The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-07-01
Large Group Attends
Bible School Closing
School Considered One of Best
Ever Held-Certificates
Issued to 10S

The closing program of the Daily
Vacation Bible School was given Sun
! day night before an audience that
taxed the capacity Of the assembly
room of the Methodist church, where
it was held Sponsored by the Luth-
eran and Methodist churches Of Oak
land, the school attracted one hundred
and thirty children of the community,
and had a staff of nine teachers and
| four helpers.
The closing program was planned
to depict the type and content of the
training the children had received,
with each class from Beginners to
Seventh-Graders presenting in song,
prayer, recitation or dramatization
something typical from their lessons.
In this way, explained Rev. Minor
Sprague, director the audience of
parents and friends was able to see
how each years instruction was suited
to the child's developing spiritual need
and thus built up a foundation of
! Christian character and belief on
which he could build life
After an explanation of what the
religious art program sought to do
by the instructor, Miss Eleanor Sin
cell, and the presentation of certif-
icatcs of progress by the director,
Rev. Minor Sprague, the audience was
, dismissed to examine an exhibit of art
work, notebooks and handwork which
had been arranged by all the classes.
Certificates of progress, represent
ing faithful attendance and satisfac-
tory effort, were awarded to 108 chill
! dren, II of whom were perfect in their
attendance Those receiving them fol-
low;
Beginners, Miss Elizabeth West,
/ teacher-Connie Savage, Carol Ann
iiarpold, Jo Ann Echard, Inez Dale
! Davis, Helen Browning, Rebccca Nell
! White, Carolyn Dusic, Barbara
Smouse, Beverly Winters, Norman
Davis, Patricia Gortner, Carolyn
Sewers, Geraldine Davis, Sammy
Moore, Billy Moore, Jackie Frantz
Olivia Naylor, Lynn Warfield, Judy
Fanslcr, Carole Ann Gender, Linda
Mae Pritts, Betty Ann McWiliams,
Allen Sewers, Carol Ann Savage,
Betty Butler, Sherry Hardcsty, Edgar
Butt, Joyce Thayer, Carol Phillips,
/ Douglas Smith, Frank Lee Dewitt
First grade, Mrs. Ruhl Talbot,
teacher Mary Drake Bennett, JAG
! qucline Browning, Shirley Ann Leigh
ton, Richard Eugene Leighton, Bar
bara Jean Morris Jackie Sewers,
Lloyd Tumey, Sylvia Archer
Second grade, Mrs Reaford Pur-
baugh, teacher-Sonny Hardesty, De-
lores SchelI, Elaine Graham, Betty
/ Lewis, Wayne Graham, Billy Dewitt.
! john Hanst, Katherine Ann Wainer,
Joan Sewers, Rita johnson, Heather
Robinson, Lou Ellen Hardesty.
Third grade, Mrs. William Nc
: Robbie, teachcr-Nirgie Turncy, Bar
bara Sines, Gloria Maffctt, Nancy Lee
Johnson, George Hanst, Betsy Scott
fowler, Ann Porter, Betty 10 Smouse,
Charlotte Davis, Eva June Wilson.
Carolyn Lewis, Eddie Hardesty, Beat
/ rice Butcher, Celia May Jones.
Fourth grade, Miss Dorothea Frid-
niger, teachcr-Bernicc Hanft, Elinor
Jean Bittinger, Gladys May Wensel,
| Thclma Jean Frantz, Helen Louise
Harmed, Lois Rae Murray, Freddie
/ Thayer.
Fifth grade, Mrs. Newton Coplin,
teacher-Jackic Kight, Barbara Whit
ers, Betsy Phillips, Ruth Morris,
Elaine Lewis, Harry Turney, Jane
Friend, Elizabeth Smouse, Homer
/ Bennett, Heryey Smousc, Wayne
Pritts, Mary Lee Smousc, Sue LiIIer,
Barbara Spraguc, George Klcy.
Sixth grade, Mrs. Harold Harmed,
toacher-Marl Faubcr, Marie Fitz-
water, Esther Kahl, Richard Leighton,
Mary I. Naylor Danny Offutt, Rich
. ard Spraguo, David Whitaker, Muricl
Robinson, Phillip Krill.
Seventh grade, DR.. A. B. Learner,
tcachcr-Eloise Ashby, Rita Bittlc,
Betty limbaugh, Betty Starr Kildow,
Warren Mann, Ralph Pritts, Beth
Shircr, Floyd Lee Wcnscl, Peggy Lou
| Winters, James Murray, Karl kahl
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