New-York tribune., 1906-06-29
EXERCISES AT NO 96.
Delightful Programme Given by Mrs. Pell's
Girls.

Though the graduating exercises at Public School
10 which took place yesterday morning at 10 o'clock,
had had no preparations beyond little given out
sioe the school hours and work and no rehearsals
Whatever, they went off smoothly If the chill
dren had been put through the programme again
and again. Public School 9s stands at sist street
ana Avenue A, and has the enormous number Of
three thousand pupils. Yesterday thirty-fve girls
ms years graduates OF the girls division-received
their diplomas from the hands Of Assistant Superin-
tendent Meleney. Of the Board OF Education Dr.
Meleneys presence at the exercises was source
or great qualification to the teachers and pupils OF
no :" since II is not every school that secures him
on these occasions.
dozen small girls held the rose-covered arches
under which the graduates marched into the as
sembly room. brave in the dmples and flowers and
the crisp white muslins and embroderies that made
Them as one man the platform said. what
every girl graduate is-pretty." There not
many pupils in that school whose being there does
not represent some sacrifice the part of the
parents, but the graduating class was as dainty
as any principal could wish.
Benjamin Blumenthal. chairman of the local
school board in that district, presided. With him
on the platform Mrs. z. g Pen. principal of
the grammar department of No. ss: Miss o'Brien,
principal Of the primary; DR.. Meleney. the Rev. Dr.
Tinker, .r,sr, bT: James Haney director of manual
school board. and several others.
this and The otbeT musical nmbers Is b SSneSi ana
under the direction Of Miss Loretta C. Ryan,
whose voices probably are just St the sverase e Es
pecally did the audience like the part song The
Bells the German song, The Two Grenadiers .
and Red White and Blue" sung TO the waving
OF silken nags Then there were a rose drill by the
class. quotations given in rapid succession by one
GIT after another both in English and in German.
and number OF recitations. One OF the last
Hows Ny Boy?" was given very well indeed by
Hannah MoskogitZ. -
The Word of Welcome" read by Jeanette
AAtizggeTrsdorfer Aiigs and the Word of Farewell by
Come people in the audience wondered why the
appiause an the pupils gave the graduates as they
vent up one py one, to receive their diplomas was
20 tnGea louder for julia lsermann and jeanette
t.,~eeEsaorier and Margaret VI. Daily than for IN.
ooneIs ons Wnen s the medals were awarded they dis
eosetsa Juia was the lucky or, rather industri
ki Gus s,It VINO wore the medal offered by the loea
s es pSafd % ior general proficiency and Jeanett,
Cared n, on ne medal given by Mrs Pell and Mar
sastduauinns class these also for general pro
q, The class did not have all the programme OF
people talked 70 them DIR. Meleney made an "a
aress ana 50 did DIR. HAney, Louis Bacp ana ~,
Ilnhsf. one and all OF these speakers discaimn,
Inakins any address however They sal -
ttt themselves members of the family al phil
Scnool s and they just talked" ~ lie f,i,s Np'i
Altogether, the exercises went off with p briet,
hess which quite nts in with the fact lbaT IT,
NUMBER OF the children in this school are
or the tribune Sunshine Society. About one fho.,
SAND OF them form a branch of this society ~