Horseheads High School Class of 1902. Back Row: Marie Hill, William Myers, Ermina Thorne, Laura Snyder, Robert Smith, Mary Hill Front Row: Bernice Reed, Evelyn Rowley, Berton R. Sherman, Ida Weller, Nellie Lovell W. R. Samson in Sep 2000 Note: Bernice Reed was my GRandmother. Robert Smith was a Great Uncle of my wife Joanne SMITH Samson. He went west and never returned. We met him in CA, near the end of his life. |
Bernice Reed married Chas. MacDougall Evelyn Rowley married Chas. Carpenter Ida Weller married Ralph Hibbard |
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Exercises were of Unusual Merit. Pritchard Hall Was Crowded With Friends of Graduates |
| The 18th annual commencement of the Horseheads High School was held
last evening at Pritchard Hall and was in every sense a most delightful
occasion. The small hall was so crowded that people stood in every
part of it and probably as many were turned away as were able to gain admittance.
The hall had been very beautifully decorated in green and white, which
are the class colors. Evergreen twigs woven into vines were very
prettily festooned over the entire ceiling and the figures 1902 were worked
on the east wall in evergreen. Green and white bunting also formed
a large part of the hall decoration. The stage was banked with palms,
ferns and daisies. On a white back ground occupying a conspicuous
part of the stage the class motto: "“hy Destiny Lies Within Thee"”
was worked in green. The east side of the stage was occupied by the
members of the board of education: R. P. Bush, president; Rev. M.
H. Gardner, P. T. Marshall, W. H. Phillips and Mrs. Helen Rickey, and also
Rev. F. H. Gates and Rev. W. H. Yard. Accompanied by the sweet strains
from McHenry’s orchestra the graduates marched in from the rear of the
stage and were seated on the east side.
The first number, following the invocation by Rev. M. H. Gardner,
was the saluatory by Miss Bernice Reed. Miss Reed’s subject was “Night
Brings Out the Stars”, and she treated it as to its application to human
affairs. Her enunciation and delivery were good and she was very
enthustically applauded at the conclusion. William W. Myers delivered
the valedictory, his subject being “The Invasion of the Old World by the
New”. He treated this subject very capably, showing the reaction
which is now taking place between the old world nations and the nations
of the west.
The following are the members of the class of 1902: William W. Myers, Bernice Reed, Loretta Snyder, Nellie E. Lovell, Eva L. Rowley, Marie E. Hill, Ermina C. Thorne, Ida Weller, Robert B. Smith, Mary L. Hill and Berton R. Sherman. All the students acquited themselves in a manner to do credit to their school. Misses Lulu Weller, Ruby Snyder, Mabel Hill and Maude Coe acted as flower girls, and Emily Clark as page. The ushers were Archie Mathews, Wilson Day, Henry Bush, Benjamin Colegrove and Walter Myers. |
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