Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The township, commencements are well under headway in Jasper county. Union township made an excellent record this year in the face of much contention. There were 19 successful applicants on the eighth grade diploma examination. This unusual number of successful applicants is due, no doubt, to the fact that all teachers employed in Union township were experienced teachers. Kankakee township has a record duplicating that of Union in that all teachers there were experienced teachers. It is also true that Kankakee, like

Union, had as many successful applicants as it had pupils to try for high school privileges. Those eighth grade pupils who will receive diplomas Wednesday night, April 30, at Tefft from Kankakee township are: Edna Jean DeArmond, Wesley M. Myers, George K. Turner, Theodore B. Sands, Ruby Grace White, Katherine Shepard, Hettie Jefferies and Ohloe Hamlett. Katherine Shepard made the highest general average in the county. Her average was 95.7%. The roll of successful applicants from Union township is: Earl Wilcox, Frank Cooper, Wayne Davisson, Teddy Sheffer, Trellis .Wood, Millie McCurtain, David Warran, Ruby Norman, Leo Ogle, Bernard Lockard, Robert Cover, Ardath Cover, Arthur Florence, Helen Todd, Doris McKay, Evalyn Abell, Gaylord Humes, Myrtle Hall and Frances Fross. The Union township commencement will be held at Fair Oaks Thursday night, May 1. Rev. J. B. Fleming will give the baccalaureate sermon in the church at Fair Oaks Sunday evening, April 27. The high school at Fair Oaks is permitting the eighth grade commencement to be held with them. This is also the situation at Tefft. Heretofore the commencements have been crowded to the utmost by patrons and friends of education. Preparations on a large scale have been made to accommodate the large crowds and provide them with an excellent program. Prof. Thomas F. Moran of Eufdue university will deliver the coihmencememt address at Fair Oaks Thursday night, May 1. He is accepted as one of the best speakers on the school platform in Indiana. Prof. Moran will also deliver the address at Tefft Wednesday, April 30. The natnes of the graduates from the high schools will appear in the notes of next week.