The times., 1898-06-24
BRILLIANT, PATRIOTIC SCENE
American Flags and Myriad Lights
Made n Pleasing Ensembie-Gom-
missioner Wight's Address--Re-
marks by MIR. Notwithstanding
Award of Scholarships.

menced. Thousands of Varicolored cleo
trio lights Illuminated the whole scene
while hundreds of flags fiuttered above the
heads of the audience
The stage, upon which the gradutes
the guests of the evening and the chief
officials of the public schools were seated,
was also handsomely decorated In the
tasteful decking of this part of the hall,
! the blue and white of the Central High
School predominated. There was a hand
| some stand of national colors near the
| front center of the platform. The scene,
| however, was not complete until the
graduates to the number of one hundred
and seyenty-fiye, took their places upon
| the stage.
Some time before the hour for the ex-
! ercises to begin the graduates were
| aligned outside the main entrance, and
when Supervising Principal DIR. Lane gave
| the order. the Marine Band struck up
the High School Cadets" march and the
/ column moved into the hall, headed by
the young women, the men following.
The exercises Were opend by John B.
Wight. president of the Board of District
Commissioners. The invocation was
made by Rev. w. H. Mlburn, chaplain
| of the Senate.
There were also on the platform the
| Rev. Samuel II. Greene. pastor of Cal
vary Baptist Church; Prof. w. b. Powell
| superintendent Of the public schools in
/
| cipal of the city high schools; DR.. Hazen,
Mr.. Wilson, and Mr.. Barnard, members
OF the board of trustees; Prof. j. Johnson.
principal of the Eastern High School;
Miss Edith c. Westcoat. principal of the
Western High School; Miss Rainey. as
sistant principal Of the Eastern School;
Miss Helen Appley. of the Western, and
members of the Chinsese and Korean
legations.
The opening address was by Commits
sioner Wight, who congratulated the pub
lie school officials upon the excellent
showing made and then introduced A.
S. Wor;hlngton, who delivered the ad-
dress to the graduates. He paid a high
compliment TO Prof Powell and DR..
Lane for the excellent standard to which,
with ;he cooperation OF their assistants.
they had raised the public school sys-
! TEN. From reports he had heard the
high school girl was a decided success
in every sphere of life, and the high
school boys were also making themselves
felt in any community in which they
chance to be. Mr. Worthing .on's re-
marks were punctuated frequently with
enthusiastic applause.
At the conclusion of the address the
graduates were presented their dlplomtS
by Commissioner Wight 1t was at this
time that the ushers We're kept busy. On
the west side Of the hall was large hank
|
vors of friends of the graduates, and as
the young ladies passed Mr.. Wight On
their way back 10 their places they were
presented with the bouuuets.
The following rare ethe names Of the
| graduates: tsi
Central High Schoel-Annie Adelaide Albert,
Christine Magdalene arthT Olivia Geneyieve Arth,
Harriet Cunningham Parnard. Jennie C. Bowbeer,
Katharine Engs Bradi9rde Bandina Cora Bush
man. Mary America, -Cadsa Lottie Elizabeth Cal
> | pas
Mary Stiles Clark. Alice Antiseil Clarke, Eliza
beth Garland Davis, Constance Barttelot Draper,
Helen Louise Dyer Lola Nav Evans. Wanda irene
Won Ezdorf Mary Ethel Fisher, Edith C.. Gray,
: Minnie Teresa Healay. Beulah HENDERSON. Eva
Hurd, Ciarissa Mathilda Larnan, Lena Lauten'
schlager May Lautenschiager, May Valiant Lewis.
