MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA SCHOOL NEWS

Source: The Muscatine Journal June 8, 1912, page 4
Submitted by Phyllis Hazen, February 9, 2020

SIXTY TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS SATURDAY

County superintendent of Schools M. F. Cronin today completed arrangements for the common schools graduation which will be held at the Orpheum Theatre on next Saturday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock. A program will be offered by those who secured particularly high averages in the final examinations, and prof. Arthur MacMurray, of Ames College, will address the students and their friends. The valedictorian of the class of sixty is John Tarrant of the No. 7 school in Wilton township, who also won the county spelling contest last winter. The present class is the largest in the history of the county, sixty children being enrolled.

The program arranged follows:

Program
1:45 p.m.

Music – Muscatine High School Orchestra, under direction of F. E. Elliott.

Recitation – Ina Miller.

Essay – Arnold H. Exo.

Vocal Solo – Helen I. Garrison.

Piano solo – Anna Gertrude Riggs.

Valedictory – John Tarrant.

Music – Orchestra.

Address, “The Bulwark of Our Nation” – Professor Arthur MacMurray, head of Department of Public speaking. Ames College.

Presentation of Diplomas – M. F. Cronin, County superintendent of schools.

Music – Orchestra.

List of Graduates.

County Superintendent M. F. Cronin, this morning made public the list of students in the rural schools of the county who will be awarded diplomas at the common school graduation exercises to be held at the Orpheum Theatre Saturday afternoon, June 15. The list follows:

Margaret Toyne, No. 2 Lake.

Hildreth L. Fordham, Park Place, Bloomington.

Pearl E. Metzger, Park Place, Bloomington.

Walter P. Will, No. 5, Moscow.

Helen F. Spring, No. 8, Fruitland.

Gertrude E. Washburne, Park Place, Bloomington.

Clarence Roigel, No. 9, Fruitland.

Albert Huttig, No. 9, Fruitland.

Herbert A. Gettert, No. 9, Sweetland.

Arnold H. Exo, No. 6, Bloomington.

Eunice Bowser, No. 3, Bloomington.

Rachael R. Brookhart, No. 3, Cedar.

Glen Hankins, No. 1, Cedar.

Helen I. Garrison, No. 2, Sweetland.

Anna Gertrude Riggs, No. 2, Seventy-Six.

Mildred M. Freyermuth, No. 4, Bloomington.

Aura M. Wilhelme, No. 3, Cedar.

Lelia E. Lintner, No. 1, Cedar.

Ida C. Mittmann, No. 9, Fruitland.

Lillian Pantel, No. 7, Sweetland.

Mabel Miller, No. 6, Sweetland.

Florence C. McEvey, No. 7, Sweetland.

Sylvia F. Buser, Conesville, Orono.

Sylvia C. Foster, Conesville, Orono.

Anna C. Owen, No. 1, Orono.

Georgia E. Reald, Conesville, Orono.

Edyth G. Jean, Conesville, Orono.

Gladys E. Miller, Conesville, Orono.

Hazel Maxwell, Conesville, Orono.

Elizabeth E. Townsley, No. 3, Cedar.

Lida M. Barnhart, No. 3, Cedar.

Lois F. McColm, No. 3, Cedar.

Ruthetta M. Shellabarger, No. 3, Cedar.

Elva M. Hafner, No. 3, Cedar.

Harry Panlson, Stockton, Fulton.

Ernst H. Paustian, Stockton, Fulton.

Clarence A. Knaack, Stockton, Fulton.

Henry Ormsby, Stockton, Fulton.

Grace E. Nickerson, Moscow, Moscow.