The morning times., 1896-06-16
TIT FOR COUNTER AND DESK
Business High School Gradr-
ateS Get Their Diplomas.
EXERCISES AT ALIENS
Hon. Simon Wolf Made the Address
totie Glass and Com mmissioner Ross
Presided-Music and Flowers With
the Big Crowd Made Brilliant
Scene

Aliens Grand Opera House never cor.
tained more apprecative gathering than
| IL did last night. at the exercises attc1d-
| ing the graduation OF the class OF '96.
| Business High School. Long before
| O'Clock, the hour for the exercises To be-
| gin, the big auditorium began filling up,
| and when the invocation wss Offered by
the Rev. Wallace Radcliffe Deariy every
seat in the house. including those in the
boxes, was occupied.
| The stage wa handsomely decorated.
| In the rear was arranged lot OF potted
! plants, which formed i splendid back
| ground for the members Of the class
| numbering seventy one. who filled the
chairs placed in semi circles, in the center
OF which were seated Mr.. John w. ROss,
| president of the District Commissioners.
who presided; SUpt. Powell of the pub
lie schools; the Hon. Simon Wolf. the
| orator of the evening; the school trustees
and other gentlemen connected with high
| schools. :.
| MUSIC AND FLOWERS.
The whole front OF the stage directly
| hack of the .foutllghts and extending from
one side to the other was a perfect bank
| of flowers.
Previous to the opening of the program
the orchestra section of tte Marine i,and.
| under the direction or Fanciulii. rendered
| short concert. the fourth number. the
| "Business High School March," being per
| formed as the graduating class took the
! seats on the stage.
/ Aiter the orchestra had performed Ellen
berg's Spanish serenade. La Manola," :"
Commissioner Ross. in a brief speech, in
| troduced the Hon. Simon Wolf, who de-
lyered the address TO The graduating class
FLOWERS FOR THE ORATOR
The speaker was frequently interrupted
by the genuine applause, and when he had
finished and had taken his seat was pre-
sented with handsome bouquet of
| flowers by one of the young ladies OF the
class.
The shepherdess' drill. a Delsartian ex-
ercise, arranged by Genevieve Stebbirs,
was next given by the Misses Cramer
Pearson. Hiatt, King. KEeessi, Loeffler;
and Payne was performed to the music of
Wilson's idyl, The Shepherds Song
Following the drill Prof. Fanciullis men
played the Echoes from ibe Metropolitan
Opera House." by Tobani.
Then came the comforting of diplomas
this pleasant duty devoiving upon the
presiding officer, Commissioner Ross,
Prof. Davis read off the names Of the mem
bers, and as each stepped forward were
i, handed the coveted certificate. Each young
lady aud each young gentleman being ap
pauded by the audience. and especially by
the members of the remaining classes in
the school.
During the rendition Of the next musical
selection the flowers We're distributed 10
the graduates and the very pleasant COM
mencement of l 500 was at an end.
The uames of those in the class of 90
are as follows:
Graduates-Min Amelia Brusekc. Grace
Mabel Cramcr, Maude Dexter, Laura Jo-
scphine Pearson. Mamie Aldona French.
Bessie Elsie Gresham. Mary Helen Helff.
Josephine Evangeiine Hiatt. Anna veron-
ica j ones, Marguerite Loretta Ready.
Mamie Teresa King. Grace Alice Kneessi,
Bertha Gray Linton. Lucy Hayes Loefller,
Debbie Elizabeth Lukei. Gertrude Corintc
Lyddanc. katherine Ellinor Manning, Ma
bel Martin, Alice Helen Macarthur. Helen
Christine McGinneli. Adelaide Garcia Mil
Ter. Emma Clements 1fudd. Margaret Marie
O'Gorman, Florence May Parr, Nettie
Agnes Payne. Alice Virginia Scriyener.
Ida Van Horn Shirley. Irene Florence Shir-
ley. Anna Marion Simonds, Rosann Sla|
Smith. Rboda Thomas, Nettie May Tolson,
Ruby Ray Troup. Eva Marie Waugh, Win
nifrcd Mae Will. Annie Yeatmap, Henry
Teller Archibald. william st. John Blanch-
ard. Herbert Sydney Bryant. Albert Guy
Carpinter. Thomas Reed Cliff, William
Hayden Collins. Edmund Walker Huvaii;
Charles Theophile Feiter. Newton Harvey
Ferree. Herman Middleton Grimes, Worth
Leighton Harper. Melville Ambrose Hays,
Frederic Seymour Hazard. Milton Milford
Herman. Ellis Hughes, Bernard Raphael
Kelly. Arthur La hue Kitchin, Edgar Nor
Ian Kitcliin. William Houston Littlepagc,
Avon Morse Nevius. Joseph Sidney Parker.
George Bassett Pitts. Lee Ross. joseph
Cabeil Sheehy. william David Shoemaker,
Willard Aaron Simonds. William HIVE
Somcrveil. David Edgar Stephan. Robert
Laurence Stone. Henry Edmund sstrinSer,
I'll, S-.,,ti-
Sullivan. Henry Randolph Thomas. joseph
Scott WaismitIi Cyrus Wheeler.