Ilion High School - Class of 1914

The Utica Herald Dispatch - June 8, 1914

CLASS DAY EXERCISES

Article 2

Class Day at High School

Class day exercises were held at the High School Saturday evening and were largely attended. The exercises were most pleasing and the play, "Penelope's Symposium," was well interpreted. The programme was as follows: Overture, High School Orchestra; greeting, Burt Hawkes; class history: Freshman, George Goller; sophomore, Stanley Gordon; junior: Albert Schesh; senior, Fred Reese; soprano solo and violin obligato, Anna Fisher, Richard Van Wiggeren.

Playlet, "Penelope's Symposium," dramatis personae: Penelope, Margaret Shepard; Sappho, Florence Quinlavin; Aapasia, Lena Schwartz; Xanippe, Elsie Whitney; Gorgo, Luella Roberts; Praxinoe, Emma Chandler; Antigone, Flora Davies; Eutychia, Frances Lewis; Alkestla, Margaret O'Hara.

Junior class song, 1915: revelations of the Sphinx, Albert Ross; presentation of the gifts to 1915, Carleton Schwartz; senior class song, 1914.

The class officers are: President, Elliot Lester, Jr.; vice president, Arlene McDonald; secretary, Margaret Shepard; treasurer, George Goller.

The following is the class roll:
Raymond Burke,
Mary R. Carney,
Emma Chandler,* not listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster
Flora Davies,
Winifred Fitzgerald,
Vernon Gifford,* listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster as 1915
George Goller,* not listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster
Stanley Gordon,
Burt Hawkes,
John Johnson,* not listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster for 1915 - may be in class roster as Merrill Jones
Tracy Jones,
Elliot Lester, Jr.,* listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster as 1915
Frances Lewis,* not listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster
Arlene McDonald,
Ruth Markley,
Margaret O'Hara,
Florence Quinlavin [Quinlaven],
Fred Reese,
Luella Roberts,
Albert Schesch,
Carleton Schwartz,
Lena Schwartz,
Margaret Shepard,
Edith Staring,
Joseph Sullivan,
Mary Tracy,* not listed in 1925 Alumni Book class roster
Elsie Whitney.