The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-11
.bOut 1000. Park
To Witness
Epent
Attorney Porter
Urges Graduates To
Live Happily; O'Bryant
Bestows Diplomas

J. Y. Porter. Nv, urged the 86
graduates of Key West High
School last night to live a happy
and successful life and they
would win a peace which is said
10 surpass all understanding.
Porter's address was delivered
In Bayview Park at the COM,
menccment exercises before
nearly 1000 persons gathered
there.
For II is in giving that we re-
eeive, IL is the pardoning that we
are pardoned. indeed it is even in
dying that we are born into life
eternal. said Porter.
That design for living or, if
you prefer, that philosophy of
life. viii not necessarily guaran-
tee unto these young ladies and
gentlemen great financial re-
ward or even less, a place in the
councils of the mighty.
III win. however assure them
q happy and successful life, and
more important still, that peace
which Is said to surpass all un-
derstanding."
Fiftyone girls and 35 boys in the
lg40 senior class received their di-
piomas from Horace O'Bryant,
county school superintendent,
who had known nearly all of
them when he served as principal
Of the high school.
On the platform were, among
others, Gerald Adams, chairman,
Mrs. JENNIE C. Pierce, j. CARLYLE
Roberts and Julio Cabanas, Jr.,
members Of the County School
Board s s. ~
II was TO the music of the
band played by the High School
band that the graduates, all dres-
sed In blue-robed gowns, paraded
to the platform from the stand at
the east end of the park. Flower
girls carried bouquets of roses,
preceded them.
The Rev. Ralph Rogers, pastor
OF First Presbyterian Church, de-
livered the invocation.
II was announced that there
had been SO graduates of the
High School. Archie Lowe and
John Dillon were not there to re-
ceive their diplomas, for Lowe is
with the Army in Alaska and Dill
Ion with the Air Force in Texas.
AS the program was ending a
heavy rain began to fall.
Following is a complete list of
the names of the graduates:
Barbara Ann Albury, Robert
Stanley Archer, William Robert
Archer, Clara Louise Armayor,
Diane Louise Auxier, Nikki Soil
Ia Avila, Madeleine E. Berry,
Carla Bowser, Carol Joy Boza,
Robert William Braun, Robert
Edward Brill. Betty Jean Bryant,
Barbara Mae Buckley. Elizabeth
Ann Canova, Dorothy Frances
Carbonell, Loretta Ellen Car
bonell, Harry Frank Carey, Flea
nor Anita Carlson, George Car
mona, Frank A. Castillo, John
Thomas Cerezo, John Galen Col
lar, Peggy Elizabeth Collins,
Mary Lou Cowley, WinIfred Rose
Lee Cruz, Charles Percy Curry,
Jr., Shirley May Curry, William
Paul Daniel, Judith Hart Daught-
~, Hilda Diaz, John Frank Dill
Ion, James Frederick sFaulconer,
David Warfield Freeman, Nellie
Garcia, Edna Jean Gardner, AL
ton Bell Goehring, Jr., Patricia
Ann Harrison, Ethel Mae Jenkins,
Mary Elizabeth johnson, Sylvia
June johnson, Bernard Kaplan
Margaret Elizabeth Kerr, Joan
Rae Lord. Joan Marie Knowles,
10 Ann Knowles, John Bernard
Larsen, Archie B. Lowe, James
ID. Malgrat, Ann Lorraine Mar
shall, Nellie Corrine Menendez,
Florence Mae Mitchell, Vincent
J. Molina, Jr., Violet Ann Neblett,
Ernesto Nunez, Hello Oropeza,
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