Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-19
Commencement Exercises and Other
Events in Public Schools.
THE list OF GRADUATES A LONG One
Western High School Class Day
Opens the Program.
THE COLORED DIVISIONS

The closing secular weak of the public
| schools of the District of Columbia was
rshered in this morning, and thousands
| of little and big people are looking forward
| TO its events with interest and animation.
The week began this morning with the
| class day exercises of the Western High
| School, and tonight the Eastern High
| School will hold similar exercises. The
| regular commencement exercises of the
| Business High School will be also held to-
| night, when 102 pupils will receive diplomas
of graduation. Rabbi Stern will deliver
| the address, and the invocation will be
pronounced by Rev. DR.. Bittinger. Commits
| sioner John W. Ross will preside. The
| diplomas will be delivered by President John
| b. Wight of the District Commissioners.
! The Normal School exercises will be held
| tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the
| Franklin building. Director F. r. Lane of
| the District High Schools will preside, and
| addresses will be made by Supervising
| Principal w. b. Patterson and Mr.. George
| H. Harries. Chairman Jesse h. Wilson
| of the normal school committee of the
| board of school trustees will present dlplo-
mas to forty-eight pupils.
The closing exercises of the colored High
School and coiored Normal School will be
held tomorrow evening at the Academy
| of Music
| All the schools will close finally for the
summer vacation Wednesday, and W ednes-
day night the great event of this feature Of
| the year will take place at Convention Hall.
This Will be the occasion of the closing
! exercises Of the Central, Washington and
| Eastern high schools. The address will
| be delivered by Rev. DR.. Bristol of the Met
| ropolItan NJ. +. Church and the invocation
| pronounced by Rev. DR.. Radcliffe of the
| New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
| Commissioner Ross will preside, and the
| diplomas will be presented by Commissioner
| Wight.
List of Graduates.
The list of graduates is quite large this
year, Central leading. The following will
| receive diplomas:
| Centra.-Frances Maud Anderson, Vir-
| ginia Josephine Arnold. Aline H. Auerbach,
| Rosa Anna Buer, Alice Louise Baker,
| Florence Baxter, Florence Bendz, Helen
Bickford, Eda May Briggs, Rose Evelyn
| Castelh Martha Clarke, Ida Adelaide Gram
| ford, Grace Alma CroXton, Lucy Agnes
| CLddy, Keren Whittier Culberfson, Marie
| Lulu Dodd, Clara Louisa Donovan, Ethel
| May DuPaul, Juliet Elizabeth Dyer, Mabel
| GIey Elliott Mabel Espey, Margaret Emma
| Folhn, Maud Elizabeth Galeski. Ada Bald
| win Gillin, Mary Golfer Grayson, Olive Writ
| Greene, Evelyn Helena Hall, Frances He'll
| prin, Agnes Bertha Hessier. Harriette
| Naomi Hoover, Eleanor Bruce Hoyme
Imogene Rachel lexis, Ada Rebecca Jones,
| Elizabeth Bonnsy keech, Johanna Helena
| keneaiy, Gertrude L. uise Ladson. Eliza
beth Stedman Lamberton, Mabel Lawton
| Lamborne, Alice Littiejohn, Lillian Ed
| monia Lodge, Agnes Paxton McChesney,
| Emily Mcnamara. Verde Mae Mcpherson,
| Elsie Mills Macauey, Mary Frances Mars
| den, Nellie Blanche Moriarty, Sarah Grace
| Morrison, Grace Gadsdon Newton, Camille
| Marie Olberg, Carrie Sophie Ortiz, Elsie
| Pearce, Lena Reed, Wilhelmina Agnes
Reeve. Miriam Fairchild Sherman, Julia
| Regina Sikken Margaret Genevieve SilveSt,
Thekla Sondheimer, Marian Estelle Speare,
| Adelaide Burr STEELE, Flora Douglass Street,
| Ruby Ella Thomson, Kate Tndall, Sophia
| Adelia Vogt, Gertrude Alice Ward, Mar
| garet Eva Whitzell, Selma Pendleton Will
| son, Levi Russell Alden, John William AL
| den. Mahlon Ashford, Sheldon King Baker,
George Ripley Bliss Foster Ely Bracket,
| Leverett Dale Bristol, Benton Bukey, Caryl
Burbank, Edward Matthews Dawson, IT.,
/ Maurice Bentley DePutron, Arthur Devlin,
Lawrence Frederic Eberbach, Karl Her.
