The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MINEOLA MONITOR
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922.
From the 1922 Mineolan
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! cher, Mrs. C. A. Reitch, Jr.
! An interesting program was
! rendered. James E. Gaston was
toastmaster, and special music
was furnihed by Misses Thel-
ma Grisett, Evadah Romine,
Iris Ardian and Jack Kitchens.
Earl Aldridge gave the welcome
address and Percy Thompson
responded. Alfred Cowan told
of his visit to the state capital
and gave us some pretty good
ones on Mr. Kuhn and Vergil j
Sliipp. Supt. Miles related some
interesting incidents of his boy
hood school days. Rev. C. A.
Tower, in his genial witty way, !
delivered the main address of
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the evening. Miss Iris Adrian
cang "When You Are Gone
We Won't Forget." After a few
farewell expressions from the
Seniors, the benediction was
said by Brother Tower.
The Junior-Senior Banquet of
1922 will long be remembered
not only by the graduates of
1922, but by the Juniors who
look forward to the day in 1923
when they too, may be ban-
quetted.
choir sang ' Wake the Song."
Brother Shultz read the Scrip-
ture lesson. "Jesus, Sayior Pi-
lot Me" a quartett by Dr. Peter-
son, Messrs. Greer, Chappell and
Shoemaker was followed by a
masterful sermon by Dr. Robt.
H. Hill, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Tyler.
The Benediction by Dr. Hill was
pronounced immediately after
the closing Anthem, "Tomorrow
Land.".
Junior and Senior Classes Pre-
sent Play.
Thursday night, May 25, at
the High School Auditorium,
the Junior-Senior classes of
Mineola High School presented
their annual play entitled "Lit-
tle Buckshot" an original melo-
drama in three acts- The Au-
ditorium was well filled and so
well did the characters perform
that "Little Buckshot" was pro-
nounced by all a grand success.
Those taking part in the cast
were the following; Alfred Cow-
an as Danny Mack; Lemuel
Peters as Mr. Brown, Richard
Aldridge; Simon Slade; Vergil
Shipp, Ira Barton; Chester Hil-
burn, Mr. Weed, inventor of
Weed's Patent Lacto; Earl Ald-
ridge at Pat Phelan; Homer
Dickson, Zeb Tucker; Lucien
Bartlett as Elsie Barton; Pau-
line Greer, Kit Barton, "Too Old
for Dolls and Too Young for a
Beau"; Leona Jennings as Nora
the Maid, and Evelyn Harrold
as Wild Flower the Indian Girl.
It might be of interest to
state in this connection that five
of the characters in "Little
Buckshot" Lucien Bartlett. Pau-
line Greer, Leona Jennings,
Richard Aldridge and Vergil
Shipp, who have played leading
roles in most of the plays given
by the High School for the past
thre.2 years, appeared on the
High School Stage for the last
time in "Little Buckshot" last
Thursday night, as these ~ five
pass out of Mineola High School
with the Class of 1922.
Marguerite Noble, da lighter of Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Noble of
Mineola. 1922 graduate Mineola High School. Elected by stu-
dent body as being most popular girl in High School. She will at-
tend Randolph-Macon College at Lynchburg, Va. this fall.
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
What is said to be the best
and most interesting gradua-
tion exercises of Mineola High
School was that of the Class of
1922 at the High School Au-
ditorium last Friday evening.
The large Auditorium was
packed and jammed with peo-
ple, scores being turned away,
who had come to see their sons,
daughters and friends graduate
They were here from Quitman,
Alba, Golden, Winnsboro, Tyler,
Grand Saline, Hawkins, Gilmer,
Big Sandy, Mt. Pleasant, Can-
ton, Wills Point, Crow and
Greenville.
The stPige and auditorium
were never more beautifully
decorated than last Friday night
The class colors of purple and
Gold were in evidence on every
hand but not to the extremes-
The background and front bor-
ders of the stage were decora-
ted with ivy. Pot ferns made
an almost solid hedge near the
footlights. Mineola pennants
were hung from the ceiling and
a large American Flag covered
a good portion of the rear part
of the middle back ground of
the stage. The two main aisles
of the auditorium from the Do-
mestic Art room on the left to
the Music Studio on the right
were roped off in a lane of class
colors as a line of march.
With Miss Thelma Grissett
at the piano the processional
was formed in the Domestic
Art room to the left. The line
of march was down the left
aisle across to the right, up the
right aisle and onto the stage
from the right- The class was
seated in three rows beginning
with the back row 11, 9 and 7,
respectively.
The following program was
rendered: Invocation, Rev. C. A.
Tower; Valse-Prelude (a piano
solo) Pauline Greer; Salutatory
Zelma Moore; Come Love, Come
(a duet) Ella Robbins and Er-
nest Smith; Class History, Le-
ona Jennings; Class Prophecy,
Marguerite Noble; Gypsy Trail,
a vocal colo, Ernest Smith; Val-
edictory, Hazel Nicholson; Ad-
dress, Bishop H. A- Boaz, pres-
ident of S. M. U.; presentation
of diplomas and awarding of
Scholarships, C. E. Nesbitt, prin
cipal of the High School; Good
bye School Days, the Class of
'22; Benediction.
The graduating class of 1922
numbers 27, 18 girls £nd 9 boys
as follows:
Intha Adrian, Golden; Lucien
Bartlett, Mineola; Lorene Boze-
man, Quitman; Fairess Clark,
Golden; Winnie Daniels, Mine-
ola; Bobbie Farrington, Alba;
Pauline Greer, Crow; Vivian
Heard, Mineola; Leona Jennings
"Mineola; Lucille Jennings, Min-
eola; Gladys Macon, Quitman;
Lois Martin, Quitman; Thelma
Morrison Quitman; Zelma Moore
Mineola; Hazel Nicholson, Min-
eola; Marguerite Noble, Mine-
ola; Ella Robbins, Quitman;
Richard Aldridge, Mineola;
Ralph Coursey, Alba; Leon Ed-
gar, Mineola; Vergil Shipp, Min-
eola ; Ernest Smith, Golden;
Percy Thompson, Mineola; Ger-
ald. William, Quitman; Tom
Yancy, Mineola; Floyd Gilbert,
Golden.
Cheese Straws, Orange Ice,
White Cake and pure Ice Water.
The feast was prepared by the
Junior girls under the direction
of their Domestic Science tea-
Baccalaureate Service, Mineola
High School-
This year, as for the past
i three consecutive years, the
baccalaureate service of Mine-
ola High School was held at the
Select Theatre, Sunday, May
21, 1922.
The stage was decorated with
ferns and cut flowers, while the
! first five rows of seats of the
main auditorium were roped off
in class colors, purple and gold,
for the graduates, faculty and
parents.
Promptly at eleven o'clock
the processional was formed in
front of the theatre headed by
the choir singing "The Battle
Hhmn of the Republic," follow-
ed in turn by the Seniors and
faculty.
The invocation was given by
Brother Tower, after which the
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Junior-Senior Banquet.
The commencement exercis-
jes of the Mineola High School
were initiated this year when
the Junior Class entertained the
1922 graduates with a banquet
at the National Guard Armory
the evening of Friday, May 19.
The Guard Armory was beau-
tifully decorated in class and
school colors and covers were
laid for 65- The menu consis-
ted of Grape Fruit Cocktail, Bal-
timore Chicken, Peas in Potato
Nests, Gherkin, Light Bread,
Salted Nuts, Tomato Salad,
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Adair, H. J. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1922, newspaper, May 31, 1922; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth285920/m1/4/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.