The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-14
TWO AT A Time.
The Classes of January and
June, 1898, to Hold a
Joint Commencement
THE BRIGHT MEDAL WINNERS
Miss Harvey. Miss sutphin and
Many More Clever Young Ladies,
But Only One Young Man.
HE BRIGHT MEDAL WINNERS

One week from tomorrow, on Thursday
evening. June %, the class Of 1898 will
make its first and last appearance, as a
class, before the public, at the New
Academy OF Music. It is the first time
that the two divisions, one completing
the course in January and the other in
June, have held their commencement ex.
ercises at the same time. Notwithstand
ing the fact that there are really two
distinct classes to appear upon the stage,
the number will not be unusually large,
aver including the two com mer cial GWo
years. classes. of nine aud twelve mem
hers respect lively.
There are in all forty-nihe members Of
the four years course, eighteen of whom
belong to the January class and thirty
one to that OF June. The average in
scholarship is 81 IS. the average age 1865
years for the June division. 1911 for
January. The average OF the June COM
mercials Il. 16 years, January 10.
Miss Julia Harvey, who has won the
highest honors of the Juue division. with
the remarkable average OF 9I3l per
cent, is one of tho youngest members OF
the class. Even were 1t not for her re-
markable record in scholarship, the
school will remember her as one Of
we'll equipped musicians that mas
PLAYED in the school. This is not a mu-
steal criticism. else one might speak OF
her work which has left the stage OF
piano playing" and become conscien-
tious music. Miss Harvey graduated
from the English aud French course
with medals for highest aux in Science.
Freuch, Pedagogy and English. When
she appears mex Thursday night the au-
dience will see y slender, dark-eyed little
lady, who has not yet reached the dignity
of long skirts aud turned up hair. MISS
Harvey came to the High School from
the Academy of the Sacred Heart.
MISS SUTPHIN M MISS STONE.
Miss Kate Il. SuGpnln. the valeilctorian
of the January class. has won this
honor with an average OF 95.23
per cent for the four years. Miss
Supthin is a graduate of School No. IL
aud fs o a member of the Teachers
Training Glass. In wdich he has already
distinguished herself. She is q Del
of the Alpha Sigma, aud PROMINENT in all
the organizations OF the school. AS an
elocutionist, she has already made her.
self well known.
The Mathematics medals are taken by
Miss F. Lulu Hitler Of the January
class, aud Miss Mary E.. Stone, In June.
MISS IllllSE CUulGS llOlL OCllOOt 4NOs 10,
where she had already won honors. Miss
Stone is a graduate of No. IA, and saluta-
torian Of her class. She is tied with the
valedicsorian for first rank in Pedagogy.
The members of the Alpha Sigma. of
which she is a member, call her Our
EncyclopB iia," aud declare that no one
OF them ever asked her q question yet
that she didn't know how to answer.
Miss Helen Cooper, a graduate of No.
"A, and a popular young lady in her class,
takes the salutatOry of the January class
and the drawing medal. Miss Cooper
took rhe teachers course, with Latin.
The English medals belong to Miss Jean
Morrow and Miss Minniebel knight,
both of No. 80. Miss Hattie Han
sell has two medals. one for pedagogy.
the other for French, and Miss
Florence Stiles the German medal. Miss
Stiles, it will be remembered. is the
young heroine who crushed out the blaze
of a burning curtain at the school one
evening when an ENTERTAINMENT was III
progress, preventing a panic or worse,
since five hundred people were IN the
building, up five flights OF narrow stairs.
Miss Stiles is an amateur actress OF note,
aud a member OF the Dramatic Society.
Miss Eleanor L.. Benjamin, a graduate of
No. 2, has the Gerlnrn medal of June.
COMPETITIVE HoNORs.
Five honors have been won by COM
6ElCl 49, ~
Mettie Hathaway aud Miss Bertha Du
Mont; Mineraloey, 5e Misses Belle Lind
say aad Julia Brien. and the English
Composition prize, which Miss Harvey
won by a thougntful essay on"The Civili-
cation OF the Nineteenth Century" Miss
Ida Robert has first prize IN IN
the June class. The honor pupils OF the
commercial classes are William j.
Byrnes and James E. Pyle.
The one, solitary boy who has won an
honor in the four years course Is Isadore
Ach, a graduate Of No. s, a member of
the Forensic Society. debater, orator. ca
Diet. everything that an enterprlsing boy
can be. He has found time with all this
to win the classics medal. There were
no boys in the January division and only
five in June. Thirty-two of the girls will
teach, and six members of the class Will
go to college.
H GRADUATES.
The names OF the classes foll0w:-
January-Jean R. Cranstoun, Helen L. Cooper,
G.. Grace Cameron, F. Lulu Hitler, Mettie A.
Hathaway, Hattie A. Hanseli, Kate NJ. Jen-
nings, Laura A. Jackson, Belle M. Lindsay,
Kate Z. Lynch. Jean Z. Morrow. Jessie L.; Post,
Kate L. Sutphin, Florence F.. Stiles, Miriam L.
Scott, Carrie L.. Tinmermanne, Grace L.
Vernon, Sara Buckley, Charles E. Jones,
Margaret 4. Kenny, Cecilia Reagan, Richard
McAghon, Clarribsl Smack. Eliza P. VauAlst,
June Martin E. Albert, Isidore Ach. Grace
Archer, Hattie G. Appleton, Julia NJ. Ackerson.
Grace l. Brooks, Julia H. Brien, Eleanor L. Benz
iamin, Charles G. Childs, Bertha Du Mont,
Jeanne r. Chapman, Sadie NJ. Gem, May F.
Harrington. Julia c. Harvey, Edward Hart.
Nellie Howser, Clara ". Horton, Anna l. Jen-
Dings, Jennie M. Jones, Minnieoel Knight,
Esther C.. MacNelll. Mary O'Donnell, Ida
Robert. Mary E. Stone and Cornelia Weastell.
Commercial course, January:-William G..
Byrnes. John A. CARING, Robert A. beats, Peter
James, George Il. Middleton. William Rickerlch,
Henry Spillner, James Campbell, William s..
Mahoney.
J~une-Louisa Behrmann, Anna Callahan,
Lille Ellaby, Isaac Forshay, James P. Hanlan,
Alonzo jackson, Jr., Thomas Jardine, James E.
Pyle, Henry G. Rosselt. IT. Alton Schurhardt,
Frank Q. G. Wormanu, Eliza Bullock.