Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-17
AT SOCIAL FUNCTION
REUNION OF GRADUATES OF M
STREET HIGH SCHOOL.

over 100 of the graduates of the M Street
High School gathered last evening in odd
Fellows Hall, near the corner of 10th and
Nj streets northwest for the second annual
meeting of the NJ Street High School Alumni
Association The meeting combined three
features--a reunion of each class that has
gone out from the school, a reception TO
the members of the class of 1906 and
ger eral reunion of the graduates to honor
ana to plan for aiding their alma mater.
In the early part of the evening were
held the reunions of their classes. Then
a supper was served all sitting down to
U-shaped table. The Metropolitan Orches-
ira furnished music during the evening, and
following the banquet G. c. Wilkinson.
president of the association, made an ad-
dress. in which he spoke of the aims of the
alumni association, and welcomed the new
members.
Presiding Officers Address.
He said in part:
Tonight our number is increased to the
extent of slxty-six we are here 20 initiate
the class of 'O6 of the NJ Street High
School Last night they encountered new
order of things. Heretofore. for the most
part. they have been combining themselves
ton of knowledge. to the development of
their minds Tonight they are not to make
any material change in their activities. but
they are to pursue them under changed
conditions, in a new environment They
are to take upon themselves the response
bility of carving out an existence fer them
selves 1t is our duty. sons and daugh-
tiers of the same alma mater, as members
of the same association. to welcome these
young people to membership in cur body.
for nc n a a n a w
existence pleasat and successful
.Mr President and members of the class
of 'oG in behalf of the NJ Street High
School Alumni Association. we welcome you
to membership with us. We most sincerely
hope that whatever calling you pursue in
life 1t shall be for light truth and service
I'VE must remember that the character
of a school Is not made simply by its fac
uity nor does it depend wholly upon the
size of its student body. The reputation of
an institution of learning is. on the one
hand the result of the activities within
its walls-actiyities both of the stadent
body and of the faculty. On the other
hand schools reputation is sustained and
fostered by the type of life of its alumni
and their devotion and loyalty to its cause.
'.As members. then, of this associa ton, 1t
will be your duty to encourage every move
n,ent which tends to upbuild your alma
mater, to increase her membership, to re,
tain her standard of scholarship and to
provide for her maintaining the peculiar
position which she so gracefully and sue
cessfully occupies among the high schools
of the country"
Themes Discussed
For the class OF 1906 J. H. Williams re-
sponded, and In his remarks he pointed out
that the members of the class recognized
their duty to the school in which they had
been equipped for Iifes work.
The other formal addresses on the pro-
gram were given by Mrsf r. L. Pendleton
on s'1he Uses OF Ambition A. c. New
man on Alumni Statistics and william
L. Pollard on m Street Alumni and the
business World. In speaking of alumni
statistics Mr.. Newman pointed out that 1t
was one of the main features of the assoc
citation TO keep an accurate and up-to-date
record of the graduates of the school. OF
the 1Te5 graduates over 800 can now be
accounted for to the present time. he said
Among the guests who were present and
who were called upon for remarks were
Prof. w. 9. Montgomery. assistant super
intendent of schools; Mrs. A. ]. Cooper.
principal OF the N Street High School: DR..
W. d. Evans OF the Armstrong Manual
Training School; Robert Terrell. former
principal of NJ Street High School; Super