Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1914 — R. H. S. WILL GRADUATE THIRTY-TWO THIS YEAR [ARTICLE]

R. H. S. WILL GRADUATE THIRTY-TWO THIS YEAR

Nineteen Girls and Thirteen Boys Will Complete Course—Commencement Last of May. The Rensselaer high sehool will turn out a class of 32 graduates this year, composed of 19 girls and 13 boys. The commencement week will be May 24th to 29th, during which time the various events will be inaugurated, including the baccalaureate sermon, junior reception, class day, commencement and alumni banquet. The school work undef the superintendency of Ross Dean, assisted by an able corps of high school instructors, has proven vefy satisfactory and the class which is to grad- ' uate, while not so large as some in former years, is probably throughout one of the bet qualified that ever left the Rensselaer high school. There are quite a number in the class who expect to attend colleges, while others will plan to prepare themselves during the summer to

teach school. The following are the graduates: Boys—Dorris Crooks, Harold Fidler, Ernest Harriott, Kenneth Groom, Emil Hanley, George Healey, Edward- Honan, Ralph Lakin, Worth McCarthy, Paul Miller, Edward Rose, Ransom Sawin, Laban Wilcox. Girls—Orpha Barton, Amy Bringle, Ethel Clarke, Jennie Chamberlain, Nellie DeLong, Gertrude Fayler, Neva Harriott, Lura Halleck, Lucy Harris, Marjorie Loughridge, Isabel Martin, Gay Makeever, Edna Price, Marian Parker, Hazel Reeve, Feme Tilton, Beatrice Tilton, Emily Thompson, Catherine Watson. The themes written by the students are as follows: The Renaissance, Orpha Barton. Music and Its Masters, Amy Bringle. Modern Surgical Wonders, Ethel Clarke,

Our Modern National Defense, William Dorris Crooks. Slavery in the U. S., Jennie Chamberlain. ' The Panama Canal, Nellie Delong. America’s Refrigerator, Alaska, ~ Gertrude Fayler. t . Irrigation in the West, Ernest * Garriott. The Overshadowing Man, Neva Garriott. Evolution of Modes of Travel, Kenneth Groom. Seven Great Inventions of Our Time, Emil Hanley. “The Society Bug”, Lura Halleek. Five Great Men of the Day, George W. Healey. # Mexico and Its Present Difficulties, Lucy W. Harris. Motorcycle Industry, Edward M. Honan. Rfver and Harbor Improvement, Ralph D. Lakin. Chopin, Marjorie Loughrtdge. Progress of Woman Suffrage, Isabel Martin. - History of Jasper County, Worth McCarthy. ‘ History of U. S. Ooinage System, Gay Makeever. General Booth and the Salvation Armyi Edna Price. jggGtoeducation in the U. S., Marian *K. Parker. Wireless Telegraph in Commerce, Edward Rose. Gary, Hazel Reeve. The Philippines, Ransom Sawin. The Rise of the English Drama, Feme E. Tilton. From Crown to Cabinet, Beatrice Tilton. Beethoven, Emily Thompson. \1 Aerial Navigation, Laban Wilcox, v* Types of American Humorists, LOrene Warren. Florence Nightingale, Catherine Watson. Original Story, Paul Miller.