1911 LEWES HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
The Lewes High School
commencement took place in the Auditorium on June 12, 1911 and was
largely attended. The Rev. W. R. Mowbray opened the exercises with
a prayer, followed by
the salutatory and orations
of the graduates. “Delawares Place Among The State” was given by
Russell Paynter, William
Thomas Manning's oration was on “Delawares Part in the Civil
War”,
“Our Delaware Boundaries”
was the subject of Horace Leland Brown's oration, and Julius
Adolphus
Herolds was a very
interesting account of “The Settlement of Delaware”. Miss Helen
Townsend Hocker, the class Valedictorian, gave her essay “ Higher
Education for Girls”.
Dr. Ulysses W. Hocker,
president of the Board of Education, made an address to the class
and presented the diplomas.
Henry Ridgely of Dover made the formal address to the class and
made
compliments yo them on the
patriotism shown the State.
Undelivered essays and
orations were “Manufacturing in Delaware”, by Harold Willetts
Hocker, “Some
Representative Delawareans” by Elverson Warren Ingram,
“Interesting Historic
Spots in Delaware” by
Helen Norman Carson, “Our Delaware Public School” by
Richard
Courtenay Enos, “Delawares
Part in the Revolution”, Linford Outten Russell, and 'Life in
Delaware During the Revolution”, by Leah Burton Carter.
The Lewes orchestra
furnished the music and after the commenceent an informal dance was
enjoyed by the young people.
Grammer school students who
were graduated to the High School were; Elizabeth Joseph, Mildred
Wiltbank, Julia Steel, Katherine Lank, Mary Shutt, Beatrice
Atkins, Marguerite
Lauritsen, Abraham
Gutowitz, Nathen Evans, Amelia Schellenger, Edna Marvel , Hewes
Messick,
William Vogel, Willam
Conwell, Garretson Brown and Virden Burton.
Wilmigton New Journal, June
15, 1911, abstract Septemebr 3, 2017 Harrison Howeth
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