Ilion High School - Class of 1899

Ilion Citizen - June 16, 1899

Commencement Week

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Commencement Week

Commencement Week – Invitations in the form of a beautifully embellished folder have been issued by the members of the class of '99. Ilion high school, requesting the presence of their friends at the commencement exercises, Tuesday evening, June 20. The other events of the week will be the baccalaureate sermon Sunday, June 18, class day, Wednesday, June 21 and alumni banquet, Tuesday, June 27. All the various exercises and events promise to be of more than usual merit and are looked forward to with much interest. The officers and members of the class are. President, Raymond R. Whitmore; vice-president, Antoinette. R. Pierce; secretary, Grace Skinner; treasurer, Chas. A. Weisbecker; valedictorian, A. May Couchman; salutatorian, Emma E. Chismore; historian, Bertha E. Irons; prophet, Myra Trowbridge; class poet, Carrie Tefft., Flora Avery, Mabelle E. Hammond, Mabel S. Burkhart, Zillah Daly, Clara Illig, Wm. J. Lewis, D. Harry McGuinness, Lucy A. O'Brien, Elizabeth Reilly, Albert Robson, Josephine E. Steber, Elizabeth Doyle.