The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-29
HONORS WON
IN HIGH SCHOOL
MISS EMILY ASKEW LEADS
AND IS AWARDED THE FIRST
HONOR OF CLASS OF 'O4.

Morris samuel LazurOn 1nkes sec
Ond HOnor-The Third Honor
Awarded to Miss Mary MedOra
Lackey-Eight Students Made
Averages Above 30 Per Cent. and
Are Given Places on the Dis
tfnRuished List-Thirty-Six others
Graduate This Year.
Highest honors for the work done
this year in the graduating class at
the Savannah High School were cap
tured by Miss Emily Askew. This an
nouncement was made yesterday by
Mr.. H. F.. Train, principal of the
High School.
The work of computing the averages
has been in progress since the exami-
nations closed. but not until yester-
day were the teachers prepared to
make the announcements of those who
had been successful in the years
work, and who had made the highest
percentage.
The contest for the first honor was
very close. The leaders were Miss
Emily Askew, Morris Samuel Lazaron,
and Miss Mary Medora Lackey. When
all averages had been completed it
was found that Miss Askew led by
small margin. The second honor
was awarded to Morris Samuel Laza-
ron, and the third honor to Miss
Lackey.
There were eight high school students
whose averages for the year were
above 80 per cent, and their names
arA Ill . 4; lsr-t
The following is the list, the names
being given in the order in which
the students ranked, the highest lead
ing: Oscar Harry Janow, Miss Au-
gusta Bernstein, Miss Sarah Virginia
Bryan, Harry Solomon Rich, Miss
Edith Miriam Chandler, Miss Dena
Florence Smith. Miss Rosa Marcus,
and Carl Winfred Bridger.
The other Graduates.
Besides these eleven leaders, thirty
six students will receive diplomas to-
night from Col. George A. Mercer,
president of the Board of Education.
They are: Louis Getz Ambos, Miss
Lorena Stacy Beckett, Miss Gladys
Carrie Birnboum, Miss Frances Ellen
Cecilia Bolan, Joseph Moses Byck,
Miss Eleanor Screven Carr, Miss Alice
Hamilton Cordson, Miss Mary Baynard
Dana, Miss Daisy Eleanor Derby,
Miss Ina Beulah Doke, Charles Will
liam Fostering, Miss Rachel Garfun-
KEEL, Harvey John Gilbert, Miss Ethel
Keller Gilbert, Miss Mary Elizabeth
Miss Selma Hayward, Miss
Sadie Gertrude Hoffman, Miss Mary
Katzoff, Henry John Ludeman, George
Tillman Malphus, Miss Ethel Phillips
Miscally, Miss Pearl Olethea Morton,
Robert Cain Newman, William Law
ton Roberts, Miss Lena Scholder, Carl
Schultz, Meyer Silverfeld, Miss
Annie Mcintyre Starr, Miss Ruth
Stern, Miss Lucille Edna Stern, Miss
Bessie Carson Stubbs, John Allen
Thomson, Miss Lillian Alkaline Thomp-
son. Francis Muir Turner. Israel Wach-
stein, and Samuel Augustus White.
No Commencement Address.
The commencement exercises will be
held tonight at the Savannah Theater
and a short, but excellent programme,
has been arranged. AS already
announced, there will be no
commencement address this year, save
that by Col. Mercer, president of the
Board of Educa ton. In former years
there have been addresses by Col. Mer-
GER and some other speaker.
The programme this year will be
made up of declarations by eight of
the graduates, contesting for the alum
nj medal All the contestants have
worked hard perfecting themselves and
the contest promises to be very close.
The recitations will be interspersed
with orchestra selections. The follow
ink is the complete programme:
Invocation, Rev. j. Y. Fair.
Orchestra.
Dena Smith, Friendship"
Elizabeth Hazlehurst, THE Sixth
Sense.
Orchestra.
Joseph NJ Byck, THE New South
Robert Newman, THE Republic New
err Retreats
Morris Lazaron, "Our National Col
ors."
Orchestra, 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner."
Annie Starr, 1.-The Advantages and
Disadvantages of Novel Reading"
Orchestra.
Presentation of Alumni Medal.
Address to Graduates, Col. George A.
Mercer.
Orchestra.
Presentation of Diplomas by Col
George A. Mercer, President Board of
Education.
Graduates Farewell, song.
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