Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-20
Business High School Graduates
Enter Upon Life's Highway.
EXERCISES At NATIONAL fHEATER
Commissioners Wight and Ross
Take Part in Proceedings.
RABBI STERN'S ADDRESS

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last evening when the members OF the class
of 80, Business High School. were handed
their diplomas. The commencement exer-
cises took place at the New National Thea
| ter, and were of a character sufficiently at
| tractive to crowd the house. Every seat
vas occupied by an interested enthusiastic
| friend of one or more of the graduates or
| OF the school. One of the most pleasing
| features of the affair was that the pro-
| gram was not long drawn out There
was only one address, a decidedly instruc-
| tive one.
| The stage setting was very handsome.
| the attractiveness being heightened by
| banks of bouquets and other forms OF floral
/ offerings, tokens of well wishes from rela-
! tives and friends to the graduates In the
| center of the stage were the letters "B III.
| 5 IN orange and blue, the Business High
| ScEcol initials and Colors. In openings in
these immense letters diplomas were in
serted. The body of the house had not
| been overlooked. The decorations were ar
ustic and tasteful. Over the lower boxes
at the left was a streamer bearing the
words Business High School
The audience was seated by an efficient
corps OF ushers made up of cadets from
| the Business High School, whose move
ments We're directed by Mr. p. w Robert
| son OF the faculty. While the audience was
| assembling the orchestra rendered a num-
Der of selections including the overture
| dedication of The Temple" the Fortune
| Teller, and Sousa's new march, Hands
Across the Sea" As the march was being
played the graduates entered and took
| seats. The young ladies' occupied the front
| rows, while at the rear of the stage, consti-
| tutlng an appropriate background, were the
| boys. Others seated the stage were:
| President John b. Wight and Mr. John w
| Ross of the board of District Commission
| ers, Rev. Ii. F. Bittinger, DID; Rabbi Louis
Stern, Messrs. Whelply, Hazen, Wilson and
| Mrs. Tulloch of the board of school trus-
tees, Mr.. W. b. Powell SUPERINTENDENT of
| public schools: DR.. F. r. Lane, director of
| the high schools; Miss Edith c. wescott
| principal of the Western High School and
MT Allen Davis, principal of the Business
| High School.
Commissioner Ross Presides.
Commissioner Ross OBLIGATED as presiding
| officer, and his initial act was to call upon
| Rev. Or. Bittinger to invoke the divine
| blessing. The orchestra then rendered the
Aemrican Fantasia" medley, after which
| Rabbi Stern was called upon to address the
graduating class. The speaker referred to
! the mea rs of obtaining success and urged
| his hearers not to sacrifice character for
mere money getting. He advised the
| young people to be thrifty, and then adopt
| ed a patriotic theme, in connection with
which he declared the public school system
| to be the foundation of our government
Rabbi Stern neatly and deftly advised the
graduates to put aside prejudices and to
be just in their Judgment of all men. In
conclusion, the speaker expressed the hope
that each one whose life was about to be-
gin in earnest might always love ami cher
ish the country and flag under whose care
all things are possible Live and let live
he urged, 'detest and despise meanness and
hyprocisy, and live to attain the noblest
and highest life of American men and wo-
men"
Rabbi Stern was greeted with enthusiastic
applause, and he was presented with a
| fro Co.
selection was next in order, and Commits
sioner Ross called on his colleague, Presi-
dent Wight, to confer the diplomas the
graduates. AS the names were announced
by Principal Davis the young people filed
Dby and received their sheepskins from the
hand of the president of the board of Com
missioners, who had kind word for each.
This part of the exercises was of decided
interest. Each graduate received a warm
reception from the audience as he or she
appeared, wild demonstrations greeting
many members Of the class. The distribu-
ton of floral offerings followed. and to the
strains of THE Matinee Girl the audience
and those the stage slowly left the
theater each graduate holding a reception
on a small scale in the lobby, where con-
sratulations were offered right and left
The Graduating Class.
The graduates were Mary Carter Ball,
Rosa Virginia Bayly, Elizabeth Vogalt
Bret Marion Esteae Bond Madge Bowie.
Cora Lee Bowling, Rose Mabel Bright,
Marie Ceceaa Brown, Elizabeth Mae Buck
Ter, Ellen Teresa Burke, Charlotte Lynch
Carmody, Ruth Margaret Chapman, Marie
Clendaniel, Ella Loretta Corbett. Roberta
Alice Daily, Mary Louise Decide, Henrietta
Dittman, Edith Leonora Downs. Margaret
Anna Draley, Mary Elizabeth Fallon, Nellie
May Farlee, Fannie Roster Fitton Nellie
Rose Foster, Alice Lillian Gardiner, Au-
gusta Josephine Girouard Eva Dorothy
Grossart, Madge Lee Guard, Sallye Criste
Haas, Lulu Louise Haukness, Jacoba Mar
dol
Marie Gabriel Hughes, Inez Mildred john
son, Josephine Agnes Kane, Eta Viola
Kerper, Annie Bernardine King. Jessie
Amanda King, Lille May Kraft, Eda Thus
Media Kuhlman, Virginia Walker Lanham,
May 1n1nan Mcguire, Elinor Agnes May
hew, Susie Frances Mcdonald. Aura Ida
Mtddlekauff, Ada Florence Miller, Emma
Antoine;te Miller, Loretta MINIS Lulu
Marie Noel, Katherine Margaret Paulus,
Cecile Lois Phelps. Mary Elizabeth Pratt,
Marie Louise Puringtop, Mamie Elizabeth
Sheehy, Edith Smonson, Katharyn Mae
Smith, Elizabeth Ann Stewart, Maude Ann
Tyne~, Lillian Ethel Walker BERTHE Lulu
Warner. Ruth Copeland Watson, Ada
Victoria Waugh, Susie Mabel Waugh. Flor
ence Augusta White, Carrie Isler Wooten,
George William Banville. John Joseph
Barry, John Irving Belt, Garfield Charles,
William Halves Clarke, Fred Albert Collins
Samuel Armistead Colman, Paul DeBarr
Cook, Fayette Dickinson Couden Robert
Francis Crowley. William Herbert Draney.
Willard Milton Farrow. William Nicholas
HI.
Booth Haas, Austin Harveycutter Arthur
Clifton Houghton, William Keys Houghton
Robert Henry Howard, Henry Lincoln len
kris Harry Lansdale, Clarence Arthur
Lewis, Harry Fillmore Lowe, Harvey GIL
bert Mackenzie, Charles Theodore MAY Ed
win Paret Rea, Joseph Allen Riordon. Chas.
Martin Schneider. Robert Lincoln Shannon,
Clarence Eugene Sis. Irwin Sondheimer.
Mark Stearman, Garfield Arthur Street
Frank Edward Symanoskie. Harold Mich
olas Whaien, William John whalley Ford
Evans Young.
Class Officers.
The officers of the class are: Fayette
Dickinson Couden, president: Madge Lee
Guard, first vice president: Mary Carter
BAH. second vice president; Nellie May
Farlee. recording secretary: Marie Louise
Purington. corresponding secretary; Edwin
Paret Rea, treasurer.
The executive committee which served in
connection with the commencement exer-
cises consisted of Augusta Josephine Gil
rouard, Inez Mildred johnson, Alice Lillian
Gardiner. Rose Mable Bright, Nellie Rose
Foster, May Inman Mcguire. Robert Lin
coin Shannon, William Halves Clarke, Paul
DeBarr Cook. Garfield Arthur Street VIM.
Herbert Draney, William Russell Graham.