Teachers gather for the two-day Teachers Normal training at Searcy Public School circa 1906. Odell Morris, a member of the White County Historical Society, says her parents, George O. Yingling and Emma Adcock Yingling, are in the crowd somewhere but she has never found them.

OUR GRADUATES – Class of 1906. The Graduating Class and Faculty of the Searcy Public High School request the Honor of Your Presence at their Commencement Exercises Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, June 6 and 7, 8:30 o’clock, Nineteen Hundred and Six.

PROGRAM

Wednesday June 6, 8:30 P.M.

Rev. Frank Barrett Medal Contest, Original Story

(50% Moral, 25% Composition, 25% on Delivery)

Invocation - Rev. J.S. Hall

Music, Orchestra – Schumann’s Traeimerei – Misses Prewett, Lightle, Skillern, Headlee and Rives

Story – Ben Gordon’s Revenge – Miss Calista Loomis

Story – Daisie’s Resolution - Jesse Harder

Story – Jack and Bill – Miss Fanny Purcell

Music – Angels Serenade – Braga – Orchestra

Story – Uncle Abe’s Fidelity – Flavil Lewis

Reading – How Mose Counts – Miss Ruth Keith

Music – Reverie – Giles – Orchestra

The delivery of medal by Rev. Rogers

Thursday Evening, 8:30

Invocation – Rev. Frank Barrett

Music – Cavalleria Rusticana – Orchestra

Salutatory – Earl Harlan

Historian – Rufus Stolz

Solo – Miss Effie Keith

Class Poet – Miss Calista Loomis

Prophet – Jessamine Bevier

Music – Maidenlust – Orchestra

Valedictorian – Murray Percival

Class Address – Hon. J.J. Doyne

Music – Old Kentucy Home – Orchestra

Presentation of Diplomas.

Motto: Look up, Lift up.

Class Colors: Blue and White

Class Flower: Lily

Class Roll – Vital Sellers, Green Booth, Earl Harlan, Rufus Stolz, Flavil Lewis, Murray Percival, Jesse Harder, Miss Calista Loomis, Miss Lillian Menees, Miss Jassamine Bevier, Miss Fannie Purcell