Graduation programs

Archive

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Graduation programs

Entry/Object ID

2015.002.0003

Scope and Content

2 folded sheets ; 9 1/2" x 5 1/4" June 11, 1934 90th commencement of St. Mary's Female Seminary. There were 42[!] separate sections on the program, a big pageant including music, vignettes about American history to 1934, more music, recalls of commencement of 1844, 1860, 1895, and 1915, dancing, several sections called "Time Passes," a tableau about being in school, presentation of the junior college and high school graduates [all named], a valedictory speech by Mary Spalding, and the final chorus. Students, faculty, and staff were all pressed into service for the event. It must have gone for hours. June 14, 1934 Elementary school graduation in the Duke Auditorium. There were seventh grade graduates from twenty schools. There was lots of music and then the presentation of the graduates [all named]. Great Mills had by far the most graduates. June 18, 1936 Annual commencement of seventh-grade graduates of the elementary schools, held at Duke Auditorium at 10:30 AM. There were twenty-one schools divided into three groups. Two schools had a single graduate, and three schools had only two graduates.

Collection

Greenwell Collection Two

Location

Container

Greenwell Collection Two

Shelf

Rack 07, Shelf 1

Rack

Rack 07

Wall

West wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Greenwell Collection Two

Shelf

Rack 07, Shelf 1

Rack

Rack 07

Wall

West wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Alexander, Grif

Person or Organization

Coad, J. Francis (Joseph Francis) (1866-1938)

Person or Organization

Joy, Ethel

Person or Organization

Spalding, Mary3

Person or Organization

Joy, George Wellington