The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-06-03
WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL.
commencement EXerciSeS-LiSt of Gradu-
ates-Certif1catss of HOnOr-LiSt of Pro-
motions

Commencement exercises at the Westmin
ster High School we're held on Monday night
last in the presence of an audience that filled
the auditorium. which was prettily decorated
in orange and black. Above the platform was
banner, in orange and black, with the class
motto "Esse Guam Videri."
The exercises included orations by the three
male graduates and an essay by the female
graduate; al address by Prof. S. Simpson,
County Superintendent of Public Schools;
presentation of diplomas, award of certificates
and music by the First Regiment Band.
The graduates were ODER Samuel Herr,
whose Grafton was on 1.-The Evil Effects OF
Ridicule," Frank Trump Herr, who spoke on
.'The Young and Old Man in the Business
World" Ethyl Earl Abbott, who read an es:
say on "Latin as High School Study" and
James S. Schweigart, the subject of whose
Grafton was Improvement in Modes OF
Travel" The graduates did credit TO them
selves and the High School and handled their
subjects well.
CERTIFICATES OF DISTINCTION.
Certificates of Distinction were awarded as
follows:
Fourth grade-to Mildred Warner; honor.
able mention, Emma Slagle, Charles Little.
Fifth grade-to Allen Sharrer; honorable
mention, May Williams, George Little.
Sixth grade-to Amy Little; honorable men
ton, Mamie Myerly. Henrietta Roop.
Seventh grade. Grammer School-to Elsie
Coppersmith; honorable mention, Jessie knad
ler Rose Miller.
Seventh grade, High School-to Agnes
Reese; honorable mention, Ida Arnold, j.
Merriwether Shelman.
Eighth grade-to Grove Zahn; honorable
mention, Isabel Shamberger, Nettie Sebour
Adele Strasburger.
Ninth grade-to Fannie Jones; honorable
mention, Noah Shaetfer, Pansy Routzahn.
Prizes in Composition, 9TH grade-to Agnes
Reese, James Merriwether Shellman.
PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED.
From 9TH grade Grammar to 7th grade High
Schoo-Paul Bixler, Francis Reese, Ober
Schaeffer, Clarence Stouch, Lewis Shater,
John Whitmore, Levine Billingslea, John
Freeman Chester Cassell, Sadie Ruthrauff,
Elizabeth Schaeffer Elsie Gernand, Hattie
Murphy, May Little, Rose Miller. Irene
Kaufman, Elsie Coppersmith. Lottie Troxell,
Anna Mickey, Lille Cohen, Jessie knader,
Hilda Englar.
From 9Th to eth Grammar School-Alfred
Gorsuch, Vernon Grouse, Luther Ban kard,
Russell Bixler, Wesley Brooks, Charles Lock
ard, Arthur Hammett, Carlos Englar, Julian
Williams, Frank Arnold, Roscoe Douglas,
Herbert Leatherwood, Jeanette Jerome,
Mamie Myery. Helen Zepp, Mary Henry,
Emma Schaeffer Clara Cook, Henrietta
Roop, Jessie Sharrer. Anna Gehr, Mildred
Buckingham, Ruth Roger, Amy Little, Ella
Shipley, Grace Elgen, Mamie Turtle.
From 9TH TO 9Th grade-John Lindsay, Ed
win Gehr, J. Merriweather Shellman, John
Reifsnider, Sterling Englar, VIM. Arnold,
Robert Billingslea, John Leffert, Katherine
Shuman, Hattie Freeman, Ida Arnold, Lii
liam Shipley, Isabel Roop, Marguerite Stem,
Blanche Williamson, Agnes Reese, Lillian
Brown, Anna Yingling, Katherine Lynch.
From 9Th to 9th grade-Grove Iahn, James
Fleagle, Robert Stonesifer, Mary Stonesiter,
Lucille Gernand. Rosa Geiman, Isabel Sham
berger, Nettie Sebour. Ida Perry, Adele
Strasburger, Grace Steele, Airy V. Grouse,
Esther Kaufman, Eva knadler.
From 9th to l0th-Fanny Jones, PanSy
Routzahn, Maude Mammalian, Mabel Hunter,
Joseph d. Brooks, Noah L. Schaefier.
MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT.
The work done in this Department begins
in the fifth grade with paper folding, followed
by construction work in cardboard, lnlrodac
ing geometrical figures and type solids. Some
work in raffia is also done in this grade.
In the sixth grade knife work in wood IS
introduced, followed by advanced knife work
and basketry.
In the seventh grade bench work in wood is
begun, followed in the high school grades by
more advanced work, the aim being to bring
the pupil from the simple to the complex, by
making each model little more difficult.
Carving. finishing aud Typography are also
introduced as means of decoration.
Reed and raffia are used by the Older girls
in making reed aud ratiia baskets and other
useful and beautiful articles. In all of this
work originality of form and design are en-,
couraged.
A special class in mechanical drawing, com
posed of boys from the higher grades, was Or
ganized in January last and their work has
been remarkably good.
The aim of the public school is to send out
boys and girls well trained to take their part
in life, and it is because it contributes to this
end that it is advocated.
Manual Training is mental training through
the hand and eye, just rs the study of history
is mental training through the memory, and q
pupil who has passed through the curriculum
which includes Manual Training will be better
equipped to follow any calling than one who
has not.
The exhibition of the work of the pupils of
the Manual Training Department during the
closing days of school was very creditable,
and showed considerable talent and skill by
quite number. Visitors to the exhibition
were highly pleased with the display. Prof.
+. A Hidey is director of this department.