MUSCATINE COUNTY IOWA

HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI

HELD COMMENCEMENT FOR CLASS OF 1940

Source: "The Wilton Advocate" Newspaper, Thursday, May 23, 1940, vol. 46, number 5.


Submitted by David and Sandra Zybarth Enderle

The Wilton High School observed its 61st annual commencement last Friday evening when a class of 27 young men and women received their diplomas.

Dr. Emil Frye, pastor of the First Methodist church of Madison, Wis., delivered the commencement address using as his subject "The Mantle of the Unfinished Past."

The commencement program was as follows:

Processional "Pomp and Chivalry"--High School Orchestra.
Invocation--Rev. R. J. Egan.
Musical Selection "Summer Time"--Girls' Chorus.
Address--Gertrude Grunder, class representative.
Musical Selection "Swanee River"--Mixed Chorus.
Introduction of Speaker--Harry Einfeldt, Jr., class president.
Address--Dr. Emil Frye.
Musical Selection "Passing By"--Boys' Quintet.
Presentation of Class--Supt. A. C. Baumgartner.
Presentation of Diplomas--H. R. Maurer, Jr., President, Board of Education.
Benediction--Rev. J. M. Newgard.
Recessional--High School Orchestra.
 
CLASS ROLL OF 1940
Mary Jane Atkinson
Helen Bacon
Kenneth L. Barkalow
Thelma Jean Bowman
Ethelyn C. Covell
Arlene June Darting
Marjorie L. Dickinson
Harry E. Einfeldt, Jr.
Doris Evelyn Ford
Leonard K. Gleaves
Gertrude M. Grunder
Doris Jeanette Keller
Elda Mae Latchaw
Clarice L. Laucamp
Miriam Jean Lauser
Lois M. Lenker
Ruby Frances Lincoln
Howard L. Maurer
Robert B. McClean
Dorothy Arlene Owens
Kenneth F. Pasvogel
Nellie Mae Rorick
Glenn C. Sanford
James B. Sheetz
Elizabeth Jean Smith
Janet L. Smith
Gertrude M. Stoll

The list of Honor Students is as follows:

Helen Bacon, Harry Einfeldt, Jr., Doris Ford, Gertrude Grunder, Elda Mae Latchaw, Glen Sanford and Gertrude Stoll.

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