Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK [ARTICLE]

FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK

COMMENCEMENT WEEK DOINGS Annual Festivities to Begin Here Friday Evening. Commencement week activities are. scheduled to open in this city next Friday evening, May 25. No official program has as yet been announced but from reliable sources it is learned that the above date will be observed as class night. A picnic is being planned for the day following, the details of which have not yet been completed, but which promises to be one of the notable affairs of the week. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered to the graduating class on Sunday evening, May 27, at the Presbyterian church by Rev. F. H. Beard. His subject for the occasion will be “Stick.” The senior class play will be presented at the Ellis opera house on ■both Monday and Tuesday evenings. The title of the play is “Hearts and Diamonds,” a three-act comedydrama. Wednesday evening is the time set for the senior-junior joint reception at the armory, and this event promises to be not the least of the week’s festivities. • Commencement exercises will be held at the high school auditorium on Thursday evening. Dr. Stone, president of Purdue university, will deliver the address. * Friday evening, June 1, the alumni banquet will be held at the Christian church, followed by a dance at the armory.