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Show High School Graduates Class of Seventy-Seven A capacity crowd filled the tabernacle taber-nacle for the hieh school graduation gradua-tion exercises held Thursday evening.. eve-ning.. The program was of a most unique nature being given In pageant pa-geant form. Each department of the school work was represented with a short talk by a member of the graduating class who told of the advantages of his line of study and the assistance he had received from it toward his general education. Miss Alice Parker played preliminary prelim-inary music and also the march of the graduates, the "Grand March," from the opera Aida. The high school band played the "Glow Worm" by Lincke. and the Invocation Invoca-tion was offered by President Earl S. Greenwood. The male glee members mem-bers sang "Just For You." The Scroll, a commencement pageant pag-eant presented by the graduating class, gave in chronological sequence the departments of study at the school. As the lights of the auditorium audi-torium dimmed, the trumpets herald her-ald was heard and The Scroll appeared ap-peared as the page of a large book with the heading of the department shown by means of an ultraviolet light. This heading gradually faded as the flood light grew brighter and the opening words of the speech were shone on the page. The departments de-partments and speakers for each are as follows: Introduction, R. Gardner: English, Mildred Greenwood: Mathematics, Arnold Terry; Social Science, Bar- bara Pett; Science, Edna Anderson; 1 Music, Emily Curry; Shop, Earl Bflown; Speech, Mary Walton; Homemaking, Jean Holmstead; Agriculture, Ag-riculture, Myron Burgess; Commercial, Commer-cial, Lucile Muir; Health, Verda Miller: Mil-ler: Extra Curriculum, Winifred Babcock; Our Parents, Irene Gid-dings; Gid-dings; Conclusion, Phil Jensen. The two pages were Mina Sykes and Beth Ann Allen. Following the reading of the S'croll, the diplomas of graduation were presented to 77 students by James Smith, president of the school board. The ladies glee club sang "A Tiny Seed Became a Shrine" and the benediction was pronounced by E. Ray Gardner. Miss Dorothy Varanakis was In charge of the printing of the scroll and for the decorations used at the exercises. It was through her untiring: un-tiring: efforts that this new and dif-r ferent type of graduating exercise were made possible. Evan Bairwas in charge of the construction of the scroll, Clinton Gerber and Jack Peters managing the staging. Assisting As-sisting Miss Varanakis with the painting were Vivian Burch, Madge Yancy, Ethel Dean, Margaret Hog-gan, Hog-gan, Hazel Monson, Donna Woot-ton, Woot-ton, Reva McDonald, Jesse Butte, Edith Smith, LaVon Devey and others of the art department. The musical accompaniment for the scroll reading was played by Maxine Taylor, first violin; Lillian Seastrand, second violin; Norma Durrant, third violin; Mildred Anderson, An-derson, cello, and Evelyn Peck, piano. o |