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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1931
Page
5
One of the largest senior classes in Woodrow Wilson High School history will graduate Friday at 8 p.m. The event honors 121 students earning diplomas in five tracks after a Dr. Richard Aspinall address.
The class shows strength in athletics with boys contributing to every team, junior champions in inter class basketball, and two successive interclass wins by the girls. In literature, Freshman year featured Herbert Bragg and Ruth Wray in Princeton debates, with later participants placing sixth at the sectional meet and state meet in Morgantown. The class social calendar included a Freshman colonial party and a standout senior play cast led by Jarrell Keaton and others. Graduation lists numerous names across many subjects and activities.
A letter sent from a ground floor New York post office finally arrived on the second floor stenographer’s desk after five years and one month, marking an extraordinary delay within the same building.
Dr. Richard Aspinall, field agent at West Virginia University, will deliver the Beckley High School commencement address on May 22. Born December 1, 1881 in Bolton England, he has held multiple academic posts including president of Western State College Gunnison Colorado and professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College and Denver University. He earned degrees from WV Wesleyan, New York University, and Drew University, and is active in educational societies and Rotary. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Seven members of this year's Woodrow Wilson High School graduating class earned the highest scholastic ratings, all but one from Beckley. The list includes Miss Billie Huddleston, James Wade, Miss Ruth Wray, Miss Pauline Hoffman, Joe L. Smith Jr., Miss Mary Shanklin, and Miss Wanda Lilly, with brief notes on their homes and a few in-class transfers.
Large crowd attends the annual senior class night at Woodrow Wilson High in the auditorium. The program opened with an orchestra prelud e and included a mock trial The Judgment Bar featuring students as judges attorneys and witnesses. Cast and reporters are named with a valedictory and class song to close.
New York May 1 AP The brakes were applied to the stock market s decline today though many prominent investors showed caution. Broad indicators fell as traders weighed inflation and earnings uncertainty, with volume moderate and losses broad across industries. The session ended with renewed volatility as some buyers stepped in near the close.
Mrs Alice Collins of Olyphant Pennsylvania who lost the power of speech to throat paralysis twenty years ago had her voice restored last week by a bee sting.
Irregular price moves kept the market dull despite brief rallies. United States Steel touched new lows and several leaders slipped to new minimums, while New York Central and Southern Pacific found some support. Banks trimmed savings rates as commercial deposits faced lower fees.
Rome May 19 The Associated Press reports Prof Luigi Galvani of the central statistical institute argues the best way to reach 100 is to be born of parents who also reach that age. He bases his claim on Italian census figures.
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