The boys and girls of Roxboro and surrounding section have held sway here this week, it being the Commencement Exercises of the Roxboro High School. Sunday morning Rev. Hugh A. Ellis of Henderson preached the sermon in the First Baptist church. He was greeted by an overflow audience and those who were fortunate enough to get in the house were doubly repaid for their trouble, for Mr. Ellis delivered one of the most forcible and instructive sermons heard here in some time.
Monday night in the high school auditorium the graduating exercises took place. Prizes were awarded to the following:
Music Appreciation: Rachael Bradsher and Edwin Long.
Religious Essay: Julian Underwood Connally and Texie Elizabeth Barnette.
Edgar Long Scholarship Medal: Champ Winstead Jr.
Research Club English Prize: May Jane Barker.
Woman’s Club Loving Cup: Texie Elizabeth Barnette.
Medal for best all-round student in High School: James Benjamine Stalvey.
After these prizes were awarded, the speaker, Hon. S. Porter Graves of Mt. Airy, delivered the address, which contained much of great value to the young graduates.
The following received diplomas:
Miss Mary Jane Barker
Henry Vance Barnette
Miss Texie Elizabeth Barnett
Miss Janie Ruth Blalock
Miss Edith Lea Bowles
Miss Ellen Merritt Bradsher
Miss Alice Lungworth Cole
Julian Underwood Connally
Miss Mary Marshall Dunlap
John Hopkins Eberman
Miss Elizabeth Alma Harris
Miss Kathrine Hatchett
Baxter Erlis Hopgood
Miss Kate Purcell Lipford
Miss Vertie Norfleet Moore
Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Morris
James Benjamin Stalvey
Miss Cornelia Ruth Thompson
James Carroll Walker
Champ Winstead Jr.
From the front page of The Roxboro Courier, June 2, 1926
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