The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
THEIR FIRST GRADUATION,
Crowds Leave Grammar
Schools for Work or the
High Schools.
SONGS, SPEECHES AND PRIZES.
One Bright Potrero Boy Won an
Apprenticeship In the Union
Iron Works.

Eight of the public schools of the City
chose Thursday of the closing week of the
term for the day of their graduating ex-
ercises.
OF the eight, the exercises of the Potrero
school, of which Richard D. Faulkner is
the energetic and progressive principal,
had a special ana significant character to
add to the interest which always attaches
TO the closing days of another educational
year and the further educational progress
that is then emphasized.
At the Potrero school, which is in the
center of purely industrial community,
the prize of an apprenticeship in the me-
chanleal engineering department of the
Union Iron Works was won and awarded
amid the features of an entertaining pro-
gramme, among which were several
speeches by school directors and eduea-
tors.
At the present time the Potrero School
marks the greatest advance that has been
made in developing industrial education
IN the grammar schools of the City. For
the girls there is a special teacher of sew
ing ana cooking as there is in two other
schools OF the City. In the work for bows
the sloyd system has been effectively put
into operation and the use of tools. wood
carving and industrial drawing are among
the things taught.
School Director Henry T. Scott, who is
the president OF the Union Iron Works, has
taken special interest in the industrial
work OF the Potrero School and the offer of
the prize named was the result After a
competitive examination among the boys
who had pursued the course during the
year, 1t was awarded to Bernard Hedstrom,
Potrero boy who is thus enabled to go
from grammar school into the draught-
ing department of the big ship-building
works where successful career is open to
him.
1t is the hope and expectation of those
who are developing practical education in
the schools that many other manufactur-
ing establishments will follow the example
OF the Union Iron Works and so encourage
and stimulate this modern feature of the
work of the.public schools.
The graduating exercises of the school
were held last evening at Potrero Opera
House which had been beautifully decor
ated by Principal Faulkner, his teachers
and the pupils, and which was crowded TO
the doors. Director Henry T. Scott pre-
sided and the following programme was
rendered:
Class song, Summer Fancies''; welcome
Margaret Jackson; defamation, selection from
Edward Everett Hale, Everett Sweeney; class
Asong, Fiddle and 70; recitation, ''The Invent
Or's Wife," Johanna P. Keefe vocal solo, IA
Bunch of Violets," Grace V. Lester; piano duet,
nation, Love of Country" Michael A. Line
han; class song, "The Wanderers; vocal solo
"a "a. Mothers Moth, Watch By the Sea- Kate B os-
piano duet, "Second Rhapsodies" (Liszt), Mar
garet Davis; "a Man, and Man of War, George
W; R pickle vocal sole. When the vioets
Browns Hair Gut" Thomas Barry; piano solo,
Whispering Love-" Maud White; Linooln's
"Whip- Poor-Will Song; distribution Of diplo-
mas, Director Charles B. Stone: distribution of
ticeship, DR.. Charles A. Clinton; addresses,
Director Andrew McElroy and James G. Ken
nedy; class song, "America."
In his interesting address, George W.
Dickie, superintendent of the Union Iron
Works, compared the building of man.
of-war to the building of human character.
"She must go on in her appointed
course" said the speaker, land it is not to
waste time in chasing after small things,
but to meet and overcome powerful enc
mics, and must therefore be powerful, both
in offense and defense. She must be large
and so must the man be who is to success
fully meet and overcome the powerful OBJ
stacles in the line of duties marked out for
him in his sailing orders"
y mans displacement of the wrong,
mean and deforned by the larger and
stronger elements of his character, his sta
bility amid the waves of life, his radius of
action, which in a ship depends on her
supply of fuel, stores and ammunition, and
his offensive and defensive powers de-
pendent upon his mental and moral char
acter, were made features of the parallel.
The highest medal. the Denman, was
awarded to Mary T. Doyle and Lexie Nc
Donald. The Bridge medal was won by
David a. Dickie. The following gradu-
ated:
Agnes T. Cairns, Alice ]. Daily, Mary F. Doyle,
Mary E. Fitzpatrick, Margaret E. Jackson,
Johanna P. Keefe, Sarah A. Keefe, Henrietta
Mcdonald, Lexie Mcdonald, Mary E. O'Don-
Kate c. sullivan, Lena S. Switzer. Hannah n
ToOhig, David A. Dickie, Ferdinand Grosbauer,
Roscoe q. Horn, Fred Hildebrand, Bernard
Hedstroln, Edward J. Keane Michael A. Line
han, Fred Riccomi, Walter Scharetg
Honoraries-Mary +. Doyle, Lexie Mcdonald,
David A: Diekie, Mary E. O'Donnell. Anna /.