| bert Fenning, John Henry Gunnell Clarence
Goblin Heylmun, Lewis Hodges Robert
| Parke Hutchinson, Henry Roland Johnson
| Bradley Thomas Mccormick John McGill.
| jr, John Lovejoy Maher, John Oliphant
Merwin, Joseph Alexander Murphy Carroll
Paul, John Routt Regart, Ralph Edward
Renaud John Benjamin Robertson, Ernest
Richard Rupert, Ernest Richard Schayer,
Edmund Schrciner, Dyer Smith, Thomas
Marshall Spaulding, Frank Stetson. Will
| liam Frank Sunny, Frank Blackburn
| Tucker, Whitmell Pugh Tunstall, Marcus
| Acheson Walker. George Augustine WASH
| ington, Royden Keith Whitford, William
II. Woolverton.
Eastern High School.
The graduates from the Eastern High
| School are:
| Carrie Augusta Barker, Lizzie Caroline
| Beller. Margaret Roberta Benjamin, Julia
! Drucilla Bohrer, Hildur Christina Bostrom,
| May Paul Bradshaw, Helen Marion Brown,
Katharine Herring Buck, Marjorie Webb
| Clements, Clarice Alberta Ceilings, Lenora
| Courts, Florence Nisbet Crossfield. Mabel
Cameron Davies, Hattie Boyd Downs Clare
Angela Ennis, Agnes Bernadett Flynn, Jes-
| sic Ercell Gibbons, Lulu Christine He'll,
Clara Anna Hinzen, Sue Comegys Lamson,
Mary Randolph Latimer. Mary Lena Leins,
Grace Victoria Mcpherson, Maud Esther
! Mcpherson, Bertha May Mahoney Ella
Arvilla Merritt, Josephine Gertrude Muir
| ply, Mary Winifrede Phelps, Edith May
Pyles, Isabel Robertson, Martha Schultz,
Christiana Housed Thomson, Mary Ellen
Whelpley, Marie Louise Willcoxon, Anne
| Elizabeth Wright. Marion Eleanor Yoder,
Bathurst Brown Bagby. James Henry Ba-
| den, Herbert James Bryson, Alonzo Morris
Buck, jr, Frank Griscom Burrough VIII
| liam Morris Clark, J. Homer Deis, Donald
Gilbert Eggerman, Richard Tranter Evans,
Charles GLOVES Fletcher. John Ford. Alfred
Robinson CLANCY. Chester Brooks Graham,
Henry William Hoeke, Dickerson Naylor
Hoover, Walter Howell Lee, Carl Lock
wood. jeremiah Gibson Maupin. John
Brooks Mellor, Joseph Joshua MundeIl
Donald Parson, Corridor Heath Trickey
Walter Gordon Trow, Edward Leonard
Wright.
Western School.
The Western High School graduates are:
Sibyl Baker. Mary Lawrence Boggs,
Katharine Belle Christy, Bessie Ellinger
Cobaugh, Maude Clara Conover. Isabel
| Curriden, Marjorie Fenton, Ethel Mae Gar
rison, Adola Greedy, Susie Beale Haycock
Ethel Louise Hoffman. Annie Cecilia KEEL
iher, Henrietta King, Louise Kingsley, EN-
ma n Gotta LanSdaie, Louise Hamilton Lem
nOX, Mary Laurieston Linn, Lottie Pearl
Magee. Violet Hamilton Mckee. Louise
Alys Mourning, Mabel Elizabeth Perry
| Edith Rice, Mary Dillow Riggles, Sara Rit-
tenhou5e, Daisy Robinson.
George Albert Birch, Richard Henry
Brewer, Jessie Bowman Hirst Harry Carl
Kleinschmidt, William Henry Linkins Ed
ward Sebastian Long, William whitwen
Middleton, Crosby Miller, Herbert Louis
Solyom.
The list of graduates of the Business
High School has already been printed In
The Star.
COIOrcd Department..
The commencement exercises of the Nor
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