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The Klickitat County News, Goldendale, WA., May 28, 1936, page 4

INTERESTING PIONEER INFORMATION

EDITOR'S NOTE: the following item, was taken from the "Goldendale Sentinel" of May 24, 1899, at the time of W.F. Byars' ownership of the local paper and includes the data covering the graduation exercises of the first class to be graduated from the Klickitat Academy. The item is timely in view of the nearness of the graduation activities at the local high school.

Commencement

Friday evening will witness the commencement exercises of the first class graduated from the Klickitat Academy. A rumor of dissatisfaction by some at not having received the invitations before the baccalaureate sermon was delivered has come to the surface, but we wish to say on behalf of the faculty and students of the institution that it came from no fault of theirs. When the cards were ordered it was late and it was impossible to complete the program at a very early date, both Prof. Timblin and the class are doing their best to rush matters. Added to all of this, the number of programs ordered was found to be entirely inadequate, and more had to be ordered, the late arrival of which made matters even worse.
We are requested to announce that no charge whatever for admission has ever been anticipated, and you are cordially requested to be present leaving your pocket book at home.
The following is the program for the occasion:

1. Male quartet, " Tom the Piper's Son," Messrs. Dunbar, Phillips, Hill and Timblin.
2. Saluatory and Oration, "Antagonism," Mabel Ella White.
3. Vocal solo, Mrs. O.L. Dunbar.
4. Oration, "Social fossils," Edgar Clarence Ward.
6. Valedictory and Oration, "Mutability -- The Universal Law," Beula Bell Norris.
7. Vocal solo, Mrs. Timblin.
8. Graduating Address, Hon. W.L. Jones.
9. Music, quartet.

The baccalaureate sermon was delivered on last Sunday evening at the M.E. church, at which time the following program was observed:

1. Anthem, "The Heaven Are Telling," Hayden.
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2. Invocation, Rev. N. Evans.
3. Anthem, "Gloria," Mozart.
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4. Sermon, "The Power of the Invisible, " Rev. N. Evans.
5. Anthem, "Praise Ye the Father," Leslie.
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6. Benediction, Rev. Evans.

No person of persons in our city can justly complain of a more tiresome task than that which has been a lot of Prof. Timblin and the class in preparing for the commencement exercises, and we believe that any adverse criticism of their positively not having been able to reach everyone with an invitation is wholly unmerited and unjust.