Donated to the museum by the Chaska Historical Society (http://www.chaskahistory.org/) of Chaska, Minnesota, this program for the Commencement Exercises of the Eighth Grade Class of the Public Schools of Swanville, Minnesota, consists of a single folded sheet of thin textured cream paper. The contents include a list of all eleven members of the class of 1912 as well as a list of class officers and the members of the Board of Education. Class colors were white and light green and the class motto was “Labor opens the gate”. Held in Hamm’s Hall in Swanville, Minnesota, the commencement exercises must have been quite an event. Rev. C. B. Hilton of Detroit, Minnesota, gave an address titled, “The Fountain of Perpetual Youth”, and J. J. McRae, Director of the Board of Education, presented the diplomas.