Fanny Young Cory

Dallastown grads challenged to innovate

She might be famous now, but the leaders, inventors and stars of tomorrow are sitting in folding chairs at commencement ceremonies across America, said Payne, president of Dallastown Area High School's Class of 2011.

As the class leader, he challenged his fellow 436 colleagues who turned their tassels Friday night at Dallastown's stadium to become innovators.

"Life is full of beginnings and ends, but we celebrate the ends much more than the beginnings," he said. "Do something worth celebrating."

Most of Dallastown's 2011 graduates already have plans for celebration-worthy accomplishments in the future, the school's principal, Alan Fauth , said.

Ninety percent of the Class of 2011 will be going on to postsecondary education, 7 percent into the military, 3 percent will be joining the workforce and 4 graduates are set to attend the police academy, he said.

Fauth also marveled at the amount of awards and scholarships earned by the class -- more than $20.7 million.

As their time at Dallastown came to a close, some graduates also expressed happiness at what they had achieved.

"I think it's fantastic (we're graduating). I'm excited," said Brahmii Lagrutta, who plans to major in music education at Messiah College in the fall. "Twelve years it has taken to get here, but we finally did it."
Dallastown Area High School Class of 2011:

Esther Bosede Akinola, Brian Christopher Allen Jr., Wren Elizabeth Anderson, Kristina Arcidiacono, Taylor Ashley, Dane Aubel, Spencer Douglas Austin, Michelle Lyn Babka, Brooke Marie Baldwin, Rendie Yasmyne Banks, Kaitlin Paige Barbato, Joshua Dillon Barefoot, Alex M. Barley, Joshua Gant Barnett, Theodora Catherine Bartha, Levi Daniel Bean, Emily Caroline Beard, Brandon Beck, Gretchen Leanne Beck, Michael Beck, Leigh E. Beers, John Ryan Behrmann, Julianne Nicole Berg, Lane Alan Berrevoets, Joseph S. Biddix, Dakota Lee Blymire, Patrick G. Bolch, Alexander David Bollis, Landen Cyle Bosley, Katherine Lorrayne Bowser, Shayne Elizabeth Boyd, Lindsay Nicole Boyer, Arianna Nicole Bracey, Brooke Alexandra Brackett, Paige Kendall Bradford, Anna Romanovna Braginskaya, Nicholas Paul Brango, Abbegale S.

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Fanny Young Cory was born in 1877 and in 1895 an 18 year-old Miss Cory attended the Metropolitan school of Fine Arts in New York City. By the turn of the century, she was one of the best known illustrators in the country. She did covers and illustration for St. Nicholas, Life, Scribner's, Century, Harper's Bazaar and The Saturday Evening Post. She also illustrated many books including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1902) by Lewis Carrol, and several books by Frank L. Baum, author of The Wizard of OZ. Who's Who of American Women listed F.Y. Cory in their First Edition, Volume One. Working under the name Ruth McEnery Stuart, wrote a body of fiction and poetry based on the experiences she had in Arkansas, modeling characters, dialect, and even a fictional town on her interactions within the state. She was, both financially and critically, one of the most successful fiction writers of her time, and in recent years has been studied by feminist and social literary critics. Between 1888 and 1917, Stuart published more than seventy-five stories, in addition to dialect verse. These works appeared in major magazines of the day, including Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Century Magazine, New Princeton Review, Delineator, The Outlook, and Lippincott’s Magazine. They were collected in twenty-three volumes.

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Some chronicles of the Cory family relating to Eliakim and Sarah Sayre Cory and their descendants, Westfield, N.J., Ballston Spa, N.Y., with others from "John of Southold,"

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