Friday, June 24, 2011

NEWSPAPER TIDBIT: Plainfield Residents Graduating From Quaker Boarding School (1923)

from The Republican (Danville, Indiana) – issue of Thursday, May 24, 1923 – page 8, column 6:

SIX GRADUATES
Six of the graduates of the Friends college at Barnesville, Ohio, are from Plainfield. Commencement Day is May 31. The class address is by Mary M. Maxwell and the other graduates from this county are Lindley M. Peacock, M. Evylin Newlin, Edith Helen Newlin, Lena M. Stanley, Theoline O. Allen.

[TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Friends College is today known as Olney Friends School – it is a Quaker boarding school.]

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