Ilion High School - Class of 1935

The Ilion Sentinel - June 27, 1935

Ilion Graduates Outstanding Class

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Ilion Graduates Outstanding Class

The Class of 1935 of the Ilion High School is outstanding in its achievements and seems to have made a record of superlatives. In addition to graduating 118 members, the largest class in the history of the school, it has made the highest apparent regents percent in recent years but is closely pressed by the classes of 1933 and 1934. It also won the prize presented yearly to the high school class earning the highest scholarship average throughout the year. Its members took an unusually large number of the special prizes offered for the year's work and the class ended the year with a balanced budget and money in the bank. These points were all brought out by the Rev. L. R. Benson, President of the Board of Education, in an informal address which preceded the presentation of diplomas to the graduates on the stage of the Capitol Theatre on Tuesday evening.

As 1935 is the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of schools for secondary education in this country, the program was divided into eight episodes with their accompanying tableaux which pictured the steps in its growth and development. An album containing living portraits of the important educational leaders of the past was the most unique of the presentations and occasioned a good deal of interest on the part of the audience. The A Capella Choir proved again what the unaccompanied voice can do in the way of producing really fine music.

Elizabeth Shaffer, salutatorian, gave the prologue of the exercises. The valedictorian, William Grimshaw, spoke on "The Secondary School of 1935."

Prizes awarded by Principal J. Guy Prindle:Cash prizes of $3 were given for first and $2.50 for second to seniors in the following subjects; English, first, Dorothy Ball; second, William Grimshaw; mathematics, first, William Grimshaw; second, Arthur Bryant; history first, Paul Kinney; second, Arthur Winckel; language, first, Evelyn Hight; second, Charles Pelepshin; science, first Charles Pelepshin; second, William Grimshaw; commercial, first, Marjorie Randall; second, Helen Kler.

Cash awards of 2.50 were made to: Art, Ernest Hughes; music, Catherine English and Robert Hubbell; industrial arts, William Hofstra; home economics, Elizabeth Jones; American History, Elizabeth Shaffer; dramatics, Elizabeth Shaffer.

John Powers received the debating cup and a debate plaque for the most service on debating was awarded Louise Snell. The R.P.I. medal for mathematics and science went to William Grimshaw.

The Stone & Luke Scholarship Cup went to the class of 1935 and the Lever Cup for attainment in athletics and scholarship was awarded to Kenneth Bleau; certificates for state prize winners in music competition went to: Clarinet, R. Hubbell; baritone, Stuart Wooley; saxophone, Fred Wilson. The Sportsmanship Brotherhood Plaque was presented Catherine English and Paul Kinney.

Those winning honor "I's" were: Class of 1935, Frank Campbell, William Grimshaw, Evelyn Hight, Joseph Manion and Ruth Ward; 1936, Jack Caswell.