This collection is comprised of one horizontally folded program for the graduation ceremony (called “promotional exercises”) of the eighth-grade class at South Haven Public School, held on June 12, 1895, in South Haven, Michigan.

A decent number of graduates relative to the time and place are listed, with 31 names given. Ceremony events included mostly speeches with some music breaks in between. Most of the speeches seem to have been given by the graduates themselves. It is uncertain whether or not there was a high school in South Haven at this time, although a 1900 edition of the Kalamazoo Gazette makes mention of a South Haven High School in a brief story featuring the school’s superintendent, A. D. Prentice.