For our final look, for this year, at graduations past, here is the program from the eighth grade commencement exercises in 1928, eighty years ago this month. (Calvin Coolidge was President.) A transcription follows the image.
Commencement Exercises
EIGHTH GRADE
Bradley School Auditorium
Wednesday, May 16, 1928, 8:00 P. M.
Onward Christian Soldiers All
Invocation Bro. Holland
Commencement Song Class
Salutatory Nancy Virginia Stewart
Class History Ray Olive
Class Color Willie Stampley
Class Motto Morgan Hamner
Piano Solo Mildred Christie
Class Poet Ethel Miller
Class Grumbler Dixie Hamiter
Piano Solo Anna Marie Collins
Class Prophecy Gladys Stewart
Class Will Lindsay Brock
Valedictory Mildred Christie
Presentation of Diplomas Mr. Lee Measeles
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The previous evening in 1928 saw a commencement exercise for the “Department of Primary and Intermediate Grades.” A transcription again follows the image.
Bradley High School Auditorium
Commencement Program
Department of
Primary and Intermediate Grades
Tuesday Evening, May 15, 1928
8:00 P. M.
Reading Edna Frances Vaughan
Violin Solo Nanette Snead
Reading Dot Cochran
Spring’s Flower Garden Primary Pupils
Flower Drill and Dance Fourth Grade Girls
Violin Solo Malvin Christie
Mother Goose’s Trouble Primary Pupils
Reading Mable Christie
Reading Malvin Christie
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