Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-06-11
PRIZES GIVEN
\ CLASS NIGHT
Awards Given to Pupils of ].
B. M. School; Diplomas
Awarded Monday
FACULTY PRIZES GIVEN

The following prizes and awards
were made at the class night exer
cises of the class of 1912 held il
the John Bassett Moore High
School Friday night: The Amanda
Ashcraft Memorial temperance
prize, to pupils exerting creates
influence for temperance, Elizabeth
Stats, Elizabeth Russell, Robert
Jacobs and Manfred Ennis; aware
to boy making greatest effort ir
athletics but failing to make letter
Richard Handsberry; to best all.
round girl athlete, Martha Burrous
Temperance Prizes Given
Temperance themes prizes giver
by Smyrna w. C. T. U. to Charles
Reed, Jane Virden, Lorraine Smith
Gwen Smith, Arnold Reed, Jear
Ellen Russell, James Edmondson
Frances Ann Davis and Elizabeth
Russell; honor attendance, Mildred
Slaughter, Doris Palmer and Noda
Rowlinson, all 10 years; Beacon
College awards, shorthand tran
script, gold medal, Mildred Slaught-
err; silver, Frances Naylor; cham
pion typist, gold medal, ]. R
Jacobs; silver, B. S. Carlow; the
Elizabeth Cook Chapter D. A. R
award for proficiency in American
history, first, Audrey Westfall; Sec
ond, Frances Ann Davis; state d
A. R. good citizenship prize, Lillian
Craft; David C. Harrison Post, No
IA, American Legion, boy making
greatest progress in American his
tory, to Bill Kenworthey tthis is
the first time a legionnaire's son
has won this award; American
Legion Auxiliary, Margaret DEAN
err.
Service Prize to Stimson Carrow
Smyrna Rotary Club school SER
vice prize, Stimson Carrow; R. w.
Slaughter awards: Spanish, Jean
Truax; civics, Lillian Craft; physics,
Manfred Ennis; senior English,
Elizabeth Russell; Smyrna Bust
ness Association award, CONNER
cial course, to Mildred Slaughter.
Athletic awards, by John w. Doerr,
coach, basketball letters, Bob
Jacobs, captain; Lee Everett, Har-
old Hopkins, Bob Lower, Fred
Stevenson, Jack Francis, George
Wright, Dick Scorah, Jay Wees,
Adam Robinson, Walter Glottes,
Walter Adams, William Carson,
James Carson, Francis O'Neill,
William Short, Bill Minner, Buzzy
Deakyne, Donald Everett and Don
aid Mood. Baseball letters, Jack
Wilson, manager; Frank Reichelt,
Bob Lower, Jain Vaughn, Walter
Adams, William Carson, Howell
Kitchens, Lee Everett, Earl Ely,
Harold Hopkins, Ray Hudson, Lew
is Conoway, Preston knight and
Butch Robinson.
Award Seniors Diplomas
Commencement exercises were
held in the auditorium Monday
evening. The program was as fol-
lows: Professional, Amy Meinhardt,
Mrs. Doris Fearon, pianists; invo-
cation, the Rev. S. j. Thackaberry,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church; salutatory address, Mil
dred Slaughter; piano duet, Shirley
Bleckman and Stimson Carlow;
valedictory addresses, Shirley
Blechman and Lillian Craft; selec-
ton, Glee Club; awarding of facul-
ty prizes, by Ellery ]. Ward, presi-
dent of the Faculty Club; pre-
sentation of the senior class to the
president of the Board of Educa-
tion, by George R. Miller, Jr., SUI
perintendent of schools. Presenta-
ton of diplomas, Walter w. Hynson
president of the Board; mantle ora
ton, Robert Lower, class presi-
went; acceptance, Jack Mood, jun
ior class president; Alma Mater,
benediction, the Rev. ]. w. Colona,
pastor of Asbury Methodist Church;
occasional, Miss Meinhart and
Mrs. Fearon.