation before the Continental
Congress when it convened after the
successful outcome Of the Revolu-
tionary war was the last impressive
scene of this very interesting ana
well staged pageant.
The Valedictory
Miss Ida Drapllin, clad in white
robes, wearing a golden crown and
hearing a small American flag, as
the personification Of the Spit of
Liberty, then presented the epilogue
and valedictory.
The entire pageant was most I'M
posing and interesting and was q
credit both to the students and to
Miss Orrelle j. Gray, the teacher OF
English at Cony who has had the
feature in charge. 1t was a very
unique graduation and one which
will long be remembered, not only
by the Students who participated,
but by the people of Augusta who
witnessed it.
The Graduates
The members Of the graduating
class were:
Academic Course: Nellie Augusta
Curtis, *Ida Draplin, Theresa Vivian
Hussey, Mary Halsey jackson,
"Helen Gertrude McCaughey, 10
sephine Campbell MCGEE. Evelyn
Mabel Pierce, Vivian Fern Russell,
Selva Spencer, *Gladys Evelyn
Young, Lauren Roberts I Bagley,
Richard Henry Bell. "Boyd Edward
Blanchard, Paul Blanchard, Arthur
Frederick Burke, *Roland Mervin
bennett, Kenneth James Dinsmore,
John Henry Gilmore, *Horton Flynt,
| William Norcross Flynt, Leo Hanly
Fox, Hildreth Gilman Halves, Ell
wood Melvin Lapham, Vincent Tib-
balls Lathbury, Jr., Robert Merrill
Lee, Norwood Walter Mansur, John
Joseph Murphy, *Gilmore Weston
Soule, *Howard Vernon Stiles.
Clerical Course: Dorothy May An
derson. Mary Henrietta B. Cary.
| Hope Hamilton Currier. Edna Anne
Gagnon. Catherine Agnes Greig,
Frances Louise Harvey, Mildred
tPauline Holmes, Dorothy Anna
Hunt, Hazel NTittie Locke. Thelma
Helene Mcguire. Doris Pauline Mall
| colin, Helen Ina Munroe, Elsie Mae
| Gwendolyn Shaw. Gladys Ethel Sta
pleford, Norman Frederick Davis.
Joseph Polycarpe NFortier, Melvin
Frain, ANorman Leroy Haskell, Ber-
nard Albert Knight.
| General Course-Martha Mary
Rose Berran, Sylvia Faye Bickford,
Charlotte Elizabeth Carleton, Edith
Mae Daggett, Caroline Cecilia Folger,
*CatherineD Lucille Foster, Anita
Maud Hanson, Iris Leonie Kittredge,
Ruby Lucetta kittredge, +Grace Ruth
Macdonald, Rachel Maher. Marion
Maude Moody, Sylvia Alice Munroe,
Ruth Gwendolyn Pierpont, Frances
Ethel Post. Alice Irene Kicker, Edna
Frances Spearin, Mildred Frances
Stackpole, Imogene Clark Sterling,
*Melissa Lila Turner. Gabriel Hubert
Bison, Edwin Fletcher Boultbee, Ce-
Gil Burns Chadwick, Theodore Adrian
Cloutier, Vaughn Marquis Crom-
NETT, Lorenzo Deroyce Eastman, AL
fired Harland Fl field, Warren
George Flet her, Albert Fried
man, Harold Friedman, Robert Cor
don Harvey, Kenneth Philbrick Has
kell, Philip Andrew. Huff, Erman Fas-
sett Knowles, Joseph Lincoln Letour-
neau, Theodore Lishness. Melvin AL
ton Mower, Jr., George Francis Mel
son. Bernard Leg Nickless. Percy
Everett Norcross,' Royal Farrand
| Overlook. Ellsworth Comstock Per-
kins, Arthur Seth Raymond, Kenneth
Charles Trask, Royden Otis Worth
ing.
Home Economics Course-Bertha
Louise Ellis, Christine Mary Hanson
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