Years ago...in The World

€ 95 years ago (May 28, 1909, Coos Bay Times) - Commencement exercises for North Bend High School were to close with a program at Eckhoff Hall. The hall would be decorated in the class colors of "old rose and brown," with the class flower, the pink rose; and class motto, "Strive for higher honor." The three graduates were Mildred E. Rood, Ralph R. Coke and Marion Reynolds. Decoration Day, the day prior to Memorial Day, was celebrated with a sermon by the Rev. G.S. Clevinger, entitled "Patriotism as Exemplified in the Civil War," followed by a procession to the IOOF Cemetery, where graves were decorated with baskets of flowers.