The Washington times., 1903-06-17
N STREET SCHOOL
HOLDS COMMENCEMENT
Diplomas Awarded Graduates by
Commissioner mcfarland.

More than a hundred graduates Of
the NJ Street High School -aceived
diplomas at the annual commencement
exercises of the institution held in the
Metropolitan A. NJ f. Church last
evening. Commissioner Macfarland.
after an appropriate address, awarded
the diplomas to those who merited them
4 by their work in the school throughout
the four-year course.
The red and black pennants OF the
school and huge streamers were much
In evidence, and masses of cut flowers
and evergreens decorated the platform.
directly over which was a large neur-
de-lis. the emblem OF the class. and the
figures 1903" worked in blossoms de-
signated the class year.
w. S. Montgomery, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, presided at the ex-
ercises The Rev. Alexander c. Car
ner pronounced the invocation. Roscoe
Conkling Bruce, head of the academic
department of the Tuskegee Negro
School. delivered an address He is a
graduate of the NJ Street High School
and also OF Harvard.
The scholarships were awarded by
Mrs. B. G. Francis. Those who re-
ceived them were:
Samuel Compton Brown University;
Aubrey Morton. Adelbert College; James
Thomas. Wesleyan University, at Mid
dleton, Conn; Roscoe c. Brown. How
ard University dentistry department;
William Shippen Howard University:
Josephine Lawson. Oberlin College; Lola
Ruffin. Women's College, Western Re
serve University. The benediction was
pronounced by Rev. A. c. Garner.
The list Of graduates of the class Of
1903 is as follows:
Scientific course-Emily Gertrude Ban
lon. Emma Lurietta Carroll. Blanche
Irene Coleman. Natalia Collier. Jose
phine Lavinia cambridge. Willelana Des-
demona Alexander Dorsey, Emma Annie
Green, Beulah Harris. Helen Adele John
son. Mary Louise John, Sarah Parodi
Johnson Clara Elizabeth Jones. Laura
Lemmins. Estelie Mann. Vivian Marga-
4 rita Meyers. Hattie Anne Minkins Mary
Antoinette Murray. Hattie Payne. Mamie
Kathleen Phillips. Gladys Hermione
Powell. Mary Louise Powell, Maud Eliz-
abeth Smallwood, Constance Posey
Smith. Odean Bernice Snowden Eliza
beth Thomas, Katherine Cecilia Thorn
as. Alice Nav Wilson, Alice King Worm
ley. Mary Altoona Wright and Edward
Leo Cooke.
Academic course Emily Blanche
Adams, Margaret Edna Amber, Elizabeth
Barnette Ball, Carolyn Virgie Brooks,
Gertrude Mary Brooks, Genevieve Lon
donia Burke, Blanche Butler, Gertrude
Elsie Carter. Marian Marjorie Carter.
Rosa Zelda Sigman Carter. Gertrude
England Clarke. Harriet Luvinia Coates.
Eleanor Jane Curtis. AdRh Eugene
Dale, Mary Gorilla Dale, Florence Davis.
, Cora Neale. Lillian Anna Parker Jessie
Blaine Parks, Lille Matilda Peyton Clara
mi Drrfh T1Ia
Mabel Ruffin. Rachel Alice Randolph.
Bessie Maude Shipper, Matte Rosa
Short, Leanna Harriet Simpson. Pearl
Cecil Smith. Mary Ella Thomas, Maggie
Marie Thompson, Sadie Rebecca Thomp-
son, Charlotte Corrine Wallace Eva
Allen Watson. Mabel Henrietta Weaver,
Rebekah Blyden Wilkinson. Maggie
May Wilson. Gertrude Pauline Early.
Jennie Luberths Fearing, Mamie
Estelle Fearing, Edith Fleetwood,
Sarah Ellen Gray, Minnie Bell
Greene, Mittie Hall, Isadore Augusta
Fsrdy. Anna Mason Jackson. Martha
Clara Johnson, Josephine Maritcha Law
son, Lillian Teresa Lott, Georgiana
Amuriel Heathcotte Lucas, Maldina
Matilda Lyvers. Inez Hawthorne
Martin, Mary Ellen Meriwether, EIiz-
abeth Gertrude Yates, Roscoe Conk-
ling Brown. Samuel Edward Comp
ton. James Harvey Early, William
Afford Fair, John Richard Francis. jr
Joseph Parker GiIlem. Richard Avitus
Cilem, Josiah Carroll Henderson,
Thomas Eugene Johnson. George Ber-
nard Key, James Francis Lawson
Aubrey Wyatt Morton, Edward Thomas
Morton, Roy Hamilton Qualls. William
Gilmore Shipper, Llewellyn Smith
Jsmes Simpson Thomas. Harry Leonard
1tgnor, and Edwin French Tyson.
The class officers are Samuel Compton.
president: Sarah Johnson. vice presi-
dent; Mary Powell, secretary, and Ros-
cUe G. Brown. treasurer.
The executive committee consists OF
Richard Gillem, Matte Short. Mary
Wright, Josephine cambridge. Edwin F.
tyson. and Josephine Lawson.