Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-15
TECH SCHOOL CLOSES
Commencement Exercises at
New National Theater.
DIPLOMAS TO GRADUATES
Introductory Remarks by Commits
sioner mcfarland.
ADDRESS BY PROF. MONOGRAM
Commissioner West Presents the Dip
Tomas - Retiring Principal Re
ceives Loving Cup.
ADDRESS BY PROF. MONOGRAM

ceives Loving Cup.
The series of high school commencements
which require the attendance of the board
of Commissioners. the board of education
the school officials and faculties for fun
week. began last evening with the closing
exercises of the Mckinley School at the
National Theater.
That training gives peculiar advantages
Is well Illustrated by the success of your
graduates in after lifes" said Mr.. Mac
fariand we have reason to be proud of
what they have already achieved and to be
hopeful of their future. Tonight in the
presence of their families and friends, We
rejcicc with them in what they have done
anE what they are going to do. Above all,
We trust and believe that they are to be in
character like the man whose name honors
this school"
With beautifully decorated stage. pro-
fuse display of national bunting and arm
fuls of flowers. the graduating classes OF
the four-year course and the two-year
course made a particularly fine picture, es-
pecially at the close of the program. wheh
a company OF cadet ushers bore to each OF
the seniors the masses of flowers, books
and other presents which had arrived con-
tinuously through the exercises.
were present, Mr.. Parker. DIR. kingsman
ana Mrs West With Commissioner Mac
farland on the stage were Commissioner
West. Superintendent Stuart ana DIT Far
don.
AS the Marine Band. after overture
from Jolly Fellows" and scenes from
''Traviata." played the march our d.
rector" the long line of htty-three mem
bers OF the class completing the four-year
course and of thirty-pine members of the
two-year course filed upon the stage. con-
slant rattle OF applause being kept up BY
the audience as particular graduates were
recognized
The invocation was pronounced by Rabbi
Louis Stern.
The Addresses.
Commissioner Macfarland made the intro
ductory remarks pointing out particularly
the value of manual training and indicating
the dexterity OF the human hand as dis
tinguishing characteristic of man among
animals and as symbolic of mankinds m
tellectural superiority.
The address of the evening was made py
James c. Monaghan. chief OF division oil
consular reports. bureau OF manufactures,
Department of Labor, who was introduced
as an authority upon Industrial educatoh
Mr. Monaghan. after some pleasing
stories which won attention and applause
gave a series of statistics to show America
to be the land of unlimited opportunity. He
spoke of the remarkable wealth OF the ma
ton of its being the most wonderful coun-
other land except, perhaps China, in the
2 vastness OF It's possibilities Of production
and development.
The nation he said borrowing German
adage, that has the schools has the future
: and paraphrased that idea by adding that
the nation that has the schools and the
raw material has the future. where
country in addition has manual training
schools the aim of which Is to correlate
school activities with life. then indeed is
the future luminous. Every. hamlet he
said well as every town, should nave
schools of the Mckinley type.
The scholarship to Washington and Lee
University was awarded by Superintendent
Stuart to John Frederick Mattern, the
two alternates being Maj. William Lewis
and Henry Barnard Myers.
Loving Cup for Mr.. Gardner.
The presentation of the diplomas by Com
missioner West was interrupted when the
name of Eugene Trueman Leger was called
By the young man unexpectedly pausing to
make an address.
He said that some of the students de-
sired to express their appreciation of Mr..
Gardner
I'VE have known A. L Gardner" he said.
las a teacher. as friend and man.
We shall always remember him the first
and best principal of the first and best
manual training school in this land. To
him is due the excellent moral tone of the
school. Tonight he goes out with our class.
and as a token Of respect for him we
wish to present this loving cup"
Mr.. Leger' sspirited manner won applause.
and Mr.. Gardner In reply stated that he
deeply appreciated this latest expression of
good will.
This is an unexpected feature of the
program to me-" he said II appreciate
deeply this latest expression of your good
will. l accept this beautiful keepsake. and
wish you all success and happiness.
The cup is of silver about fifteen inches
high. and suitably engraved, while on the
handles were streamers of scarlet and gray
ribbons. the schools colors.
Following is a list OF the graduates:
Four-Year Course.
Ralph Horton Barbour, Charles Frederick
Boss Charles Chester Caywood. Bruce
Cleveland Howard Cleveland. George Cor
nelius Collins Louis Henry Crook Robert
Francis Dyer John Wycoff Fenton, Clyde
Davis Garrett, James Francis Carney.
Burton Hotchklss. Charles Alpha Rowland,
Noble Danforth Larner. Joseph Edward
Law. Henry Sumner LeDuc. Eugene Free
man Leger. William Lewis. Francis Smith,
MARROW John Frederick Mattern. John
Crosby Mccarthy, Henry Bernard Myers,
James Francis Pierce, Theodore +. Pimper,
Arthur Rohrman, John b. Simpson, Stanley
Arthur Searle. Hoxie Yost Smith. Winaioe
Ulysses Stelnberg. William Buchanan
Sullivan. Vernon Palmer Turnburke. George
Pelham Walton. Earl Harper Warren.
Edward Wallace Wiseman. Hardassah
Backus, mary EFeIyn beDeh' ShaI ieho
Colburn Browne. Edna Eugene Dent,
Mary Elizabeth Duehay. Jessie Claire FISH
er, Ray Fisher Flora Ganss. Vena Melissa
Graeves Mabel Elizabeth Grigsby, Hazel
Haines Leila Bailey HardelL Aurora May
Hodges Louise Christine Moreland, Vera
Caroline Spier. Edith Eleanor Wilson. Mary
Price Yeatman.
Two-Year Course.
Clarence Albert Bundick. Milton Rock
wood Daniels. George Clelad DeNeale
Carleton Ula Edwards. Jay Stuart Free
man. Walter Gartslde Jones. Howard Gus
tay Kneessi. Cyrus Mantz. jr.. Henry Ar
thur Nelson. Frederick Morris Pelzman
George Edward Rohrman. William Henry
Rohrman, William Henry Rupertus, John
Jacob Snidow. Theodore Ellis Stokes Helen
Terry Ashley. Blanche Bailey, Susie Cath
crime Beall, Choral Boyd. Anna Louise
Burnham. Jessie Rayman Davis. Mildred
Nargaretta Faunce, Grace Harriet Fulton
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