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Show H. S. Graduation Exercises Held The main floor of the tabernacle auditorium was filled to capacity last Friday evening for the annual commencement com-mencement exercises of the American Ameri-can Fork High School. It is estimated esti-mated 1100 persons, relatives and friends of the seventy-one young people whom the exercises honored, were in attendance. Miss Alice Parker played the march on the organ and the graduates, alternating al-ternating a young man with a young woman, proceeded down the center aisles from the rear of the building, taking their places in a reserved section at the front. It was a beautiful beau-tiful and inspiring picture of young manhood and womanhood, as each came with firm step and face aglow, to step over the threshhold of sheltered shel-tered high school days to "commence" "com-mence" sterner and higher responsibilities. respon-sibilities. Professor Gerritt oeJong of the Brigham Young university delivered the address to the graduates. His theme was "Where Do You Live?", meaning that living is not necessarily necessari-ly limited to the exact locality in which one resides but in the way one takes advantage of the opportunities oppor-tunities life offers. Clifford Young Jr., valedictorian of the graduating class, expressed the appreciation of the students for the efforts of the teachers and parents in making their schooling possible. The ladies glee club and the male glee each rendered selections, and there was also upon the program a trombone solo by Glade Jorgensen and a selection by the high school male quartet, winners the day before j in the state high school quartet contest. con-test. Principal Jesse M. Walker, who was in charge of the exercises, recommended the graduates to James Smith, president of the Alpine School Board who presented the diplomas. Ludwig Larson of High- land offered the invocation and Joseph Clayson pronounced the benediction. Special honor awards were made during the graduation exercises, Miss Eda Ashby winning the annual Lions club medal for the most outstanding student of the senior class. Scholarship Scholar-ship awards were awarded by the school to Eda Ashby, Ellen Walker, Merline Gardner, Sarah Shelley, Ida Hayward and Clifford E. Young Jr., all having attained a grade of 90 or better for the entire four years of high school work. Miss Gardner, who was a very close 6econd for the Lion award, received honorable mention men-tion by President G. L. Taylor, who presented the Lion medal. |