Eighth Grade Commencement -- 1912


The Eighth Grade Commencement

     One of the greatest events in Steuben county, in which hundreds of
people will be interested, will occur at the Christian church in Angola
next Saturday afternoon beginning at 1:30.  Those who are to have part in the
program were selected at contests held in different townships in the county.
All the Eight Grade graduates in the county for this year are requested to
meet at the courthouse next Saturday at one o’clock and march to the
church, where the following program will be given:

Music  …………………………………………………………………..  Angola Orchestra
Recitation  -- Keeping Tryst  …………………………………………  Ruth Raine
Recitation  --  Selected  ………………………………………………  Mildred Collins
Recitation --  The Drunkard’s Blow  ………………………………..  Beulah Duguid
Recitation  --  Too Late for the Train  ………………………………Raymond Mulchahey
Solo  ……………………………………………………………………  Olive Sharp
Recitation  --  Nathan’s Flat  …………………………………………  Bernice Moody
Recitation  --  Pro Patria  ……………………………………………  Mildred Hanselman
Recitation  --  Jimmy Brown’s Sister’s Wedding  …………………..  Arla Coe
Recitation  --  "Patsy"  …………………………………………………  Ruth Thomas
Solo  …………………………………………………………………….  Audra Hanselman
Recitation  --  How Girls Study  ………………………………………  Earl Shafer
Recitation  --  He Wanted to Learn Elocution  ………………………  Dewey Anderson
Recitation  --  Fishin’  ………………………………………………….   Lythian Gates
Recitation  --  Selected  ……………………………………………….   Claude Reese
Music  ……………………………………………………………………  Angola Orchestra
Class Address  ………………………………………………………Prof.  L. W. Fairfield
Music  ………………………………………………………………….  Angola Orchestra
Awarding of Medals  ……………………………………………………  Clyde Carlin
Presentation of Diplomas  …………………………………………Superintendent Shank
Music  ……………………………………………………………………  Angola Orchestra

     Medals will be awarded for scholarship to the following:  First prize to Ruth Masters, of Steuben township; 2nd, Frances Drague, Otsego;  3rd, Earl Sewell, Otsego;  4th, Willis B. Cox, of Salem, and 5th there is a tie between Ethel Dreher, of Salem, and Frances Rubley, of Jamestown.
     Following is the list of the Eighth Grade graduates for Steuben county
for the year 1912:

            MILLGROVE                                                            JAMESTOWN
   Frank Stayner       Eva Penix                                    Francis Rubley         Paul Knox
   Elizabeth Keefe     Ruth Raine                                Florence Harding       Edna Iches
   Dora Casebeer      Lela Helm                                   Mildred Collins        Ina Stewart
   Dorothy Hunter     Alice Lincoln                              John G. Coppes        Firm Champion
   Harry Willer          Ralph Trop                               Eva R. Champion       Claire E.Cook  
   Bertha Pocock

              FREMONT                                                               CLEAR LAKE
Silas F. Somers     Amos R. Bassett                                  Mabel Easler    Cecil Smith
Beula Duguid        Bessie McTaggart                                Marion Smith    Ora Bassett
                                                                                        Raymond Mulchahey
                                                                                    
                  YORK                                                                        SCOTT
  Bernice Moody     Paul Badger                            Ola BelleWyrick          Maud Goodrich
    Paul Smith           Paul Gilbert                            Mildred Hanselman      Mae Nichols
    Paul Egbert          Lillian Stiefel                           Celesta Gochenour      Budd Keller
   Alice Jenkins        Clarence Clark                       Mervil Maugherman     Helen Brown
Lola B. Gundrum     Olive Sharp                            Wilma F. Johnston       Wesley Wheaton
    Bessie Hall           Iva Jenkins                                Homer Dygert           Belle Letts
  Mildred Light         Martha J. Bunce                          Hazel Hart
  Ethel Bowles
 
                PLEASANT                                                                 JACKSON
Lena M. Showalter    Una Miller                               Wilburn Munday       May DeLong
Augusta May Cole     Aria Coe                               Daisy M. Landers       Ruth Thomas
Lillian Hartup             Ana Ireland                             Susie M. Brown        Herman Davis
Olive Beattie              Lola Baker                           Evangeline Arnold        Lyle Van Wagner
Vera Brown               Ethel Fales                               Cecil L. Oury
Ava B. Casebeer       Vesta Benfer
 
                  SALEM                                                                    RICHLAND
Ethel Dryer              Lola Turner                                  Vera Fleger[?]        Virgil A. Tingley
Bertha Boyer           Earl Shaffer                            Florence Hunter[?]        Zona Mair
Willis B. Cox           Joy M. Butt                              Mary Robinett[?]        Claud Reese
Ethel Hovarter         Louise Emerson                       Leonard Schieber         Russell White
Esther Shaffer

                STEUBEN                                                                    OTSEGO
Waldo Wolf           George Shiley                                    Earl Sewell          Ora Clark
Louvisa Anstett       Versal Metzler                         Christopher Petre          Lythian Gates
Gladys DelGuerra   Vera Sunday                                      Irwin Cary          Ora Baker
Ruby Dayhuff          Erma McDougle                           Harry Oberlin           Conway Mote
Lloyd Gilbert           Ruth Masters                              ????es Dargue           Irma Sharp
Carl Chadwick        Dewey Anderson                  Geneieve Haughey           Garold Renner
Gail Huffman           Steven Hall                                Hazel Hopelling           Alta Brown
Olive Anstett           Inez Anstett

         FREMONT TOWN                                                            HUDSON
Henry Wells           Henrietta Post                             Hazel Wagoner          Floyd Moore
????  Omstead       Claud Cooper                                Lola Bickel             Mary Ling
Vera Atkinson        Walter Steffe                             Esther Chrisman
           

              ANGOLA
Sammie Brooks       Dorothy Cox
Stanley Castell         Glen Clark
Harold Cain             Dean Cline
Clarence Davis         Ralph Elston
Ida May Frisbie       Daphne Goodale
Lolabelle Guddrum   Ada Hendry
Majorie Harmon      Gertrude Ingalls
Grace Lennington     Russell Kundard
Ralph Layman          Clem Merriman
Weir Morse              Erwin Mast
Lyle Myers               Ellen Moss
Lois Myers               Marjorie Morgan
Jernnett Pollock        Lois Redding   
Elsie Rinehart           Phyllis Slade
Hazel Tuttle              Ivan Tuttle
Pearl Tiffany             Karl Wilcox
Leo Wilcox              Dono Wolfe
Anna Wambaugh      Jane Webb
Leone Williams         Lucile Webb
 
 

Contact for more info:
Joey Essex Pedigo