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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 01687
Title: Francine Fiske high school graduation with classmates
Date: 5/30/1937
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [Sioux County Pioneer Arrow 05-28-1937 p01] Fort Yates Schools are closing A Successful Term—10 H.S. Graduates. It is just a matter of a few days and the Fort Yates school bell will be silenced for summer vacation. Students will then forget their studies for about three months-pursuing different courses of diverting time and enjoying themselves until they shkall again meet in the school rooms next September. Today, Friday, May 28th is closing day for the first six grades and the elementary school is having a picnic. The baccalaureate is scheduled for Sunday, May 30, at 6:30 p.m. to which the public is cordially invited. The program can be found in the center column of this page. On Tuesday, June 1st, the seniors and juniors will enjoy a picnic. Graduation exercises will be held Wednesday, June 2nd, at 7 p.m. The program may be found in the two center Malumns of this page. The 1937 graduating class consists of the ten following students: Elsie I. Bartlett, Francine L. Fiske, Marie V. Houk, Orlando H. Hodgkinson, Thomas L. Jacobson, F. Gayton Merrill, Leona M. Offley, Eleanor May Stewart, Arthur E. Swoboda, P. Barton Thompson. Eighth grade graduates are: Thelma Bossert, Betty Bressler, Howard Euneau, Lucille Greybear, Dolores Hatch, Mildred Hokanson, Ralph Stiles, Charles Johnson, Joseph Krois, Ardvee Peterson, Helen Ramey, Florence Stewart, William Stewart. [Negative envelope] left to right: Elsie Bartlett, unidentified, Francine Fiske, Gayton Merrill, Marie Houk, Art Sturtevant, Unidentified, unidentified, Eleanor Stewart, Barton Thompson
Summary: Formal outdoor portrait of high school graduation class of 1937. The girls are wearing formal dresses with bouquets and corsages. The boys are wearing double-breasted suits with white shirts, ties and boutonnieres. Behind them is a building with windows and arrangements of bushes. The 1937 graduating class consists of the ten following students: Elsie I. Bartlett, Francine L. Fiske, Marie V. Houk, Orlando H. Hodgkinson, Thomas L. Jacobson, F. Gayton Merrill, Leona M. Offley, Eleanor May Stewart, Arthur E. Swoboda, P. Barton Thompson. Eighth grade graduates are: Thelma Bossert, Betty Bressler, Howard Euneau, Lucille Greybear, Dolores Hatch, Mildred Hokanson, Ralph Stiles, Charles Johnson, Joseph Krois, Ardvee Peterson, Helen Ramey, Florence Stewart, William Stewart.
Red ID: PH_I_39552 Image ID: 146180 Image Notes: 1952-01687

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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