Ilion High School - Class of 1961

Herkimer Evening Telegram - June 27, 1961

121 Seniors Will Graduate at 8 Tonight In Capitol Theater;

Dr. Leese Main Speaker

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ILION - A capacity crowd is expected to watch 121 Ilion Central High School seniors graduate at 8 tonight in the Capitol Theater.

Dr. Joseph C. Leese, Albany state psychologist, native of Ilion and 1934 Ilion High graduate, will be the main speaker.

Elizabeth Anne Coons will be valedictorian. Barbara Ann Vail Hollandt will be salutatorian.

Richard C. Ingraham will direct the high school's 300 member orchestra. Arthur Dauten will direct the mixed Orpheus Choir.

Rev. Maurice Mitchell, Presbyterian pastor, will give the invocation. Rev. Gregory Mulhall, new Catholic pastor of Annunciation Church, will give the benediction.

Diplomas and other awards will be presented by Wagner Klippel, school board president, and Leo J. Sammon Jr., principal.

George H Purple, district superintendent, will introduce Dr. Leese, director of curriculum research, Albany State University College of Education. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Albany, his master's and doctorate at Columbia University.

A Fulbright scholar in 1952-53, he was with the School Development Association, an instructor at Horace Mann, N. Y. and Columbia, and psychology professor at Auburn University, Ala. His parents, Mr and Mrs. Joseph Leese, live at 21 Shull St.

Academic Diplomas Listed

The 121 academic diplomas will be awarded to:

Ralph LeRoy Adams Jr.,
Anthony Vito Angelichio,
Karen Ann Angell,
Edward Norman Ashton,
Nancy Ellen Ayers,
Vicki Ann Baker,
George Charles Bates,
Frances Lee Bennett,
Walter James Bennett,
Susanne Ruth Bouck,
Jerry Joseph Bourgois,
Janet Kay Bowen,
Charles M. Bowman.

Donna Marie Bradle,
Thomas Donald Bunce,
Ewin George Button Jr.,
Thomas Charles Callahan,
Jean Marie Castle,
Eileen Ann Catlin,
Pamela Jean Christy,
Allan Andrew Conley,
Elizabeth Anne Coons,
Salvatore Thomas Coriale,
H. Thomas Cormia,
Lance Robert Coyle.

Richard John Crossett,
Pamela Jean Darling,
Wayne Edward Darling,
Marilyn Jean Deller,
LLoy Ann DeReus,
Harvey W. Dunckel,
Elizabeth J. Elmer,
Roger O. Elmer,
Matilda Ann Enjem,
Douglas William Fay,
Ermnia Dolores Fortuna,
Paul L. Getman.

Maurice T. Goldin,
H. Edward Guernsey Jr.,
Millard Stephen Hall,
Brian Robert Hamilton,
Douglas Karl Haslauer,
Glenn I. Hawks Jr.,
Carol Ann Hegeman,
Judith Kay Heintz,
Leonard Roscoe Hendrix,
Raymond Leland Hicks,
Gary Wane Hiller,
Gerald A. Hitchock.

Charles LeRoy Holden III,
Barbara Ann Vali Hollandt,
Jane E. Hollar,
James J. Hool,
Nancy Carol Humphrey,
Elizabeth Keay James,
Roger W. Jones,
James W. Keddell,
Judith Ann Kerr,
Barbara Elizabeth King,
Sylvia A. Knowles,
Frederick J. Kornbrust Jr.

Marianne E. Kurkowski,
David F. Lahey,
Helen Margaret LaPoint,
Diane Theresa Louie,
Patricia M. Luczynski,
Gail Elizabeth Mackin,
Lorraine Carol March,
Roy William Mae,
Linda Alice McCloud,
John Michael Morris,
Judith Ann Murray,
Maxine Kay Nichols,
Patricia Jane Ormond.

Robert John Ortlieb,
Sylvia C. Panarites,
David James Paul,
Thomas H. Pratt III,
Dawn E. Price,
Carol Edith Putnam,
Allan V. Rathbun Jr.,
Barbara Jean Raymond,
Bernard James Reape,
Cynthia Jayne Rhodes,
Patricia Ellen Rivers,
Donna L. Rogers,
Carol Elizabeth Rohmer.

Rodney L. Ross,
Beverly Ann Seaman,
Eileen Margaret Seelbach,
Diane I. Selwood,
Kathleen Frances Seymour,
John Charles Shaw,
William George Shaw,
Robert Lee Snedeker,
Donald J. Spatol,
JoAnne Marie Speer,
Louis Anthony Spencer,
Barbara E. Sporer,
Helen Elizabeth Stagg.

Margaret Rose Steciak,
Barbara Stubbs,
Mary Alice Sullivan,
Kenneth James Sweeney,
Christin Diane Thierfelder,
Donald L. Tibbits,
William H. Tooney,
Roderick Ora Usher,
Robert Luther VanDelinder,
Florence E. Volo,
Susan Elaine Walrath,
Sharon Lee Ward.

Nancy Lea Widger,
Robert Wiegand,
Teddie B. Wilinson,
Kent P. Williams,
Matt O. Williams,
Margery Ann Wholer,
John Richard Wright,
Kenneth V. Wright,
William Arthur Yavornitzki.