May 25, 2017
Today is the
last half day of school for students in USD 475. Although graduation or commencement was held
last Saturday, May 20th, today’s story is about the Eleventh Annual
Commencement of Junction City High School seniors on the evenings of June 10
and 11 in 1886.
The Opera House was packed with attentive listeners for both
evenings, but the crowd on Friday was the largest ever assembled indoors in
Junction City. The stage was
appropriately decorated with evergreen and blooming plants. The class marched in to music provided by
George Killian’s Band. The class motto,
“The World Is Wide” posted in the foreground.
The warm weather caused members of the audience to use hand held paper
fans that made it difficult for some of the ladies to be heard as they spoke
from the stage.
After the
formal address to the graduates by Professor Henry B. Pierce, Superintendent
Winans briefly summarized the work done by himself and his associates in
bringing the class to this point in the
lives of the students. At the end of the speeches, the diplomas were
distributed.
Graduations
are a special time for all of us. The
school term for 2016-17 has ended and in a couple of months a new year will
begin and this year’s seniors will begin their final year of high school. Best wishes to them, their teachers,
administrators and family members, who will all support students to reach the
milestone of graduating from high school this year.
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