Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-23
CLOSING EXERCISES.

sion of the Mount Vernon Institute, ut st.
Mary's Hail. yesterday afternoon. The room
was beautifully decorated, and the young ladies,
elegantly attired in white, with trimmings Of
white. blue and pink, according to class, en-
tered in procession while Washington 5 March
was played by two performers on the piano,
and seated themselves on the plat! form.
The exercises then proceeded III the follow
ing order:
Song, Cheerful Voices; Song, Beautiful Bells;
Award of llonorS in Senior Class; Certificate Of
Scholarship to Misses Maggie McCarty and
Mary Jane Dugan Of Alexandria, and Sarah b.
Pullman of Fairfax County. These young ladies
also received floral honors. In the LIST Class,
Senior Circle, Algebra. Premium to Miss Clara
Boynton; Honorably Mentioned, Miss Jennie
Hawxhurst; Book Keeping, Premium to Miss
Ella Harrison; Greatest Improvement in Prose
Composition Premium to Miss Jennie Cogan:
Arithmetic, lst Premium to Miss Clara Boyn-
ton: Honorably Mentioned, Miss ELLA Standford;
I'd Premium to Miss Sale Owens; llonoraby
Mentioned, Miss Josephine Gray.
Song. Ger the ight and Sparkling Waters:
Music, Les Danes de Seville.
Gold Medals for Perfect REGULATIONS, to Mis-
ses Jennie Hawxhurst Clara Boynton, Salic
Owens, Jennie Cogan, Nellie Standitord, Bet
tie Pollard Ella Harrison, Kate Duficy, Willie
Patton, Bette Keys, Mary Driscoll, Cecilia
Chrismond. Chaplets for Uniform Excellence
of Dcportmcnt, to Misses Harrison, Weinberg,
Cogan Hawhurst, Boynton, Standford, Duff
few, Owens Driscoll, Patton, Freeman, Chris
mond and Keys. While the young ladies were
being crowned, all stood and abeautlul corona
ton ode was sung, and this was repeated ut
every coronation during the afternoon. Song,
Birds Awakening; Song, The World is full OF
Beauty. Premiums for Improvement i'll Music
were eivcn by the teacher, Miss Ncvctt, LIST to
Miss Arauinta Brooke Of Prince George sCoun
ty,Md. ID, to Miss Sarah Bragcr. Premiums in
Oriental Painting and Drawing We're given by
the teacher, Miss Stewart, lst to Miss Sarah
3. Pullman of Fairfax County, Va: I'd to Miss
,Joscphcnc Gray of Charles County, Md.
I'd Class-Silver Medal for Correct Rcclta
tons. to Miss Carrie Fowler: llonorably Men
toned, Miss Mary Gregory; ARITHMETIC, Prem
ium to Mis- Mary Gregory; Ilonorably Men
toned Miss Annie G. o. Nealc; Book Keep
ing, Premium to Miss Carrie Appich; Honor
ably Mentioned, Miss Fowler; Penmanship,
Premium to Miss Gregory; llonorably Men
toned, Miss Brager.
Division, "a Glass Silver Medal for Correct
REGULATIONS to Miss Annie Morrow. Premium
to Miss Lizzie Garwood lIonorlbly Mentioned,
Miss Gray Arithmetic, Premium to Miss
Emma Smith; Greatest Improvement in PROSE
Composition, Premium to Miss Annie O Nealc.
For Observance of Rules, Floral Coroncts
TO Misses Amanda Nails, Carrie Fowler, and
Mary Gregory. In Division Of Class to Misses;
Bmgcr Appich, Morrow, Garwood. Ncvctt,
and Gray. Honor to Miss Annie ONcar.
Misses Cook and Smith lost crowns by absence.
For Tapestry and Plain Scwing-lSt, Pre-
MUM equally to Misses Pullman and Dugan;
ID, Miss Chrismond; 81, Miss Driscoll; lih,
Mis- lIawxhurst; 9TH, Miss AlcCarty; 9Th, Miss
Patton; 7th, Miss Owens StI, Miss Weinberg;
9th, Miss Boynton. Song, Spring and Autumn:
Song, Under the Roses.
Sd ClaSs-Siycr Medal to Miss Lille Gar
wood; Honoraby Mentioned, Misses Berthe
Craven and Ida FosSctt; Premiums TO Miss
Hattie Blondhcim; For Epistolary Corrcspon-
dencc, to Miss Amanda Knight; For Arlthmc-
tic, to Miss Julia Ncvctt; for PcnmanSlip, to
Miss Lizzie Beach,
Division, I'd Class-Sivcr Medal TO Miss
KeinsIow and Fila Dudley: Arithmetic, equal
~ to Misses Hattie Weinberg and Octavia
Murray; Epstolary Correspondence, to Miss
Lille Cowling; Reading, to Miss Kate Dorsey:
Improvement in Pcnmanship, to Miss ELLA
Atwell
Crowns for Observance Of School Rules, to
Misses Hattie Blondhcim, Alice Slrdcr, Ida
Fossett, Emma Arncll, Lizzie Beach and
Amanda Knight; llonors TO Misses BERTHE
Craven and Lille Gurwood.
Division, 81 ClasS-Crown to Miss Annie
Brcngle; Honors, to Misses Maggie Driscoll,
Julia Ncvctt, Kate Dorsey and Fila Dudley.
For Sewing-PrcmiunS, to Misses Fowler,
Nails, Gregory, Cook, Bragcr, liarwood,
O'Ncalc Smith and Morrow Song, ic Merry
Birds; Song, Sweet Byand-By.
Junior Circc--Slvcr Medal to Miss Sallic
Roscnthal; Premium to Miss Eliza Giczandatfer;
Honorably Mentioned, Misses Waterman and
Weinberg; Premiums for Greatest Improve
ment in Reading to Miss Roberta Mcaghcr;
Improvement in Arithmetic, Misses Rose Cliff:
ford and Amelia Gcnzbergcr Improvement in
Writing, Miss Kate Price,: Improvement and
studies generally Misses Sinclair, Ida Wood,
Sarah Graham, Kate Bright, Bessie .JaIncy
The Floral Coronet for Amiablr Deport-
mcnt in and out of school to Miss Aralninta
Brooke
Primary Experimentation for Uniform
Excellcncy Of Department, to Miss Bertha
Echbcr@. Misses Ilcttic Strauss, Clara SWar!z
and Martha Rosenthal were crowned for being
good little girls and stud ying very diligently;
lIonors to Misses Sinclair, Ida Brcnglc. Sallic
Rosenthal, and Sarah Waterman
For Scwing-Prcmiums to Misses Amanda
Knight, Beach, Amanda Cooke, Sallic Gar
wood, Josephine Gray: Aramina Brooke. Kate
Wood Craven and Dyer. Entered too late to
compete, Misses Henry, Murray and Johnson.
The medals: &C., were distributed 10y the Rev.
Peter krocs.
Song, Never Court but One. Il humorous
piece, which brought down the house, sung by
Miss Appich, accompanied by Miss Angela
Ncyctt on the guitar; music. United States
Waltz Song, Eiolcts; Song Away! Away!
The graduates, Misses Maggie McCarty,
Mary Jane Dngall, and Sarah b. Pullman then
came to the front of the stage and the former
delivered touching Ealcdictory, which
brought tcarS to many eyes. The beautiful
Farewell Song with chorus, WIS then sung, by
the graduates and school, and Mr. Norman f.
Moore. Of Georgetown College, formerly teach
or Of Natural Science and Mathematics in the
school, made 4 bliel, but exceedingly impressive
address, which produced the deepest emotion.
H.