Ilion High School - Class of 1955

Herkimer Evening Telegram - June 29, 1951

93 Ilion High Seniors Receive Their Diplomas

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Photo Caption - ILION HIGH GRADUATES are shown seated in Capitol Theater Auditorium last night awaiting their call to the stage to receive diplomas and awards announced during annual commencement exercises. (Photo by Don Costello)

Photo Caption - RECEIVES DIPLOMA - Joan Monz, Ilion High School valedictorian, receives her diploma from Board of Education President Harold Weeks as Superintendent George Purple calls her name. (Photo by Don Costello)

93 Ilion High Seniors Receive Their Diplomas

ILION - A graduating class of 93 last night heard an address by Gay H. Brown, past grand master of New York State Masons, in the Capitol Theatre, with more than 1000 parents and guests present.

Brown spoke on "The Possible You" and advised the graduates to use their individual brains to their fullest extent and capitalize on the fact that "You are unique. There is no one else in the world like you. Be that someone to the best of your inherent ability," he advised them.

Joan Monz delivered the valedictory, "A New World," and Don Young, the salutatory, "Time Will Show."

Joseph Baker, principal, awarded the following prizes:

Win Prizes

Loretta Dopglas Memorial English Prize, 1st, Joan Monz; 2nd, Patricia McCormack; mathematics prize, 1st, Joan Monz; 2nd, Jon Momberger; history, Cornelia Nagel Prize, Joan Monz; American History, 11th year, Joan Monz; Latin, three years, 1st, Joan Monz; 2nd, Carole Markley; Spanish, two years, Gloria Goerger; French, two years, Carol Short; J. G. Prindle, Memorial Prize in Science, 1st, including the Bosch and Lomb trophy, Don Young; 2nd, Patricia McCormack; shorthand, two years, Julie Lupinski.

Office Practice, Julie Lupinski; Industrial Arts, William Clements; Mechanical drawing, Don Young; art, three years, Dorothy Ayers; mathematics, Science, RPI medal, 1st, Don Young; 2nd, Joan Monz; Earl P. Watkin Memorial valedictory prize, Joan Monz; VFW salutatory prize, Don Young.

Speech, Carol Short; Priscilla Burnham Memorial Prize for piano, Curtiss Gilbert; Robert Kent Memorial Prize in music, vocal, Phyllis O'Shea; instrumental, Judith Currier; Diane Monteau Memorial Prize, Patricia McCormack; Ralph Peters prize for good citizenship, Don Young and Donna Rae Jennings.

Lever Cup for outstanding athletes, Jon Momberger and Larry Murphy, tie; Dr. E. P. Watkin Memorial Prize, awarded by Ilion Teachers Association, a prize of $100, Marilyn Bedworth.

The Rev. Carolton Van Ornum, pastor of the First Methodist Church, offered the invocation and benediction.

Curtiss Gilbert played a piano solo, "Poet and Peasant Overture," and the "Halls of Ivy" was sung by the high school "Belles and Beaux," under the direction of Arthur Dauten.

Diplomas were presented by Harold Weeks, president of the Board of Education and George Purple, superintendent of schools.

Receive Degrees

The following received diplomas:

Thomas Frost Allen,
Ann Anderson,
Eleanor Elizabeth Askham,
Dorothy Mae Ayers,
Marilyn Joan Bedworth,
Catherine Ann Bishop,
Jack Bortel,
Milfred James Briest,
Barbara Elsie Broat,
James Peter Brown,
Ruth Catherine Callahan,
William Harold Clements,
Judith Ann Currier,
Kenneth Edward Dack Jr.,
Gordon Carl Denison,
Sue Ann Drake,
Dawes Dunham,
Dolores Jean Eccleston,
Janet Ellen Edgett,
Francis John Fresco.

Malcolm Erwin Gienke,
Curtiss Monroe Gilbert,
Gloria Doris Goerger,
Floy Diane Golden,
Virginia Viene Griffin,
Howard Thomas Hackman,
Betty Jane Hand,
Judith Carolyn Hannahs,
Irene Patricia Humphrey,
Robert Bruce Hunter,
Barbara Elaine Irving,
Donna Rae Jennings,
David Bruce Jones,
Nancy Ann Jones,
Wayne Marvin Jones,
George B. Keller,
Alan S. Kennell,
Edward Joseph Kennell,
Edward Bliss Kibbe,
James Gary Long.

Julie Rose Lupinski,
Nora Elizabeth Lyons,
Genevieve Mary Manion,
Dorothy Ann Manoore,
Dianne Marion March,
Carole Ann Markley,
Patricia Ann McCormack,
Lois Ann McKelvie,
Jean Nancy Meays,
Joan M. Meays,
David Wendell Menard,
Marilyn Jean Millar,
Jon Francis Momberger,
Joan Mattia Monz,
Marion Lucy Morris,
Barbara Anne Morton,
Lawrence Murphy,
Lois A. Murphy,
Thomas Michael Murphy,
Marilyn Kay Murray.

Darleen Blanche Nunneker,
Carol Grace O'Connell,
Phyllis Jane O'Shea,
Mary Louise Parsons,
Lawrence R. Paul, Jr.,
David Edward Pelko,
John Paul Pickett,
Curt H. Preische, Jr.,
Andrew William Rasmussen,
James Samuel Rhodes,
Donald William Roberts,
Sarah Rebecca Rogers,
R. Frederick Rowland.

William Borden Seibert,
Constance Mary Seymour,
Carol Ann Short,
James Frank Small,
Elizabeth Ann Smith,
Katherine E. Smith,
Nicholas Stephen Smith,
Walter LaVerne Smith,
Eugene Carl Stafford,
Beverlyan Tutty,
Lorraine Marie Urtz,
Joanne Shirley Watchers,
Kathleen Helen Wheat,
Ronald Harry Wheeler,
Ermina June Whiter,
Shirley Jean Wildey,
Patricia Lee Williams,
William Stewart Williams,
Ruth Ann Winsor,
Don Barker Young.

* - Note William Fifield appeared in the Senior section but not in the newspaper article list of graduates.