Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-17
Graduation Exercises Held in
M Street Church.
FIRST SCHOLARSHIPS
AN ADDRESS MADE BY COMMITS
SIONER MCFARLAND.
Members Of Board of Education Present
List Of Those Who Re-
ceived Diplomas.


| and women having completed their studies
at the NJ Street High School received the
konors of graduation at the Metropolitan
A M. F. Church, NJ street near 10th street
northwest. last night The seating capacity
OF the church was taxed to its utmost. and
deep fringe of humanity occupied the
space in rear of the seats. There were pres
en- prominent District officials. members OF
the board of education. fond parents and
relatives and friends Of the happy grad
yates who occupied seats upon the plat
form. A profusion of American flags. red
and black bunting. the school colors and
cut flowers and palms were used for deco
rative purposes Suspended above and in
the rear OF the platform a fleur-de-lis
In flowers. the emblem of the school. with
the figures 1903
Besides Commissioner mcfarland. who
occupied a seat on the platform. We're Com
missioner Biddle. Gen. H " Boynton,
president of the board of education; Mrs.
| III. l.. West and Mrs. Il. G.. Francis. j.
| Holdsworth Gordon. DIR. Richard Kingsman
and Mr. James +. Bundy members of the
board of education. Mr. A. T. Stuart, SUI
perintendent of schools; w. S. Montgomery.
assistant superintendent: Mrs Ida Gilbert
Myers. assistant superintendent: Percy M.
Hughes director of high schools; W. +.
Rodrick. secretary of the board of educa-
| fion ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire;
Mrs. Henry B. F. mcfarland. Dr. Mayo
and Mrs. A. ]. Cooper.
Mr.. Macfarland's Address.
The exercises were presided over by w. s.
Montgomery. assistant superintendent of
schools. and the invocation was pronounced
by Rev. Alexander C. Garner. pastor OF
Plymouth Congregational Church. After a
selection by the orchestra Commissioner
Mcfarland was introduced and spoke on
the usefulness of education.
Education Is not panacea." Mr.. Mac
farland said. 1T Is not the means of solv
ing all problems but 1t is useful and even
Indispensable. Therefore we congratulate
these graduates. and congratulate even
more the rest of the community. No one Is
made worse by education. although IL may
| help rascal In his wrong doing. Imagine
| the public schools closed and II takes very
| little more imagining to see that the com
munfty would suffer even more than the
children thus deprived of opportunity. The
| young men and young women who. by their
own sef-denying efforts. and by the assist
ance and sacrifices OF their relatives have
gone through all the grades and all the
years of the High School, the speaker de-
clared, until they could rightfully claim
diplomas have not only learned what books
can teach. but the deeper teaching of such
steadfast striving for a noble end Dis
cipline has gone with enlightenment to the
making or moral character. and they
better citizens than they could have been
without this training. Slowly the whole
race rises toward it's ideals. not steadily,
but In zigzag course. and the hope OF all
its elements lies in education. taken in its
largest and broadcast sense
On concluding his address Commissioner
Mcfarland presented diplomas to the grad
yates. who filed before him in single file.
| Roscoe c. Bruce. head Of the academic de-
partment of TuSkegee'S Industrial School
made an address urging members OF his
| race to make themselves proficient In in
duStrial pursuits. and declared that each
man in eleyating himself would at the
ia
graduate of the M Street High School and
of Harvard.
| Mrs. B. G. Francis at the conclusion of
the addresses awarded the scholarships the
| first received by this school from colleges
outside of Washington Those who received
scholarships were: Samuel Compton. Brown
University; Aubrey Morton, Adelbert Col
lege; James Thomas Wesleyan University:
Josephine Lawson. Oberlin College: Lola M.
Ruffin. College for Women Western Re-
serve: William Shipper pharmacy. Howard
University, and Roscoe Brown. dentistry,
Howard University.
In Scientific Course
The graduates in the scientific course
were Emily Gertrude Banion. Emma Luz
rietta Carroll Blanche Irene Coleman.
Natalia Collier Josephine Lavinia Dan
bridge, Willeiana Desdemona Alexander
Dorsey. Emma Annie Green. Beulah Har-
ris. Helen Adele Johnson, Mary Louise
Johnson. Sarah Parodi Johnson. Clara
| Elizabeth Jones. Laura Lemons. Estelle
Mann, Vivien Margaritta Meyers Hattie
Anne Minlkins Mary Antoinette Murray.
Hattie Payne. Mamie Kathleen Phillips.
Gladys Hermoine Powell. Mary Louise
Powell, Maud Elizabeth Smallwood. Con-
stance PoSey Smith. Odean Bernice Snow
den. Elizabeth Thomas, Katherine Cecilia
Thomas. Alice May Wilson. Alice King
Wormley. Mary Altoona Wright. Edward
I go Cooke.
The Academic Course.
Those In the academic course were Emily
Blanche Adams, Margaret Edna Amber
Elizabeth Barnette Ball. Carolyn Virgie
Brooks, Gertrude Mary Brooks Genevieve
Londonia Burke, Blanche Butler Gertrude
Elsie Carter. Marian Marjorie Carter. Rosa
Zelda Sgman Carter, Gertrude England
Clarke. Harriet Luvinia Coates. Eleanor
Jane Curtis. Adah Eugenia Dale. Mary
Gorilla Dale. Florence Davis. Cora Neale.
Lillian Anna Parker. Jessie Blaine Parks
Pinkney, Ruth Piper Lola Mabel Ruffin.
Rachel Alice Randolph. Bessie Maude
Shipper. Matte Rosa Short. Leanna Har-
riet Simpson. Pearl Cecil Smith. Mary
Sadie Rebecca Thompson, Charlotte Co
rhine Wallace, Eva Allen Watson. Mabel
Henrietta Weaver. Rebekah Blyden Will
kinson. Maggie May wilson. Gertrude
Mamie Estelle Fearing. Edith Fleetwood.
Sarah Ellen Gray. Minnie Belle Greene.
Mittie Hall. Isadore Augusta Hardy, Anna
Mason Jackson, Martha Clara Johnson
Josephine Maritcha Lawson. Lillian Teresa
Lott Georgiana Amuriel Heathcotte Lucas
Malvina Matilda Lyvers. Inez Hawthorne
Martin. Mary Ellen Meriwether. Elizabeth
Gertrude Yates. Roscoe Conkling Brown.
Samuel Edward Compton. James Harvey
Early William Afford Fair John Richard
Francis. jr.. Joseph Parker Gillem. Rich
ard Avitus Gillem. JOSIAH Carroll Hender-
son Thomas Eugene Johnson. George Ber-
nard Key James Francis Lawson, Aubrey
Wyatt Morton. Edward Thomas Morton.
Roy Hamilton Qualls. William Gilmore
Shipper. Llewellyn Smith. James Simpson
Thomas. Harry Leonard Tignor. Edwin
French Tyson.
pianos in the Schools