Looking Back

1 Years Ago

June 15, 916

Ten graduate from eighth grade

­Opera House crowded when public school gives first commencement exercises

Friday night of last week will always be remembered by the patrons of Pine Bluffs Public School; for it was then that the first eighth grade commencement was held. The class of 1916, six boys and four girls, entertained the public in a manner seldom expelled by a graduating class of a four-year high school.

The members of the class were Hazel Carlstrum, Harold Johnson, Mabel Samuelson, Harry Johnson, Ralph Bengston, Rayonana Bloom, John Wilkinson, Harold Robinson...