Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — 38TH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT [ARTICLE]

38TH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

44 WILL BE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL—LARGEST CLASS IN HISTORY. The 38th annual commencement of Rensselaer high school will be held Thursday evening, May 27, when a class of 44 will be graduated, the largest class in the history of the school. The previous high water mark was 43, registered m 1918. The class this year is comprised of twenty-six young ladies and eighteen young men. The schools will close May 27. The graduating exercises will occur as follows: Friday, May 21. —Class Night at the high school auditorium. Sunday, May 23.—Baccaureate address at the Christian church by the Rev. J. B. Fleming of the Presbyterian church. Monday and Tuesday, May 24 and 25 —class play, “The House Next Door,” at the New Ellis theatre. Wednesday, May 26.—Junior reception at the armory. Thursday, May 27.—Commencement' at the Christian church. Miss Margaret Hill McCarter, former teacher in the schools and a noted authoress of Kansas, will deliver the address. Friday—Alumni banquet at the armory. , . .. The following is the list of the graduates: • Floyd Fred Platt Lardner Clark Crooks Lucile M. Mackey Zella M. Hershman Gladys M. Prouty Perlin Mabel Williams Helen Warner Fred T. Christensen Harold M. Nowels Russell Q. Fidler —- — Elizabeth M. Moore Harold J. Halleck Elizabeth R. Hemphill John W. Hudson Clyde G. Tilton Irvin Jones, Jr. - Orval Rowen Ivah M. Healey William L. Parkinson William F. Daugherty Karine J. Werner. Bernice Kessinger Jennie F. Benson Ruby H. Standish Gladys M. Carr , Emil R. Bates Floyd Hemphill Milton B. Roth Luella A. Harmon Jess Y. Brown Annetta M. Hansson Paul B. Collins Ethel L. Holmes Charlotte Hill Gladys Dean, Josephine Jones Edna R. Yeoman Mary M. Coen Jane Elizabeth Hebard Mary C. Hordeman Cecelia F. Kellner Ernest T. Abbott Cecelia M. Putts Lois E. Bates