Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — COMMENCEMENT WEEK IS OVER. [ARTICLE]

COMMENCEMENT WEEK IS OVER.

Ended Last Night With the Alumni Banquet. A CLASS OF 30 6RADUATES Turned Out to Face Life’s Battles, Fourteen Boys and Sixteen Girts —All the Various Functions of the Week Are Largely Attended and Were On a More Elaborate Scale Than Usual. twenty-seventh annual commencement of the Rensselaer high Bchool is now over, and the week has been a strenous one. Thirty young ladies and young gentleman comprise the class, as follows: Hally Alter James Jordan Blanche Babcock Lavera Lee Arvel Bringle Rose Luers Ross Bringle Floyd Meyers Ellen Childers Helen Murray Edgar Duvall Omar Osborne Whiter English Grace Peyton Clara Fisher Madeline Ramp Roy Gundy Emma Rayher. Ralph Hammond Marcellene Roberts Edna Hauter Livingstone Ross Lonzo Healy Myrtle Sard Ethel Hermansen Walter Seegrist Carrie Jasperson Judith Woodward Ethel Jacks Myrtle York u The program consisted of r* the baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening at the Christian church by Dr. G. L. Mackintosh of Wabash College which filled the church to overflowing; the class day play at the opera house Tuesday night at which standing room was at a premium; the commencement exercises proper at the Christian church Wednesday night where another packed house greeted the graduates and Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus of Chicago, who delivered the address, his subject being William E. Gladstone the great English statesman; the Junior reception to the Seniors and the Alumni banquet on Thursday and Friday nights, respectively. Both these latter events were pulled off at the armory, which had been tastily decorated for the occasions. A Chicago orchestra of four pieces furnished the music. The attendance at each was upwards of 200, and the “Junior Prom,” or grand march, that led off the dancing, and with the moonlight or firefly dance, which followed later, were very pretty and interesting, was led by Donald Hollingsworth of Chicago and Miss Dorotha Hollingsworth of Rensselaer, was participated in by about fifty young couples. There was also dancing after the alumni banquet last night, but as the plates cost $1 each the alumnis thought they could not afford as much music as the Juniors had, so but two pieces of the orchestra was retained for their “hop,” but enthusiasm made up for any lack of noise in the musical line, and commencement week of 1909 ended in a “blaze of glory;” and the “old town” will once more settle down to business and the pursuit of the elusive-dollar, and some of the people who have had to open their pocketbooks quite frequently as a result thereof will feel all the ihore need of it.