Name Winners of Graduating Honors
Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1942
Graduating honors in Bainbridge Central High School [Chenango Co., NY] this year were copped by six girls, with Marian Cudworth as valedictorian and Elaine Barre as salutatorian. The honor students are Mary Lou Branham, Carm Delello, Ethel Meade and Jean Bacon. The girls all have been very active during their four years of high school, both in curricular and extra-curricular activities. Their achievements follow:
Elaine Barre: Glee Club, 1-2-3; Press Club, 4; Commercial Contest first prize winner, 2-3; softball, basketball B, play days; special feature editor of yearbook; delegate to E.S.S.P.A. at Syracuse; Archery tournament, Ping Pong tournament.
Marion Cudworth: Glee Club, 1-2-3-4; Press Club, 2; Editor of Yearbook; delegate to E.S.S.P.A.; archery, 2-3; girls' sextette, 3; Senior Play; Pottery Club, Monitor for Fire Drills; Award merit League plays, 3-4; prize speaking, 1-2 sectional; consul Latin Club, 3; President, Freshman Class; Vice-president Junior Class; Elmira College Silver Medal.
Mary Lou Branham: Glee Club 1-2-3-4; Band, 1-2-3; President Senior Class; co-counsul Latin Club, 3; commercial contest, 3; girls' sextette, 3; Senior Play; cheerleader 1-2;, prize speaking, 4.
Carm Delello: Glee Club, 1-2-3-4; Press Club, 3-4; President of Library Club, 3-4; President of Library Club, 3-4; Cheerleader, 3-4; Delegate to E.S.S.P.A. at Syracuse; co-editor of year book; Editor of "Blue and White," 1-4; Editor of "Cross-Section," 4; Commercial Contest, 3: Monitor for fire drills' softball, basketball, play days, B; publicity director for Senior Play.
Ethel Meade: Sec'y Girls' Athletic Ass'n; Sec'y Class, 1; cheerleader, 3-4; commercial contest, 3; archery, play days; Glee Club, 1-4; Sports' editor of yearbook; Latin Club, 2; Senior Play; Press Club, 3; D.A.R. History Prize, 3; Technical Editor of "Cross-Section"; Delegate to E.S.S.P.A.; monitor for fire drills.
Jean Bacon: Glee Club 1-2-3-4; Press Club, 2-3; Senior Play; cheerleader, 1-2; commercial contest, 3; Humor editor of yearbook; Latin Club, 2-3; Girls' sextette, 3; quartette, 2; delegate to E.S.S.P.A.; Band, 1; tennis tournament, 3; B
It is interesting to note that all the girls have received letters for their activities and that these activities include both sports and literary clubs. The girls are now hard at work on their speeches for Commencement and it's certain that with the ladies in complete charge, this year's graduation ceremonies will be very interesting.
Announce Program for Commencement Here
Bainbridge News & Republican, June 18, 1942
As the ceremonial climax of 12 years of schooling, a group of young students will receive their final diplomas on Tuesday, June 23, forming the graduating class of 1942.
The commencement activities will be held as usual in the High School Auditorium, beginning at eight o'clock. the awarding of the diplomas will complete the busy cycle that Senior Classes always experience during the last weeks of their study. On Thursday night of this week the Senior Annual Ball is to be held. Monday night of next week, the graduates will present their Class Night, an evening of merry fun, concluding the class parties forever.
Tuesday is the solemn day--the one that the students have looked forward to so eagerly and hopefully. The commencement program will open with music by the High School Band under the direction of William O'Neil. The band will play, at intervals, the National Anthem, the Chorale -- Johann Bach, Rejoice O My Soul -- Robert Schumann and the March -- Empire State and America.
The Invocation will be delivered by the Rev. John J. Toomey, pastor of St. John's Church. This will be followed by the Salutatory to the audience by Elaine Barre. An essay will then be delivered by Jean Bacon--The Heritage of Democracy, and this will be followed by Ethel Meade's essay. "The Mayo Clinic - a Typical American Achievement." Dorothy Branham will render a solo -- Spring Song. Carmalina Delello will then recite her essay -- General Douglas MacArthur, America's Answer to Tyranny. Mary Lou Branham's speech, A Survey of Music will follow, after which the Valedictory will be given by Marion Cudworth. Dr. J.M. Flannery, president of the Board of Education, will award the diplomas and Benediction will be under the care of the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson.
The High School Band will play the recessional. The High School Girls' Quartette will also render a selection. The girls are Alice Monahan, Jean Bacon, Mary Butler and Dorothy Branham.
Plan Junior High Commencement Exercises Here
Bainbridge News & Republican, June 18, 1942
Commencement Exercises for the Junior High School will be held Monday afternoon, June 22, at 2:15 in the school auditorium. Parents and friends of the graduates are cordially invited to attend.
