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Pocahontas High School Commencement Shows Big Year
Pocahontas High School held its commencement at the opera house on Thursday evening, drawing the largest audience yet. The program featured performances by Sunbonnet Babies and Fourth and Fifth Grades, a Mother Goose party, musical solos, and a long list of awardees in the High School and lower grades. Special prizes and medals were awarded for scholarship, mathematics, Latin, penmanship, and headmarks, with notable names including Allman Newton, Claude Stump, Bertha Deaton, Christy Dennen, Virginia Haller, and Mary Sabe. Local residents and officials were highlighted in the accompanying personals.
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Pochhontes
Pocahontas High School
Opera House
Sunbonnet Babies
Henson Lawford
Cecile Ward
Jerome Goodman
Ida Lewblena
Max Goodman
Max Zimmerman
Helen Betsay
Edgar Howard
Isabel Swett
Wayland Newton
Bernstein Aaron
Isadore Matz
Mary Blaylock
Ohn Drozodisk
Bernice Bloch
Nathan Matz
Lilly Drill
Nathan Goodman
John Bretinia
Frank Ward
Joe Boray
Edward Howard
Sidney Johnston
Richard Kelley
Ster
Wand
Alice Dennen
Esmond Doss
Virginia Haller
Lillie Goodman
Juanita Bunch
Juanita Roster
Ida Kwass
Ozella Graham
Irene Peverall
Mable Suiter
Mary Pemberton
Gertie Smith
Emma Pemberton
Bessie Keesee
Naomi Deaton
Eunice Bunch
Mother Goose
Lillian Thompson
Blue Boy
Steve Kuroy
Bo-Peep
Mary Mancis
King Cole
Louise Lubliner
Queen of Hearts
Helen Lowe
Bertie Lowe
Grace Lowe
Tommy Tucker
Sylvester Lowe
Muffett
Lillie Magrills
Tom-the-pipersson
Abraham Lubiner
Winifred Thompson
Hill
Helen Levie
Dame Trot
Thelma Kubrick
Prim Rose Hill
Annie Drosic
Jennie White
Jack
Maxie Magrill
Jill
Bertha Szonvenyi
Joe Daugherty
Elizabeth McNeer
Mary Sobo
Mable Sutter
Pearl Ellett
Ruby Ellett
Juanita Poster
Woodland Fairies
Bessie Kessee
Euntee Bunely
Dora X Cartwright
Mable Hughes
the Bumblebee
Master George Keystone Landon
Trio of
Little Daisies
Annie Matz
Ate White
Alfred Dennen
Greeus Skeevendick
W. M. Minter
Bob
Dills Baber
Bernie Kwass
Myron Laber
Louis Demschock
Blanch [Ilett
Thelma Conner
Nellie
Allman Newton
London
Claudy Stumy
Mruyk Elliott
Claude Stump
Bertha Deaton
Christy Dennen
Myron Baber
All Dennen
Ruby Kellett
Pearl Klett
Chas
George Aber
A. Sidney Johnston