Ilion High School - Class of 1908

Utica Daily Press - June 23, 1908

Class Day Exercises

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Class Day Exercises

Ilion, June 22 - The class day exercises of the class of 1908 Ilion High School, ere held in the Ilion Opera House this evening and were largely attended by the students, parents and friends of the graduates. The hall was very prettily decorated and in the center of the state was an electric transparency bearing the figures "08," write from the boxes were suspended the banners of the undergraduates. The members of the faculty occupied the boxes and the front seats of the parquet. The members of the class are:

Harris Myers,
William Du Bordieu,
Harrison Brand,
Clyde Werner,
Helen Hutchins,
Bessie Jarvis,
Grace Robinson,
Belle Brooks,
Marion Bell,
Elsie M. Johnson,
Anna Carney,
Vera Ackler,
Ethel Barger,
Lillian Gould,
Josephine Parker,
Elsie Van Wiggeren
and
Blanche Kark.

They occupied seats on the stage. They presented a pretty appearance. The exercises opened with a selection by the orchestra, after which the class oratory was given by Harrison Brand, Jr. Miss Ruth King read the class poem and Willlam Du Bordieu gave the class prophecy. The last testament of the class was read by Clyde Werner. After a selection orchestra the second part, which ... of the play, "Sunbonnets," was put on by the class.