The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-04
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livered by DR.. James w. James of
Northwestern University. DR.. James is
a deep thinker and gave the class con-
siderable inside history of many Ameri-
can happenings in the early days of the
country. He dWelt in his address on
Americanism and what it cost the
pioneers to attain and to hold citizen
ship in this great nation. The DR.. holds
a chair of history and research in
Northwestern. Opportunities for his
torical research are many and it is up
to you and the classes to follow to bring
forth unseen and ungueSsed achieve
mentS in this line" said DR.. James in
closing what was termed by many as
one of the best addresses heard here on
occasions of this kind.
Romance" was played by the Or
chestra with Miss Josephine Shepel as
violin soloiSt for the rendition.
Joseph Perko was announced as the
winner of the American Legion medal
for the most outstanding boy of the
class. The young man when called to
the front to receive the award was
Signally touched. The winner of this
medal is not announced until the even
ing of graduation and is most
pleasant surprise to the recipient. Byrd
BrowneIl, on behalf of Frank Lozar
Post, yearly making the award, in few
well chosen remarks, pinned the medal
on Mr.. Perko amid the applause of
classmates and the audience.
Stanley Adkins, superintendent of
schools, presented the class to the board
of education. Ben S. Richards, chair
man of the board, accepted the class.
Both spoke briefly and Mr.. Richards
presented the diplomas.
In presenting the diplomas, Mr..
Richards said he would not attempt to
call the names of the graduates but had
them march past while he handed them
the documents which had been arranged
in proper order in advance thus saving
much time in the presentation, hereto
fore a rather tedious undertaking.
The Rev. Spehn pronounced the bene-
diction and a very pleasant evening
closed with the occasional March
Noble" played by the orchestra during
which the class left the hall amid the
applause of the audience.
The class of SO made up of ITO was
the second largest class ever to gradu-
ate from the High School Counting
the "a Junior College graduates, the
class of SO was the largest class ever
to graduate from the Ely schools. In
1929 the class numbered 129 and was
considered the largest High School class
although that year only a few Junior
College students were graduated.
The list of High School graduates
were given in the Miner a few weeks
ago. AT that time we were unable to
give the ]. C. graduates. These were
Gordon Browne, Terry Brownell, Cath
crime Childers, Patrick Fleming, Law
renee Golobich, Anita Gordon Sarah
Hanson, Violet Hanson, William Hill
lard, Kathleen Hillman, Sulo Koivisto,
Anne Krnichar, Helen Lee, Eileen Lo-
maSney, Robert Merhar, Anne Peshel,
Wilfred Robertson, Selma Sandstrom,
Otto Sarkipato, Arthur Seraphine, Louis
Sever, Charles Strachan, Charles Ire
iona and Eugene Filson.
The class this year was an exceptional
one. Out of the 1874 High School and
Junior College Students, twenty-five
had standing of 80 or over; three had
a standing of 96; five had a standing
of 95 or above; Miss Santo, vale
dictorian, had a standing of $3.50, and
Miss Heroja, salutatorian, a standing
of 95.638. Seven were taken into the
National Honor Society.