Evening star., 1901-06-18
Commencement Exercises of Wash.
ington High School.
DIPLOMAS FOR TEE CLASS OF 1901
Addresses by Commissioner Mac
farIand and Mr.. j. H. Gordon.
MUSIC BY MARINE BAND

| ington Business High School were held a
| the National Theater last night. The au
| dience was large, the decorations brilliant
| the students demonstrative and the grad
| yates happy. Every seat in the theatel
was occupied by a friend of the school
and many persons appeared to be conten
| to stand. The legend of the high school
| wrought in incandescent lights, glitteret
! above the stage, and everywhere about the
| playhouse national ensigns and flags, pen
| nants and streamers of B. H. S., orangt
and blue, trembled in the breeze of a thou
sand fans. Addresses were made by H. B
F. Macfarland, president of the board OF
District Commissioners, and ]. Holdswortt
Gordon of the board of education
Commissioner John w. Ross conferred
diplomas upon the graduates in the follow
ing order: Annie Belle Alsop, Ida Marie
Atchison, Elizabeth Margaret Avery, Ger
trude Theodosia Barber, Emma Louise
Beehler, Gertrude Elizabeth Bell, Kath,
crime Beresford Edith May Borland, Ella
Marie Brandt, Irene Natalie Britain, Ger
man, Carrie Wisong Cromwell Katie Hur-
kamp Cropiey, Ruth Davis, Sallie Agnes
Dean. Susan Blanca Dorsey, Jennie Cleve-
land Eisenstein, Flora Louise Faber, Janet
Louise Ferguson, Sarah Ward Filler, Flor
ence Harrington Flynn, katharyn Blanche
Fox. Jeanne Gabrielle Gallenne, Helen Ce-
celia Clancy. Bertha Belle Goebel, Mae
katherine German. Amanda May Haines'
Julia Maude Heffernan, Pauline Ce-
ella Hinde, Pearl Maud Hoover
Ethel Louise Ingram, Elizabeth jana,
Bessye Irene Johnson, Ellen Olivia
Ethel Lavinia Kluge, Blanche CASTOR
Koontz, Louise Josephine Lehman, Laura
Gertrude Lennon, Rosa Leona Lerch.
Clare Catherine Martin, Margaret Helen
Martin, Gertrude Katherine Mccarthy, Lii
lie Virginia McCullum, Kathrine Elizabeth
Merkling, Susie Mary Miller, Helen Mum
gen, Lillian Graham Nails, Jean lie Preux
Perrie Lille May Perry, Viola Tracy Phil
lips, Clara nlustrious PLACER, Adeline
Frances FutSche Marie Bertha Quill, Edith
Veronica Rabbit. Mabel La Four Ray
mond, Clara Maud Rhoderick, Edith Louise
Rowzee, Sallie Jane Schaffer, lola Grace
Shaffer, Agnes Clare Shie, Carrie Gibbons
Stuart. Mary Rebecca Trusseli, Ellen Ce-
celia Wallace Susie Agnes Warren, Hettie
Weigel Sadee Vannette White, Antonette
Elizabeth wilmer, Grace Mae Wilson. Min
ME Catherine Wolff, Elizabeth Jane Wood
Retta Lucille Yauchler, Albert George
Birch, John Becker Cady, John Williams
Camp, Frederick Hermann Daiker, Orville
Breckenridge n, Drown Drown Leonard, Leonard Carroll
min Hugh Gibbs, Richard Peale Gilliland,
Frank B. Guest, John Philip Michael Haas.
jr., Harold Browning Hathaway, Murray
Hynson, George Cassidy Keleher. Fay
French Lewis, Leo Dominic Loughran,
Joseph William McKericher, Lee silas
Miller. Wilbur Stuart Moreland, Alvin Lee
Joseph Henry Oehmann, Ralph Baldwin
Pratt, Richard John Francis Quigley,
Frank Brooks sanborn, Edgar Allen
Shreve William James Lester Sis, William
John Edward Tenley, Harry Wagner, Wal
demar Werber Eugene Young, Forrest De-
lacy Yowell.
Guests Present.
When Commissioner Macfarland called
the assemblage to order there were seated
on the stage Commissioner Ross, Gen. H.
V. Boynton, president Of the board Of edu-
cation; A. T. Stuart, superintendent of
schools; Francis r. Lane, director of high
schools; Allan Davis, principal Of the Busi-
ness High School; Gen. George II. Harries,
j. HoldsWorth Gordon, Mrs. H. l.. West,
Mrs. Bette G. Francis, Mrs. Meyers A. P.
Pardon and Barry BUlkley. In the rear of
those named sat the graduating class of
1891. occupying six Semi-circular rows of
chairs, the first four being occupied by the
young women and the last two by the
young men. The background was filled in
with foliage. After the Marine Band Or
chestra, under the direction of Lieut.. San
had played selections from the
Poet and Peasant and the 'Burgomas-
ter Commissioner Macfarland introduced
Rev. G. N. Luccock, who delivered the
invocation. Mr.. Macfarland then spoke
briefly. He alluded to the necessity for a
new and adequate Business High School
building, saying that he could clearly see
the audience was unanimous in the opn-
ion that such a thing is needed. The audi
ence answered by loud applause.
Mr.. Mncfarlnnd's Address.
Continuing, the speaker said:
The Business High School has a high
place in my regard. 1t was the first of the
high schools that l visited before / was
Commissioner, and the favorable opinion
then formed of its work has been great
ly strengthened by closer and more care
full observations since l became officially
connected with the public school system.
1t is not simply that the work Is what
we call practical. 1t is not simply be-
cause it directly fits young men and young
women for business life, but because of
the honesty, the thoroughness and the re-
gard for larger culture with which it is
carried on. Merely to turn out money
making machines might be valuable in one
sense, but it would fall very far short Of
what your faculty and the graduates have
taught this community to expect from
business high school.
1T is primarily important that the young
man and the young woman upon leaving
your school shall know how to do some
useful thing thoroughly well. The work of
the world is now done by specialists of
high and low degree. There Is less and
less opportunity for the youth who starts
out without having some special fitness
for some special task however small that
task may be. 1 listen every day with pity
and regret to the applications for work Of
those who say they can do anything, but
who admit that that means that they can
not do any one thing, and therefore that
they are not really eligible for appointment
under the District government. At the
same time, when we want man we have
very often to search and perhaps wait for
him, because the kind Of men we want
will be already busy. There Is competition
for the specialists, even of the lowest
grade, and If they have any growing pow
ers they are sure to go from step to step
up to high success. But, after all, life is
more than meat and man is more than a
machine 1t Is not enough to make money.
We must also make character 1t Is not