Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-21
COlORED HIGH SCHOOL
Successful Commencement Exercises Held
at the Academy Of Music.
Interesting Addresses Made-List of
the Graduates-HiGh and Normal
school PromOti0ns.

Undoubtedly the most successful and
creoitable commencement exercises in the
history OF the colored normal ami high
schools Of Washington occurred last even
ing at the Academy Of Music. The theater
vas crowded with relatives and friends Of
:he graduates. From the audience the sight
on the sage was en- attractive one. In ad-
dition to numerous palms and potted plants,
scores of bouquets Of cut flowers formed an
immense bank just behind the footlights.
On the platform were seated ex-Recorder of
Deeds B. X. Bruce. who acted as chairman
Of the exercises: Commissioner Powell Mr.
Louis A. Cornish, Rev. Rush r. Shipper.
Rev. Francis J. Grimke. Superintendent g.
F. T. Cook. Mr.. Francis l.. Cardozo and
Miss Lucy Moten.
The program, in addition to numerous
and popular musical selections by a detach-
lutatory on Essentials OF Success in Bust
ness" by Mr.. Howard E. Young. Of the
Business High School: class. Grafton on In
dividual and Natural Growth" BY Mr.
Charles NJ. Thomas: vsledictory and essay
by Miss Julia Ann Young of the Normal
School; presentation OF diplomas by Com
missioner Powell. and an address by Rev
DR.. Shipper.
Inc 6ra0uateo.
The graduates we're:
Normal School-Arena Edna Brooks, Lot
ia Adelaide Chisholm. Blanche Ernestine
George. Augustine Comes. Evelyn Boards
lee Grimshaw. Bessie Esreile Hall, Estelie
Irene Muriel Hawkins. Harriet Louvenia
Hill. Eloise Ebert Hunter. Alice Roberta
Jackson. Jessie Estelle Lewis. Roselle Bur-
Frances Morris. Louise Alice PEBBLES, vir-
ginia Alleas Pierre, Chainey Elonxo Scott.
Margaret Mildred Shelton, Louise kellogg
Smallwood, Josephine Gregg Weston, Mary
son. Jeanette Crutchfeid Williamson,
Julia Anna Young and James Edward
Walker
High School, academic course-Arabella
Lee Beason. Mary Arietta Bell. Fannie
Bland. Olive Virginia Booker. Lottie Teres-
sa Brockenborough. Musette Brooks Ella
Frances Brown. Agnes Carroll. Victorine
Antoinette Carter. Anna Elizabeth Clark.
Julia Campbell Dade Elizabeth Kay Dick
erson. Nellie Elizabeth Dyson. Emma Louise
Ferguson. Mary Elizabeth Ferguson, Bessie
Louisa Fletcher. Hattie Fuller. Cornelia Del
lsphine George, Pauletta Johnson Goings.
Grice. Esther Matilda Harris. Eva Hortense
Harvey, Estelle Virginia Jackson, Grace
Johnson. Jennie Louise Johnson. Louisa
Paralee Kelley. Anna Virginia Lee. Ellen
Elizabeth McGinnis. Edith Teresa Madden.
Mary Elizabeth Mann. Ida Estelle Man
ming Corinne Esteiie Martin. Aiexxine Eliza
Montague. Blanche Elizabeth Nugent. Mary
Ellen Pollen. Anna Elizabeth Quander. ELI
nor Sewell Verlyn Clifton Shepherd, Sarah
Lavin!a Simms, Julia Sumner Syphax, Mary
Anne Thomas, Frances Estelle Thompson,
Ella Truman. Mary Virginia Watkins. Eliz-
abeth> Genevieve Wilkinson, Emma Pearl
Williams. Everett Alphonso Brooks. John
Francis Brooks. John Coburn, Bruce Sam
uel Cornelius Donaldson. william Edgar
Inh Hax I@L
Henry Lucas Samuel Milton. James Luther
Pinn. Daniel Ira Renfro, Charles Sumner
Taylor. Charles Murdah Thomas, Charles
Andrew Tignor. James Marshall Turner.
BENJAMIN Washington. James Arthur West
and Clarence Alexander Wright.
Business course-Esquadora Brown Nam
ME Helen Burroughs Martha Ellen Cooper.
51Des I asene rr Elssser En-. LauSa
Elena Johnson. Marie Eretta Letcher.
Rosa Ella Miner. Ella Rebecca
Monkey. George Charles Baum. Robert
Wiley Coleman. Charles Wallace King.
Lrcius Scott Robert Bissel Scott, Josephine
Wincna Peyton. Lettie Beverly Robinson,
Susie Pauline Robb. George Savoy, Adeiine
Scott amanda Jeanette Taylor. Hattie Ell
.ietta Wallace, Mary Angela Wade. Hettie
Winfield. Sadie Ethel Williams, Daniel
Claiming Southall, Daniel Spriggs. jr, John
Francis Wilkinson. jr, Furman Waldo
Wcrmley. Ira Wright. Howard Edward
Young.
une NoTBAl SCHOOL.
The names Of the successful candidates
for admission to the colored Normal School
next September have been made known
They are Fannie Bland. Musette Brooks.
Ella F. Brown. Nellie Dyson, Bessie l..
Fletcher, Mary E. Ferguson, Rachel A
Grice. Eva H. Harvey, Jennie l.. Johnson
Ellen y. Lucas. Joseph H. Lucas. Alexzine
Z. Martin. Ida e. Manning. Blanche f.
Nugent. Mary V. Over. Lucy A. Pollen
Hyler r. Pannell Daniel I. Rcnfro Elinor
Sewan Veriyn C. Shepherd. Ellen Truman
Mary A. Thomas. Charles NJ. Thomas and
Mary V. Watkins.
High school Promotions.
In the coiored High School the promo
tions are: Academic course, from first to
second year-Lizzie Banks Crsuiine Bar
ker. VIM. Beason. Helen Bell Lawrence
bradley. Daniel Brooks. Loula Brooks EN-
ma Brown. Nettie Brown Percival Bruce
Roscoe Bruce. Frank Burgess, Nellie
Burke. Carrie BuErill. Froudelena Butler.
Carine Campbell. Bessie Clark, VIM Cole
man. Ruth Cooke Louise Cornell, Harriet
Cornish, Ida Champion, Lulu Davis Irene
Dorsey. Mary Downing Louise Evans Mary
Fletcher, Sadie Gilmore. Edwardina Fra
zier. Elmira Fox, Berthe Gray. Mary Gray
son. Lillian Greene. Hattie Harner. Lille
Harris, Elena Hawkins Isabella Hawkins
Maria Hillmon. Lillian Hnl, Bertha How
ard. Lucille Hunter. Mareeiiina Hunter. Ma
bel Ingram. Chas. Jenkins. Blanche John
son. Harriet johnson. Nettie johnson, Chas
Jones, Eva King, Estelle Lacy, Jas Lucas
Nettie Lynch. Ida Madden, Jennie Madden.
Mary Mason. Josephine Mathews. Made
line Mathews, Helen Moore. lola Neale.
Lille Norton. Florence Payne. Granville
Pollard. Ada Pinckney, Calvin Pinn Archi-
bald Ray. Mabel Reynolds. Bessie Roberts
Ella Scott Susie Scott. Adlena Shaw Frank
Smith. Maria Smith. Harry Shorter. Mar
the Spencer. Lena Stewart Grace Storum,
Lizzie Syphax, Ada Thcnas. Herbert Thorn,
as. Chas. Turner, Fannie Walker Samuel
Wallace. Agnes White, John White. Laura