Newspaper clipping: 'Senior High To Give Diplomas At Tonight Exercises' — Savannah Senior High School commencement, 1933
Book 2, Page 121 ·1933
Transcription
A narrow vertical newspaper clipping pasted at the top of the page.
SENIOR HIGH TO GIVE DIPLOMAS
AT TONIGHT EXERCISES
E. H. Abrahams to Make Address to Pupils
The Senior High School graduation exercises will take place tonight in the Municipal Auditorium. Charles Ellis, president of the Board of Education, will award the diplomas. The Rev. J. Douglas Lewis will pronounce the invocation. E. H. Abrahams will make the commencement address.
Following is the program of the exercises and the list of graduates:
Processional, “War March” (Athalia-Mendelssohn), high school orchestra.
Invocation, Rev. J. Douglas Lewis, pastor of Grace Methodist Church.
“Pilgrim Chorus” (Tannhäuser-Wagner), senior class.
Presentation of diplomas, Charles Ellis, president, Board of Education.
“Snow” (Elgar), girls’ chorus; violin obligato, Vera Dodge and Evelyn Randall.
“Home on the Range” (Guion), boys’ chorus.
Presentation of awards, Charles Ellis, president, Board of Education.
D. A. R. award, Bonaventure Chapter, Miss Marie Reddy.
Scottish Rite award, E. D. Wells.
“Listen to the Lambs” (Dett), “Czechoslovakian Dance Song” (Manney), “The Heavens are Telling” (Creation-Haydn), senior class.
Recessional, “Annetta” (Morrison).
Address, E. H. Abrahams.
Accompanist for chorus, Bertha Judkins and Ida Mouzon. Accompanist for orchestra, Descombe Wells. Director, Lola Stevens.
In the selection, “The Heavens Are Falling,” the solo work will be done by a selected group including, sopranos, Anna Groover, Winnie Lee Carnes, Elfrieda Meyer, Helen Bell, Virginia Wingard, Alma Smith, Edith Bennett; tenors, Emanuel Palesky, Brooks Dawson, Vernon Helmly, Henry Lindner, Arthur Morrison; baritones, Dearel Koger, Descombe Wells, Fred Kreitzer, Jesse Muse, Irwin Bylbert and J. B. Holst.
The honor graduates of the senior class are as follows:
Emma Wilhelmina Ambos, Margaret Elaine Armstrong, Ethel Celia Banks, Vivian Evans, Anna Louise Groover, James William Holloway, Mary Elizabeth Martin, Milton Mazo, Catherine Emily Meree, Gordon McGlohon Nichols, Lilla Victor, Dee Walker.
The following class will graduate tomorrow night:
Home Economics Course
Garnett Lynes.
Scientific Course
Helen Hatch Bell, Hubert Coleman, William Garrison, Maurice Goslee, Charles Garland Greene, Catherine McKellar Hagan, Frederick James Kreitzer, Harry Hilken Kuck, Jr., Annie Rebecca Malone, Alexander Moses, Cecil Reid Reinstein.
Classical Course
Emma Wilhelmina Ambos, Margaret Elaine Armstrong, Cecelia Bailey, Herbert Bartholomew Bainbridge, Ethel Celia Banks, Evelyn Hilda Beasley, Jean Elizabeth Beckman, Edith Marie Bennett, Willie Lou Best, Margaret Eleanor Butler, Vivian Evans, William Henry Fulmer, Emily Gamble, Wilbur Hardwick Gear, Anna Louis Groover, Sarah Irene Hardeman, Mattie Mays Harms, Ida Carolyn Heidt, Frederick William Hesse, Jr., Catherine Marie Hoagland, Florence Hattie Jamieson, Lillian Elizabeth Joyner, Betty Judkins, Priscilla Kelley, Alice Eugenia Marshall, Mary Elizabeth Martin, Milton Mazo, Frank Hamlin McNeal, Catherine Emily Meree, Caroline Glenn Mills, Flora Ellen Mizell, Neal Morgan, Gordon McGlohon Nichols, Eloise Ogletree, Alice Pierpont, Martha Louise Richardson, Virginia Sauls, Harold Clinton Schwanebeck, Sarah Shoob, Dorothy Chaplin Smith, Henry Carl Smith, Anton Francis Solms, Jr., Lilla Victor, Dee Walker, Ila Joe Watterson, Edward Descombe Wells, Jr., Norma Muriel Wittschen, Helen Elizabeth Woodward, and Frances Beatrice Youmans.
