Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — Program Recalls Annual Commencement of 1894. [ARTICLE]

Program Recalls Annual Commencement of 1894.

On Thursday evening, May 24th, 1894, the commencement exercises of the Rensselaer high school were held. It was the twelfth class to graduate. Recently among some old samples in the Republican office a program of these exercises was found. The class consisted of seven who read the following. Compulsory Education Oren F. Parker. Territorial Growth of the United States, .... .-..... Marion L. Spitler, Jr. The Coming Nation Ray D. Thompson. Literature and the Age, Benhart Fendig. Importance of Good Roads, .... Jesse M. Coen George Washington Childs •* Florence Neal. Class History Jos. H. Marshall. The music for the commencement was furnished by the Rensselaer string orchestra.

All of the ’94 class are living, we believe. Oren Parker and Benhart Fendig are Rensselaer merchants. R. D. Thompson is the city treasurer and a local practicing lawyer; Marion L. Spitler is a prominent young lawyer and business man of Oklahoma City; Jesse M. Coen is employed in the McClurg store in Chicago; Joseph Marshall is in California and Florence rleal, the only girl in the class is now the wife of a dentist named Jenkins, and lives in Canada. Her father recently died and an account of the death was published in this paper.