The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-13
ARMSTRONG SCHOOL
PUPILS GRADUATE
Teachers Highly Complimented
Upon Their Work.

| The graduation exercises of the class
OF 1903 of the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School We're held last night, in the
Metropolitan African Methodist Episco-
pal Church, NJ Street, near Fifteenth
| Street northwest. It was the second
annual commencement of the school
Sixty-nine graduates received diplomas,
and sixteen partial course pupils GER
tifleates.
Mrs. j. r. Francis. chairman of the
manual training committee of the Board
of Education, presided at the exercises,
and Major Robert Russia Notion. OF
Hampton Institute, was the orator.
During the playing of march by the
Columbian Orchestra, the graduates, all
in evening dress, the gowns OF the young
women of their own make, took their
places on the elevated platform. w. 5.
| Wormley, musical instructor of the
schools, led the graduates in the sing
ing of Handers Largo" after which
the Rev. Francis j. Grimke pronounced
the invocation. The graduate chorus
then sang The Palms, eliciting hearty
applause. Major Motion then delivered
the address of the OCCASION taking as
his subject. THE Dignity OF Labor. >
The other choruses sung were 20 Para
disc, and the Pilgrims Chorus" from
'Tannhaeuser.'
/ Presenting the Diplomas.
In presenting the diplomas to the grad
yates. Commissioner mcfarland con-
graduated Principal Evans and the
| teachers on the means achieved during
the first years of their work and assured
the school that as soon as possible the
building would be enlarged. :; szfIfrJ,rt.1
The following received diplomas and
| special certificates: C
| FoUr-year course Nettie Beatrice
| Lloyd. Susan Roane, Jennie Veronica
Stewart, Bessie Efra Ware, Milton Sam
uel Bush. Joseph Reginald Coghill. Nor
ris Augustus Dodson, Jesse Jerome Gard
ner and James Cooley Powell.
Business course-Lucy Bowles, Maria
Lucinda Dade. Nettie Godtherita Davis.
| Blanche Pearl Frazier Susie Ross Ham
ilton, Effie Sarita Harris Cornelia Mat
!. tie Johnson. Marie Edelin, Kelly. Gladys
Mabelle Mason. Ida Lottie Rawlins, Es-
telle Beatrice Smith. Beatrice Anita
Thomas. Wilmington Hubert Bruce, Ed
ward lie Count Burgess. Willis, Henry
! Bundy John Woodbury. Curseen,1 Tai
bert Elliott Bowling. Frederick Johnson
Douglass, John Clinton Ellis, George
Henry Lewis. Richard Theodore Leon
ard, Charles Henry Newman, Robert
Garfield Peters. George Robinson, Attreli
Alexander Richardson, and Charles
Henry Smith.
4 Two-year manual training course
Abbie Beatrice Syphax Boston. Louise
Florida Bradley Catherine Theresa Car
} roll, Awhile Carter. Francis Copeland,
Anna Belle De Charter, Chloe Kathleen
! uau iz ne
Jessie Marie jackson, Mary jeanette
Jackson, George Aretta Janifer. Nellie
Elizabeth Johnson, Lulu Francis Jor-
: dan. Mary Gertrude Lloyd, Elenora Amy
Mason, Maude Charity Morgan. Lulu
NAV Newman. Glennie Western Parker,
Estelle Elizabeth Saunders. Elizabeth
La Grant Scott. Mary Beatrice Simmons.
Frances Stevens. Gertrude Minerva
Taylor. Jane Ellen Thompson. Mary
Elizabeth Waring. Rosa Washington,
Olive Wexford Wright. Elizabeth Willis,
Rosetta Winters, William Bailey, Ches-
} ley Ebert Corbett. Louis Alexander
Howell, Eugene Harrison Lucas
Special Certificates
The students presented with special
certificates were Mary Celeste Hines,
Josephine Alice Mason, GENEVA Blyden
Maxfeld. Estelle Abigail Mckinney,
Caroline Seaton McNeal, Bessie, Edwina
Miller, Jane Quarles. Matte Blanche
Sneed, Margaret Elinor Wilson, Jere-
miah Archibald Baltimore, James Hill
Hard Berry, Harland Keckley Dixon,
Charles Henry O'Brien, John Wesley
Spriggs. William H. Thomas. jr.. and
Robert Burns Mercer Wilson.
The guests of the school included many
persons prominent IN official and educa-
tional circles Of Washington, as well as
out-of-town visitors. Among these were
Gen. George H. Harries, Commissioner
Henry L. West, Gen. II. Y. Boynton, of
the Board of Education: DR.. w s. Mont
sornery, Assistant Superintendent of
Negro Schools; j. F. Bundy. of the Board
of Education Commissioner Macfarlands
I Major Robert Russa Motion, Of Hampton
Institute; Mrs. j. r. Frances, of the
Board of Education, and teachers of
local schools.