The senior class of Ivanhoe High school has graduated with honors, but in their joy and happiness they did not forget dear class mate Carlos R. Coletrane, who was removed from their class in his sophomore year by the epidemic of “flu.” They went in together and bought a beautiful bouquet of pink and white carnations (their class flowers), daintily tied with white maline, and took it to his parents to be placed on his grave, together with many other flowers, the day they graduated.
The class historian, Raymond Painter paid a beautiful tribute to him when he stated what a serious blow his death was to his class, making mention that Ivanhoe High school never had a more conscientious student; his lofty young manhood, his unspotted character, and christian life, which had ever remained to his class a standard by which it might live and work.
In return for love and sympathy, Carlos’ friends collected flowers and made a beautiful bouquet for each of the eight members of the class, which were presented them just after the diplomas, by Misses Georgia Soyars and Virginia Coletrane, which made a most beautiful, touching scene.
From The Mount Airy News, Thursday, June 16, 1921
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