Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-30
RECORD BREAKING
CLASS GRADUATES
MASON THEATER PRESENTS
PRETTY SCENE
Two Hundred and Sixteen Leave Los
Angeles High School to Take
Up Lies Real
Work

The largest class ever sent out from
the Los Angeles high school in the
thirty-two years since the first boy
went forth equipped with book
knowledge to fight the battle Of life,
was graduated yesterday afternoon.
Commencement exercises were held
at the Mason opera house and the lit
tie white roles tied with blue ribbon,
which prove that the owner is full
hedged graduate, were given to ZIG
young men and young women.
When the curtain went UP few
minutes after / o'clock It revealed n
beautiful scene. Tier after tier of
bright faced maidens i'm their dainty
gowns Of white and their brother stu
dents in new black. filled the stage.
At each side there was n huge mound
of blossoms and the front df the stage
was piled high with the bouquets. How
many bouquets there were only the
members of the senior b class could
tell, and perhaps the florists could give
guess, for they have been busy for
weeks arranging for flowers to supply
the orders.
Sing Class Song
At a sign from the principal the
pupils all rose from their seats like a
single person and sang the class song,
The Lord Is Great" by Mendelssohn.
The girls sweet soprano notes blended
with the deeper notes of the boys and
parents eyes in the audience were wet
with tears as they heard their chill
dren sing their way out of the old life
and into the new.
The high school orchestra gave a
selection, Overture to Poet and Peas
ant" by Won Suppe, followed by an
address by Hon. w. O'Meveny. Mr..
O'Melveny first talked to the audience,
impressing upon them the necessity of
divcrcing politics from the election of
the school officers. He said in part:
IT think that the Los Angeles peo-
pie showed themselves a wise body
when they elected this last board of
education along non-partisan lines and
L know that that election is fully ap-
preciated when they discover the good
work the board has been doing" Mr..
O'Melveny graduated from the Los An
geles high school in 1871, a member of
the first graduating class, and in his
address to the '06 graduates be told
of the room in the little wooden build
ing the seven graduates occupied. He
spoke of the increased facilities for
learning and the good work Mr.. Housh,
the present principal, has done. In
conclusion he said to his listeners:
Gives Graduates Advice
Always do earnestly and well the
small humdrum duties of life, so that
when the large ones come you will be
able to cope with them successfully"
A double octet, composed of ten
girls and six boys, sang II Know
Schneider. Their voices showed ex-
cellent training. Miss Margaret Grif-
fifth, as the representative of the sum-
mer class, read her essay, "The
Shakespearian Drama" She rem
dered it we'll and the composition of the
paper gave evidence of much earnest
work. Merton Albee of the winter
class read his essay on 'The Los An
geles High School," and he was wildly
applauded as he spoke of the superior
qualities of their own alma mater.
Joseph Scott of the school board was
to have given an address, but he was
unable to get there in time, so he gave
them only his heartiest congratula.-
tions. w. H. Housh presented the
class and then with many bashful
bows and smiles the graduates re-
Gwinn in the absence of w. ]. Wash
burn, the president of the board.
Flowers Are Pretty
The prettiest sight that could be
imagined was the distribution of the
MOWERS. IIleSe were DdIheu up III
front and both sides of the stage. The
senior B class, with the girls in pale
green dresses and hats to match and
the boys in white suits, distributed the
floral gifts.
Dozens and dozens of roses baskets
of pansies, tall punches of lilies and
masses of hydrangeas, daisies, sweet
peas, and all flowers were there.
Before the flowers were half distrib-
htrf Lon Tolnf fnor
be seen of the graduating class. When
the signal was given for them to leave
the stage such a confusion as there
was! Graduates were trying to carry
all their flowers and at the same time
look where they were going. Consid-
ering the mountains of flowers they
were carrying in their arms it was al
most an impossible task.
The Graduates
Following is the list of graduates:
Classical course (winter)-Thurman
Alden DeBolt, Merle T.. Johnson, Ster-
ling Newton Pierce. Sarah Rogers At
satt, Norine M. Graves, Ewald e,
Selph, Donna Hawthorne Hubbard,
Cora ailda Manning, Edith M. Myers,
Hazel M. Rosenberg, Georgia May Wei
don.
Latin course (winter)-Merton A. AL
bee, James Arthur Douglas Brook
man, Henry Brown, Samuel H. Day,
Edwin Cecil McClintock, Robert w.
Merrell. Stephen Monteleone, Stuart
O'Melveny Robert Evans Tener, Edna
Adcock. Martha e. Ballou, Luella Ger
trude Barrett. Constance Irene Bull
finch, Mary Adelaide Davis, Claribell
Gordon, Florine j. Hellman, Emily b.
johnson, Fannie ". King, S. Louise
Lyle. Gladys Lawrence, Rosetta Po-
laski, Elizabeth M. Reckweg, Bessie Z.
Sowden, Bessie A. Womer.
Latin-Scentific course (winter)-
Charles Il. Culver, Louis Felsenthal,
Lester w. Finay, K. Leroy Hamman,
Wickliffe Matthews, Louis Polaski,
Walter II. Schroeder, Harry c. Solo
mon, Stanley A. Spellmeyer, Carroll A.
Stilson, Sarah Beatrice Colwell Osa
Copeland, Henrietta Costello, Anna
Ross, Hazel Dell, Lenne Clayton Good
rich. Sue Marshall Hunter, Pearl B.
Jordan, Katherine Killefer. Mabel
Louise Kirk, Inez Best McClelland,
Taapaffa MoGnrra Anna Maria Nor