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"Sweetwater Daily Reporter" Tuesday May 25, 1926
Diplomas
Given SHS Graduates
Largest
Class of Local School Receive Coveted Sheepskins at Commencement
Exercises
DR. GORDON
IN ADDRESS
Tech
College Faculty Man Tells of Education's Challenge-Honor
Students Named The High
School auditorium was packed by parents, relatives, friends and school
patrons in attendance at the Commencement Exercises for the graduating
class, with all available standing room taken up Monday night when the
coveted sheepskins were awarded to the largest class in the history of
the local school.
The stage was beautifully decorated in the class colors and with large qualities of flowers. The members of the class of '26 marched into the auditorium from downstairs. Miss Pauline Rice, Senior sponsor, played the processional, "Largo," by Handel. Mr. Lee of the Texas Women's College, gave the invocation. Dr. J.M. Gordon of the Tech spoke to the large audience on the subject "Education and Its Challenge." Dr. Gordon stated that every one in the United States was either indirectly or directly in the education business. He said, "The education process of yesterday was a pouring process and a fact gathering process. A man with a B.S. degree was an educated man. The man who was a walking encyclopedia was considered an educated man. A definition of education would be "The process of producing, directing and preventing changes in the human being." There are two factors in education: heredity and environment. Heredity shows what you can do and environment shows what you will do. Some of the things that an education should do for the individual are: Those with an education should have the ability of earning a living. It should leave him intellectually superior. It should give the graduate health. It should give social adjustment. It should give an appreciation of the beautiful. And it should give character. The members of the Girls' Glee Club, with Miss Pauline Rice at the piano, rendered two selections, "Merry Jane" and "Some Where the Fields Are Beaming." Mr. Nemast, acting as master of ceremonies, made the announcement of honors of the graduates. Miss Ruth Rutledge received first place in point of excellent grades, with Miss Ruth Lohman closely behind for second honors. Tommie Hardin and Vivian Boyd received high honors among the boys of the class. Superintendent B.H. McLain presented the diplomas to the graduating class. Elder W.D. Black gave the benediction. Following is the list of those receiving diplomas: Burton Herring, president, Bill Sheridan, vice president, Willard Schumann, Secretary and treasurer, Floyd Herring, reporting, Edwin Aiken, Marvin Alston, John Bledsoe, Paul Bowen, Bond Bradford, Jack Butts, Sid Edwards, Jay Freeman, Tommie Hardin, Horace Heath, Alvin Kendrick, Dick Mitchell, Devaney Neal, E.P. Reece, Jr., Julian Robertson, Earl Webb, Gordon Webb, Marshall Willis, Ralph Wright, Walter Fitzgerald, Joe Roberts, Graham Beall, William Boyles, Vivian Boyd, Jack Shipley, Jewell Smith, Claud Wilson, William Hicks, Bryson Paddick, Hershal Whaley, Otis Watson, Nona Clavert, Dovie Sanders, Lillie Lee McReynolds, Ruth Lohman, Vera Taylor, Zelma Shook, Mildred May, DeEtta Samuels, Etta Taylor, Helen Robertson, Ora Lee Bardwell, Ione Boyd, Thelma Carter, Anna Wilcox, Frances Hamilton, Lenna Pearl Harris, Ethel Hope, Vera Lois Katzung, Lois McKee, Nina Mae Majors, Louise Morton, Bernice Ragland, Ruth Rutledge, Evelyn Sanders, Lena Shaffer and Wilma Thomas. Mrs. John Perry, in behalf of the Sorosis Club, presented Miss Ruth Rutledge, Honor student, with a medal for the excellent grades that Miss Rutledge had gained during the term. Miss Rutledge was given her choice of 25 scholarships in many Texas Colleges. Tommie Hardin was also granted a scholarship which he would choose from several scholarships awarded to the boy making high honors. Miss Ruth Lohman, who ranked second in honors, was awarded a scholarship in Texas Woman's College at Fort Worth. |