Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
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Class Photo

Class Photo

Title

Class Photo

Description

The first Commencement was in 1875 with Linda Ninde Dorland. Commencement typically lasted all day starting with the Baccalaureate, and ending either with the President or a professor hosting the Commencement Dinner. In later years, it would be accompanied with music from the Penn music ensembles. Speeches were given from various professors and alumni, as well as the entire senior class. The subjects the students spoke on were completely up to them, but generally revolve around what they studied, or learned at Penn. Graduating class includes: Laura Almina Betts, Esther Binford, Luverne Clark, Forrest Duane Comfort, Elizabeth Talbot Doty, Sarah Elizabeth Elliott, Eugene J. Fan, Harold L. Ferree, John Ralph Ferree, Leslie Dorson Frazer, William Silas Hackney, Gladys Marie Hammer, Emily Haworth, Ruth Esther Haworth, Celia Evaline Hefley, George Dewey Hodson, J. Everett Hollingsworth, Mildred Hollingsworth, Walter Joseph Homan, Geneva Venafrum Horn, Lois Hoskins, William Henry Hull, Elwood Oren Johnson, Henry Gideon Keeney, Mabel Addie Lincoln, Ethel Loraine Mc Afee, Marcia Elizabeth McLandsborough, John Winford Mather, Merlin Eugene Mather, Joseph Kenton Meads, Elsie Mildred Mendenhall, Dwight Wilfred Michener, Grace Maurine Pemberton, Corwin Horace Perisho, Ermin C. Perisho, Lester Thomas Perisho, Gwendolyn Grace Perry, Roy Dye Piersel, Inez Rash, Leroy Willard Reynolds, Ardis Laura Roberts, Florence Louise Scott, Carolyn Silverthorne, Leola Mabel Smith, Guilford Bartlett Street, Joseph William Ter Louw, Esther Isabel Terrell, Rex Braska Trafton, David Elton Trueblood, Navy Warner, Henry Hazelton Williams, Mary Eliza Williamson, and Charlotte Winnemore.

Source

LgPic 8

Publisher

William Penn University; Wilcox Library Digital Archives

Date

2012-06-01

Rights

www.wmpenn.edu/library/about.html

Format

image/jpeg

Type

image

Identifier

http://cdm16125.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16125coll1,46

Collection