Thanks for posting this commencement record, Christine! I found two
relatives!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone,
Kristie Krone
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From: "Christine M. Smith" <cmsmith(a)iserve.net>
To: <INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:31 PM
Subject: [INDELAWA-L] Center Township Public Schools, 1913
Found in my mother-in-laws memorabilia the following leaflet:
The Graduating Class of the Center Township public Schools announces its
Commencement Exercises
Monday, June second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, eight o'clock Wysor
Grand
Program:
Music by Orchestra
Chorus--"Away to the Fields" Lottie Fields, Director
Invocation--Rev. J. Walter Gibson
Presentation of Class--C.E. Pittenger
Address--"Heroes in Overalls" Rev. Harry G. Gill
Chorus--"Old Folks at Home"
Presentation of Diplomas Ernest J. Black
Chorus--"The Day is Declining"
Benediction--Rev. J. Walter Gibson
Music by Orchestra
Graduates:
District No. 3
Maybell E. Alles
Helen Inlow
Campbell King
Maybell Marie Lutz
Nellie M. Pittenger
William Price
Eunice M. Wray
Dictrict No. 7
Irene Elizabeth Boggs
Blanch Bartsch
Alice Beebe
Ralph Dragoo
Ralph A. Freel
Merl Hoyt
Donald Irving
Glenn Irvin Long
Sarah Monroe
Lewis Monroe
Harold Neeley (my m-in-law's brother)
Howard Phelps
Jesse Rogers
Robert Slack
Ruth Sessler
Fern Whitinger
District No. 8
Letitia Clark
Nina Fleming
Addie Peters
District No. 10
Marian Huffer
W. Raymond Hurst
Stella L. Martin
Daisy M. Mann
Hilma N. Meranda
Elmer Skinner
Veleta B. West
District No. 13
Lawrence Brandon
Mamie Bunch
Beatrice Hilton
May Hole
Arthur McNickle
Ethel Smith
District No. 14
William Alred
Viola Clarissa Barnes
Harold Beckett
Ralph Black
Olive Pearl Buffington
Ruth Marie Davis
William Fields
Chester Fields
Evelyn Olcott Freeman
Florence Louise Guthrie
Leroy J. Marquell
Elsie Rosa Moore
Maurice Phillips
District No. 15
Maggie Atkinson
Lois Boxell
Clifford Conn
Robert Davis
Ethel Everist
Pauline Hasty
Emma Harrison
Clarence Hewitt
Lela Long
Maggie McKinley
Elsie McKinley
Irene Powell
Gladys Reeves
Charles A. Storey
Forrest Summers
Bernice Wilson
Hettie Marie Williams
Olive Willis
Marie Wilbur
Scholl Officials
Ernest J. Black, County Superintendent
Chas. E. Pettenger, Township Trustee
Advisory Board
A.L. Bingham, President
W.D. Carter, Secretary
Dr. G. H. Searcy
I know nothing more about these schools, their locations within Center
Twp.,
etc. Since I know that
Harold V. Neeley didn't go to high school, I suspect this was eighth grade
graduation. He was born in 1899, and that would have made him
approximately
13 years old at this time. He joined the U.S. Navy, served in WWI
and the
Merchant Marine after the war, and died in 1921 of diabetic complications.
Hope this helps someone.
Christine
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