Collection/Donor: Roger Carter

In-House Location: main building. McCoy cabinet

Description: small paper top fold booklet with four printed sides (roughly 6×3 inches in size) printed by Journal Print of Jackson held at Jones’ Music Hall of Jackson Ohio.

.70 front cover, red ink print, the eighth annual commencement of the Jackson High School, Thursday, May 22, 1884;

inside top portion, black ink, Order of Exercise with names of participants; Prayer by Rev. F.S.Davis; Salutatory by Hattie Moore; Essay “Mind, Nature’s Key” by Louisa Dauber; Oration “Be a Leader” by Kate Bunn; Essay “Voices of the Past” by Fannie Armstrong; Essay “Greatest Deeds in Silence Wrought” by Lizzie Moore; Valedictory ” The Private Soldier of the Rebellion” by Alwyn Goddard; Address to the Class by W.A. Longbon; Presentation of Diplomas by T.A. Jones; Benediction by Rev. T.M. Hopkins.

inside bottom portion listing of School Register, Board of Education [W.T. Price, president; Maj. T.S. Matthews, secretary; D.Armstrong, treasurer; Dr. W.E. Williams, E.T. Jones, A. Henson]; plus Superintendent J.E. Kinnison; Principal, High School W.A. Longbon. back cover, red print ink Class Motto, “For Life, not for School, we Learn.”

Time Period: 1884

Among four first graduates of Jackson HS in 1876 were Thomas A. Jones and William A. Longbon.

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