The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
They Held a Social Reception
Instead of the Usual Liter.
ary Exercises.
THE JOURNAL OF NINETY-sIx.
Gruesome and Girl.Horrifying Poem
Written on "The Skeleton of
a Mouse"

Ninety white gowned girls received
their diplomas of graduation at their High
School last evening. There were none of
the usual exercises of such occasions, only
a reception given by the young ladies to
their teachers, relatives and friends. 1t
was an idea of their own, and creditable
one in the Judgment of the large audience
that filled the halls of the building. The
class not only provided themselves for
the entertainment of their guests, but
added another graceful feature to the
evening by securing the Baldwin Theater
orchestra, which, under the leadership of
Director August Hinrichs, played choice
programme of musical selections during
the reception.
After addresses by School Superinten-
dent Babcock and Principal Brooks the new
women were given diplomas and dismissed
from the San Francisco High School. The
graduating class was as follows:
Glass of '95-Augusta Abenheim, Marguerite
Ames. Carrie Ayres, Jennie Beach, Helen Ber-
nard, Olive Blackmar, Blanche Curry Jeanette
Doyle, Alice Duffy, May Dwyer, Amanda Ebert,
Gertrude Featherstone, Katherine Hogan,
moos, Hilda Kosminsky, Nellie Lamont, Ma
tilda Richard, Alice Rooney, Lettie Rountree,
Alice Russell, Florence Sankey, Lizzie Schnitzer,
Evelyn Bliely, Minnie Boucher, Lottie Brand,
Helen Drummer, Eva Busch Edith Carpenter,
Rose Casassa, Virginia Cassidy, Louise Fifeld,
Jean Fraser, Agnes Gallagher, Alice Gilbert,
Estelle Goodman, Catherine Gorham, Hilda
Green, Lillian Grigsby, Mabel Leary, Elizabeth
Leggett, Mary Mangan, Alice Marsh, Bessie
Martin, Rose Mccormick, Janette Nc
Dewitt, Dora Meininger, Hilda schweitzer,
label sObey, Florence soI5man, Edit Editn
Adrienne Cert, Alice Chalmers, Kathe rine
Chambers, Ina Coffin, Amy Cookson, Annie
Coulter, Grace Criteher, Lucia Crosette, Maude
Haas, Edith Harris, Georgia Hawkins, Belle
Hemmenway, Marguerite Hewett, Anna Hide
brandt, Maude Hodson, Myrtle Hodson, May
Mooney, Lille Nathan, Eugene Neppert, jan
cite Newman, May Nolan, Edith Olmstead,
Charlotte Parks Rose Regan, Lillian Suich,
Lizzie Sullivan, Annie Tietjen, Gertrude TobiI,
Elizabeth Vincent, Mamie Voorsanger, Emily
Wiegand, Mabel Williams, Elizabeth Zihn.
Another and no less interesting feature
of the reception was the issue OF the
Students Journal of '96, by Alice Chal-
mers, editor, and staff of fair assistants.
Many OF the articles contributed by the
girls were bright and humorous. The fol-
lowing bit of rhyme by "A. A. '96" is
fair and funny specimen:
ZIP, zoP, ZAP.
Zip is the Junior of the three:
Quite wee, tiny, soft chick is she,
Mighty content of the kind, big shell,
Dreamily learning the art to SPELL
Zop is a middle, and well advanced,
Looking inquiringly how things CHANGED,
Tossing her head in the outside air,
Thinking, ''JuSt wait till myself gets there!'A
Merrily past the demolished shell
Stands senior Zap chirping "Alls well"
Glancing around, with conIemptuous air.
"Now for the world. You chicks stay there!"
Under the head of "Suggestions for q
Girls High-School Entertainment" some
witty young woman writes:
Song, "Heaven in Three Parts" school;
essay, "The Art of Undertaking." Miss Ina
Coffin; solo, Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me Bow
Wow," Miss B. Kaiser; essay, "a Treatise on
Baked Beans" Miss Boston; vocal duet,
"By the Sad Sea Waves" the Misses Beach
and Cert; recitation, ''Jennie Kissed Me-"
Miss Lipp; essay, "Public Improvements"
recitation, lode to a Frog" Miss Marsh;
solo, "Woodman, Spare That Tree" Miss
Hewitt; reading, ''The Pleasures of the Chase"
Miss Alice Hunt; essay, '"The Proper Manage
ment of Servants" Miss Butler; selection,
"The Foresters,'' Misses Busch and Rountree;
recitation, THE Builders" Miss Carpenter;
Miss May; essay, precious Stones,''s Miss
Dimond; recitation, "Only a Dime" Miss
Nichols; poem, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" Miss
Wool; Benediction, Miss Sankey.
Miss "a. G. '96," doubtless devotee of
Longfellow, laid aside her favorite volume
to change "The Skeleton in Armor" to the
''Skeleton of a Mouse" and the High
School poetess followed the original lines
quite faithfully. The verse beginning II
was young mouse gray is written so
dangerously vivid that every classmate
screamed when she first read it.