Honors for the valedictory and salutatory speakers are divided between Doris Michel and Helen Perry, whose averages are 93.98 and 93.90, respectively. The Rev. Paul Carpenter is to be the commencement speaker and Invocation will be offered by the Rev. Paul Hulslander. Music at the exercises will be a medley of songs by the Girls' Octet under the direction of Miss Ruth Benjamin, and a duet consisting of Negro Spirituals by the Rev. and Mrs. Hulslander.
At this time the annual award of Dictionaries by the Woman's Club to the boy and girl in the Seventh and Eighth Grade with the highest scholastic average will be made by Mrs. Edward Danforth, President of the Woman's Club. Principal Francis J. Casey will deliver a short address to the graduates and present the Perfect Attendance Certificates.
A tentative list of the graduates, which is subject to change depending on the results of exams, follows:
Lona Bennett
Helen Cudworth
Betty Haase
Marion Johnson
Elaine Herron
Ruth Jones
Doris Michel
Betty Mott
Alma Olmstead
Helen Perry
Thelma Saunders
Dorothy Woods
Irene Woods
William Branham
Michael Flyzik
Bruce Gorton
Robert Greek
David Monroe
Harold Parsons
Everett Rowe
Milton Simonds
Douglas Smith
Kenneth Smith
Darwin Taft
Norman Weeks
Only 19 Seniors in Wartime Graduation
Bainbridge News & Republican, June 25, 1942
Climaxing a hectic week of parties, Regents and general activity, the Senior Class of Bainbridge Central High School graduated in all formality on Tuesday evening, June 23, forming one of the smallest graduating classes in recent years.
Nineteen students received the eagerly awaited diplomas from Dr. J.M. Flannery, president of the School Board of Education. The evening's ceremony opened with the National Anthem played by the school band and the invocation by the Rev. J.J. Toomey, and was followed at intervals by the honor students who recited their essays. Elaine Barre greeted the audience with the salutatory, followed by Jean Bacon's essay on "The Heritage of Democracy," and Ethel Meade's talk on the "Mayo Clinic, a Typical Democratic Achievement." Carmalina Delello gave her talk on "General Douglas MacArthur America's Answer to Tyranny," followed by "A Survey of Music," by Mary Lou Branham and the valedictory by Marion Cudworth. Prof Casey announced the students and their speeches.
On completion of the talks, the diplomas were awarded to the students and school letters were also distributed. Those receiving diplomas included:
Betty Jean Bacon
Elaine Agnes Mary Barre
Newton Ferguson Bliss
Guyva Isabelle Bradish
Shirley Mary Bradish
Mary Lou Branham
Marion Lois Cudworth
Carmaline Mary Delello
Ruth Gene Fenner
Lawrence Russell Getter
Helen Mae Haase
Robert Elliott Hitchcock
Edward Danforth Knight, Jr.
Ethel Ruth Meade
Lillian Mae Moore
Milton Grover Scott
Anna Mae Sites
Daisy Ellen Sites
Louella Mae Weeks
Following music by the band and the benediction by the Rev. Johnson, the school years of B.C.H.S. were left behind by the students. According to the valedictory, the students go forth to climb fertile trees and scan deep clear lakes. The future grass is green, providing the graduates can find it, and life stretches ahead in all seriousness.
On Monday night, June 22, the class presented its annual class night using for their subject the Senior Trip they didn't take. Cavorting on the stage, the seniors put over an effective and amusing show of the antics which they most surely would have indulged in had they gone to New York. On Friday night of last week the Junior Class combined efforts with the Seniors and together the students presented the annual Senior Ball. Amidst roses and palm trees flanked by a huge '42 and '43, the crowd made merry with music by the excellent Joe Goldin's band. Although not successful from a financial point of view, the dance produced hilarious results in fun, and it being their last social event, this was more important than a pecuniary profit according to the pupils.
Special mention of Dr. J.M. Flannery's address to the graduates and the audience should be made. Dr. Flannery pointed out the seriousness of the times in which the first war graduate body emerge from their school life. His address follows:
"Reverend Clergy, members of the faculty Board of Education, the Class of 1942, parents, and friends: We are again happy and proud to greet a class of graduates from Bainbridge High School. This class of 1942 is graduating at a time and under conditions that have not been experienced by any class in the history of the school. Our country has been at war throughout the year 1942. Our country faces a great many more dangers today than ever before, and we need greater strength in our graduating classes now than was ever needed in our history. We are growing more powerful as the days go by; more powerful in our adherence to the principles in democracy, more powerful in our military and naval operations, more powerful on land, on the sea, and in the air. We are moving on toward a final victory. We have been victorious in a number of naval and aerial engagements with the enemy, and we shall be victorious in many more until the final and ultimate victory is achieved. So with this, Class of 1942, you have proven yourselves worthy and have achieved this victory of completing the studies required for a high school diploma."
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