De Peri Receives Diploma at Community Building
The event lists diploma recipients Friday evening at the Community building. Beginning with George Lashar and Patricia Conner, followed by Margie Kenyon, John Marsell, Vallae Van Morris, David Sellers, Ann Bowers, Glenn Ford, Donald Wetz, Diane TeStrake, Betty Haas, Arthur Lewis, John Rappel, and Ronald Arrowsmith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lashar
Patricia Conner
Margie Kenyon
John Marsell
Vallae van Morris
David Sellers
Ann Bowers
Glenn Ford
Donald Wetz
Diane TeStrake
Betty Haas
Arthur Lewis
John Rappel
Ronald Arrowsmith
Lake County Honor Student Ann Bowers Valedictorian
Ann Bowers will march with her classmates to the Community building to deliver the valedictory speech and receive a Rollins College music scholarship in Winter Park. Her achievement scholarship results led to acceptance, precluding the Lewis scholarship announcement, with hopes of a music teacher career and concert stage ambitions. Ann’s singing abilities impressed judges at Juliard related assessments and Winter Park teachers spotlighted her lyric soprano talent since freshman year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Bowers
Rollins College
Winter Park
Ann
Ment
Lewis
D. D. Roseborough
Lake County
Florida State University
Vincent Define
Charles Gordon Rex
Ann Bowers Seeks Stage and Teaching Music Career
Martha Ann Bowers has studied weekly for three and a half years with Mr Rex. She holds a $600 yearly Rollins scholarship with tuition reductions aiming at a concert career. She prefers stage work over opera or radio, plans to teach after performing briefly, and notes her voice differs from her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Mr. Rex
Rollins
Pattie
Mount Dora Class of 1953 Plans Future Paths at Commencement
The Mount Dora High School Class of 1953, trimmed by wartime service, gathers 24 graduates and 17 graduates. Nine student speakers present the program with Ann Bowers the valedictorian and Paul Hopkins Jr. the salutatorian. Several seniors plan college at institutions including University of Florida Rollins College Georgia Tech and MIT while others enter the armed forces or pursue business and vocational pathways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora High School
Armed Services
Morris Pollard
Keens
George Keen
Ann Bowers
Paul Hopkins, Jr
Miss Bowers
Aline Paul
Margie Kenyon
Byron Smith
Citadel
Paul Hopkins
Georgia Tech
John Rappel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rollins College
Glenn Ford
Air Corps
James Henry
Arthur Lewis
David Sellers
Robert Stark
Harry Wise
Stetson
Ernest McRee
What Basis For World Understanding Graduates
A college speaker argues that military service broadens outlook and helps world peace. He compares Christianity's Golden Rule to moral teachings in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, and Bahai faith, claiming common ethical ground across religions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Japan
Sy Soper Green
Srenten
Pamsaeh
Fale
Persia
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Peri
Rad
Frank Hall
Richard Beebe
Aline Ace
Boyd Atkins
Bobbie Sue Teasley
Norman Anthony
Gerald Pugh
Paul Hopkins Jr
Marion Gore
Sue Scott
Barbara Jackies Hutchinson
Mary Combs
Nancy Fristoe
Wade Simpson
Irma Billette
Allen Seaberg
William Brown
Dorothy Haas
Jean Parker
Juliard School of Music
Dorans
Martha Ann Bowers
National Defense
Tommy Hauser
Uncle Sam
Tommy
Air Force
Europe
Sas
Army
Navy
Marines
Christ Jesus
Bahia
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