Technical Course
Ross Guerard Allen, Edward Joy Benton, Jr., John Bell Cabell, Jeff Davis, Jr., John Bernt Holst, Thorne Cecil Kitchell, Dearel Glen Koger, Henry George Lindner, John Vincent Norton, Noah Webster Parsons, Jr., James Guthrie Prestwood, Jr., David Rosenzweig, Judson Lamar Hendry and Jesse Phillip Muse.
Commercial Course
Callie Fay Adams, Ola Mae Bailey, Benjamin Thomas Behnken, Jr., Josephine Bostwick, Louise Brown, Hulda Carlson, Ethel Elaine Cohen, Annie Lee DesNoyers, William Harold Dugger, Mary Adeline Futrell, William Edmund Gray, Rieta Le Vera Harvey, Vernon Washington Helmly, Nella Henry, James William Holloway, Gladys Gloria Homansky, Ouida Hutson, Joseph Sterling Ivey, Jr., May Ghee Jung, Mary Josephine Keller, Lillian Kimker, Kathryn Elizabeth Wise, Anna Elizabeth Langford, Howell Moore McAfee, Jr., Elfreda Louise Meyer, Fred Edward Miley, Alexander Lawton Zipperer, Marie Morse, Olevia Matilda Zipperer, Margaret Lansdell Owens, Emanuel Palefsky, Sophie Pappas, Oral Dorothy Paxson, Samuel Plotkin, Rosalie Rhoda Rubnitz, Kate Shannon, Hazel Lillian Snooks, Lillie Lewella Stoner, Lola Mae Wilkins, Robert Thomas Wilson, Frances Bernadette Winders, Virginia May Wingard.
General Course
Marion Thomas Bailey, Dorothy Ballew, William Francis Benet, Anna Elizabeth Branch, Mary Mozelle Buckheit, Teddy Basil Carellas, Winnie Lee Carnes, Mae Carmichael, Ernestine Octavia Cole, Robert Brooks Dawson, Harry DeLoach, Frederick William DeMeritt, Virginia Arlene Gates, Mildred Emerson Gay, Helen Heckman, Edward Irwin Hulbert, Jr., Aulsie James, Myers Wright Jay, Dorothy Helena Klug, Mary Ellen Koerper, Mary Kolgaklis, Anna Belle Longwater, William Longwater, Catherine Mallory, Mary Mamalakis, James Tift Mann, Calista McTyre, Mary Elizabeth Morgan, Callie Morris, Clyde Passmore, Cecil Herndon Pittman, Vernon Wilson Risher, Mary Agnes Roane, Frank Forrest Schuler, Mary Haywood Smallbones, Alma May Smith, Georgia Lucile Smith, Joseph Stall, Ida Lee Stearman, John Hodge Stevens, Thomas Howle Suddath, John Wierich Suhr, Jr., Doris Lillian Thorpe, Richard Daniel Van Allen, Jr., Mary Lucile Walker, Dorothy Williams, Margaret Wood, Charles Francis Farrne, Jr., Ola Estella Knight, Harriet Tebeau Wootton, George Brantley Roberts, Herbert Overstreet Hallford, Wade Hampton Eve.
AI Notes
Album page consisting of a single narrow vertical newspaper clipping pasted near the top of the otherwise blank sheet. The clipping is the Savannah-newspaper commencement notice for Savannah Senior High School, class of 1933. The commencement speaker is E. H. Abrahams. The compiler’s daughter Dee Walker (Emma Dee Walker, the future Mrs. Robert L. Corbell Jr.) appears in the honor graduates list. A Mary Lucile Walker also appears in the General Course list; she is not the compiler’s daughter Mary Ann Walker (who was born 8 June 1918, would have been 14–15 in June 1933, and later graduated Jacksonville High School in 1937). The article also identifies Charles Ellis as President of the Savannah Board of Education; Rev. J. Douglas Lewis of Grace Methodist Church gave the invocation; Lola Stevens directed the orchestra.
Family relevance. Dee Walker appears in the honor graduates list (and again in the Classical Course list); she is Emma Dee Walker, the compiler’s daughter, who later married Dr. Robert L. Corbell Jr. The Mary Lucile Walker in the General Course list is unrelated to the family — the compiler’s other daughter Mary Ann Walker was born 8 June 1918 (too young to graduate high school in 1933) and graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1937.
Speaker. The commencement speaker is E. H. Abrahams — Emanuel H. Abrahams, a prominent Savannah civic figure in the 1930s. Charles Ellis, who awarded the diplomas, was President of the Savannah Board of Education during this period.