Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-16

ant superintendent of schools and the fol-
lowing members of the board of education
ries, Mr.. ]. Holdsworth Gordon, Dr. Rich
ard kingman, Mrs Henry L. West and
Mrs. B. G. Frances.
The School Colors.
The theater was draped from pit to dome
with the orange and blue of the Business
School. while here and there amidst the
drapery was hung the national emblem
the stars and stripes. The stage was al
most hidden by the great mass of flowers
sent to the graduates while the back
ground before which the graduates were
grouped, was made up of banks of potted
plants. The Marine Band orchestra fur
nished the music for the occasion, and be-
fore the commencement of the exercises
played an excellent program, which ended
with Sousa's famous High School Cadet
March" Mr.. Frank Todhunter played a
cornet solo, "Facelita."
Address of Welcome.
Commissioner Macfarland then made a
short address of welcome to the guests as
sembled, and Of congratulation to the pu-
pills. He said:
Flag Day, with it's call to civic duty, the
patriotism of peace, well as it's re-
minders of the patriotism of war, is an ap-
propriate time for the commencement of
the Business High School. For Its grad
yates are to become Immediately active In
the life of the community, and they will
need all the lessons they have learned of
ideals as well as of practical preparation.
Fortunately, they have learned that ideals
are real; that they have duties as well as
privileges in the state; that they are under
special obligations to the community which
has trained them to be not only selfsup-
porting. but watchful of it's interests and
loyal in it's service. In the twelve years of
it's Independent life, the Business High
School. has steadily added year after year
to the best citizenship of the national CAPT
tai. Self-respecting. Woodworking, high
minded young men and young women, able
to take care of themselves, but ready, also,
to take thought for others and for the
commonwealth, have come forth to do it
honor In their practical, every day living.
The demand for it's graduates in the bust
ness of the community never satisfied, is
the highest tribute to the work of faculty
and students, which have trebled in en-
rollment-the proof of the schools populari-
ty The school spirit which is also the
spirit of the alumni association, the spirit
of wisdom, enterprise and courage, has
given 1t prestige. 1t Is through its popular
ity and Its prestige, through its practical
results, that the school has won a new
home, for which we have the site and are
about to prepare the building. The entire
community congratulates the Business High
School, and especially the graduates of to-
night on the success achieved and the
success which can be surely predicted"
Mr.. Tracewell's Address.
After the rendition of the march, Thomas
Jefferson" recently written by Lieut.. San
tleman, leader of the Marine Band, and
dedicated to the Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal Association, Mr.. Mcfarland intro
duced as the speaker Of the evening Mr..
r. ]. Tracewell. controller of the treasury.
Mr.. Tracewell spoke for twenty minutes
on the various phases of business life with
which the students were most likely to
come in contact with. He advised them
to be steadfast and perservering at all
times and gave 1t as his opinion that a
steady progress was better than meteoric
flight. At the conclusion of Mr.. Trace
wells remarks the orchestra played a Sc
lection and Superintendent Stuart announc-
ed that Miss Frances Mattingly Lewis had
won the law scholarship In the Washing
ton College of Law This announcement
was received with cheers by the students
| and their friends and when they had sub
| sided Mr.. Stuart said that Miss Lewis was
| unable to be present owing to the recent
| death of her father but he told of her
| work for the prize and the pleasure the
| faculty of the schools felt in awarding ii
| to her. Commissioner West then made a
| short address. in which he gave the gradu-
| ates some sound advice as to their conduct
| during the future and then he presented
| the diplomas. AS he presented each di
| ploma, the graduates being called by Mr.
Allan Davis, principal of the Business
High School, Mr. West shook each mem
Der of the class heartily by the hand.
Diplomas Awarded.
Those who received diplomas We're:
| Henry Franklin Allwine, Joseph Wilson
Anderson. George Percy Barse, Harry Will
| liam Baum, Oliver William Birckhead Ed
! son Worcester Briggs, James Lester
| Brooks. Benjamin Joseph Brown Edmer
Anthony Brown, Ralph Theodore Buechler
| Robert Burns, John Edward Butt, William
| Maurice Clark, George Eagle Eye Cole Egg
bert Eugene Corwin, Ernest Stanley Crown,
| Boyd Crum Cunningham, Claude Newton
De Forest, William Oliver Duckstein Ray
mond George Eberly. Harry Paul Faulkner,
| Rene Eugene Frail, Clarence Edward
Hamilton. George Charles Hannemann,
Walter Benjamin Hill. Tonnis Julius Holz-
berg. Herbert HUFF Howell, William Elroy
Jenkins. Clarence Joseph Johnson, Albert
Louis Loef1er. Victor Lancelot Lowe,
Charles Bernard Lyddane Gentry Heard
| Mattingly, James Robert McGrann. Harry
Watson Moff1tt, John Edward Moore Fred
erick Hugle Moreland. Harvey Richard
| Nichol. Robert Earl Palmer. Harry The
ron Peters. Henry William Pike, Raymond
Wellington Pullman, Harry Kendrick scho-
field. Chester Arthur Shannon Harry Da-
vid Smith, Merle La Rue Sweet, Richard
Jackson Taggart Arthur Sherman Thomp-
son, Franklin Burch Titus. Ernest Marshall
clifford Warden, George Jacob Werner.
Walter Mead Weston. Augustus Zanelli.
Lottie Ellen Barley. Bessie Kimpton
Bauer, Edna May Becker, Artridge Belt,
Clara Louise Birkner, Bessie Marguerite
Butler, Catherine Cecilia Canty, Luella
Anna Carroll. Frances Edwards Carter,
Grace Eloise Carter, Rosa Ella Cochran
Anna Carroll. Frances Edwards Carter,
Annie Cecilia Connors, Blanche Isabel
Crawford. May Louise Daley. Lillian Estelle
Dant, Roberta Marie Davis, Gertrude
| Miriam Deland, Susan Ferry Dewey, Annie
Marion Dow. Edna May Durfey Edith
Mary Farrell Maud Fellheimer Frances
Loretta Foy Corinne Antoinette Cove
| Hattie McKim Green, Lilly Cordory Haw-
| kins, Elsie Herrie, Nellie Rose Hodges
Howard Fay Holtzclaw, Zula Glenn Hop