New-York tribune., 1907-01-31
EXERCISES At p. S. 90.
Sunshine" the Keynote of Dances
and Decorations.

Commencement in Public School &C. Avenue
A and Slst street, took place yesterday morning
and was a Sunshine event from beginning 10 end.
No e6 is Sunshine school. and the only reason
that every girl in 1t does not belong 10 the
7. s. s. Is because the president Miss Sarah NJ
Osborne cannot manage such large organiza-
tion and has been obliged 70 make membership
ia the branch a reward OF merit. But all wore
the Sunshine colors. which happened also to be
the colors OF the graduating clasB. yesterday
morning. and at G>e close OF the ceremonies
Miss Mamie Fink stepped forward and deco
rated e11 chairman Louis p Bach. chairman Of
the local school board. with an orange and
white how. The room was decorated in orange
and white and the graduates. who all wore
white dresses with white ribbons white carna-
tions and snilax IN their hair. entered under
arches OF orange and white. held by the younger
girls. There were Indian club drill. with yel-
low paper clubs instead OF wooden Ones and an
exhibition Of ancient and modern dancing given
by a group Of girls wearing white dresses with
yellow chrysanthsmums In their hair, the an
cient dance being the ninuet and the modern
some elaborate fancy steps. Then Just for
change. there was a snowflake drill by snow
msidens In gauzy white dresses and hats
spansled with silver stars
No. 30 always has sunshtny weather for it's
iesuVltiess but yesterday morning began in
gloom. Never mind" said Miss Osborne when
tne principal, Mrs. E. 8. PeI said that she was
AFRAID the weather man going TO fail them
we must just have all the more sunshine inside"
But the weather man thought better Of It after
a while, and just the graduating class rose
70 give some Sunshine quotations. selected from
sthe Sunshine column. the sun burst from behind
the clouds and the room flooded with sun
shine.
The address OF welcome was given by Anna
Hendel who took the first honor, Mrs Pells
gold medal, and Henrietta Engelmann who
stood next in order OF scholarship. gave the
farewell. There were several choruses and three
part songs by the school. and addresses were
given by the Rev. John T. Prout the Rev.
Joseph Taubenhaus, and c. O. Leland superin-
tendent Of the libraries OF the Board OF Educa-
ton. Mr.. Bach presented the medals and d.
plomas, and after the ceremonies were over the
guests were invited to go up 10 the cooking
school for refreshments. This was a surprise
prepared by the cooking class. and even the
principal did not know Il was coming
The graduates were Margaret Bartel Susan
Brennan Anna Brown. Margaret Buxbaun
Martha Cohen Victoria Danjunas Frieda Dek-
anovsky. Estelle de Young, Henrietta EnseI-
man, Rebecca Faifenkopf Mary Frame, Emily
Garnjost, Emily Hallstein. Anna Hamn1ere
Anna Hendel. Margaret Hernsdorf Mary In
field. Sadie Kahn Rose Klein, Victoria Levin
Meta Meyer. Mary Minarek. Vera Mollack Jo-
sephne Peterson, Henrietta Potash Augusta
PREM, Beatrice Prochazka. Minnie QuelIer
Frieda Rosenblun, Gertrude Samose Caroline
Schulze, Ruth Schwartz, Yetta Siegel Mary
Skokan, Sadie Stein. Anna Stransky Sylvia
Taubenhaus. josephine Tchacek. Ruth Tien-
ken and Mary Wigmore.