Graduation

Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds to pay for the return of students who were set to graduate or whose terms were about to expire. Names, home address, and estimated transportation costs are listed.

Naomi Greensky's program for the commencement concert on May 18, 1915 by the Carlisle Indian School band.

This material includes correspondence concerning Carlisle Indian School students considered for the graduating class of 1917. There are also documents concerning life updates from graduates such as Marion Paris and Frank Verigan.

This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…

The Graduating Class of 1917 telegrams their thanks to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for his congratulations.

This document contains a list of the senior class of 1918 expected to graduate at the end of the school year. 

These materials include a question and answer of how many graduates of the Class of 1918 will be over the age of 18.

Invitation to the 1918 commencement exercises of the Carlisle Indian School beginning on June 2, 1918, along with a brief program for the events of the week.

Sadie Metoxen received this diploma (course in Home Economics) during the commencement ceremonies held at the Carlisle Indian School on June 6, 1918.

This diploma was donated by the Jerry Lappin family in 2018.