Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell
(No
Newspaper name
c 1929)
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
HELD BY SCHOOL AT CEGO
Twelve Ninth Grade Graduates Receive
Diplomas During
Program
The Cego ninth grade graduated Friday night, May 15. Wm. L Baine of Waco
gave the commencement address.
Those graduating were Mildred Parham,
Bessie Pace, James Pace, Lillie and Lydia Marstaller, Ernest Huber, Walter
Sutter, Naomi Conaway, Emil Jaster, Clara Huber, Hazed Dodd and Wilfred Feind.
Walter Sutter was the salutatorian, and
Bessie Pace was the valedictorian. Ernest Huber read the class wills and
Wilfred Feind the class poem.
Miss Tina Stewart presented the diplomas.
She also presented reading certificates to the pupils, who read and reported on
fifteen library (book)s.
Those receiving such certificates were
Ernest Huber, L. L. Stewart, Anna Huber, Mildred Parham, Verna Mae Clark, Ben
Ella Parham, Clara Huber, Hazel Dodd, Lydia and Lillie Marstaller, Bessie Pace,
Wilfred Feind, Emil Jaster, Walter Sutter, Lucille Wheeler, Naomi Conaway.
Those receiving neither absent nor tardy
awards were Raymond Sutter, Mildred Parham, Dorothy Sutter, Ben Ella Parham, B,
R. Parham, Jr., Rillie Sue Parham, and Charlie Owen.
Medals were given to the first winners in
the Falls county meet. Those receiving medals were Anna Huber and Ben Ella
Parham, junior spellers; Bessie Pace and Hazel Dodd, senior spellers; Verna Mae
Clark, essay writer; and Walter Sutter in senior declamations, who also won in
the district and went to Austin.
Ninth grade pupils staged the play, "That's
one on Bill," Monday, May 18. A large crowd attended.
The seventh and eighth grades entertained
the ninth grade with a party at the of Miss Tina Stewart Tuesday, May 19.
The hostess served cake and ice cream. Everyone reported an enjoyable
time.
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