Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] Graduation report appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 27 May 1897 – Page 4, Column 3

Vevay High School Commencement
Took place at Metropolitan Hall last Friday night.

The class was composed of twenty-one—only three young men.

The stage was richly furnished as a drawing room and beautifully decorated with plants.

Hollis Orchestra, of Madison, furnished good music.

There was excellent order, and the exercises pleasing.

A debate of the relative merits of the gold and silver standards for money, gave spice and interest to the exercises. Miss Edna Works answered the question “What is an Honest Dollar?” by advocating the present gold standard. Miss Nancy Williamson made “A Plea for Humanity,” by advocating the silver standard. These two young ladies handled their subjects very skillfully, the result being both the advocates of gold and silver were very much pleased. We have heard many speeches by men on the subject of money not as good as these young ladies delivered on this occasion. They both received beautiful and elegant presents.

The following was the program:

• Invocation—Rev. W. E. Morris.
• Salutatory, Out at the Elbow—Nona Long.
• A Chemical Experiment—Undine VanPelt.
• Lo! Here Am I!!—Mable Pearl Froman.
• None Are Completely Happy—Madge Wharton Pattie.
• What is an Honest Dollar?—Edna Estella Works.
• Bartholdi—Joseph Krummel.
• “Face the Music”—Anna Brockslager.
• The Dawn of a New Day—Hannah Belle Mead.
• A Plea for Humanity—Nancy Voorhees Williamson.
• Wanted, An Idea—Mary Abigal Lamson.
• On the Threshold—Josephine Geneva Drake.
• True Patriotism—George Emlen Pleasants.
• Class History—Irene Glaser.
• X Rays—Della Edith Peters.
• Design in Nature—Jennettie Lanham.
• A Light House Without A Light—Elizabeth Krummel.
• On, On and On—Mayme Thiebaud.
• To Each His Own Work—Eva Lanham.
• Man’s Chief Desire—Harry Frank Coleman.
• Wanted, A Woman—Nellie Josephine Simpson.
• Valedictory—Grace Gretchen Knox.
• Conferring of Diplomas, by Supt. Amie L. Trafalet.
• Benediction, Rev. R. A. Kemp.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] graduation report appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 14 May 1896 – Page 4, Column 3

COMMENCEMENT
VEVAY HIGH SCHOOL.

Last Friday night Commencement of Vevay High School was held at Metropolitan Hall.

The stage was artistically decorated with flowers.

The music was furnished by Genter’s Orchestra, of Madison.

The graduates numbered fourteen.

The following was the program:

• Music.
• Invocation.—Rev. G. W. Anderson.
• Mucis.
• Salutatory, “An Ideal Woman,”—Louisa Nora Kincaid.
• “Cuba Libra.”—Walter A. Trafalet.
• “Going, Going, Gone.”—Florence Norma Fisk.
• Music.
• “The World’s Battlefield.”—Gertrude Eugenia Curry.
• “One Hundred Years of Civilization.”—Augustus Clyde Weales.
• “Electric Lights.”—Edna Josephine Griffith.
• Music.
• “Music the Language of Heaven.”—Florence Kendall.
• “Waterloo and Gettysburg.”—Chester Philip Drake
• “The Path to Success.”—Mary Elizabeth Rozenberger.
• Music.
• “The Coming Woman.”—Leora Felostin Kendall.
• “What Career?”—Clarence Frederick Brown.
• “Life’s Golden Chain.”—Anna Margurite Jain.
• Music.
• “Be Your Own Diploma.”—Mary Elizabeth Bowen.
• Valedictory—“The Eve of the Nineteenth Century.”—Charles Emory Thiebaud.
• Benediction—Rev. L. A. Retts.
• Music.

The large hall was crowded, many standing.

The graduates acquitted themselves creditably, and there is every reason to believe will make talented, good and useful women and men.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] graduation for 1895 appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 16 May 1895 – Page 4, Column 4

COMMENCEMENT OF VEVAY HIGH SCHOOL.

The 29th Annual Commencement of the Vevay High School was held in the Opera House last Friday eve.

Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather quite a large and appreciative audience was present. The stage was tastefully decorated in the colors of the class—pink and white—and blooming plants and soft lights. At the back of the stage upon a white background, hung in guilt letters, the motto of the class, Acti Labores Jucundi.

