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cMalfmoan IjeaAMaoJz, 1945 Forworcl By Miss Ada Baker First Graduating Class, 1892 The first graduating class of the Meehanicville High School, the Class of 1892, consisted of six girls, Ada M. Baker, President; .1. Maud Hutchins, Secre- tary; Jessie E. Close, Mabel L. Hogle, Emiline A. Pattison and Carrie Waldron. All of these girls except Miss Hogle enrolled in the High School the first day the old high school building was opened in November 1888. Miss Hogle moved to the village a year later and became a member of the class. At one time there were several other members, including two or three boys, but they dropped out, one by one, until upon graduatioon there were only six to receive a State Regents Diploma, which was at that time, the requirement for graduation. The Commencement Exercises were held in the Assembly Hall which occu- pied the entire third floor of the old high school building and could seat about four hundred people on closely packed wooden chairs. At one side of the hall was a stage with a dressing room on each side, and wide double doors both in the front and rear of the hall leading to the stairways. The room was lighted by a huge oil-lamp chandelier in the center and smaller lamps on the side walls of the stage. The night of Commencement the front of the stage was banked with large jardinieres and baskets of ferns, daisies and peonies. In the rear of the stage was a small table upon which lay the precious diplomas. This first commencement was held on Friday evening, June 24th, 1892. The village was astir that evening as horse-drawn carriages dashed about bring- ing the members of the Board of Education, the high school faculty and the graduates to the high school. At the appointed hour, while Safford’s Band played a stirring march, the members of the Board of Education walked upon the stage and occupied chairs on one side of the table, and the high school principal, Mr. Lyman B. Blakeman and his two assistants. Miss Mae Blanche Doty of I lion. New York and Miss Harriet Massey of Meehanicville, New York occupied chairs on the other side of the table. Then from the rear doorway came the six graduates and following them the remainder of the school faculty.
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Jlciifjmacm yearbook, 1945 7 The graduates sat in the front row of chairs on the assembly floor and faced the stage. They wore long dresses that swept the floor, had short puffed sleeves and long white kid gloves to the elbow. Each wore a corsage of roses and carried a white feather fan. As the class was small, every member had a place on the program inter- spersed by music by the band. Following a prayer offered by the Rev. A. McD. Paterson, the Salutatory Address was given by Miss Pattison; a recitation, “Parrhasius and the Captive,” by Miss Waldron; essay, “Rocks and Difficul- ties, by Miss Close; oration, “Grumblers,” by Miss Pattison; recitation. “Too Late for the Train,” by Miss Hutchins; essay, “Niches” by Miss Hogle; vocal duet, “Mountain Life,” by the Misses Waldron and Hutchins; and Valedictory Oration and Address, “No Contest, No Crown,” by Miss Baker. The class then listened to an address by the Rev. D. G. Lawson. Principal Blakeman formally presented the graduating class to the Board of Education and the girls marched to the platform and received their diplomas from the hand of Mr. Daniel E. Ladow, President of the Board of Education. Following the Benediction the graduates and their invited guests were driven to the home of Mr. Ladow on South Main Street where a reception was held.
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