Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-12
TEACHERS DIPLOMA
PRESENTED TO GRADUATES OF
NORMAL SCHOOL NO. 2.
Glass Addressed by Mr. n. B. F. Mac
farland and Mrs. Myers-Duties OF
Instructors Emphasized.


ents, relatives and friends who filled to
overfiowing the assembly hall the gradu-
ating exercises of the class of '03 of the
Washington Normal School No. took
place this morning at the Miner School,
building. at 18th and Madison streets north
west. Potted plants and cut flowers were
used in the decorations, while the national
colors were draped about the column in the
center of the room.
The exercises were presided over by Mr.
James F. Bundy. Rev Sterling N. Brown
offered prayer. Commissioner H. B. F.
Mcfarland, who was to have spoken after
the comforting of degrees, was compelled
on account of stress of time to make his
address Immediately after the invocation.
He spoke, in part, as follows:
Il sorry to have to leave without
hearing the whole program. but nothing
less important than this commencement
would have brought me away from the
District building this morning. For our
work is particularly pressing just now. i
come to bring the heartiest congratulations
to the principal, faculty and members OF
the school. We are proud of 1t. We know
that 1t has the reputation of model school
throughout the country. We appreciate
the fidelity and persistence with when
these graduates have followed the pre-
Scribed courses and achieved the honorable
success of this day.
There is heroism. there Is pathos, in
the self-denial and the contributing self
sacrifice of relatives and friends. 1t is
all well worth while. For you are now to
enter a high calling of great usefulness
Next to the mothers, the teachers make
the future of the race. Mothers and teach
ers dealing constantly with the children
who are soon to take our places have an
advantage even over the ministers of God
You realize that you have peculiar re-
sponsibility for your race. The honors OF
leadership come from the faithful per-
formance of its duties.
while / believe In treating all Amer1-
cans Americans, and not In constantly
dwelling on race distinctions, we cannot
ignore the fact that your race has pecu-
liar problem, which in turn makes prob
lem for my race, and that they must be
worked out together, under the keen OBJ
servation Of the world. I believe they will
be worked out successfully. No one can
contribute more to that end than you teach
ers. l wish you God-speed in your pa
triotic efforts
Mrs. Myers Speaks.
Following Commissioner Macfarland, Mrs.
l. G. Myers, assistant superintendent of
schools. next addressed the graduating
class. Mrs. Myers compared the exercises
to the accounting time in the business
world saying that the audience had assem-
bled to see what the class possessed in the
way Of equipment The class, she stated,
possessed youth, health, environment and
training. She spoke Of the breadth of their
work for them lay, after all. outside Of
Washington Mrs Myers referred to the
great amount of good being accomplished
by Booker T. Washington, and stated that
1t was due to the efforts of the man that
such success had been achieved
She spoke Of the relations the teacher
bore to the children, the relations to the
parents; the relations to the community,
M Ctl thn aIax % kh1fv,
sion. carrying with 1t all great responsible
tiles. The reward of work, said Mrs.
Myers, is more work and always greater
responsibilities. In closing she spoke words
of cheer and GodSpeed to the class.
After musical selections, in which the
children took a leading part. the diplomas
were presented to the class by DR.. w. S.
a Montgomery, assistant sYperintendent OF
address to the class, in which he congrat-
ulated the members and said that they
had the world before them to choose from;
that they had a service to render, and the
character of that service would determine
whether the diplomas should be considered
a mark of honor or stigma.
List Of Graduates.
Those upon whom diplomas were con-
ferred are Clayton Calvin Bannister, Mar
gretta Bowles. Beatrice Salome Catlett.
Virginia Daily Maud May Gen
eva Daniels. Alice Gertrude Davis, Mar
garet Josephine Davis, Cicely Janette
Diggs. Maud Bowling, Mabel Francis Drew.
Willeno Jessie Dyson. Mary Eta Fletcher.
Edith May Hall. Thomas Aaron Heath
man, Arhelia Beatrice Johnston, Mar
hea Louise Lancaster, Clarence Os-
ceola Lewis. Maude Augusta Lemo g.
Eva Belle Norris Lucas. Mabelle Ward
Manning, Beatrice Agnes Duvall Martin,
Mamie Flossie McGwin, Lillian Ophelia
Naylor, Mary Magdalene Onley. Roscoe
Conckling Orme, Fannie Payne, Ida Cramp-
ton Plummer Marietta FIondelena Price,
Walter Pelham Ray, Beatrice Richardson,
Alfred Kiger Savoy, George Eta Shelly,
Minnie Beatrice Smith, Flosse Louise
Thompson. Annie Elizabeth Tyson. Marie
Bertha Selena Wade
Following the comforting of the diplomas
the class song, written by Mr.. T. S. Heath
man, and set to music by Miss Gibbs, in
structor in music, was then sung. followed
by a selection from "Hiawatha's De-
parture"
Among those who occupied chairs upon
the platform were: Gen. Geo. H. Harries,
Mrs. NJ. II. West. Mrs. B. G. Francis. Mr..
]. Holdsworth Gordon. Mr.. A. T. Stuart.
superintendent of schools: ex-Commissioner
Douglas Mrs. B. X. Bruce, Rev. A. d.
Mayo, Rev Sterling N. Brown, Mrs. l. G.
Myers, Jas. F. Bundy. Miss l.. E. Moten,
principal of Miner School, and DR.. w. 5.
Montgomery assistant SUPERINTENDENT,