Orations from the Pomeroy High School Graduation Class of 1914

Source – Pomeroy Herald, Pomeroy, Iowa, Thurs., May 14, 1914, p.1

Nine Will Graduate
Only One Boy in Class – Lecture for Formal Graduation – New Teachers Chosen
The graduating class this year will consist of eight girls and one boy – Myrtle Berry, Orpha Hartley, Bessie Hynes, Vivian Odiet, Alfrieda Peterson, Cordia Runge, Marguerite Smith, Elwood Smith, and Laurine Wilson.  They have set a high standard in their ambitious motto, “100 Per Cent.”
The graduation exercises will fill two evenings, the first to be on Thursday, June 4, when the class day program will be given.  At this the graduates will not deliver high sounding theses but a program more characteristic of class day, which is indicated by the following program:

Salutatorian – “The Triumph of the Individual" – Orpha Hartley
Class History – Myrtle Berry
Class Poem – Marguerite Smith
Our High School – Cordia Runge
Address to Senior – Charles Taylor [from the Junior class]
Class Song – Class
Address to Juniors – Alfrieda Peterson
Class Ideals – Elwood Smith
Class Will – Vivian Odiet
Class Prophecy – Bessie Hynes
Valedictory Oration – Laurine Wilson

On Friday, June 5, Prof. Glenn N. Merry, professor of public speaking at the State University, will lecture on “Tolstoi and His Service to Humanity,” after which the diplomas will be presented.  The baccalaureate sermon will be preached in the Methodist church, Sunday evening, May 31, by Rev. C. Bridges.
Teachers Elected
At the school board meeting Monday evening three faculty positions were filled. Miss McIntosh, of Irwin, was chosen to have charge of the grammar room, Miss Sue E. Weaver for preliminary grade and Miss Clara Rapp for the first and second grades.  The latter two are just finishing special training courses at Cedar Falls.  The board bought twelve desks for the manual training course which will be installed next year. The new member of the board appointed to succeed G. B. Peterson, is H. J. Colburn.