Commencement

Class of '98
Fonda High School

Reformed Church
Monday Evening, June 20th, 1898
At Eight O'Clock

Music by Prof. Charles Janson's Orchestra.

Class Roll

Edwin S. Conyne, President.
Miss Laura May Staley, Vice-President.
Miss Jennie Elizabeth Beebe, Secretary-Treasurer.
Harry Yates McNeil, Salutatorian.
Charles Richard Tobin, Valedictorian.

Class Motto - "Always Higher."

Ushers - Class of '99

PROGRAMME

Organ Voluntary and March - Mrs. G.F. Mills
Prayer - Rev. J.A. DeBaun, D.D.
March "St. Louis Cadets," Orchestra.
Salutatory and Oration - "The Ethics of the War with Spain," Harry Yates McNeil.
Overture "America," Orchestra.
Essay - "Wonders of Creation," Laura May Staley.
"Carnival of Venice," Four Violins.
Oration - "The Force of Energy," Edwin S. Conyne.
"Hail Columbia," Fantasie for Violin.
Song - Miss Edith Rice Cushney
Accompanied by Edgar Belmont Smith.
Essay - "Marmion," Jennie Elizabeth Beebe.
Medley "The Merry Soubrette," Children's Orchestra.
Oration and Valedictory - "America's Attitude Toward Cuba," Charles Richard Tobin.
Polka "The Culver," Piccolo and Orchestra.
Presentation of Diplomas - Principal Chas. A. Coons
March "Happy Days," Orchestra