The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-06-24
Closing Exercises Of
High School
Graduating Class Of Forty
Four Awarded Diplomas


Forty-four students of the Rising
Sun High School were awarded di-
plomas Tuesday evening, June IA,
at the fifteenth commencement ex-
ercises, held in the high schol audi
torium. This class is the largest ever
to be graduated from that high
school. One of the largest audiences
ever assembled in the auditorium
witnessed the exercises.
Following the invocation by Rev.
S. J. Venable, d. D., Miss Adeleen
Wilson, class orator, presented an
Grafton, Threats to Democracy in the
World Today, in which she stressed
the importance of our American edu-
cational system in the preservation
of our democratic form of govern
ment.
Mr.. T. w. Dawsey, Assistant Spec
ial Agent-Federal Bureau of Invest
LEGATION, from Washington, D. c.,
gave the address to the graduates.
Mr.. Dawsey impressed upon the
graduating class the necessity of
their participation in the affairs of
our nation if our democracy is to stay
out of the hands Of the criminal
classes of the United States. The
speaker also put before the public
the thought that the salvation of
our country from the chaos caused
by crime rests entirely with our edu-
cational system. He pointed out that
the great majority of criminals in
our penal Institutions today are men
and women who failed to complete
their high school educations.
Throughout his address Mr.. Dawsey
emphasized the responsibility rest
ing upon the education the educa-
tors and upon the youth who have
received the benefits of higher train
ing.
Musical selections for the evening
were furnished by the Rising Sun
High School Orchestra, under the
direction of Mr.. Harry Rinehart. Mr..
Harry Barnes rendered xylophone
solo in addition to the orchestral
Awards to the outstanding girl
and boy of the graduating class were
made by Mr.. Ralph Reed, represent
ing the Alumni Association of Ris-
ing Sun High School. Miss Gertrude
Buck and Lincoln Haines were the
recipients of these awards. The Lions
Club awards for scholarship through
out the four years of high school
were presented to Miss Adeleen VIII
son and Clyde SINNERS by MI. Nor
ris Reynolds, club president.
Diplomas were presented by Mr..
H. e. Mcbride, Superintendent Of
Schools of Cecil County to the fol-
lowing graduates:
Ruth Genell Anderson, Annabelle
Ayers, Mary Evelyn Best, Ruth Ro-
berson Biles, Isaac Roscoe Boyd.
Doris May Brickley, Virginia Anna
Brown, Gertrude Pogue Buck, Gen
evieve Elizabeth Cecil, Mary Rosetta
Childress, Myrth Elizabeth Coulson,
Jean Elizabeth Cullen, John Paul
Leo Allen Eckman, Cath
crime Boyd Etter, Maratha Geneva
eve Gibson, Lloyd George Clifford,
Frederick Carson GRAPHICAL Wiley
James GRAPHICAL, Edwin Lincoln
Haines, Jr., Eva Frances Hambleton,
John Coulson Hindman, Jr., Ruth
Naomi Hutchins, Richard Harland
Jenkins, Lula Amanda Jones, Paul
inc Long, Ned Burns Lucas, Ruth
rude Evelyn McCauley,N Thomas
Hayes Martindale, Walter McCum-
mings, Doris Reynolds McVey,
Buford Gail Pafford, Sophie Pearl
Pierce, Dorothy Rosetta Rapds, Les
lie Cecil Reynolds, Mildred Olene
Riley, Anne Kirk Robertson, Herbert
Ellsworth, Ryan, Clyde Kirkwood
Margaret Elizabeth Tyson,
Mary Nell Waddell, John Noel Will
liams, Miriam Brown Williams AIDE
leen Kirk Wilson.
The Rev. Frank White pronounced
the benediction.
On Sunday morning, June IL, the
members of the graduating class,
falculty, and parents and friends at
tended the James M. e. Church at
Rising Sun, where the sermon to the
graduates was delivered by the Rev.
Frank White Mr.. White charged the
class to keep the thoughts. which
lead all human actions, clean and
directed on the worthwhile goals set
in life. A special feature Of the ser
vice was soprano solo, rendered
by Mrs. M. U. Zimmerman.
The Senior Farewell Assembly was
held in the school auditorium Fri
day afternoon, June 10. Preceding
the conventional farewell program,
a recrod of the voices of those grad
uating was played; this novel adj
dition to the program provided the
large audience present with the most
entertaining feature Of the after
noon.
Awards were presented to out
standing pupils by the Principal. MIR.
M. u. Zimmerman: Senior-Athletic-
Richard Jenkins; Junior-Scholar-
ship-Ruth Baugher; Junior-Activit,
ias-Teir Donache: SOphOmore-