Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute Class of '26

Commencement at Mount Pleasant May 23rd to 26th. . . Literary Address at Collegiate Institute to be Delivered This Year by Charles J. Smith. . . 11 in Graduating Class. . . Baccalaureate Sermon to be Preached Sunday, May 23rd, by Prof. C.K. Bell, D.D.

The commencement exercises of the Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute this year will embrace from May 23 to 26th. The program will be as follows:

Sunday, May 25

11 a.m.—Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. Prof. C.K. Bell, D.D.

Sunday, May 23

8 p.m.—Address before Y.M.C.A. by the Rev. O.F. Blackwelder

Monday, May 24

10:30 a.m.—Declaimers Contest

E.B. Bolick, W.F. Hendric, A.H. Johnston, P.H. Lipe HC. McAllister, H.H. Sloop

3:30 p.m.--Address Before the Alumni, C.O.P Trexler, A.M., Class ‘15

8:30 p.m.—Annual Drama, “Sherwood”

Tuesday, May 25

10:30 a.m.—Literary Address—President Chas. J. Smith

3:30 p.m.—Contest in debate, Query: Resolved that Present-day Emphasis on Athletics Is Detrimental to Education.

Affirmative: L.B. Hahn, F.A. Moser, J.H. Taylor

Negative: Jesse Finn, S. A. Grovenstein, W.J. Preve

Graduating Exercises—awarding of diplomas, presentation of medals and announcements

Marshals

Gerhardt Society—P.G. Stogner, W.N. Yount, chief, A.Y. Davis, J. Finna, W.F. Hendrix, C.A. Honeycutt, C.R. Little, H.A. McCullough Jr.

Preparatory Division One—J.H. Bennett, J.G. Belieke, K.F. Conrad, R.W. Hottinger, W.H. Kluttz, G.B. Lawrence.

Ludwig Society—B.L. Allen, W.L. Ezzell, L.B. Hahn, W.H. Hiller, R.H. Taylor, C.E. York.

Preparatory Division Two—Nelson Garren, B.K. Hiller, C.R. Huffman, A.H. Johnston, E.C. Miller, W.A. Moore

Music

Clay Dean’s Carolinians

Class Motto: Labor omnia vincit

P.S. Stoner, President

B.L. Allen, Vice President

R.H. Taylor, Secretary

ass Roll

Bransford Lake Allen

Marshal Wesley Copeland

Wendell Linn Ezzell

Donald Javan Little

Robert Broiwn McAllister

Paul Glenn Stoner

Ralph Henderson Taylor

Claude Fisher Thomason

Claude Elwood York

Walter Nicholas Yount

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 8, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-05-08/ed-1/seq-1/

Mount Pleasant collegiate Institute was a prep school for men. To read about its history and see some photos, go to: www.digitalnc.org/blog/300th-partner-and-mount-pleasant-collegiate-institute-yearbooks/