The San Francisco call., 1903-12-19
YOUNG PEOPLE COMPLETE
THEIR SCHOOL COURSES
December Graduation Exercises Are Celebrated in
Various Places of Learning and Many Boys
and Girls Are Presented With Their Diploma

The December class Of the Mission
High School held its graduating ex-
ercises last night in the High School
building. on the corner of Dolores and
Eighteenth streets. Eighteen girls and
three boys received their diplomas.
The large auditorium of the school
was crowded to the doors with an en-
thusiastic mass OF mothers, fathers,
brothers. sisters and friends Of the
young people who have just completed
their high school course. The room was
artisticalIy decorated with a profusion
of ferns. greens and flowers.
On the stage sat the graduates, the
faculty and members of the Board OF
Education. The stage presented a pref
ty effect with it's neatly-gowned girls,
each dressed in white and wearing a
white bow of ribbon in her hair. The
young graduates carried large punches
Of flowers and the platform had the
appearance of a flower garden, rather
than a stage.
The boys were plainly in the
minority, there being but three of
them All of the. graduates bore a
happy expression, glad that they were
about to be honored for their several
years of hard study, happy because
they were about TO embark on a career
OF deeper learning, having completed
their academic course of training.
An excellent programme was rem
dered. every number being hailed with
applause. Encores were numerous, the
audience seeming not TO tire in the least
of repeated rendition Of the fine musi-
cal numbers.
Thomas P. Woodward, president of
the Board Of Education, presented the
sheepskins and made an address. He
said California was noted for it's
production of fine fruits. minerals. etc.
but that it also raised another distinct
ly different crop - young men and
women. You people of the Mission"
he said, should be proud of this prod
uct you see before you here on the
stage. We have raised this product
through the primary and grammar
schools and later through the High
School, and have turned out into the
world this excellent aggregation of
young folks" He spoke of the un-
ates in their course of study and com
mended them on their success.
The programme was as follows:
March piano Miss Blanche Price address
Cecil ". Mark, chairman OF the evening: tenor
solo (selected). William NJ Ogilvie at the
piano Roy Barrett Kay; flute s9lo tseiected).
Miss n b. Ludlow, piano Miss Blanche Price
soprano solo. Summer tChaminade), Mrs
Florence Wyman Gardner. piano Miss Blanche
Price: Elks' Quartet s5lectionsl-William NJ
Ogilvie FIRST tenor. J. II. O. Brien second
tenor). J. c. O'DonneI tbaTytone). Roy Bar
rett Kay Coassl; address and distribution OF
diplomas Thomas p. Woodward president OF
the Board OF Education.
The following is a list of the gradu-
ates: Aileen Allen, Ruby NJ. Canham.
Edith NJ Caubu, Alice Rosemary Con-
Ian, Rowena NJ. Cox, Gertrude E.
Klemm, Sylvia Mae Kresteller, Ger
trude I. Leonard, Evelyn C. Lyman,
Helen I. Macauley. May G. McKeon,
Ethel NJ. Morey, May VI. O'CalIaghan,
Alice NJ. Pollard, Eliza beth c. Prentiss.
Mabel 1. Fridel. Helen E. Ward, Ethel
NJ: Young. George z. Bennett, William
r. Cobb, ]. RothweH Pemberton.