Fifty-Four Graduate From Tallulah High
Exercises Held In School Auditorium Here Last Night

Madison Journal June 10, 1938

 

Fifty-four were graduated from the Tallulah High School here last night when the closing exercises of the school were held in the high school auditorium. The exercises began at eight o'clock, and the fol­lowing program was given:

Processional     

Class Invocation                                                         Rev. Geo. A. A. Tocher

"Bells From the Sea"                                                  Louis Nettles

President's Address                                                     Robey Clark

"Prelude"  Rachmaninoff                                           Georgia Rose Rountree

"A Second Trial"                                                        Billie Murphy
Presentation of Class for Graduation Principal         M. A. Phillips
Presentation of Awards and Scholarships                  Supt. Jas. R. Linton

Presentation of Diplomas                                           Dr. A. T. Palmer

Benediction                                                                Rev H. N. Alexander

 

"Prelude" by Georgia Rose Rountree was substituted this week for "La Chasse Infernde" by Geor­gia Rose Rountree and Bobby McKay because Bobby McKay had the misfortune to break his finger last week when he went to Vicksburg with the band.

 

The fifty-four to receive diplomas is the entire senior class, not one member of the class having failed. The exercises were sche­duled to have been held on the lighted football field, but due to inclement weather, it was necessary to hold them in the auditorium. Those who received diplomas were:

Ann Palmer, Carolyn Sevier, Georgia Rose Rountree, Jim Folk, Betty Cagnolatti, Fay Gilbert, Anna Katherine Corkran, George Lawrence, Harry Holt, Thomas Howard Gandy, Bobby McKay, Roy Bales, Charles Brown, Rex Thur­mond Bill Yerger, Ruth Loyd, Gladys Roberts Louis Nettles, Henry Haydell, Billie Murphy, Mary Katherine Ayers, Dorothy Wixson, Jane Watson, Lonnie Bratton, Halene Roper, Robey Clark, Dowell Capshaw, J. C. Byram, Ruby Renfrow, Ernestine Hester, Mary Lee  Lewis, Juanita Couch, Archie Fair­banks, Cora Lee Devine, Vernon LeBlanc, Maxine Dugan, Bill Faker, Opal Cole, Edward Corkran, Pauline Freeman, Anthony Scurria, Thelma McClain, Floy Moore, Wanda Ritchie, David Minter. Mildred Kyzar, Florence Verhagen, Joe Smith, Regina Bethea, Loyce Daniels, Billie Kitchens, Bessie Guice, Lucian Roy and Garland Pope.