: Grace Mantz, Valera Marshall, Calie Frederick
Moore Madeleine Prebie Morris, Sarah Sophia
Morris. Elizabeth Amelia orndorf, Olive Esther
. Osborn. osceola D. Pratt, Maria Pus; aw. Nsll 6
Randy, Frances Howell Randolph, Ada Eizaleih
Roome Alice Minnie Ruff Frances Sanders. Recaa
. Sanders. Sophia Sanger, Claire Marjorie Schayer,
Edith Shank Caroline Elizabeth Shuman, Flora
Warran Smith ISABEL psIIen smith Pearie Rose
bud Smith Virginia Elizabeth Turtle, Anna
Helene Ulke, Alicia Anna Vaughn, May Louise
Walter, Mary Eunice Wead, Marie Epes "oodso1'
. Mary Cornelia Woodward, Fannie Holman Wool
/. verton, Leonora Haviland Wright. Philippe Fazle
Ballinger, Sam Woodward Began, Arthur Louis
Clark, staley Magruder Clarke, lgnatius John jos
epA Costigan. George Russell Duncan, T. Bronte
| Evermann Albert Stanley Fuger. Clarence Ma
thanel Gerry. Henry Honeyman Hazen, Thomas
Ramsdell Heath, Samuel Herrick, ". Earle Zig
| gins James Burnette Hoge, Henry Merrill Jewett
Simon Rufes Karpeles, Joseph Thomas Kelly, jr.i
. Boynton Mcconnell Leach, Howard Luclus Martin
Louis Fuller Martin, Luther Neal Mckinney
Charles Merrill Merwin, Ambrose Clark Moore
George Frederic Mueden, Rudolph Eduard Niue
: den, Irving Carlyle Orryn Norwood, Henry F
: Pipes, Walter Scott Pratt, jr; Marshall Bowyei
. Stewart George Thomas Stormont, William Cur
. lev Stuart Harold Edward Wheeler, Frank Clin
: ton Wight Harry William Wild. Charles Dun
! Eastern High schc col--Nettie Virginia Baker
: Jennie Gugette BARLEY, Martha Dittman Ben
I nett, Beulah Eloise Bohrer, Lille Katharine
!. Bowder, Gertrude Allen Bright, Mary Lilliar
I Burke, Hortense Harman Cook, Margaret Doug
I | lass Davies, Adella Blanche Durfee, Mary Eliza
! beth Ford Ada Francis Greene Helene Margarit'
|. Guerdrum, Bessie Belle Harley, Florence Kath
/ arne Hinkel, Hannah Dorothy Hughes Minnie
/ Bohrer Hutchinson, Zenayde Hutton, Helen Elv.
/ Jamison Emma Bertha jones, Martha Matild'
!. Kuhnel, May Lyon, Lucina Frances McGroarty
I haupt Margaret Lytle Noyes, Clara Louise Phelps
{ Alice Irene Sanderson. Marie Maude Sparks, En-
{ Evangeline Tiltoh, Clara Elizibeth Tucker
( Mary Elise Turner, Ella Welborn, Mabel Columb
I White John Franklin Bethune, Carl Augustu
/ Bostrom, Clarence Clinton Church, Leon Oaud
|. Covell, Edward Reinhold de Grain, Edgar Rober
! Stanton Embrey Kenneth Samuel Freeze, Samue
i Joseph Garges, Joseph Owens Harrison, lr.
/. George Faiconer Hoover, Charles Lewis Hutchin
1. son, Victor Johnson Earl Gordon Marsh, Artle,
|, Beeber Parson. John David Rhodes, Frederic
i Berthoidt Saegrnueller, Harry William Stratton
: Herbert Alpheus Wrenn
3 Western High SchCol-Elizabeth Jeanette Alex
1. ander, Jean Curtis Appleby, Anna Bradbury
Z Christine Duvall Brecht, Gertrude Oolweil. Ann
|. Elizabeth Compton. Lillian Addison Cragn
. Frances Fenton, Della Fishel, Grace Fritts, Bell
. Anne Graves, Moses Walton Hendry, William
|. Reginald Lewis Mary Clayton Hemmick, Ami
! Rachel Hunter, Maude Geneva Hunter, Ave
!. Irene Magee, Florence Washington Miller. Ami
/. Louise Murray, Sueyia Nordlinger, Elizabet
1. Booth Orme, AGrenne Judith Pease, Alice LIE
/. Roche, Clara Edwina Sawyer, Mabsl Ella StuaId
/. Harold Hungerford scudder, Charles August Tauz
I. sig.
!. Before the comforting of the Diplomas
+ Superintendent Powell announced tn
I. award of the following scholarships:
j. Woman's College OF Baltimore-Mis
l. Olive e. Osburn, Central School, Clar
]. E. Tucker, Eastern; Miss Jean 9. On
/; pleby. Western.
! Kendall scholarship Columbian 1>.ver
!. sity-AIiss Lucina F. McGroarty, East
!. ern.
]. Columbian Univers!ty-Mss Flor
! Smith, Miss Frances Sanders. Miss Fran
Z ces II. Randall, Samuel Herrick and Maj
!. shall Stewart, of the Central High School
!. Miss May Z. Tucker, Eastern Hig
!. School. aGr 81
! Vassar scholarship-Mss Frances Fer
& ! ton, Western High School.
!. Georgetown medicais scholarship of th
!. Georgetown Observation-Disclosures
+ Moorey, Central High School.
+ National medical scholarship Of th
o National University-Simon r. Kanpele
!. Central High School,
j. Art League scholarship of Art Leagr
I. | of Washington TTniversity-Miss Edit
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