Early Schools of Mills County, Iowa
Glenwood High School
Glenwood Township

Class of 1893
18th Annual Commencement Exercises:
Takes place at the Opera House Friday Evening. The Largest Class ever Graduated from Glenwood High School.

Motto: "Our Golden Age is Before, not Behind us".
Staff: Professor Fort and Miss Greck
Music: composed of Professor Bickness, Messrs. Ed Myers, Will McCluskey, Corwin Jones, Walt Jamison, Lin Hanson and Dr. Frank Douclan.
Invocation: Given by Reverend F. L. Hayward

• All 15 Graduates gave a commencement speech:
• Miss Jennie Davies - "We Sail Today: Where Shall We Anchor"; dressed in green silk, white lace, Nile green slippers. She wore pink roses.
• Miss Grace Brown - "The Polish Boy"; dressed in a cream serge, cream lace and ribbons. She wore red roses.
• Walter Sabin - "Good and Bad Luck".
• Miss Louise Moulton - "The Immortality of Literature"; dressed in a gown of white mull and cream lace. She wore red roses.
• Miss Bess Mills - "King Robert of Sicily"; she was dressed in pink silk crepe, pink lace, with pink gloves, fan and slippers. She wore cream roses.
• Mr. Ray French - "Value of the Public Schools".
• Miss Blanche Donnell - "A Young Authoress"; she was dressed in pink silk, with lace trimmings. She wore cream roses.
• Miss Mabel Baker - "Three Political Terms"; she wore a cream satin finish Henrietta, cream lace and ribbons. She wore pink roses
• Mr. Fred Osborn - "Our Future".
• Miss Rose Pitzer - "Living Temples"; her gown was lavender silk, white lace and ribbons, with smilax.
• Mr. Bert Hardman - "Industry vs. Genius".
• Miss Josie Richards - "Rifts in the Clouds" - she was dressed in cream serge. She wore red roses.
• Mr. Alfred L. Green - "Education of the Freedman" (Alfred was the first young man of color to graduate Glenwood H.S.)
• Miss Jessie De Lashmutt - "Tale of Two Cities"; she was dressed in green silk trimmed with white lace.
• Miss Etta Ewing - "Advantages of Adversity"; she wore lemon silk. She wore carnation pinks.

The young gentlemen were all dressed in becoming black.

Professor W. H. Fort gave a few chosen words of counsel, and farewell. He presented each with the well-earned parchments signifying the completion of their studies in the Glenwood High School. Reverend G. W. Porter pronounced the Benediction; the Glenwood Mandolin Club played a final selection and the 18th annual commencement of the Glenwood high school was at an end.

~ Transcribed by Karyn Techau. The complete article can be found in the "Mills County Journal", 01 June 1893, Page 5