The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-24
! HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES
Il
. Annual Commencement Last
Nighr at the Academy
Of Music.
ADDRESS BY THE REV. c. HERR
Miss Luella Mahan, Saluta-
torian and Miss Julia S.
Points, valedictorian
Honor Students.
ADDRESS BY THE REV. c. HERR


The anndal commencement exercises OF
the Jersey City High School took place
at the Academy of Music last night.
Class '03 made very brilliant showing.
The weather was somewhat against a
crowded attendance, but the theatre was
filed with parents and friends of the
graduating pupils. Nothing could have
been prettier than the scene on the sledge
Just above the footlights was bank of
flowers. Behind this sat President Ward
and the other members of the Board of
Education, Mayor Pagan, the Rev. Chas.
Herr, who addressed the graduates, the
Rev. Arney S. Biddle, Superintendent
Henry Snyder. of the Public schools.
Sitting in tiers behind these were the
girl graduates-all attired in white and
presenting a mass of beautiful femininity'
Behind these, arrayed in black were the
male graduates.
Van Baar's orchestra rendered splen-
did music.
The exercises opened with an overture,
Titl's ''Tambour der Garde' by the or
chestra. An invocation was made by the
Rev. ]. f. Thompson. Then the orches-
ira rendered Luder's "Prince of Pilsen."
Superintendent Henry Snyder present
ed the class. 1t. was composed as fol-
lows:-
Glass of January, 1908. Carrie Bait,
Doris Elizabeth Behrens, Cyrus Yale Bis
sell, Ellen NJ. Blackburn. Mary Teresa
Clerkin, Mildred Dilworth, Nora Claudia
Foley, Regina A. Cannon, Matte A.
Growney, Bessie Halsey, Agnes May Ho-
gen, Mary Elizabeth Hughes, Lulu Ar
aminta Hunt, Grace Bruce Kemp, Jr.,
Caroline E. Kline, Charles Edward Viii
dis, Mary E. r. Lister. Lottie Belle Mac
Lean, Luella Mahon, Edna R. Midlam,
Sadie E. Nimmo, Edwin Oldendorf, An
ma A. Payton, Annie G. Payzelt Edna
Lillian Robertson, Mary Jane Shannon,
Mabelle Simons, Jean McC. Smith, Laura
Catherine Strow, Jessie w. Thomson,
Grace May Van Doren.
Commercial class, January, 1908
John ]. Callahan, Irving ]. James, Kath-
crime Kopf, William Mccormack. Ru-
dolph Stauss and Thomas Williams.
CIas. of June, 1903 Miriam G. Ba-
ker, Marguerite Thomson Blair, Stasia
q. Boucher, Ethel Agnes Butler, Alix
simons Cameron, Angela, l. carling,
May F. Coppinger, Bessie Davis, Alber-
ia A. Dickinson, Myra Cecilia Fitzsim-
mons, Ulysses G. Ford, Edith Raynor
Gerow, Marguerite J. German, Irving
Walter Green, Edna B. Gumbs, Mary l..
Heffernan, Edna Hewitt, Paulenia G..
jackson, Herman M. Jaffe, Loretto Re
gina Keogh, Florence Klein, George e.
fKleinhaus, Kate B. La Baw, Martha
Currie Landrine, Anna Emilia Lang,
Edna Linn, Pansy Lillian Locke, Marion
Beattie Martin, Anne Clare Meaney, La
vina NJ. Miller, Eileen NJ. Nolan, Phoebe
O. Nutting, Ella M. O'Shea, Juliet
Stuart Points, Irene J. Reilly, Jean
Frances Kendall, Eta G. Rickerich,
Edna Evenden Robinson, Harriet
Schaeffer, Lillian II. Seay, Louise Stap-
feton, Lisette E. stork, Norinne Allyn
Straughn, Sophie L. Theis, Mary Thorn
as, Agnes G. Thomson. Helen Tumulty,
Mary Elizabeth Tussey. Ethel NJ. Van
Blaricom, Ethel NJ. Van Nortwick, Win
fired NJ. vining, Marguerite c. Wall,
Jennie Wanmaker.
Commercial Glass, June, 1903. Flor
ence Abrahamson, Mary Confess, Fanny
Feinstein, Francis Frederick, Cecilia
Goldberg, Edward Griffin, Benjamin
jacobson, Frederick Wendt, William
Woodmency.
In presenting the Glass, superinten-
dent Snyder made quite an extended but
interesting and gracefully delivered ad-
dress He declared that the present
prosperity in the United States is due
largely to the work Of the public school
system, and said the work Of public edu-
PATTON should be pushed ahead. He CALI
ID attention to the fact that 1900 pupils
had graduated from the High School
since its inception, and that many of
these had finished their education in col
ieges. Many other had successfully en-
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