Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Browne - Floyd - Graduated Together

Mom's parents Harry Edmond Floyd and Mildred Jane Browne Floyd were in the same graduating class in Saginaw, Michigan June 1913
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Thursday, June 19, 1913 Saginaw News (Saginaw, Michigan)

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(OFFICIAL)
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Regular Monthly Meeting of the Board 
Of Education of the City of Saginaw,
East Side, Michigan, Held Wednes-
Day Evening, June 18, 1913

“The annual graduation exercises of the High school will be held in the Auditorium Thursday evening, June 26, at 8 o’clock. The address of the evening will be delivered by Hon. O.T. Corson, ex-State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio. Members of your honorable body are respectfully asked to be present and to occupy seats on the platform.
  The following names pupils have been recommended to me by the Principal and teachers of the High school as having completed the required number of hours of work to entitle them to receive diplomas. I therefore, recommend that they be granted diplomas by your honorable body. The total number is: boys 62, girls 69, in all 131. I have the honor to say that this is the largest number ever graduated in one year from the High school, the next largest class having been 115 in number. The pupils recommended are as follows:
… [all 131 students are named]

Mildred Jane Browne
Harry Edmond Floyd
Respectfully submitted,
E.C. WARRINER,
Supt. Of Schools.
June 18, 1913
************     Genealogybank.com, accessed April 18, 2016
Mildred Jane Browne
This might be her high school senior picture - 1913
Harry Edmond Floyd ca 1918

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The article was on this page, columns 1, 3, 4

Check out the stove & dress!

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11/14/20 removed notation that it might be Mildred's senior picture; it isn't

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