GARNETT HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT PAMPHLET, 1934 Submitted 24 September 2003 by Sheri Lantzy (sllantzy@earthlink.net) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- page 1 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES GARNETT HIGH SCHOOL High School Auditorium Monday, May 21, 1934 at 8:15 O'Clock page 2 SENIOR CLASS Dewey Axtell Ora Clifford Beckwith Glen Edward Benjamin Helen Irene Benjamin R. Dean Brown Edith Nora Certain Evelyn Mae Cleveland Lorene Ada Collins Richard Yarnell Crum Charles Marshall Curtiss Ernest Kenneth Dale Clay Allan Dalton Josephine Day Ruth Marie Ecord Winifred Eickholt Minerva Anna Elliss Eugene Clifford Erhart Vivian Elnore Eyman Wilma Viola Foulke Dotette Fox Ivy Carol Gwin June Harden Mary Ellen Harris Louise Holmes Cathryn Louise Jones Marjorie Lois King Claron L. Mace Robert Willard Maley Thomas Paul McKale Frank C. Miller Russell Richard Miller Alta Mae Motely Virginia Phyllis Munson Jane Osborne Marjorie Ruth Page Edna Elizabeth Parris Evelyn Corinne Quincy John D. Schuster Glennard T. Scott James Scott Marion Maurice Selanders Sarah Marie Sherwood Lyle O. Simpson Edward George Smerchek Garl J. Smith Harley J. Smith Enola Fern Spencer John Melvin Steele Chester Eugene Stiles Floyd Vaughan Burrel V. Waite Dorothy Anne Welsh Nedra Varcella West Edward J. Wilper page 3 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Monday, May 21, 1934 At 8:15 O'Clock INVOCATION - by Rev. L. B. Pruitt PIANO SOLO - "Papillons" (Schumann) by Dorothy Anne Welsh READING - "At the High School Granduation" by Jane Osborne ORATION - "Education at the Cross Roads" by Anna Elliss SENIOR GIRLS' DOUBLE QUARTET - a.) "The Lovely Rose" (Kessler) b.) "Twilight" Teasdale) by - Winifred Eickholt, Virginia Munson, Anna Elliss, Mary Ellen Harris, Corinne Quincy, Ruth Page, Alta Motely, Josephine Day Accompanist - Dorothy Anne Welsh ORATION - "Public Schools and the National Stability" by - Edward Smerchek VIOLIN SEXTET - "To a Wild Rose" (MacDowell) by - Elizabeth Parris, Winifred Eickholt, Ruth Marie Ecord, Corinne Quincy, Ruth Page, Edith Nora Certain Accompanist - Dorothy Anne Welsh ORATION - "Education in This New Age" by - Wilma Foulke READING - "Jane" A cutting from "Seventeen" (Booth Tarkington) by - Elizabeth Parris ORATION - "Education and the Prevention of Crime" by - Chester Stiles CLARINET DUET - "The Swiss Boy" (Bent) by Richard Crum, Thomas McKale accompanist - Miss Marguerite Cripe ORATION - "The New Leisure Challenges the Schools" by Ivy Gwin PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS - by Mrs. C. C. Gilkey, Member of the Board of Education page 4 CLASS HONORS Ivy Gwin received the highest average grade for the four years in the class; Dorothy Anne Welsh, the second highest average grade; and Anna Elliss, the third highest average grade. Members of the National Honor Society The following-named members of the class were elected by the faculty to the National Honor Society : Dorothy Anne Welsh, Anna Elliss, Wilma Foulke, Chester Stiles, Richard Crum, Jane Osborne, Elizabeth Parris, Edward Smerchek. Only 15 per cent of any graduating class may be elected to this society, and they must meet the four qualifications of Scholarship, Character, Leadership and Service Class Honor Roll Members of the class whose grades for the past four years averaged 90 or more are : Ivy Gwin, Dorothy Anne Welsh, Anna Elliss, Dewey Axtell, Wilma Foulke, Alta Motely, Chester Stiles, Richard Crum, Vivian Eyman, June Harden, Jane Osborne, Clay Dalton Class Officers Edward Smerchek - President Ralph Scott - Vice- President Glennard Scott - Secretary Anna Elliss - Treasurer Class Serman Class sermon, the Rev. J. L. Alexander of the United Presbyterian Church, Sunday Evening, May 20 at 8:00 O'Clock in the High School Auditorium