Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1893-06-23
School Commencement.

The annual commencement exercises o.
the Rockville School for Young Ladies were
held at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening
last. A large audience was present. The
exercises were of an attractive musical and
literary character and the manner in which
the young ladies who took part in the pro
gram acquitted themselves reflected much
credit upon the teachers, Miss Lucy Simpson
principal, Misses Mary Hodges and Daisy
Mason assistants,and Miss Lucy Stephenson
the efficient teacher of music, who awarded
the prize in class first to Miss Mary Uason
in primary class to Miss Sallie Stephenson.
The program was as follows;
March, Misses Cason and Ward; The
Children OF Story Land May Roome; Red
Riding Hood, Augusta Belhune; Cinderella,
Katie Carr; Little Boy Blue, Jamie Daw-
SON. Goody Two Shoes, Helen Talbot
Jennie Wren, Sadie Reading; Jack Hor-
ner, Wendell Whiting; Jack the Giant
Killer, Norman Bouic; Little DO Peep, May
Simpson, Puss in Boots, Frances Bethune
Marquis of Carabas, Wendell Whiting
Page, Thomas Ohfutt; Little Nell, Cecilia
Delihant; song, Sing Pretty Birds to Me,
Mary Cason, Ada Roome, Mary Garrett,
Beulah Ward, Willie Ward Sallie Stephen
son and Ellen Brewer, accompanist Rosalie
Muncaster; recitation, Story of Blue Beard,
Lucy Cason; recitation, Johnnie's Next
Neghbor, Bessie Bennett; Trio Galop,
Misses Stephenson, Renshaw and Ward /;
violin accompanies Prof. Scharf and Il. A..
Ansley; recitation, Old Letters, Bessie Eng
land; recitation, Beio de War, Lille An.
derson; music, Toy symphony; recitation
Legend of st, Christopher, Mamie Garrett /;
recitation, Maiden Martyr Lizzie lIaney ;
piano solo, Gypsy Rondo, Mary Cason; reci-
tation, Her Letter, EStelle Talbot recita-
ton, loratius, Mary Cason; song, Drift
Away to Dreamland, vocal class.
Premiums were awarded to the following
pupils:
Academic partment-Geometry, Bessie
England; Eonombly mentioned, Mary Gar
rett; Ancient History, Eliza Choate; hon
orably mentioned, H. Anderson and Ia. Ben
nett; English History, Jennie Kilgour;
honorably mentioned, Leona Lloyd History
of the United States the general average OF
the following young ladies was 100, Gusie
Bailey, Nettle Briggs, Sarah Henderson,
Ada Roome, Blanche Nicholson; LIST class
in Algebra, Bessie England; End, Sarah
henderson; 3rd, Maggie King; LIST class in
Arithmetic, Mary Garrett; 2nd, Resale
Johns Astronomy, Lillian Bennett; hon
orably mentioned, Jennie kilgour; Word
Analysis, Beulah Dove; honorably men,
toned, Susie Bailey; English Literature,
Bessie England; Dictionary, Rosalie Nun.
caster; Dlctatiou, Susie Bailey honorably
mentioned, Maggie King and Minnie
Owens; LIST Latin, Mary Cason; 2nd, Ellen
Brewer; music, Mary Casoni primary in
music, Sallie Stephenson drawing, Sarah
Henderson; department, RosaIe Bluncas-
ter, Mary Garrett, Nettie Briggs, Mary Rem
shaw punctual attendance, Minnie Owens
and Lillian Bennett; essay, Eliza Choate.
Primary acknowledgement in
reading, Frances Bethune; Spelling, James
Dawson; Arithmetic, Wendell Whiting;
History, Barry Albert; Geography, Wendell
Whiting Grammar, May Roome; P1nman-
ship, Katie Carr.
Third Class-Speling, Priscilla Dawson;
Scholars Companion, Lucy Cason; Geog
raphy, Mary Dawson; History, Norman
BOuc; Grammar, lIeonn Lloyd Arithmetic,
Norman Bouic; Improvement IN Reading,
Cecilia Delihant,
Mr. Geo. Lamar distributed the premiums
The following Washington pupils of Prof
Il. l.. Scharf assisted in the musical exer-
cises; Il. A. Ansley, John Mohler, Rhoda
Pyles, Harry Barrick, violns; Arthur Mob.
Ter, cornet; Sadie Barrick, Cuckoo; W.
w ilkinson, double bass.