Eighth Grade Graduations - 1926
Source: The Clinton Advertiser, Clinton Iowa, June 12, 1926, Page 6 (There were several articles on this page.)
St. Irenaeus Pupils Give Fine Program
Graduation exercises of St. Irenaeus school were held at Our Lady of Angels academy last night.
Despite the storm a large audience gathered in the academy auditorium and greatly enjoyed the program.
Rev. James Comerford, pastor of St. Irenaeus, delivered and eloquent address and presented diplomas to eleven of the students who have completed eighth grade work:
- Louis Baker
- Walter Cole
- Francis Dolan
- Edward Fahey
- John Lollich
- Ovid Northrop
- Dwight Northrop
- Francis Raymond
- Isadore Schmidt
- LeRoy Shepler
- Oswald Gerhardt
Children of the grades took part in the musical program, and a three act play, "The Recruiting Station," by the older boys, proved vy interesting and exciting. Every member of the cast was exceptionally good in his part and came up the standard set by St. Irenaeus school for its program.
Rev. Comerford's address dealt with the subject of Catholic education. He emphasized the need of such knowledge in the future lives of the class, and advised the students to continue the good work began at St. Irenaeus.
St. Boniface Students to Give Program
Pupils of St. Boniface parochial school will give a program Sunday evening, June 13th at the school hall.
Six of the pupils will receive diplomas. The class motto selected is "Onward is our Aim"; class colors, green and gold, class flower, the yellow rose.
An intersting program has been prepared for the occasion and will be rendered as follows:
Opening chorus, Life is a Song -- Girls
Dialogue, An Awful Appetite -- Eugene Boka and Maurice Brio
Song, My Dolly -- Small Girls
Recitation, Did You Pass? -- Rachael Engler
Play, Patty Saves the Day, Characters:
- Miss Nelson -- B. Detterman
- Maisie Marsh -- A. Engler
- Helen Hitton -- Anna Holdgrafer
- Patty Steele -- M. Draske
- Lilly -- H. Dunk
- Sarah Hill -- M. Smith
- Kate Dean -- G. Jones
- Bob Right -- J. Bric
- Dane A. Wagemester
Act 1 -- A girls' school
Junes' Secret -- M. Smith
Scotch Dance -- Girls
Same scene: Patriotic drill -- girls and boys
Class song - Graduates
Presentation of diplomas by Rev. Joseph M. Tritz to Joseph Bric, Aloysius Magemester, Aloysius Holdgrafer, Urban Krebs, Helen Dunk and Bernadette Detterman.
Pupils Give Program at School Hall
Graduation exercises were held last night at St. John's parochial school when two of the students received diplomas for completionof eighth grade work: Hazel Schwartz and Agnita Meader. Rev. Carl Hesse, pastor of St.John's, delivered the address and presented diplomas.
The program consisted of music, singing, recitation and plays. The salutatory was given by Miss Agnita Meader, and the valedictory by Miss Hazel Schwartz.
Rev. Hesse chose as the intruction to his address the fundamentals of character and reputation. His main theme was woven about the subject, "Life with an Ideal." The speaker explained what an ideal is, that every one must have an ideal to make a success in life, and that the most perfect ideal we have is Christ. Other topics chosen were honesty, and humility.
Eighth Grade Pupils Ready For Promotion
Miss Dorothea Moeller, principal of the Grammar school, gives out the list of pupils who have this year finished eighth grade work and are ready for promotion. The list follows:
| Maynard Asmussen | Lois Blean | Joan Bohn |
| Eleanor Briggs | Isabel Chafer | Grace Conley |
| Rudolph Cook | Orlin Corbett | Opal Dalton |
| Luella Dalton | Maxine Dickerson | Dorothy Dittmar |
| Fostelle Doud | Bernice Eacker | Louis Ebensberger |
| Clara Eislege | Guy Everson | Lulu Farrell |
| Fern Getty | Erma Goettsch | Martha Greul |
| Grace Helferich | Phyllis Henle | LeRoy Hansen |
| Audrey Holliday | Howard Hopkins | Harold Huenger |
| Robert Hughes | Catherine Hughes | Donald Hurlburt |
| Gladys Jech | Bernadine Jurgensen | Virginia Kincaid |
| Alberta Kofahl | Ruby Krumpelman | Margaret Ladehoff |
| Donald Lake | Paul Lampe | Jack Logsdon |
| Dorothy Loof | Elmer Luckritz | Leon Luckritz |
| Margaret McAuliffe | Paul McClusky | Earl Manning |
| John Marquis | Vican Meader | Julius Meder |
| Helen Moeszinger | Esther Belle Moore | Ruth Nichols |
| Lois Nissen | Gabrielle Potts | Vernon Relchwein |
| Paul Reinke | Willard Rigby | Alberta Schwartz |
| James Smith | Ada Sommers | Isla Sorensen |
| Grace Spooner | Ida Spooner | Marget Swanson |
| Wenzel Tolson | Marion Tolson | Dorothea Volckmann |
| Marion Welch | Geraldine Wells | Eugenia Wilson |
| Marie Ziesche |
Contributed by Nettie Mae Lucas