Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
NEWS FROM FALLS CHURCH.
Commencement Exercises Of the Pub
lie Graded School.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
FALLS CHURCH. Va. May 80 1908
The commencement exercises of the
public graded schools of the town took
place yesterday afternoon at the school
building in charge of the principal. Mrs
George c. Birch Rev. W S o. Thomas
exercises with prayer The following
program was rendered: Song by the school.
Columbia, the Gem Of the Ocean; rect
tat.ons by seven pupils of the fifth and
sixth grades. The Dandelons": group
of songs. second grade pupils: Memorial
day exercises The Flag" thirteen
pupils. fifth and sixth grades. song.
five high school girls. recit alton The
Reason Why Frank Hazard song. third
and fourth grade girls. The Shell and
Sandman; recitation. My Neighbor."
Ernestine Whitley: trio. Beautiful
Follansbee. Edith Bell: recitation. The
Skeleton in Armor." Genevieve Chaplin:
song. Wandering" fifth and sixth
grades: recitation. Mark Antony's Ora
ton Master Horace King. Mac Fadeley.
group of songs. by school. recitation.
"Contentment." Miss Margaret Fravel;
recitation. IN Try and I Can't Master
Henry Royston; song. School is Done, ;"
school
At the conclusion of the program Mr.
Merton E Church. member of the school
board. made an address.
The promotions in the school are as fol-
lows: Miss Brownie Arundel. teacher
from first to second grade. Mitchell An
derson. Tyler Birch. Willard Caldwell
George Crossman. James Downing. Ray
mond Eddy, Gordon Finacome, Virginia
Fellows. Harold Lawhead. Eloise
Newell. Henry Royston. Wray Rich
ardson. Eugene Smoot, Edgar Van
denmark, Morris Wheeler. Paul Yates:
conditional. Mary Blanton; from sec
ond to third grade. Lillith Adams.
Bessie Banks Charlie Blanton. Russell
Bean. David Crenshaw. Welby Downs,
Edna Downs, Margarete Dickinson. Mar
garet Fravel. Louise Greene. Carroll How
ard. Emily Harrison. Clara Hale Mar
garet Moore, Sterling Newell, Sylvia Pot
ter, Mary Quick. Marion Sparrow. Onida
Shotwell; conditional. Keith Wheeler
Miss Lillith L. Campbell teacher. from
third to fourth. Ruth Banks. Kathryn
Frank Hazard, Lawrence Harrison. For
rest Howard. Florence King, Josephine
Lupton, Winnifred Lee. Olive PARROT
Mary Slade. Fife Thompson: conditional.
Ellison Lee. Paul Potter. Ernestine
Whitley: from fourth TO fifth, Cecil
Carter. Myrtle Downs. Frank Higgins,
Helen Hough. Laura Lowe. Robert
Moore. Lena PETER Luciel Priest. Vir-
GINA Richardson, Delavan Thompson.
Harold Talbot Lawrence Westcott; con-
ditional Florence Blackburn. Daisy Car
ter, Alfred Swift, Vernon WHITLEY, Clar-
ence Ward Mrs H. c. Haight. teacher
from fifth to sixth. Louise Browning.
Edith Bell. Vaille Camp, Kate Crenshaw.
Florence Crossman. Genevieve Chaplin
Charles Fadelev, Robert Garner, Hilda
Greene. Frederick -Hodgson. Prince Hodg
son, George Lester. David Lehman. Mel
vim Lester. Nellie Lowe. Doris Moore.
Miriam Payne. Pearl Potter. Lena Roys-
ton Nivienne Snoot, Hattie Updike. Sue
Wheeler. From sixth to seventh. Fred
Blackburn. Lillian Browning. William
Crossman. Marian Higgins. Katherine
Garner. Arbon Hodgson. Harold Hodgson.
Ethel Hazard. Walton Knott Helen Kim
ball. Lillian Shreve. Stanley Thompson.
Talmadge Thorne, Clarence Updike To
arst year high school. Mrs. George C.
Birch. principal. Russell Browning, Her
bert Everett. Francis Hayward, Cecil
Lawhead. Stephen McGroarty, Eulalia
Rice, William Sparrow. Carroll Thomas.
year high school. Louise Byrne. Arthur
Everett Mac Fadeley. Susie Follansbee
Lavolette Hale Norman Hummer
Horace King. Willard Quick. Mabel Shot
we'll. Virge Shotwel
At a meeting of the town school board
was elected principal Of the school for
the next term: Mrs George C Birch in
charge of the high school with Miss
Emma Seaman as assistant. Miss Lille
l. Campbell. third and fourth grades. and
Miss Brownie c. Arundel. primary depart
ment. The board increased the salaries
of all the teachers for the ensuing year
The school board is composed of DR..
George B. Fadeley, charman: F. H
Eastman, clerk. and Merton E. Church.