The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-12
TECH" HAS ITS FIRST
GRADUATION EVENT
Mckinley Manual Training Schools
Commencement.

The students of the Mckinley Manual
Ilaining-or Technical High-School
held their first annual commencement
exercises in the New National Theater
last night, and every bit of available
space was packed with anxious friends
and relatives of The graduates. The COM
mencemcnt was noteworthy in many re-
spects, principal among which was that
the twelve sweet girl grads" all wore
handsome gowns of their own make.
District Commissioner Henry B. f.
Macfarland and the Hon. w E. Andrews.
Auditor for the Treasury Department,
maze appropriate addresses, and com
plimented the students on their good
work done in school, after which Com
missioner Fl. L West awarded the di-
plomas. which the travellers on the
f1owery path of knowledge had earned.
The members of Company c, the prize
command in the high school regiment,
under the leadership of Captain Hud-
GIeson, escorted the guests to their
seats The members of the board of
education occupied seats on the stage,
as did Mrs. H. L. West, Mrs B. G.
Francis, Mrs. I. G. Myers, assistant su-
perintendent of schools, and w s Mont
gomery. DR.. A. P. Pardon. W. H. Single
ton, and many others
To the stirring strains of the High
School Cadets March by the Marine
Eand. the graduates marched upon the
stage. All of them looked better than at
any time during the school year. but
the dozen sweet girl grads" carried off
the honors of the day, or night, when
dress was considered.
Mr.. Todhunter, Of the Marine Band,
performed a cornet SOLO Mr.. mcfarland
Their introduced Auditor Andrews. who
spoke on the value of manual training,
of working both mind and body at the
same time Mr.. Andrews called attention
to the admirable qualities and character
OF the man after whom the Mckinley
School had been named, and this part
of his address brought forth tumultuous
applause from all parts OF the house.
Superintendent A T. Stuart. after a
neat and appropriate speech. announced
that McCulloch Brogden Wilson had
been awarded a free scholarship at Lee
high University for scholarship and
general excellence at Tech"
Commissioner West, assisted by A. L.
Garner and Miss Frances Sands. present.
ed diplomas to the following students:
Harriet May Barbour, Sidney Alice
MacDufhe, Marian Gardner. Elsie Mar
garet Hickman, Elizabeth Keeling, Ella
Mindwen OIcott. Abby Florence Warn.
John Carlos Ballard, Herbert Herndon
Banner, Howard Paul Bayly. Ara Mar
Gus Daniels, Joseph Hamilton Galliher,
Henry Anton Heine. George .Reinhold
Hoffman. Philip Barlow Hoge, Werner
Alexander LutZ, Harold Bertram Mar
ston. John Nils Maggie, Roy Webster
Prince, Edgar Francis Root. Martin
Henry Schmid. Edwin Alexis Schmitt,
Thomas Richard Senior, Edward Warner
Shepard Charles James Toole, Rudolf
Cornberg Won Bayer, Warren Luther
Wagner, Clarence Paret Wilson, and Me-
Cu1Ioch Brogden Wilson.
Those who received certificates for two
years work are:
Kathryn Louise Guest, Sarah Rutle6ge
Kinnear. Laura Rebecca Perrie. Ada
Marie Putnam, Amy Millicent Riggies.
John Woolf Beall. Herbert Car, Rudolph
Bohnke. Leigh Hays Carter. Roy Frank
lin Carly. John Joseph Grove. Bernard
Theodore Diedrich, John Willard Har-
ing, Herbert Gibbs Reed. and Clyde
Chalmers Swayne.