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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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