chalk board  RESULTS of 8th GRADE EXAMINATION

The examination of papers of the eighth grade pupils of the county have been marked after a week's strenuous work on them by the school superintendent and his assistants, and the lost shows that out of the 230 who took the test, 116 have passed. This is only a little over half of the total number, but the papers were marked very strictly, the passing grade was set at eighty percent, in all the subjects, and the test was otherwise made difficult, in order to set the passing standard as high as possible and make the diploma something to be worked for and a proper passport into high school.

In Silver Beach, Marietta and Point Roberts and Custer, all of those who took the examination passed, and in several other schools all excepting one or two  came through successfully. Sumas made a creditable showing, nineteen out of a large class of twenty-two getting a passing grade.

One remarkabel grade, said to be the highest ever made in an eighth grade examination in the county, was made by Ethel ALEXANDER, on of the pupils at Marietta, a remarkably bright student. Her grades in the eight studies which the test covered were 93, 96, 100, 100, 95, 95, 97. The superintendent states that the average grade of the successful ones was about 83.

A list of those who passed the test is as follows:

Sumas -- Annie FRY, Guy RECORD, Myrtle HANDY, Eugene ROBERTS, Grace McBURNEY, Jean SLAUGHTER, Maud STEWART, Annie FITZGERALD, Maggie McALLISTER, Sara HUGHES, Iva HUGHES, Nora FITZERALD, Mary BONDS, Louisa LAMBERT, Mildred CRANSON, Beatrice BERTRAND.
Wahl -- Orville SIMONSON.
Maple Falls -- Ethel WHEELER.
Goshen -- Hugh BURDETTE.
Van Wyck -- Clara ZOBRIST.
Wickersham -- Helen ROYER.
Ten Mile -- Victor ROHWER.
Acme -- Willie TURKINGTON, Elizabeth NELSON.
Nooksack -- Maud GOODWIN, Mabel JOHNSON, John McGRATH.
Forest Grove -- Robert NEELY
Custer -- Leora REYNOLDS, Pansy BRUNSON, Ivy BROWN, Laura EVERETT, Bert BUCHANAN, Hugh BEHME, Loyd BRUNSON, Roland HAM, Ray BROWN.
Point Roberts -- Groa THARSTEINSON, G. H. WATSON, Haldo BURNS, Nellie SAMUELSON.
Clearbrook -- Ed. BOOKER.
El Bonita -- Elmer MIESCKE.
Victor -- Bertha BALL, Louis MILLER.
Laurel -- Violet PARKER
Nooksack -- Archie GERMAIN, Anna SARENSON, Grace McCALLUM, Ethel CARMAN, Grace RUSSEL.
Silver Beach -- Charles  STONE, Goldie GILFILEN, Sylvia GILFILEN, Annie McCUE, Edith JONES.
Ferndale -- Hattie NIXON, Lillian HODGEN, Clifton BROWN, Mabel NEWKIRK, David HENDERSON, Joseph DUNCANSON, Madie McCORMICH, Rodney PEASTER, Leroy OSBRING, Herbert EVANS, Wynnie OXFORD.
Deming -- Mabel McCOMBS, Warren BALDWIN, Harry REMBAUGH, George REMBAUGH, Alice LINNELL, Clinton NILES.
Alder Grove -- Hudur WESTERLUND, D. DUNAGAN.
Enterprise -- Beulah HERNDON.
Mountain View -- Alberta AITKEN, Lillie ANDERSON, Wilbur BYERS.
Blaine -- Dora JACOBSON, Winnifred ELLSPERMAN, Lena HANSON, Ella SIMMONS,  Cora GILDAY, Alma MARTIN, Rine FOX.
Everson -- Edward PARRATT.
Lynden -- Bessie TAYLOR, Nora HARBIT, Grace COLLINS, Anna KELSO, Martin STEGIN, Elizabeth ZYLSTRA, Arthur PIERSON, Esther AXLUND.
North Bellingham -- Iva M. MATSON.
Anatole -- Bertha WASCHKE, Edith KAUFMAN, Ralph STOCKTON.
Pleasant Valley -- Leah PRATT, Harry CLOUGH, Harry DAWSON, James A. TARTE, Fred R. PARR, Roy WOOLRIDGE.
Marietta -- Marjorie HARVEY, Lulu BEAVER, Olga OSBORNE, Robert HOUSEN, Edna VAN HORN, Laura GLEN, Ethel ALEXANDER, Kate ALEXANDER, Clara KILMER.


From The Bellingham Reveille, May 29, 1906; copied by Susan Nahas

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