At 7:30 the graduates took their places in a semi-circle upon the state with Professors Trafelet and Danglade in the center, and the exercises commenced.

The graduates all delivered their orations in a highly creditable manner, their essays showing much thought and literary skill in composition. The program as rendered was as follows:

• Music, Lead on March.
• Invocation—Rev. Smith.
• Music, Overture—The Silver Bell.
• Year Chases Year—Clarence LaRue Banta.
• Little Things—Joe Danner.
• The Staff of Life—Wilhelmina L. Brockschlager.
• Music, Princess May—Schottishe.
• Before and After Taking—Alfred Shaw Barnett.
• Moth—Mary Owen Siebenthal.
• Music, Daughter of Love—Waltz.
• The Legacy of the Ages—Amie Louis Joyce.
• Carbon—Edwin J. Lanham.
• Five Talents or One—Lela Barnett.
• Music—The Peacock Stride.
• Conditions of the Air—John Dickason Golay.
• Valedictorian, Deeds are Fruits—Theodore Lawrence Bear.
• Conferring Diplomas—Prof. Trafelet.
• Benediction—Rev. Rhetts.
• Music—Woodsocket Galop.
• Music by Prof. Bush’s Orchestra, of Madison.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] graduation report appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 31 May 1894 – Page 4, Column 3

HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.

The twenty-eighth annual commencement exercises of Vevay High School was held in Metropolitan Hall last Friday night. The graduates numbered twenty-one. There was a departure from the usual custom of having class orations, and an interesting lecture was delivered by Joseph Swain, L. L. D., President of the State University, on “A Plea for Higher Education,” which was highly appreciated.

The following are the names of the class of 1894 and the subjects of their orations:

• Emma Estella Knox, “The Sweet Girl Graduate”
• Josie Elizabeth Lamson, “Do World Do More”
• Fred L. Haskell, “The River of Life”
• Mary Luella Jain, “Natnie and Her Beauties”
• Nelly Grant Lanham, “A Day Dream”
• Clara Pearl Bowin, “Ideals”
• Marion Hartford Griffith, “Our Nation’s History”
• Nell Adelia Protsman, “Husks”
• Junita Graham, “Stained Walls Grow The Ivy”
• Jessie M. Thiebaud, “Black the Heel as well as the Toe”
• John Baltzer Kincaid, “That Turnip”
• Perle Edgar Danglade, “Seaward Ever Away”
• Ruth Boyd, “From Sunrise to Sunset”
• S. Grace Tiley, “Great Expectations”
• Frederick Lewis Tardy, “What’s up To-day?”
• Ida Cozier Long, “The American Girl”
• Sallie Emma Shaw, “Ability and Opportunity”
• Pearl May Turner, “Teating To-night”
• Hubert P. Lindenschmidt, “Hope and Fear”
• Wilhelmina Kiesel, “Success or Failure”
• Mary Edith Shaw, “Out of School Life into Life’s School”

The program as rendered was:

• Music, Princess Ida March
• Invocation, Rev. W. E. Morris
• Music, Adalusia Waltz
• Salutatory, Emma Estella Knox
• Music, Sleiga Hide Gallop
• Address, A Plea for Higher Education, Joseph Swain, L. L. D., President State University
• Music, Leontina Mazurka
• Valedictory, Mary Edith Shaw
• Conferring Diplomas, Superintendent
• Benediction, Rev. J. Carey Smith
• Music, Nevetian Polka

The large audience highly appreciated the program and by their hearty applause acknowledged the commencement exercises of the class of [? ?].

The music for the occasion was furnished by the Vevay Mandolin and Guitar Club.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] graduation report appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 1 Jun 1893 – Page 4, Column 3

Vevay High School Commencement.

Twenty seven years ago Vevay High School produced its first graduating class, and since then annually the number has been added to until now they are numbered by the hundreds, and are scattered throughout the country. Many of them are matured men and women, and some of them have also seen their children graduate in the same school. As a rule, the graduates are good and useful people. Many of them, after completing High School course, graduated in colleges.

The twenty seventh annual commencement, last Friday night, was a pleasing and interesting affair. The class of 1893 was composed of fourteen—eleven young ladies and three young gentlemen. They very creditably acquitted themselves—not one used manuscript, and none even hesitated. Each spoke in a distinct voice. The productions evinced close study and careful training—creditable to pupils and instructors.

