New Oxford, PA High School Graduation 1925

COUNTY PUPILS GET DIPLOMAS

Commencement Exercises to be Held This Evening in New Oxford; Nine Will Graduate.

Largely-attended class day exercises were held by the graduating class of the New Oxford High School in the school auditorium Wednesday evening. The fifteenth annual commencement will take place in the First Lutheran church this evening at 8 o'clock. The graduating class consists of nine members.

Miss Marguerite Sheets who took first honors will deliver the valedictory address. Mae I. Beamer will be salutatorian. Dr. P. M. Harbold, professor of pedagogy at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, will be the principal speaker at the graduation exercises.

The class day program was as follows:

Piano duet, M. Marguerite Sheets, Emma P. Little
president's address, Mae Beamer
class history and will, Myrle A. Chronister
advice to Juniors, Thelma C. Wilt
Junior's response, Arthur Yeagy
vocal solo, M. Marguerite Sheets
mantle oration, James L. Myers
response, Emma P. Little
presentation of gifts, M. Maguerite Sheets
class prophecy, Muriel I. Eckert
piano solo, Grace Miller
playlet, "Aunt Molly's Commencement," Mr. Preston,
James T. Myers,
Mrs. Preston,
Dorothy R. Spangler,
Robert Preston,
Ola I. Livingston,
Margaret Preston,
Ethel Chronister,
college girls: Bertha C. Peterman,
Bernadette Smith,
Muriel I. Eckert and Thelma C. Wilt, Aunt Molly.
Dorcas Higinbotham, president of the school
Myrle A. Chronister, school song.

The baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. A. P. Frantz in St. Paul's Reformed church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.

The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, PA 29 May 1925