Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-13
Capital City School Children
Present Illuminating Pageant
On Development Of Education
Pupils Of Grade and High School Appear in
Colorful and Interesting Group of Tableaux
and Scenes in Production Concentrating
American Education Week

country into one body Of Americans.
Those taking part were: teacher,
Miss Christine Hodgkins; visitor, Mr..
e. v. Perkins; Mary, Gertrude Ross;
Tom, William Williamson; George,
George Eastman; Alice, Marjorie
Manning; Peter, Lionel Lemieux
(Cony High SchooD and pupils, Seth
Williams, Madeline Hanson, Bur-
leigh Martin, Martha Packard, DON
aid Mcdonald, Emily Gilmore, Owen
Brewster, Bradley Adams, Richard
Dow, Estelle Dean, Ralph Rollins,
Pauline Metcalf, Ruth Bowditch.
The tenth and last Glimmer of
Light was in the shape of a warn
ing, showing the conditions which
might easily prevail If suitable pro-
Visions are not made for competent
service, healthful schools and suffi-
cient materials to meet the needs of
the pupils. Here the overworked
and unframed teacher tried without
success to cope with the crowded
conditions and the lack of proper
facilities for teaching. The students
We're from the Smith school with
Miss Libby and Miss Jones as d.
rectors. The teacher was Miss Greta
N1ckerson, the visitor Mildred Place
and the pupils, Alfred Poulin, Har-
old Driscol, John Hichborn, Roxan-
ma Eastman, Harold Webb, William
Miller, Helen Slosberg, Elsie Pike,
Richard Mansur, Anna Smith, Jane
Stubs, Donald Litchfield, Mary
Field and Pauline Harmon.
The entire cast which had been
presented in the previous numbers
then appeared upon the stage in the
final scene which preceded the cpl
logue. In addition to these, there
were in this finale the following:
Finale
The eleventh Glimmer-Educa-
TONS Dream, by Harrington and
Cony High School students present
ed the following: Leader, Boy
Scout, Robert Carey; Standard
Bearers. Donald Pierce and Laurier
Roderick; Columbia, Thelma Math-
ews; kindergarten, Maxine Merrill, |
Norman Best; Grade one. Esther
Perkins, William Walker; Grade |
two, Sherman Hallowell Jr., Eliza
beth Billiard; Grade three, Doris |
Miller, Norman Grant; Grade four, !
Eugene Marden, Jane Ripley; Grade |
five, Dudley Tyson, Alicia Rouse;
Grade six, Donald bennett, Caroline /,
Hyde; Grade seven, Raoul Lizotte, |
Georgia Fuller; Grade Eight, Ri
chard Sawyer, Lillian Stone. The
directors We're Miss Carey and Miss
Hodgkins. Cony High School ac-
tivities were represented by the fol-
lowing: Student Council, Atwood |
Nelson, Alice Barker; Cony Cue
Staff, William Weeks, Helen Cas-
sidy; Debating, Marion Goldberg,
Beverly Hewins; Athletics, Football,
Norman Hayden and Alvas Rand:
Baseball, Richmond Hayden and |
Bernard Fabrizi; Track, Williamj
Coakley and Lawrence Titus; Hook
ey, John Lister and Richard Hun
newell: Tennis, Everett Perkins;
Golf, James Jones and Charles Ty- !,
son; Boys Basketball, Anthony
Murphy; Girls Basketball, Eleanor
Priest.
For the epilogue all Of those who
had taken part appeared upon the
stage and there ANY City" decided
that he would follow the CLEAN to
make certain that government of
the people, by the people, for the
people. shall not perish from the
earth" He there vows that he will
cut off his right hand rather than cut
one cent from the educational appro-
priation.
The program was brought to
close with the playing of "The Star
Spangled Banner by the orchestra
and the singing by the cast and the
audience.
Musical Program
The musical program which was
presented by the Cony High orches-
.ra under the direction of Miss Ger
al de Thorne the supervisor Of music
or the schools of this city was one
which contributed much to the sue
cess of the evenings entertainment.
Her group of young musicians played
n a splendid manner and this in a
program which required constant
changes of tempo and selection.
Miss Thorne this year has three
lew instruments which have helped
o make this an especially well ball
Lnced orchestra. They are viola
ind two clarinets, the viola being
played by Miss Edith Hill, the first
clarinet by John Lizotte and the Sec
md clarinet by Aaron Christensen.
The complete personnel Of the or
,hcstra was: First violins, Harold
Robert Ripley, Olive Bow
Itch, Katherine Haskell; Second Vio-
ms, Margaret Tapley, Barbara Frost,
Harold Jewett, Edwin Dutton. Edwin
lyons; Viola, Edith Hill; Cello. Rich
srd Higgins; 1st Clarinet, John Ii
.otte, End Clarinet, Aaron Christian
son; LIST Comets, Beulah Blaisdell,
lanes Evans; End Cornet, Donald
Trombones, Alvas Rand
md Norman bennett, Drums, Richard