The orchestra, led by Prof. Genter, produced superior music. The class evinced excellent taste in decorating Metropolitan Hall for the occasion.

The ushers, composed of girls and boys of the junior class, skillfully performed their duties, seating the large number without confusion and supplying each with a program.

The large audience preserved excellent order, and seemed much pleased with the exercises.

The following was the program:

• Overture.
• Invocation.
• Music.
• Salutatory, “Flowery Beds of Ease,” Grace Holmes Griffith.
• “Columbus,” Annette Danglade.
• “Serve Thyself,” Dale Danner.
• Music.
• “For Future Consideration,” Tene C. Protsman.
• “The Pendulum of Justice,” Frankie E. Stucy.
• “Moments, the Golden Sands of Time,” Clara A. Banta.
• Music.
• “Dreams of Home,” Dortha M. Kincaid.
• “Mechanism,” Clarence E. Tait.
• “Words,” Mayme E. Stucy.
• Music.
• “How Big was Alexander, Pa?” Fannie Gertrude Walton.
• “Life’s True Aim,” Elva Stoops.
• “The Money Value of an Education,” Clifford Weales.
• Music.
• “The Nineteenth Century,” Susan Kendall.
• Valedictory, Anna E. McKay.
• Conferring Diplomas.
• Music.
• Benediction.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] Graduation report appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 2 Jun 1892 – Page 4, Column 1

Vevay High School Commencement
at Metropolitan Hall last Friday evening was in every respect a success. There being twenty graduates there was not sufficient time for all to deliver their declamations and essays, but judging from samples of representatives, the class of 1892 is fully up to the average High School class graduates.

The large stage was beautifully furnished, including lace curtains, having the appearance of a parlor.

Fronting the audience, in rear of rostrum, was the Spanish flag of 1492 and to the right the National colors, 1892.

Blooming flowers and shrubbery gave the stage a beautiful and cheering appearance.

An orchestra from Newport, Ky., furnished superior music.

The following was the program:

• Overture.
• Invocation by Rev. W. S. Rea.
• Music.
• Salutatory, Minnie Brown.
• The Lost Utopia, Ben. Waldenmaier.
• Simplicity, Josie Brockschlager.
• Our Aims, Milton C. Boerner.
• Music.
• A Small Lock Sinks a Great Ship, Lora Tilley.
• Limited Emigration, Bryant A. McMakin.
• Hedged In, Lenore E. Tardy.
• Entente Cordiate, Carroll J. Walton.
• Music.
• John [his X mark] Smith, Florence O. Pleasants.
• Progress and its Agencies, Ben. L. McHenry.
• Growth and Decline, Isola Reser.
• The Almighty Dollar, Clarence Shaw.
• Music.
• Only a Girl, Mary VanPelt.
• The Young American, James L. Kendell.
• Drifting upon the Dead Sea of the Past, Emma Grisard.
• Man—The Coming Man, Paul E. Stepleton.
• Battling Waves Polish the Pebbles, Anna Patton.
• Music.
• Look to the End, Myrtle Craig.
• The Choice of a Vocation, D. Hedden Baird.
• Valedictory, Josie A. Findley.
• Presentation of Diplomas, Superintendent Aime L. Trafelet.
• Benediction by Rev. D. N. Manly.

Vevay High School [Switzerland County, Indiana] graduates appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 14 May 1891 – Page 4, Column 3

The following are the names of the graduating class of Vevay High School and their subjects for Commencement tomorrow, Friday evening:

• Eva M. Craig, “Beauty”
• Tena Banta, “What’s in a Name”
• Josie R. Trafelet, “Vocation”
• Ella Waldo, “Lights which Guide our Ships”
• Zella B. Barnett, “A River”
• Harry T. Lee, “Influence of Character”
• Ella V. Hildebrand, “Gold Lies Deep in the Mountain”
• Hannah R. Brown, “Prophecy”
• Lizzie M. Schewe, “Know Thyself”
• Ella Madison, “Beyond the Alps Lies Italy”
• Lou D. Grisard, “The Library Table”
• Augustus R. Hatton, “Outward Appearances”
• Julietta Mead, “The Trial of the Serpent”
• Efflie Morrison, “Sunbeams Imprisoned”
• Belle Dupraz, “The End Is Not Yet”
• Charles Trafelet, “Geology at Home”
• Wade A. Siebenthal, “Every Man the Architect of His Own Fortune”