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    1. [NYONEIDA] 1911 Holland Patent-E. Hughes- COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
    2. Janice J.
    3. ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE Holland Patent High School   HOLLAND HALL   Eight o'clock, Thursday Evening, June 22, 1911 ~~~ Music—"School Comrades"……………………………………….…...ORCHESTRA * Assemble Board of Education, Class of 1911 and Teachers * "Spring Dream"………………………………………………………….. ORCHESTRA * Invocation…………………………………………………..REV. JOHN M. BROCKIE * Oration………………………………………….…………….."Canadian Reciprocity and the Farmer" E. STANLEY ROBERTS * Essay……………………………………………………………"A Woman Reformer" BERNICE ROSER * "Snow Queen"………………………………………………………….. ORCHESTRA *  Essay……………………………………………………………….."The Passion Play" JEANETTE LEWIS * Solo…………………………………………………………………………….."Abeem" GRACE K, LEWIS * Essay……………………………………….………"AAmerican Defeat in the Pacific" GRACE K. LEWIS * Oration……………………………………………..……."Home Life in the Colonies" EDWIN HUGHES * Essay……………………………………………………………….…."King Solomon" FLORENCE SUTTON * "Dollar Princes"………………………………………………………… ORCHESTRA *  Essay………………………………………………………….……"Baron von Steuben" AGNES DUNLAP * Essay………………………….…………………………….…………….. "Isaiah, His Prophesies and Results" S. MARIE TRIPP * Pizzacate [spelling?] …….………………………………………………….……. ORCHESTRA *  Essay………………………………"The American Indian of Yesterday and Today" MABEL E. DEUEL * Oration……………………………………………………………….…."Morgan's Men" GARY O. PERGUSON * "A Day in Venice"……………………………………………………….. ORCHESTRA *  Presentation of Diplomas. Benediction………………………………………………….REV. OLIVER KINGMAN * "Grenadier"…………………………………………………………….… ORCHESTRA My note: Edwin M. HUGHES [1893-1949] of Trenton, NY, and Utica, New York, was my maternal grandfather who married Esther E. CROSIER of Rutland, Vermont.  Thanks to John S Wilkinson for this transcription. Janice Jordan <jnrose@webtv.net>  

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