Ilion High School - Class of 1936

Utica Observer Dispatch - June 21, 1936

Ilion's Senior Class Second in History to Exceed 100

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Oration exercises for the largest class of seniors ever to complete their studies at Ilion High School will be held at Capitol Theater Tuesday night before a capacity audience. Admissions will be by invitation only.

The number to receive their sheepskins is 119, exceeding by one the class for last year, which was the first to top 100 at the local school according to Prof. J. Guy Prindle, principal.

The salutatory will be given by Jean McGowan and the valedictory by Margaret J. Andrus. The Rev. Albert G. Judd, D.D., pastor of M. E. Church, will pronounce the invocation and benediction.

A varied program will be presented and includes a number of tableaus under the general title of "Looking Forward with Youth." Some of the weightier problems of life will be discussed by graduates. The A. Cappella Choir will sing and selections given by the school orchestra. Mr. Prindle will award a long list of prizes and Grover W. Radley, president of the Board of Education, with Earl P. Watkin, superintendent of schools, will present the diplomas.

The Program:

Invocation: "Industrial Arts in Education," Cecil Angel; tableau, W. Kennedy, A. Shepard, V. Urtz, M. Warner: "What the High School Has Done for Me," William Brown; "Radio in Education," Clara Getman, Tableau, G. Carter, J. Curtis, V. Christiana. H. Drake, W. Myers, E. Warner; "Music in Education," Lois Radley; A Cappella Choir, "Emille Spiritum," Schuetky; "Beautiful Senior," Christianson, directed by Virginia Christiana: "Debate in Education," George Maury.

Tableu. B. Limpert, L. Forristel, T. Carney, F. Morton, J. Baum, B. Bird, P. Burger, W. Burke, A. Burrill, H. Caulkins: "American Problems in Education," Clarice Burke: tableau, W. Jones, M. Loefler, J. Loftis, A. Panarites: "Physical Education," LeRoy Fake; tableau, W. Bird. K. Bleau, R. Bleau, J. Bowers, E. Carroll, J. Caswell, R. Daily, R. Garlock, E. Hunt, S. Jarvis, J. Mackin, M. Merritt, R. Edwards, J. Morris, "Title class of Education in the Ilion High School."

Among the graduates are the following who have qualified as members of the National Honor Society:

Margaret Andrus, Ccil Angell, Clarice Burke, Glenn Carter, Hilda Cowlin, LeRoy Fake, Clara Getman, Brette Limpert, George Maury, Jean McGowan, Anastasia Panarites, Lois Radley, Dorothy Rice, Boene Tjeerdsma, Hellen Fullem, Margaret Kennedy, John Morris, Stuart Wooley, William Brown.

Scanning the list of graduates reveals that a large number intend to enter college. The number: taking commercial courses is also large with languages and mathematics almost as great. Others receive diplomas for music, science, history, art, industrial art and general.

The list of seniors:

Jack Caswell,
Douglas Christman,
Richard Edwards,
Erma Tanner,
Gerald Whiter,
Margaret Jane Andrus,
Cecil Angell,
Arthur Applegate,
Pauline Burger,
Clarice Burke.

Theodore Carney,
Glenn Carter,
Julia Clark,
Andrew Cole,
Hilda Cowlin,
James Curtis,
Richard Daily,
Helen Drake,
LeRoy Fake,
Raymond Garlock.

Clara Getman,
David Hardy,
Marion Ruth Hemstreet,
Robert Hobbs,
Beulah House,
Edgar Hunt,
Samuel Jarvis,
Lewis Jones, Jr.,
Roger L. Jones,
Brette Limpert.

Geraldine Losier,
George Maury,
Jean McGown,
Esther Mitchell,
Frederick Morton,
Anastasia Panarites,
Ruth Prindle,
Lois, Hadley,
Dorothy Rice,
Henry Roelofs.

Harriet Rockwell,
Edith Sprague,
Boene Tjeersdema,
Verna Bailey,
Joyce Baum,
Bernice Bird,
Walter Bird,
Beverly Butler,
Mary Christopher,
Eva Davis.

Bernice Flathers,
Eleanor Mac Hammert,
Francis Hart,
Winifred Jones,
Marion Marley,
Donald Polley*,
Marion Rieck,
Tena Spatol,
Anna Stasko,
Helen Sweeney.

Edward Warney,
Martena J. Warner,
Catherine Kane,
Francis Monahan*,
Douglas Robertson,
Alice Yardley,
Kenneth Bleau,
James Bowers,
Harold Caulkins,
Thelma Groesebeck.

Alice Heacock,
Royce Merlon Stubley,
Alfred Maury,
Wilfred Bedworth*,
Erlau Carroll,
Edward Cooper,
Irene Forristel,
Helen Theresa Fullem,
Ralph Hardy,
Margaret Kennedy.

Vera Letcham,
Theodore Leonard,
June Loftis,
Mabel Moore,
John Morris,
Regina Moyer,
Mary Helen Uertz,
Norma Winslow,
Eleanor Aspinall,
Raymond Bleau.

Albert Burrill,
James Foreman,
Kenneth Goodale,
William Kennedy,
Mary Loefler,
John Mackin,
Edward Marhaver,
Marvin Merritt,
William Myers,
Robert Pugh,

William Rice,
Alfred Shephard,
Vincent Urtz,
Richard Runyon,
Stuart Dayton Wooley,
Joyce Allen,
James Anderson,
William Brown.

Wallace Burke,
Julian Finnegan*,
Robert MacNeil,
Arthur Mead,
James Nolan,
Howard Thom,
Lewis Watson.

(Note - * these students did not appear in the 1936 yearbook as seniors)