A program for the seventh annual commencement of the

Tipton High School, 1882 was found in the walls of their home during a remodeling project in 1992 and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Phillips loaned  it to the Cedar County Genealogical Society for inclusion in its December 1992 newsletter.

The following information was on the program.

MUSIC

INVOCATION. - Rev. J. Howard Stough.

ESSAY. - Gathered Fruits. EUPHEMIA SHEARER.

ESSAY. - Coral. ELLA OWEN.

ESSAY . - "The Thoughts of Man are widened with the Process of the Suns." EVA ELLIOTT

MUSIC

ESSAY. - Purpose. MAMIE REICHERT.

ESSAY. - Botany. ANNA HUMPHREY.

ESSAY. - The Marble Waiteth. MINNIE BEACH.

ESSAY. -  Our Girls. LILLIE REICHERT.

ESSAY. - Pyramids not all Egyptian. LUCY WOLF.

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.

MUSIC

BENEDICTION. - Rev. W. B. Frazelle.

ALUMNI.

Class '75.

MISS LILLIAN A. DEAN.

Class '77.

MISS SARAH C. FILSON, MISS CASSIUS M. WIRICK, MR. LOUIS ROTHOCK.

Class '78.

MISS LOUIE (YATES) PETTTY, MISS CATHARINE FIELDS, MRS. MERTIE (McNAMARA) DEAN, MISS KITTIE D. HUMPHREY, MR. THOMAS SNYDER, MISS NELLIE P. CAMPBELL.

Class '79.

MR. CLARENCE D. ELLIOTT.

Class '80.

MR. ELMER W. DOWD, MISS BLANCHE A. DEAN, MR. WM. H. CHAMBERS, MISS SARAH M. RODGERS, MRS.  M.E. (WHAN) GILMORE (Deceased April 26, 1881)

Class '81

MISS ETTIE BEACH, MISS ETTA REEDER, MISS MARY A. COUTTS, MISS LOUIE SHAW, MISS ANNA J. DEAN, MISS ELLA M. SHEARER, MR. THOMAS DOYLE, MR. GEORGE W. SHAFFER