The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
76 TO GRADUATE FROM
COUNTY HIGHS in JUNE
Largest Number To Be Gradu-
ated From Local Schools in
Any One Year.

atlng classes OF the flVe high schools
of Garrett county who will be gradu-
ated in June upon the dates given be-
low, when the schools close for the
year, if the members of the classes
meet the requirements still necessary
for their graduation, are as follows:
Friendsville High School, June 16.
Annie Evelyn Friend, James William
Coddington, Virgil Ryland, Alvin Vic
tor Burgess, Agnes Elizabeth Van
Sickle, Iva Alice Thayer, Irene Whet-
stone-East, Alvin Webster Ramp, ST.
las Franklin Burgess. Total 9.
Grantsville High School, June 16.
Pearl Meek Beachy, Viola Ethel
Butler, Ruth Brunette Emory, Helen
Jena Folk, Mildred Anna Opel, Maud
Genevieve Pope, Walter Martin Reich
enbecher, Velora Virginia Swauger,
Paul Conrad Wisseman. Total 9.
Accident High School, June Is.
Cora Alice Fisher, Iva Louise Fratz,
Iva Mae Grove, Lillian LaVerne Har-
vey, Ida Mae Hetrick, Beulah Chris
tina Margroff, Pearl Fern McGettigan
Evelyn Gertrude Richter, Robert
Burns Friend, Lawrence Philip Georg.
William George Miller, Jacob Julius
Oester. Total Is.
Oakland High School, June 16.
Mildred Belle Casteel, Doris Helen
Colaw, D. McClelland Dixon, Virginia
Arlena Dodge, John Mitchell Franklin
Douglas Owen Helbig, Lillian Mar.
garet Holtschneider, Mary Elma JAN
key, Lola Reith King, Cecilia Eliza
beth Lawton, James Albert Lee, Nellie
Virginia Murphy, Corda Ellen Nine
Lucille Evelyn Ours, Thelma Jaunita
Ready, Dorothy Mae Sembower, Mil,
dred Ruth VanSickle, Gerald Albert
Biggs, Ralph Wayne Blake, Carlton
Edward Bowser, Mary Sylvester Fab.
erty, Ruth Vera Fike, Norrene Flor
ence Hostetler, Iona Right, Pauline
Smouse, Myrtle Kathryne White, Bea.
trice liberia Wilt, G. Harold Yutzy
S. Edmund Butler, Mary Jane Offutt
Melva Irene Smouse, Hazel Maude
Nine, Louise Lewis. Total 33.
kitzmiller High School, June Is.
Vivian Gale Sapp, Lulu Mae Sharp
less, Virginia June Barrack, Lillian
Magdalene Heck, Virginia Nannette
Wilson, Mildred Laudene Mexican
Marian Elizabeth Yencensky, Edna
Cuppett Lewis, Amy Mildred Sharp
less, Louise Browning, Robert Maur-
ice Campbell, Lewis Edward Baldwin
Total II.
The number of students going out
from the five high schools of the coun-
ty since 1912, when the first class was
graduated from the Oakland high
school, including those who are slated
for graduation this year, totals 549
young men and young women.
A steady increase is noted from
1912 to 1917, when, supposedly, on ac-
count of the World War, a decrease in
the number of graduates continued
until the year 1921, or until conditions
among the youth of the county became
more settled, from which time an in
crease of almost 400 per cent is ac-
credited in 1927.
In the year 1918 Friendsville high
school graduated its first class con-
sisting of five members. In 1922,
Kitzmiller witnessed the first gradu-
alton exercises from its high school
when eight members of the school
went out beyond the limits of the pub
lie school system, either to enter high
err temples Of learning or to face the
world with what they had received
from their instructors in the public
schools of the county. Grantsville and
Accident high school were evidently
instituted the same year, for in June,
1923, the first classes to be gradu-
ated from these institutions held their
exercises in their respective school
buildings.