Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-26
BACK TO OLD EASTERN
Reunion of School Alumnus
Tomorrow Evening.
TO LAUD ALMA MATER
GRADUATES AND FORMER CLASS
MATES TO ATTEND.
History of the Capitol Hill Institution
is but Fifteen Years Old-Grad
yates and Faculties.
TO LAUD ALMA MATER


err. High School Final arrangements
to make the halls of old Eastern" re-
sound with unwonted merriment are be-
ing made by the executive committee.
An unusually large number of the mem
bers have notified the president Mr. De-
witt Croissant. of their intention to be
present.
The Eastern Alumnae Association is
made up entirely of graduates of the
school. but it is proposed this year to
include in the reunion former pupils not
graduated, that all class associations may
be revived. Invitations have been ex-
tended to the members, Of the faculty
and to teachers who were formerly at
Eastern.
The alumnae association was founded
in 1897 with Mr.. J. w. Bevans of the
class of '93 as president Since then.
from a mere handful, it has grown to
include several hundred graduates The
association is particularly proud of the
history Of it's school, which has prepared
they claim important citizens for life
The increasing popularity of the high
school system as established in 1SS2, ana
the number of young people graduated from
the grammar schools on Capitol Hill de-
manding the advantages of high school
course. prompted Congress in 1880 to es-
tablish a new school for the benefit of this
section of the city. This school was known
was housed in the third and fourth stories
of the Peabody building.
The Rapid Growth.
In spite of the many disadvantages under
which the new school labored, 1t sprang I'M
mediately into vigorous life and enrolled
upon it's lists such large number of en-
thusiastic young students that it fell at
once into keen competition with the older
parent school and marked its career at the
outset by carrying off the prize in the COM
petitive drill. No less enthusiastic than the
pupils We're the members Of the faculty of
the young school, and the names of c. M.
Lacey Sites. principal; E. w. Williams,
Ellen E. Garrigues, Ethel A. Glover.
Blanche Carawsy and Cora L. Allen, CO.
workers, whom the school was destined
| later to lose. are well remembered and
warmly cherished by those who were so
| fortunate as to come under their instruc-
| ton.
| The school soon grew beyond the capacity
| of the borrowed quarters in the Peabody
and in 1892, two years after its organza-
| ton, found itself in possession of a fine,
| new~building on the corner of 7th and c
| building supplied with laboratories library,
! drill hall, exhibition hall and large class
rooms that a new impetus was given to the
already thriving body, and the second stage
| of the Capitol Hill school was most auspici-
ously entered upon. At the same time the
! faculty was increased and the course of
study extended, SO that all the advantages
| open to the pupils of the o street school
| were now enjoyed by the Eastern as the
| new school was from this time designated.
Record Of Graduates.
| The Eastern has held her own in the
| number Of well-equipped students that have
| been sent out to college. the university and
| the Normal School. Six times in twelve
! years she has been the winner of the first
| local priza bs X oil biol,
| rolls upon her list the names of c. LIE Roy
| Parker, 'o3; Resale Robinette 96; Lucina
! McGroarty, '9S; Henry Bradshaw 90; Ella
| Merritt, 80 and Augusta De Forrest, 'O1
| In the attainment of other scholarships
| she has been no less successful while the
| percentage of accepted candida ties for the
| Normal School has been larger than from
| any other high school in the District.
| Close upon the scholarship honors, and
| vying with them in number and frequency
| come the honors which the Eastern has
| won upon the military field In addition tc
| these efforts the Eastern has encouraged
| all other school interests which tend to
| foster school spirit and which make for
| wholesome, happy school life She has had
her successful foot ball. base ball and
basket ball teams, and in addition to win
| ming the foot ball championship in 1880
| under Capt. Alton, and In 1897, urAser Capt
Maupin, and the basket ball championship
| in 1897, under Capt. Shirley Potter; In
1899. under Capt. Melvia Yoder. and ir
| 1905. under Capt. Margaret Craig, the East.
| ern has always proved herself formidable
| antagonist, even when losing.
| One of the earliest signs of vigorous life
in the young school was the publication OF
| an alert and breezy school paper, known as
| the Owl. With the lapse of but few years
| this paper, under it's later name, the East
| erner, has been a prominent feature Of the
| school, and has proved an interest tt
| which the pupils have ever been constant
| It enjoys at present the warm support OF
| the school and alumni and furnishes mos
faithful evidence of the business enterprise
| and literary ability of the students by
| whom 1t is solely conducted.
The Faculty.
The school, which began in the Pea
| body fifteen years ago with a faculty OF
nine and an enrolment of 14S, has now
a faculty of eighteen and an enrollmen,
of 300. It's first principal, Mr.. c. M. l.
| Sites, to whom the greatest credit is said
to be due for the enthusiastic .unching
of the school, was succeeded III 1885 by
Mr.. H. NJ Johnson. In spite of feequen,
changes, the Eastern has held It's own
| nobly, and attests worthily today the
faithfulness of its faculty and the ear
nestness the wide-awake enterprise and
the intelligent ability of that section OF
| the city from which 1t draws its numbers
| Among its graduates are found Wash
| ington's best citizens; successful teach
| ers, who in turn are themselves members
of high school faculties; distinguished
soldiers, prosperous lawyers, physicians
merchants and business men. But twelve
years have elapsed since the first class
| went forth, and now distinguished poems
| of one gr;s@uate are published In one OF
the country's leading periodicals.; paint
ing of another, a pupil of the Ecole des
Beaux Arts. Paris, hangs upon the walls
of the Corcoran Art Gallery: while a
third does honor to his school and his
country in the foreign court of Picking
| China as military attache to the Ameri-