COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS MARION COUNTY, INDIANA 23 MAY 1900

Commencement Exercises of Washington Township Public Schools, at Opera House, Broad Ripple Park, Wednesday Evening, May 23, 1900. 8:00 P.M.

Music Miss Pearl Cummings

Invocation Rev. Benninghoff

Violin Solo Miss Jessie Porter

Recitation, "Life's Weaving"

Reading, "Morning, Noon, Evening

Recitation, "The Price We Pay"

Class Song, "Over the Stars There is Rest" School No. 5

Oration, "Opportunities of Today"

Recitation. "Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?"

Oration. "Love of Country"

Music, Piano Duett  Pearl Cummings, Stella Hessong

Essay, "How Oregon Was Saved" Fred B. Deford

Recitation, "The Price of a Drink" ' Geo. Bridgford

Music, Piano Solo Miss Rolena Bennett

Oration, "True Education" Nora Aveland

Solo, "Mid the Green Fields of Virginia" Sarah Horton

Music, Coronet Solo Mr. Peck

PRESENTATION OF BATES PRIZE.

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. W. F. Landes

Music Miss Jessie Porter

GRADUATES
School No. 1
Lotlie Kirkpatrick
L.E. Tyner
Guy Roberts
Alice Lankford
School No. 2
Frank Leatherman
Florence L. Moats
Lizzie Thurman
School No. 4
Martin Morket
School No. 5
Edna Kirkpatrick
Fannie Gresh
Blanche Elliott
Ethel Ferguson
Ivin Hill
Elva Fitzpatrick
Earl Hill
School No. 6
Katherine Lease
School No. 7
Nellie Trester
Louie Davis
School No. 9
James Haston
School No. 10
Fred. B. Deford
School No. 13
George Bridgford
School No. 14
Ross Smith Minnie Newby
Pearl Carson Sarah Horton
School No. 15
Rose Kirkpatrick
Albert Kirkpatrick
Bertie Bounsall
Maggie Byers
Nora Hareland
SCHOOL OFFICERS
W.F. Landes, County Superintendent.
O.J. Pursel, Trustee.
Geo. T. Blue, Supervisor.
TEACHERS
No. 1- J.W. Leonard
No. 2- Emma C. Moats
No. 4- Mary Easterday
No. 5- Nellie Spahr J.B. Hessong  Anna C. Young
No. 6- J.R. Fry & Ida Mankin
No. 7- J.E. Morris & Bessie White
No.  8 - Myra Jackson
No. 9 - H.A. Cummings
No. 10 - Ivy Hessong
No. 12 - Florence Whiteman
No. 13 - J.A. Urmston
No. 14 - Arthur Jackson
No. 15 - J.W. Noble Pearl Cummings

M. Louise Stabler's grandmother Eva Charlotte "Lottie" Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington Township School No. 1 in 1900.
A copy of the commencement program was found in her sister's home in Bruce, Illinois.

 

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