Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-06-03 | Page 21 | Salt Lake Students Take off in Summer Flight

Mora Than 30,000 Youngsters Start"; Thrco Months of Official Hookey By Heft Hadsen Ferguson f . . like a cattle stampeds In i -nhrilling western,"- Salt Lake's school children bant through door Thursday and threw their school book! and r&pera to the winds. -. '- The summer vacation, with time to ruh and play, to romp in the sun, to swim and hike, or Just "take it easy,' began officially as the more than 30,000 youngsters left the buildings for the last time until next September. ' Teachers, too, breathed a sigh of relief, ss they put away the pencils, erasers, chalk and textbooks text-books and looked forward to summer sum-mer school or vacation trips. .2076 to Graduate . ' ' ' . The climax of high school activities activ-ities and of 11 years of continuous continu-ous school dya -will be reached by 3076 seniors of East, South and West high schools, when they graduate in ceremonies scheduled for Thursday evening. East high school's exercises win be held at 7 JO p.m, in Kingsbury haU on the University of Utah campus. Graduates of West high school wUl conduct their commencement com-mencement exercises at 6:30 p ro. in the school auditorium. The school auditorium will also be the site of South high school ceremonies, cere-monies, to. be held at S p-ra. - - ... Receive Degrees The University of Utah and private pri-vate schools in the city have also completed plans for graduation of senior students. Some 1200 win receive degrees in ceremonies June 13 at 6 p Jn. in the university stadium north bowl. A baccalaureate bacca-laureate sermon by George J. Weber, minister of First Congregational Congre-gational church, Sunday at 5 p-nx, and a senior day program June 11, win precede the graduation. - Westminster college and Judge Memorial high' school have also completed plans for graduation. Westminster graduates win receive re-ceive diplomas Sunday at 4 pjn. in First Presbyterian church, while Judge Memorial high school students win be graduated in colorful col-orful ceremonies in Cathedral ef ths Madeleine, Sunday at 8:15 pjn.