Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-12
1870 GRADUATE
FRIDAY FROM the
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

JUNlUn HIUH SUnUUL
At largely attended exercises at the
City Opera House yesterday afternoon
100 students We're graduated from the
Waterville Junior High school. The
scene was colorful, the many gradu-
ates being seated in body in the CEN
ter of the stage while the speakers and
members of the board of education
were seated at the sides.
c. E. Glover. superintendent of the
school, delivered the principal address
and he spoke in a manner which high
ly pleased his hearers. AT the start he
contraSted the old system of education
with the new, drawing a vivid picture
of the little old red schoolhouse" and
the last day of school. A generation
or two age, he said. schools were run
on the theory OF mass or group educa-
tion. wherein just so mitch was taught
and each student was taught whether
it fitted his or her predictions or not.
This type of education he compared
with the process of canning. More
recently, Mr.. Glover explained, the
needs of the individual student have
received more and more attention and
individual education is an outgrowth
of this. The Junior high school came
into being as Il compromise between
those who believed in the theory of
mass education and those who adhered
to more indiVidualistic theories.
Mr. Glover stressed the Importance
Of parents in their relations to the
schools, and he said that education
ar l. Il, a.,
ten nor in the primary school. but in
the home. He declared that today a
lack OF proper parental care and atten-
ton was to be noted among students
and with the assertion that parents are
as much educators as are school teach
ers and superintendent he urged that
more and closer cooperation be shown
between them:
The superintendent closing words
were directed to the graduating stu
dents. and he said to them that the
facts they had learned while at the
Junior high school were not in any way
as important as the character they had
developed, because il was this latter
which would largely determine their
success and happiness in later life.
The program was opened by a selec-
ton, Dancing Moonbeams,'' under the
direction of Mrs. H. c. Marden. Prayer
was offered by Rev. f. S. Walker, pas
tor of the Universalist church.
The first of the student speakers
was Miss Barbara Johnson and the
subject of her essay was Maine, an
Industrial State" In an interesting
way Miss johnson enumerated the
many Industries in which the people
of Maine are engaged and she laid
emphasis on the great amount of eX-
ports that are each year sent to all
parts of the globe.
Maine as Seen by Tourist" was
the title of the essay delivered by
Walter Dignam, the second student
speaker. In an imaginary tour of the
State he took his hearers to scenes of
beauty of which they had not heard
hitherto, the fanciful itinerary includ-
ing the rugged coast, the majestic
mountains and hills, the fnnumerable
lakes and streams, the silent forests
and the populous summer resorts.
The diplomas were awarded by Har-
ry NJ. Hilton. chairman of the Water
vile board of education.
The music, arranged and directed by
Mrs. Marden, constituted a pleasant
part of the program. The girls cho-
rus sang THE Song and the Breeze
to the melody of Dvorak's "Humor-
esque," for which it was roundly ap-
plauded, while a mixed chorus sang
Harris "Daybreall" in an equally en-
joyable manner. For the concluding
musical number the orchestra played
Creighton's Our Cheer Leader"
The roster of the class follows:
Classical Course: Ida Isadore Ant
worth, Ruth Elizabeth Armstrong
Ruth Helen Atchley, Thresa T. Bar
ron, Laura E. Belanger. Virginia
Alice Blanchard. Leonard Charles
Cabana, Jr., Rebecca Mary Chester
Walter Larkin Dignam, Bernard John
Ezhaya, Joseph Ferris, Virginia Eel
ma Margaret Gilbert, Vera Marjory
Grant, Dorothy Frances Hatfield,
Leonard Helie, Reedina Elizabeth
Hill, Dorothy H. Ireland, Barbara
Elizabeth Johnson. Robert B. Jones,
Phyllis Vesta knight. Geraldine
Chapman Lunt, Theresa Bernadette
Mahoney, Helen Thorn Nivison,
Frances Norton Perkins, Priscilla
Harrington Perkins, Carroll E. Pool
er, William Edward Richardson,
Eleanor May Rowell, John P. Sher-
den, Jr., Doris Louise Sterling, Phyl-
lis Myrtle Sterling, Russell Smith
Terry, Eleanor Wilson.
Scientific Course: Charles Albert
Allen, Fernand Audet. Arthur Rice
Austin, Jamil Baraket, Lyndon D..
Bickford, Norman Boudreau, Dayton
Alonzo Bowie, Robert Hayden Brann,
Joseph Octave Denis. Joseph F. Doy-
on, Richard Linwood Emery, ]. AL
bert Foster, Hallett Phillips Foster,
Albert Floyd Gallant, Wilfred E.
Hatch, John Franklin Hill J,r., Fred
erick j. Holland, Ewald William
Hucks, Russell Irving Kendall, Har-
ry Scott Kyle, Wilbut Foster Larsen.
Raoul Philip Lemieux, Bernard
Marsh, David Harold Moore, Samuel
L. Pachowsky, Leon ]. Paquin, AL
fred James Pooler, Stanley L. Pooler,
Henry Paul Rancourt, John Thomas
Arthur Roderick, Alton
George Graham Smith.
Maynard Perley Soule, Howard
Jaynes Thomas, Natalie Ann True,
Donald Ernest Weed. and Edmund
A. WEIGH.
English Course: Roy st. Elmo
John bennett Aver, Everest
T. Cabana, Theresa J. Fortier, Eve
M. Mailloux, Mildred E. McCrea,
Ralph J. Ouellette, Batisto ]. Perico,
Geneva Pinkham Pierce, Priscilla M.
jeanette A. Roy and Ra-