Class of 1917
The following list of 101 graduates of the Class of 1917 was compiled from the listings in the 1917 Champion and the 2007 Alumni Directory. Apparently the Times did not report the individual names nor number of graduates, just that the graduation ceremonies were held at the Pilgrim Congregational Church on May 25, 1917.
Georgia Alexander
Marie Elizabeth Allen
Lloyd Smartt Bacon
Blanche Barnett
Beulah Mae Becker
Addie Beene
Nannie C Bloss
Josephine Bogart
Margaret Buford
Melva Lucile Bull
Willard Burks
Robbie Burns
Hattie Rae Cagle
Palmer Carr
Lee Collins
Margaret Collins
Lindsay Colville
G. Marie Cox
Marie Josephine Cox
Ernest Cushman
Marietta Davis
Layne DeArmond
Robert Dennis
Wilbur Denton
Bess Dorton
Stella Doty
Alwilda Ellis
Arthur Engel
Esther Flegal
Ruth Forrester
Chester Gallman
Graydon Gannaway
Flora Garner
Clayton Genung
Marion Green
Earl Haney
Ressie L Harrill
Benjamin Franklin Henderson
Bernice Hester
Raymond Heuser
Anna Elizabeth Hill
Clyde Hill
Harry K Hodge
Hilda Hodges
Dorothy Hood
Martha Hoppe
James Huff
Harry Caldwell Johnson
Milton Johnson
Isabelle Jones
Iva Jones
Archibald Kennedy
Marvin Killian
Frances King
Bela Klein
Abraham Koblentz
Hilton Kroeger
Margaret Lamon
Katheryn Land
Maynard Leavitt
Fairy Lou Lee
George Leinbach Salutatorian
Mildred MacKenney
Hobart Vincent Massey
Walter Massey
Robert Mayer
William McAllister
Mary McMinn
Edwin Meacham
Edith Milburn
Reita Miller
Maude M’Murray
Bernard Mylius
Carl Neidhardt
Leonard Pickard
Martha Lee Poe
Errett A Post
Amy Routh Provence
Marie Pursley
Eloise Ramsey
Herman Ray
Winona Ringwald
Frank Roark
Joe Roberts
Myrtle Rogers
Page Schlesinger
Roy Self
Bertha Shugart
Earl Smith
Estelle Sorgenfrey
Helen Margaret Stokes
Lamar Swingley
Ethel Thurman
Earl Van Zandt Valedictorian
Granville Watson
Manly Arthur Watson
Irene Weber
Addie Williams
Belton Williams
Leslie Wood
Harry G Worsham
Three persons from the Alumni Directory 1917 list of 102 – Margaret Daniel, Hilda Dimmock, and Lillian Parker – could not be found in the Champion and two others from the Champion – Hilda Hodges and Barton Williams – were not listed in the Alumni Directory, so the first three were dropped and the last two added, making the total 101 – all pictured and accounted for in the 1917 Champion.
Thanks Charlie for you passion for Central history.