Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-14
PUPILS AND TEACHERS
REPRESENTATIVES, OF MANASSAS
SCHOOL AT WHITE HOUSE.

President Roosevelt today at 2:30 o'clock
received In the east room the pupils and
teachers of the Manassas Industrial School
with their friends. Among those present
were sixteachers of the school and twenty
five students. members Of the Manassas
Association and its board Of directors. and
some Washington friends of the school.
The teachers present were Mr. William c.
Taylor. principal: Mr. w. Walter jackson,
assistant principal; Mrs. Elizabeth 8. But
Ter. matron: Miss Mary NJ. Jones. teacher
Of sewing: Miss Margaret E. Pritchett
teacher Of cooking; Mr. John F. n Will
kinson, teacher Of carpentering.
The pupils were Martha G.. Dudley,
Alice I. Taylor. Mary Burrill. Lillian L.
Haynie, Wella F. Jeffries. Florida e. VII
liams, Katharine Scott, Queenie H. Haw-
kins, Matilda J.. Turner, Anna I. Johnson
Alice G.. Martin, Sarah B. Bayliss. Mary &.
Chapman, Lavinia E. Washington, Charles
M. Woodford, Arthur e. Fields. Temple
Robinson Clarence P. Murray. Melvin L.
Wildly, David 8. Jackson. Andrew.I. Bill
lups, Ashton Robinson. Moses G. Jeffries
Members of the Manassas Association and
It's board of directors present were Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale. Miss Jennie Dean, Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey, Rev. James Fl. Brad
ford, Rev. Henry H. Warning, DR.. Winfield
8. Montgomery. DR.. Wilson Bruce Evans,
Mrs. Nanette B. Paul. Rev. Marshall D..
Williams Mrs. Lucy s. Doolittie, Miss Eliz-
abeth F. Pierce. Rev. David G. Henderson.
MI. James H. Meriwether. Rev. w. G. B.
Pierce. Mrs. E. B. Dodge, Rev. William j.
Howard, Miss Jane E. Thompson.
invited to accompany the pupils were Rev.
Samuel M. Newman. pastor of the Congre-
gational Church where Jennie Dean at
tended afternoon colored mission Sunday
school twenty-five years ago, and Mrs G.
Lewis Pelham, teacher of music at Howard
University. who trained Manassas pupils to
sing plantat ton melodies
Exercises Tonight.
The pupils and teachers will be present
at the exercises tonight at the First Con-
gregational Church, 10th and G STREETS
northwest. when Booker T. Washington
will address the audience on the develop
ment and education of the negro
Mr.. Washington today at noon spoke to
the students of Harvard University
Mr.. Oswald Garrison Willard of New
York, president of the Manassas Associa-
ton, VIII make a report en- the inception
objects and needs.
Among those to be present or expected to
be on the platform are:
Mr. Booker 7. Washington. Justice David
j brewer, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Rev.
samuel M Newman, Mr.. Oswald Garrison
Willard, Postmaster General George B.
Cortelyou, Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, Rep
resentative William A. Calderhead Repre-
sentative William A Reeder, Mrs. Bnma
T. forter, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
Commissioner of Education William 7.
Harris, Commissioner of Pensions Yes
pasian Warner Mr.. Theodore w. Noyes,
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Francis E.
Leupp, Mr.. II. B. F. mcfarland, Mr..
Henry L. West and Maj. John Biddle. Dis
trict Commissioners; DR.. Winfield Scott
Montgomery. DR.. Wilson Bruce Evans Miss
Abigail w. Clark, Rev. Teunis s. Hamlin,
Mrs. Henry s. Willard, Miss Jennie Dean,
Mr. Henry NJ. Baker, Mr.. Samuel r. Bond,
Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, Mr.. Otto H. Tit
mann, Rev James II. Bradford Dr. Bis
Church.