The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-27
DRAKE COLLEGE
GRADUATES TOLD
TO Be OPT|MISTS
Rev. DR.. James |. Vance Advises
lis Business Pupils to
See Bright Side.
YEARLY COMMENCEMENT
AT THE ORANGE THEATRE
Special Music Feature of Affair.
No Essays or
Orations.

Optimism was the subject of an adj
dress delivered by the Rev. DR.. James
J.. Vance, of the North Reformed
Church, this city, to lis graduates of
the various departments of the Drake
Business College of Orange at the an
nual commencement at the Orange
Theatre last night. He urged them to
look on the bright side of things and to
lead useful, cheerful lives.
The program opened with the chorus
Anchored by the graduating class.
THE Rev. Jacob A. Cole, of the Orange
M. E. Church, delivered the invocation,
n Attorney Edward l.. Davis, of the
class of '0S, gave the opening address.
w. Stanley Grinsted sang several solos.
The graduating class sang The New
American Hymn and President Albert
j. Gleason. of the Drake College, spoke
to the graduates on their work.
Principal Charles LeMaster presented
the diplomas and the Rev. Howard H.
Brown, of the Washington Street Bap-
fist Church, CAV the b~enediction.
AAsS OI NEAuttHtess
The graduates were:
Commercial, Shorthand Course
Katherine Williamson, Elsie Oakley,
Elsie Paynter, Frank Maffee, Emily
Lee, Florence Brown, Leah Unbe-
hagen, Jacob Berkowitz, Margaret
Lankau, Mabel Swayzee, Katherine
Westendorf, Stanley Strobert, Cleve
Soaring, Carl Snyder, Louise Sibbold,
Hortense Goldsmith, Gertrude Peter
son, Anna Meyer, Josephine Borgquist,
Edith Castro.
Commercial Course-Walter Laidlaw,
Sinclair Skirrow, Minerva Ferguson,
Helen Brands. Stella Brennan, Bertha
Eich, Andrew Eckel, Carl Greenwald,
John Halliday, Grace Kirwen, ina
Mackenzie, Josephine Hamler, Clifford
Miller, Mildred Thompson, James Har-
rington. Amanda Sautter, Bryan *.
Ogden, j. Easton Williams, William A.
Smith, Herbert Pike, j. Reeder Man
ming, Fred Wilee, Georgia Lees, Cath
crime Rogers, Cornell Schultz, Emma
DeIigny, a. Lincoln Collins, jr., Leo
Norris, Frieda Massmann, Minnie
Riehl, Ellsworth Stroud, Milton Sheen
thai, Mary Smith, Mary Savage, Ed
warn lOTTeS, M. COllSldHC6 WllSOl,
Walter Gottlick, Roscoe Hubert, Anna
Roth, George O'Brien, Hubert Har-
rington, William Beck, Christopher
Henry, Anna C.. James. Loretta A.
Smith, Albert Voss, Jennie L~uscombe,
Myra Livingston, Carl Hoffman, Rose
Hever, Walter Hall, Patrick Dunbar,
George DeHart, Martha Van Wagner,
Myra Meeker, Edward Norz.
Shorthand Course-F1orence Hayes,
Margaret DeGroot, Ruth Cramer.
Grace Clark. May Burke, Ethel Brad
bury, Amanda Greenwald, Anna Rolf,
Grace Gefkan, Jennie Rogers. Rose Ella
Loughran, Elizabeth Foggarty, Bulah
Hoideluff, Margaret Lee, Agnes Burt,
James Cole, Emily Austin, Anna Stair,
c. Veronica Sisto, Harriet Mass, Ger
trude Gross, Ida Reinhardt, Hanna
Young, Loretta Hart, Mary McDon-
ough, Rose Conroy, Loretta Hollum,
Jessie Stalker, Edna beats, Nellie Ball,
Theresa Murphy, Elizabeth Martin,
Amelia Riker, Annette Seery, Gertrude
pfeiffer, Elizabeth Roth, Mauricena
Rogler, Anna Spellman, Gertrude
Th~eissinger, Maud Murray, Pauline
VanDenderen, May Dolan, Rose Albert,
Margaret Murray, Florence Dowd. Ber-
tina Fund, Mary Healy, Raye Hance,
Elsie Little, Elizabeth Collins, Maude
Cross, Joseph Polakoff, Carrie Meyer,
May Blauvelt, Marion Cook, Roscoe
Jacobs, Grace Mortimer.