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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
8
Carnival at Ben Antonio Junior College celebrates spring with participation from nearby schools. Students will elect a duke and duchess and a booth for registration will operate. The Parent-Student Association sponsors the event with booths, tents, and concession stands on campus.
Graduation exercises for 64 Sidney Lanier High School graduates are planned for Monday at 8 p m in the auditorium. The program includes Verdi overtures, prayers, an address of welcome by Joshua Grijatya, a presentation of diplomas, scholarships, and awards, and a recessional. Speakers listed include Rev. Paul Siebenmann and principal RH Brewer, with ban on education board president Leo Brewer presiding.
Monticello High School announces the annual yearbook staff with E6 Travis and Jewel Borders as coeditors. Other editors include Charain Caimbach Mildred Vetters Robert Holusthuber and more with Roy Dieg Glen Martin and Jayne Galloway among production and photography staff. Lanier Recital Friday at Sidney Lanier High sets event in school auditorium.
Joe McMordicant and Madelyn Har ner were named most outstanding students at Jefferson High School. Aaron Serif received the Math Medal for the senior with the highest average in a mathematics contest.
The South San honor roll for the second six weeks names 38 students across grades four through eleven. Read names include Evelyn Adamitz Virgie Cade Mary Rose Dillard Marilyn Thompson and Patsy Watson in fourth, Barlete Brown in fifth, Janell Karrer in sixth, Martha Jean Fitzgerald Melyix Bartayat Betty Jean Alder and Margaret Hahn in seventh, Mary Lucille Kiser Marilyn Alexander Emma Eberhard Doris Fay Gilpin Raquel Hinrosa Myrtle Keller Virginia Wells Robert Brates Andersen Richard Prison Marilyn Wheeler Norma Williams LaVergne Mytow in eighth, and Pierce Alexander Wilson Brown Paul Allen Pausky Elizabeth Grothues PJ Snow and Cornelia Wil ATES in ninth. Tenth grade lists Louis Hoofard Sow Rumshire Gilbert Tampkin Will say Earl Wheeler Mildred Brown Billie Gyn Johnson Phyllis Karrer Mary Lee Wisniewski Pearl Luvaal Tony Villanueva, eleventh includes Galvin Klerum Louie Oldham Cotton Phillips Ada Lee Harper Marteline Persyn Lillis Reen Margaret Gemlinger Allene Watedt.
May Queen was crowned at Woodlawn Hills as Catin Mae Cartwright served as May Queen. Upper grade pupils presented Farmer Boys Parade while girls joined a Maypole dance. A younger dancer led by the primary grades acted as trees in a dramatization of The Trees and the Wind. Betty Jean Smith played The Wind. The high school band performed.
Graduation exercises at Schwertner Dey rural school will be held Monday. Kathleen Johnson has been chosen by the graduating class as speaker and invocation will be delivered by M L White.
Jefferson High School volunteers plan a three week project folding 6800 bandages for the American Red Cross. Class sessions and study hall groups will sew and assemble the supplies, with Jefferson the sole public school aiding Latdage work.
Seventeen eighty five lines of names list recipients and presenters for eighth grade certificates at Lanier School. Ceremony details indicate a Wednesday May presentation led by principal and teachers with numerous students named.
Seventeen Jefferson High students earned certificates from East erbrock Pen company for winning planes in a recent contest. Recipients include Mary Ann Birkheat Havel Duteery Grant tal Hanna Maher Viola Hotder Lucius Ruempel Crupsie Bias Giese Martha Jo Rowan Joe Noble Virginia Dakely Helen White Marion Browe Bhirley Barban Evelyn Riddie James Long Nita Morello and Tylln igieh William Ziromer will perform in the program Verus Tritin pial Match from Alda with an audience-pleasing 84 member orchestra performing Overture by Alford Lula Muro presents the class gift Pantiyo Perez delivers the class address and presents certificates. Bidney banter Orchestra plays Heroes March Mendelssohn.
The junior class held its annual pageant at Landa Park New Braunfels Saturday. Readings, music, and student performances highlighted the event as classmates showcased talent and school spirit.
Adafee Harper and Keworth Byrd represented San Antonio High School at the University of San Antonio May fete held on Saturday.
Tynan Elementary pupils and their mothers toured local sites including a river reclamation project La Vilta and Municipal Auditorium where they viewed Indian ceremonies. Fifth grade graduates attended a Brackenridge Park social hosted by home-room mothers.
Students in the Douglass Junior high home economies department model clothing for an annual style show with sports wear and evening attire. Jefferson High will present a rodeo program at Liano on June 8.
Commencement exercises for Jefferman area schools will be held at Munterpel and K orlurh on Saturday. The program includes the recessional Festival March invocations, and a presentation of the class speaker Thomas B Partwood assistant superintendent Gan Antonio jarbile. The fires dent of the class of 1841 Stutsman superintendent of sah Antonio public schools presents diplomas. The class of 1961 is honored with a diploma presentation by T Guy Rogers. The Jefferson High band performs the recessional and Festival Merch of the Olympians.
Jefferson High presents the senior play Bachelor Born with two performances. The event at the school auditorium raised about $100 in proceeds for the drama department.
Goebel and Coker Schools toured Alamo La Villita and Witte Museum with about 106 children Tuesday. A police escort accompanied them to Brackenridge Park after the visit. Carter, principal of Coker School, and Mrs Helen Tollett, principal of Goebel School, accompanied the students.
School presents a concert in the High Echoa auditorium featuring the rhythm band, grammar and high school clubs, high school choir, and the swinging band. The program included sections by student groups amid an organized performance.
Collins Gardens elementary students perform in a pageant presented during assembly week. The cast features Bile Gohm Roz Lee Trevino Darel Alonzo Harburn Greatt Allen Small Myoras Clecksry Kenneth Schneier and many others. The event took place at Eleanor Brackenridge elementary school Thursday at 0p.
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