Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-16
MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS
ANNUAL EXERCISES OF ACADEMY
OF SACRED HEART.
Amateur Dramatic Performance Fea-
ture of the Program-Certihcates
In Academic Department.

In the presence OF an audience that COM
pletely filled st. Dominics Hall. 9th and F
streets southwest. the commencement exer-
cises of the Academy of the Sacred Heart
of Mary were held last might. An amateur
dramatic performance was enacted and dip
Tomas and medals were presented to a num-
Der of the young ladies of the school.
The program was interesting throughout
The Misses Meehan. Repetti. Stephenson
and Berger opened the exercises by render
ing Schumann's Novelette," More music
by the Mandolin Club was followed by an
operetta, in which the juniors and minims
of the school took part. The Misses Brady
and Albro rendered a sonata of Beethoven.
A feature of the exercises the per-
Torrance of the dramatic production called
The Vestals,' with its scene laid in the
peristylium of Numa's palace, near the
Temple of Vesta. in Rome. The young
ladies who took part were the Misses Web
ster. Meehan. Ahern, Hammer. Wimsatt
kulle. Wiegand. Fitzgerald and Stephenson
Further vocal and instrumental musical Sc
lections were rendered by the Misses Buh-
Ter. Webster. Einstein, Hartman, Little Rom
Saville, Albro, Hammer and Meehan.
Sister Clementine the mother superior of
the academy, was in charge of the COM
mencement exercises.
Formal Presentation.
Father J. r. Hefferman assistant pastor
of ST. Dominics Church. presented the Dip
Tomas and medals. Diplomas and gold med
ais of graduation were awarded to Misses
Mary Angela Meehan and Margaret May
Hammer. graduates in the English course.
A gold medal for Instrumental music was
awarded to Miss Lillian Cecilia Brady and
for elocution and physical culture, TO Miss
Emile Webster. The gold cross for excel
lence in the Latin course awarded to
Miss Florence Josephine Wimsatt. Silver
medals for instrumental music were award
Misses lar Arga
Meehan Annie Agnes Stephenson and Mar
guerite Berger.
Certificates Awarded.
Certificates in the academic department
were awarded to Misses Meehan, Kuile.
Corcoran, Ahern. O'Donnell, Whitmore and
Stephenson; in the preparatory academic
| classes, to Misses Berger, o Connell, German,
kulle, Lansdale and Lonigan; in the second
division, to Misses Carroll. whelan, Berger,
Daily, Rupert, Repetti and Hall; in the
third division, to Misses Corcoran Wright,
Swan. Wimsatt Fitzgerald, Creaghe, Hol-
den and Downey: in the grammer classes TO
Misses Fitzgerald, Mcnamara, Quinn,
Aiken, Dwyer, Mcnamara. Leahy, Dono-
van Walsh, Simpson and Moran. and in the
intermediate class to Misses Meehan, Mo-
ran, Veihmeyer. Berger, O'Neill, Edwards,
Stephenson, Whelan, Quinn and Lawrence.
Premiums were awarded in the primary
classes to Misses Brosnan. Mills, Schmidt,
Pfeifer, Tuplett Wright Creaghe, McCabe,
Downey, WEIGH Rooney Carlen Holden,
Mccarthy, Meehan, Deneen, O'Donnell,
and Gueckert.
Father Hefferman delivered the COM
mencement address to the young ladies.
Address to Students.
In his address to the school Father Hef-
ferman said. in part:
Day by day we are brought face to face
with the stupendous task Of striving for
knowledge. and If we are imbued with the
right spirit of humility we become painfully
conscious of our intellectual poverty and of
how much there is yet to learn in the great
| book of life's experience. Every man or
woman, II he or she would be true, must
make education a life work, and make
| whatever is undertaken in life subservient
| to that one grand end.
1.-The highest aim of educa ton is to turn
| out the true and woman. The aim of
wise teachers should be to teach those in
| their charge to grasp the difficulties and
| the questions of the hour with concen-
trated mind. In education, in all things
else in life, in order to attain a worthy and
successful issue we must employ worthy
and successful means. And for that reason
| in the field of education the convent school
Is one of the choicest garden spots in which
the sweetest flowers of virtue, grace and
womanly character are tenderly nurtured
and reared by women of piety, zeal and
culture
I'VE cannot overestmate the strength
and power of woman's moral and religious
character. The world would go to ruin
without her. Man would become a prodl-
gal without the restraint OF her virtue ana
influence and the conservation of her re-
ligion. Women first cares for US; she
plants the first seeds. she makes the first
impressions, she scatters along through HE
the seeds of kindness. Few men ever llveu
a right life who had not been purified by a
woman's love- strengthened by her cour-
age and guided by her discretion.