Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-13
CoL0RED PUPILS GRADUATED
JOINT EXERCISES HELD IN CON.
vENTIoN HALL.
Normal School No. 2, High School
and Manual Training School Com
Inducements Held.

The fourth joint commencement exer-
cises of Washington Normal Schoo' No ,
NJ Street High School, and Armstrong
Manual Training School were held last
night in Convention Hall.
The arched roof OF the big auditorium
was decorated with hundreds of flags. the
national colors and pennants of the
schools.
While the audience was entering the
hall the Marine Band played popular
music. The graduates entered the hall
to the strains Of The High School Cadet
March"
After the invocation by Rev J. H
WEIGH. pastor of Metropolitan A. NJ E
Church. the graduates listened to an ad.
dress by William H. Lewis. assistant
United States district attorney of Bos-
ton Mass.
High Places Attainable
He spoke Of the uses of education and
told his audience that there was nothing
to prevent them from reaching the high
est points in the worlds usefulness.
circumstances Of birth and race today
are nothing. If in any way they should
become handicap. remember that handi-
caps indicate greater strength. II at
~SlKneO
down, screw your courage to the stick
ing point and redouble your Efforts
J. }. Dawson vice president of Liberia
VINO was the guest of the schools. made a
congratulatory address to the graduates
On the platform were William H. Lewis
W. Stafford. Supt. A T. Stuart. Rev. j.
H. WEIGH, Asst. Supt r. c. Bruce, Com
missioner Morrow. ". T. S. Jackson Miss
NJ. Kirkland. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell
Asst. supt. P. N: Hughes. w. V. Cox
1r,,t~
Charlotte e. Hunter. DR.. Lucie E. Moten
Henry West. DR.. w. B. Evans. John F.
Cook. Mrs ]. r. Hill, Miss NJ Murrill
Prof. Barton w. Evermann. Mrs Ellen
Spencer Mussey. r. r. Horner. H. O.
Hine. Chief Justice Harry NJ Clabaugh
Justice Job Barnard, Justice Ashley NJ
Gould. Justice Daniel Wright and Justice
Wendell P. Stafford.
Scholarship Awards.
The announcement of scholarship
awards aroused great interest. They were
as follows:
College of Arts and Sciences of Howard
University, two scholarships of $50 each
to Juanita Howard and Owen Matthews.
Dental college of Howard [ University
scholarship to George Reynolds
Dartmouth College, scholarship to Ced-
rio Z. Francis.
Amherst College. scholarship to Edward
B. Gray.
Scholarship Of the principal of the NJ
Street High School of $50 to Edward b
Gray.
Faculty scholarship Of the NJ Street
High School of 800 to Edward B. Gray.
Diplomas Presented.
DR.. Barton W. Evermann, vice presi-
dent Of the board of education, delivered
the diplomas as follows: Normal school
kindergarten department. Ethel K. Belch-
er. Mary L. Powell. Marie L. De Vaul,
Regular course. Rachel L. Anderson,
Imogene B. Charleston, Louise l.. Denny,
Cordelia NJ. Dent Mary L. Ferguson.
Minnie P. Graham, Frances W. Hall, Ar
tency @. Harris, Dorothy A. Johnson.
Mabel D. Johnson. Olive Z. Jones, Ellen
L. Lee. Lucie R. Lewis. Natalie s. Lewis.
Georgia S. Marston. Evelyn NJ Moss,
Adelia G. Parks. Audrey NJ Perry, Eva
Reid, Ella Sewall. Elizabeth b. Tancil,
Catherine L. Middleton. Jeanette Z.
Wesley. Clara r. Wilson, Zellaca c.
Minor
N Street High School.
Anna Elizabeth Adams, Lillian
Gwendolin Alexander. Clifton Edward
Amber. Richard Edward Banks
Julius Bowley, Margaret Elizabeth,
Brent, Clara Cecilia Brown. Huver Isaiah
Brown, Montague Augustine Brown, Della
Anna Bundy, George Edgar Butler Mary
Victoria Campbell, Valerie Chase, Harry
Sylvester Clark, Jennie Lucille Clark
Sadie Catherine Golfer, Franz Coleman.
Gertrude Vashti Collins. Aiyce Gertrude
Cooper. Austin Maurice Curtis. jr., Alma
Ruth Davis. Ethel Catherine Davis. Diet
rich Samuel Dishman, Gertrude Thomas
ena Dodson, Jennie Lind Bowling. Violet
Carroll Ferguson Sterling ~Otelius Fields.
Charles Bennett Fisher, Cedric Enrol
Francis. Hiloa Victoria Freeman. Helen
Nicola Gordon, Adeline Elizabeth Gray.
Edward Benjamin Gray. Czarina Beulah
Hanson. Geneva Hardy, Juanlta Howard,
Annie Livingstone Hurley. Mabelle Madi-
son Jackson, Sylvester Johnson. Sadie
Rosetta Johnson. Clarice Alethea Jones,
Emma Dewitt Kennedy, Enez Mary
Louise Lacey. Grace Roberta Lancaster.
Lewis. James Alfred Marshall. Owen
Walter Matthews. Sophia Mae Mckinney,
Arthur Bancroft Mckinney, Raymond
Thomas Middleton. Obesine Louise
Mitchell, Annie harrison Murdoch. Louise
IAdella Overton. Beatrice Sedilla Patten.
Ernest Edward Peace. Eugenia Virginia
Perkins, Gertrude Elsie Pinn, Louis Alex
ander Robert Poindexter. George Arthur
Reynolds. Phoebe Goldie Robinson. Grace
Butler Rogers. Roscoe William Ross.
Beatrice Marion Ruffin, William August
inc Russell, Joseph Lincoln Shelton. Laura
Jennie Skinker. Evelyn Louise Slater.
Edna Marie Smith, Harriet Smith. Maude
Genevieve Smothers. Venetia Dell Stew
art Almira Lillian Street, James Edward
Thomas, Aurelia Octavia Thompson. Ma
bel Louise Turner. Bertha Blake Watson.
Nettie Pearl Williams, Mamie Blanche
Wilson, Callie Louise Young.
Armstrong Training Glass.
Armstrong Manual Training School
Four-year course-Sarah Drusilla Brooks,
Mildred Guinard Waddleton Miriam Hun
ster Worn,ley, Claudia Amanda Greene,
Cato Wesley Adams. Joseph Henry Bruce
Evans, Franklin Edward Parks, Annie
Lillian Evans, Ida May Brooks Taylor,
Irene lone Johnson. Estelle Murray
George Hamilton Mowbray and Russell
Harrison Carroll.
Two-year manual training course-Ma-
mic Virgin; a Hawkins. Mary Ellen Light
foot, Irene Otis Middleton, Florence Bea-
trlce Aurelia Thurston. Harriet Annette
Watkins, Charles Sumner Pryor, Amanda
Johnson. Beatrice Frances Logan, Hen
rietta Catherine Sutton, Emma Lee Thur
man. Mary Elizabeth Young and James
Parker Kelly.
Two-year bus mess course-Pearl Mildred
Christmas. Martha Althea Crews Bea-
trice Emma Jordan Matte MoZella Lind