The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-06-13
ACTIVITIESFO
GRADUATES TO
CONCLUDEFRIDAY
Sermons, Class Nights and Com
mencement Exercises Have Been
Keeping Seniors On The Go
23O GET DIPLOMAS

The series of activities for the 23O
high school graduates and the various
programs for 434 elementary schoo!
and parochial school graduates, will
all be completed by Friday evening,
and all will have received their diplo-
mas which entitled them to advance
to the next higher institution of learn
ing.
There is no doubt that practically
all of the elementary graduates will
enter high schools in September while
many of the high school graduates
plan to continue their education in
colleges and universities.
High schools had activities lasting
from last Sunday, when most of the
sermons to graduates were preached.
Commencement exercises were held
Wednesday for some while others will
be held tonight and tomorrow Glass
night exercises have been held also by
most of the schools.
Oakland High
Commencement exercises for Oak
land high school grads will be hello
this evening in the school auditorium
when DR.. Richard Aspinall, assistant
to the president of West Virginia Uni
yersity, will deliver the address. Di.
plomas and awards will be made by
Walter W. Dawson, president of tha
Board of Education. A chorus and
orchestra will furnish music. One
hundred three will receive diplomas.
Glass night was observed on Tues
day when three one-act plays were
presented. The sermon to the gradu-
ates was delivered Sunday night in
the Methodist church by Rev. Minor
Sprague, pastor.
Grantsville High
The sermon to the forty-eight
Grantsville graduates was delivered by
Rev. A. C. Curran, of the Bittinger
Lutheran church, last Sunday morn.
ing He stressed the words of Solo.
mon, Fear God and Keep His Com
mandments, for such is the whole duty
of man." The class was gowned, the
girls in white, the boys in dark blue
For class night Tuesday a three-act
play, Beyond the Port, was given,
along with other features. BelvA
Michael was salutatorian and Elmer
Lewis, valedictorian.
At commencement tonight DR.. Lloyd
NJ. Bertholf, dean of Western Mary
land college, will speak.
kitzmiller High
Thirty-one Kitzmiller graduates
heard Rev. B. w. Folsom deliver the
sermon on Sunday morning in the
Methodist church there. Their COM
mencement exercises will be tonight
when John N. Norton, special adviser
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation,
will speak. Music will be by the glee
club. 1t will be held in the Methodist
church. Glass night exercises were
held in the Maryland Theatre on Mon
day night.
Friendsville High
Rev. L. A. Wagner, Lutheran pastor
at Accident, delivered the sermon to
the fifteen graduates of Friendsville
High Sunday. A one-act play and
other features were presented at Glass
night on Monday. Commencement
will be Friday, June Ia, at 8 O'Clock
when julius C. SCHNEIDER, Cumberland
attorney, will speak on "The Ameri-
can Way of Life" w. w. Savage,
school board vice-president, will pre-
sent awards and diplomas.
Accident High
Rev. Orval A. Lorenz, pastor of the
Brethren church, Meyersdale, spoke
to 20 Accident graduates and their
friends Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Glass night was held Tuesday, and
their commencement was last night
when Mr.. Norton, of Washington, de-
hVered the address. Mr. Savage pre-
scented diplomas and awards.
Kempton High
Kempton's thirteen graduates were
given diplomas at exercises held there
last evening. Rev. Glenn D. Watts
delivered the sermon to them on Sun
day evening.
Some closing exercises for elc.
mentary graduates are still to be held,
including Accident, this evening, June
Is; Loeb Lynn and Mt. Lake Park
combined, this afternoon at o'clock
oakland's exercises were last night
Inc Parochial school had their cere
mony last Friday.
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