The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-19
200 in MARION
COUNTY TO Get
1928 DIPLOMAS
New Augusta Event, April
20, Will Be First of II
High Schools.

Two hundred graduates of the
eleven county high schools will re-
ceive their diplomas at commence
ment exercises starting Monday
night at New Augusta, and extend
ing through the latter part of May.
County superintendent Lee E.
Swails expressed complete satisfac-
ton with the county school year to-
day in making public the list of
graduates, which exceeds by twen-
ty-f1ve the total of last year.
Only schools outside Indianapolis
come under SwailS Office.
The Reverend Fifer to Speak
The Rev. Oran w. Fifer, pastor
of the Central Avenue Methodist
Episcopal church, will deliver the
commencement sermon at New
Augusta, Monday night.
Of the larger high schools in the
county, Southport will be the first
to hold commencement exercises
first, next Thursday night. The
principal address will be by L. A.
Pittinger, president of Muncie
Normal.
Superintendent Swails will pre-,
sent the diplomas at Southport as
well as all other commencement ex-
ercises in the county.
Warren Event May %
Warren High School of Warren
Township, and Ben Davis High
School will hold their graduating
exercises May % and April "a, re-
spectiVely. At the exercises Tues
day night at Ben Davis, Arthur j.
Beriault of the Indianapolis School
of Expression will deliver the adj
dress.
At the Warren event, the address
to graduates will be given by State
Superintendent of Schools Roy P.
Wisehart. Next Wednesday night
DR.. Howard Jensen of Butler Uni
versity will address exercises of West
Newton.
Friday night the Valley Mills ex-
erciSes will be held, the speaker for
which has not yet been selected.
Acton graduates and those of New
Bethel will receive their diplomas
May 1. The Rev. Perry Gibbs will
speak.
Greencastle Man to Talk
Oaklandon graduates will receive
their diplomas May and Castleton
High School will hold its exercises
May 4, at which DR.. A. H. Pitkin of
(1rnenpa ct1n will cyNaoIy
List of high school graduates fol-
lows:
West Newton High School, Deca-
tur TownShip-Edith Fern Stokes
berry, Martha Elizabeth Heger. Ed
ward William Fields, Fred Helfen-
berger, Vivian Vauda Blankenpaker,
Mildred Worrellyne Kearns, Nina
May Stokesberry and Edna F.
Griepenstroh.
Valley Mills High School, Deca-
tur Township-Joseph E. Sellars,
Samuel j. Lugar, Derrill D. Cope
land, Elsie Lucille Freestone, Esther
Elizabeth Riddle, Robert L. Vawter,
Howard F. Blank, James L. Parsons,
Catherine Wilma Beasley.
New Augusta High School, Pike
Township - Catherine E. Guion,
Ruth Mcclure AIarcum, Mildred E.
Wilson, Dorotha Gladys Scott, Eve
lyn Rodibaugh, Grace Marie Snyder,
Elizabeth Ann Avery, Doris L. Cool
man, Ernestine Marie Mathis, Bes-
sic Gass, Emma B. Class.
Acton High School, Franklin
Township-Chelsea L. Akeman, Mae
McClain, Earl w. Evans, Mary M
Weidman, Raymond J. Giroud,
Ralph Gerald Akeman, Kathryn L.
McCullum, Lester Levi Pfendler,
Charles Leslie Hopkins.
New Bethel High School, Frank
lin Township = Nora M. Schaekel,
Russell L. Willsey, Randall Yeager,
Hulda M. Folkening, Cora C. E..
Prange, Josephine M. Wilharm,
Bernice M. Showalter, Dorothy E.
Dean, Kathryn F. Williams, Archer
G. Shirley, Jr.
Castleton High School, Lawrence
Township-Clarence Bracken, Mary
Harriet McIlvain, Frank E Sig
man, Julian F. Wadsworth, B Jesse
zook, Mary Reid Ewing, Naomi
Ruth Russell, Meta Faye Sewers,
Vida May Whitsell.
Oaklandon High School, Law
renee Township-Richard Merald
Apple, Bonita Katherine Apple,
Louise Almetta Blanton, Theodore
Edward Huntley, Sarah Jane Mock,
Wilbur M Stoner, Edna Mae Be-
lander, Minyon Irene Peters, Ralph
Charles Ofenbacker, Helen Irene
McCord.
Lawrence High School, Lawrence
TownShip-Doris May Hart, Harley
r. Hopkins, Allen Gibson, John Mil
ton White, Ruby Mae Thompson,
Isabella Johnson, Helena M. Pal
ner, Walter D. Phillips.
Southport High School, Perry
Township - Maryalice Haverstick
Lena Lenore Long, Louis H. Gunne-
mann, Lora Pauline Hendricks, An
nice M. Unversaw, Dorothy E
q Beineke, Ruth Katherine Clark
Lawrence Stephen Hayes, Reynolc
Paul, William John Dobyns, Will