Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-29
MRS. s. ?. COOPER
PRESENTS FLAGS
American, State and Con-
federate Emblems Given
by PIT. A. Head
AUDITORIUM THRONG
Colonial Danes Awards To Miss Jane
Newell and Meredith Scholar
ship Is Given Miss
Juanita Stainback

Diplomas Of graduation were de
hvered to 81 seniors at the graduation
exercises of Henderson high schoo
Friday night in the school auditorium
before an audience that jammed tn
large hall, which seats approximate,
1000 persons.
After the professional by the higl
school band and another selection BY
that group, Mrs S. P. Cooper present
ed to the high school three huge sill
flags, one the American flag, another
the North Carolina State flag and the
third the Stars and Bars of the Con
federacy. In her presentation talk
Mrs. Cooper, who has just been elect
ed president of the High School
Parent-Teacher Association for next
year, said she had observed a notice
able lack in the auditorium, and that
was these flags. The Confederate flag
was designed by Orrin Randolph
Smith, native of Franklin county, and
who spent the last years of his life
In Henderson, and lies buried in Elm
wood cemetery here, with his daugh-
ter, the late Miss Jessica Randolph
No-AAASAA, WIZ N1Co q VCdI clSO. mis-.
Cooper gave the flags, she said, as a
means of stimulating the spirit of
patriotism in the school and the COM
munity.
Prof. w. D. Payne, principal of the
high school, accepted the flag for the
school, after which the audience stood
and recited the pledge of allegiance
to the flag and sang a verse of the
national anthem.
Superintendent E. M. Rollins pre-
sided over the exercises and presented
the participants. The invocation was
by Rev. A. S. Hale, and after the flag
presentation the salatutatory of the
Class of 1887 was given by Miss
Frances Daniel. Then followed at in
tervals six short speeches by members
of the graduating class on various
phases of the general theme of this
commencement, namely, Health, the
First Objective of Education" Miss
Bessie Mae Johnson spoke on Health
and Safety" Brunette Kelly on
Health and Beauty; Miss Mary Sue
Newell, on physical Education as a
Builder of Health; Miss Elizabeth
Jenkins on Good Health Habits" and
Miss Ada Page on Health Education
in the Elementary Schools of Hender-
son." The final talk was by Miss Mar
garet Smith on Henderson High
School and Health Education" Inter
spersed were numbers by the girls
glee club directed by Mrs. Carter Will
liams, the first being Praise Ye the
Father" by Gounod-Deis, and the sec
ond, Il Waited for the Lord by Men
delssohn. In the latter a trio consist
ing of Misses Julia Mitchell, Eliza |
beth Jenkins and Juanita Stainback |
had trio parts. Miss Bessie Mae John
son, of the graduating class, was &C
companist at the piano.
The valedictory of the class was by
Miss LaVerne Turner and spoken by
Miss Nellie Kittrell.
An award by the North Carolina
Society of Colonial Danes of $40 and
one of SIS by the Vance County COM
Newell, by Mrs. l. W. Hughes for the
best essay on Colonial life in North
Carolina. It was the second time the
Statewide prize has come to Hender-
son.
The Meredith College scholarship |
award was won by Miss Juanita
Stainback, of the graduating class,
and was presented by Rev. A. S. Hale.
pastor of the First Baptist church.
The class was presented for grad
uation by Prof. Payne, and the dip
Tomas actually delivered to the grad
yates by DR.. H. A. Newell, member of
the. city school board, after which
Prof. Payne read long list of honors
and of distinctions won by the class
of 1887 The benediction was by Rev.
I. w. Hughes, rector of Holy In
nocents Episcopal church. The high
school band played the occasional
When the class marched in at the
start of the program they were led
by Miss Mary Lou Cooper, daughter
of the donor of the flags, carrying the
Confederate Stars and Bars; Billy
Dennis, carrying the North Carolina
State flag, and the American flag car
ried by Jimmy Peck.
Faculty members marched in with
the class, together with some mem.
bers of the school board, and Billy
Payne, son of Prof. and Mrs. Payne.
who was class mascot. Chairman G.
w Knott and DR.. Newell, of the
school board, were on the stage.