Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — REMINGTON COMMENCEMENT [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON COMMENCEMENT

Class of Twelve Graduated From High School. The annual commencement of the Remington high school was held Wednesday evening at the Methodist church in Remington. The church was well filled with interested people who listened to a very able address by Dean G. Stanley Coulter on “The Wonderful Year.” Dean Coulter held his audience in perfect attention for a full hokr. He presented the mastering Idea to his audience that wo are measured today and will be measured in thefuture by the service we render humanity. The speaker was a man full of years of experience as was told by the gray head and facial markings of earnest conviction jin bis appeals to the class and audience. The Monticello high schiol orchestra gave a musical tone to the occasion that added to the forcefulness of the address. Mts. Simeon Tyler sang a solo entitled “Sing, Sing, Slumber,’’ from Gounod, that was excellently rendered and entirely appropriate. Supt. L. D. Baker distributed the diplomas to a class of 12. They were Chester Biddle, Helen Cain, Opal Capes, Lola Edwards, Nina Grey, Avanelle Geier, Gladys Hawkins, Zoe Jordan, Florence Landon, Clarence Meadel, Bernard Villinqfci and Will Washburn. All 'members of the school board were present and showed a spirit towards the school that is very promising to the Remington school system. Frank L. Peck is president; J. A. Washburn, secretary, and C. A. Bonner, treasurer. Will Washburn, whose name appears among the list of graduates, Is a son of J. A. Washburn. The Remington school board has made a very acceptable Increase in the salaries of the teachers whom they will retajp the coming year. They have added Miss Martha Parker to the / faculty to teach the seventh grade next year. At the conclusion of the commencement exercises the alumni association held a grand banquet In the basement parlors of the Christian church. The ladies of that church served a dinner that was exceptionally well prepared and artistically served. The place cards, color and flower decorations and general arrangement was superby planned and executed.. The courses were rendered even more palatable by the many afterdinner speeches and toasts that interspersed the banqweting program. Mr. Biddle, the father of Chester Biddle, whose name appears in the graduating presided as toastmaster. Responses were given to his introductions of the speakers by Earl Howard, Nina Gray, Clarence Meadel, • Rev. J. G. Rhlnd, Frank L. Peck, Superintendent L. D. Baker, County Superintendent M. L. Sterrett and others. The tenor of the remarks offered by the toast-master and bls speaking cohorts were eulogistic of the splendid school spirit that was uppermost in the Remington town and vicinity.