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Piekarski, Janet E. Rockwell,<br />
Jane Mcintosh Sanderson, Martha<br />
Gail Slick, Jean Carfrae<br />
Speller, Lilly an Mary Stein,<br />
Eleanor Thompson, Mary Helen<br />
Wanamaker, Dorothy Susan<br />
Whipple, Emily Jane Wilson,<br />
Nancy Bowman Wise and Genevieve<br />
Maude Wright.<br />
On Tuesday of this week<br />
Honor Day was celebrated at the<br />
Thurston Preparatory School at<br />
10 o'clock. The program commenced<br />
with opening service<br />
and songs, first awards were<br />
given in the Lower School for<br />
writing, then the gymnasium<br />
honors, class numerals, letters,<br />
arm bands and posture pins<br />
were given to members of both<br />
Lower and Upper Schools. Special<br />
honors are conferred each<br />
year by Mrs. Abram Garrison<br />
Holmes in the name of the Pittsburgh<br />
Chapter of The Daughters<br />
of the American Revolution<br />
for the best work in history;<br />
these credits were given this<br />
year to Eleanor Merrick, Katherine<br />
Davis and Helen Goulding.<br />
Three cups were won by the<br />
class of 1930; athletic cup for<br />
points, basket ball cup for<br />
games, and the co-operation cup.<br />
Highest gymnasium honors for<br />
points were won by Mary Louise<br />
Overend and Margaret Swinston.<br />
The dramatic cup was awarded<br />
to the class of 1929. Two new<br />
cups were given this year by<br />
three of the patrons of the<br />
school, Mr. and Mrs. Ge<strong>org</strong>e S.<br />
Oliver and Mrs. I. B. Thomas.<br />
The Oliver cup was won by<br />
Elizabeth Utley Thomas of the<br />
graduating class and president<br />
of the Student Government <strong>org</strong>anization<br />
for a year of most<br />
helpful and all-round co-operation.<br />
The Thomas cup was won<br />
by Polly Schoyer for three years<br />
co-operation. Sally Cooper,<br />
Frances Graham and<br />
Mary Jane Bierman also won<br />
awards. The highest average<br />
in each class was given to<br />
the following pupils; Lower<br />
School, Lutie Tyler Moore,<br />
Nancy Wilson, Marguerite Merrick,<br />
Betty Abbott, Marlin<br />
Davis, Eleanor Merrick; in the<br />
Upper School, Mildred Rickenbach,<br />
Peggy Laird, Jane Kennedy,<br />
Virginia Stevenson, Polly<br />
Schoyer. Examination honor,<br />
the highest average for two<br />
years, was won by Jane Wood-<br />
Smith, '28. Graduate honors<br />
were awarded to Jane Wood-<br />
Smith, Elizabeth Thomas, Helen<br />
McCune and Betty Young.<br />
Commencement was held in<br />
Calvary Protestant Episcopal<br />
Church Wednesday afternoon at<br />
four o'clock. The address was<br />
given by the Rt. Reverend David<br />
L. Ferris, D.D., Bishop Coadjutor<br />
of Western New York, and<br />
diplomas were presented by the<br />
Rt. Reverend Alexander Mann,<br />
D.D., Bishop of Pittsburgh. The<br />
members of the graduating<br />
class, in addition to the four<br />
honor students, were Betty Gott,<br />
Natalie Campbell, Marguerite<br />
Overend, Sally Thompson, Marceleen<br />
Coleman, Josephine Coleman,<br />
Josephine Herrold, Ruth<br />
Reno, Wilma Smith, Helen Danner,<br />
Henrietta Law, Dorothy<br />
Fire's Constant Toll<br />
THE INDEX, Saturday, June 9, 1928 13<br />
EVERY minute fire destroys $1,000 worth of<br />
property in the United States.<br />
You may become a victim despite all of the safeguards<br />
you throw around your home.<br />
Secure protection for your will, deeds, contracts, insurance<br />
policies and other valuable papers, heirlooms<br />
and jewelry in the strong, burglar and fireproof Safe<br />
Deposit Vaults of The Union Trust Company of<br />
Pittsburgh.<br />
Spacious, well ventilated rooms with telephones and<br />
every equipment for your comfort and service.<br />
Boxes $5 per year and up.<br />
SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT<br />
The Union Trust Company<br />
of Pittsburgh<br />
FIFTH. GRANT. OLIVER AND WILLIAM PENN PLACE<br />
Crannell, Ruth Leahy, Kathleen<br />
Hauer, Sarah Jane Hutchison.<br />
Pittsburgh Academy commencement<br />
affairs began Thursday<br />
with the June prom in the<br />
University Club. Commencement<br />
exercises are to take place<br />
June 22 in Carnegie Music Hall.<br />
Yesterday afternoon a recital<br />
of piano and class work was<br />
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