Evening star., 1909-06-22
Normal School No. | Gradu-
ates the Class of 1909.
NEW BUILDING POSSIBLE
Commissioner Macfarland Makes a
Prediction.
GROUP OF AMERICAN BEAUTIES
Representative Hobson Compliments
Girls About to Receive Diplomas.
Notices Absence of Flag.

Notices Absence of Flag.
Graduation exercises Of Washington
Normal School No. ]. were held this
morning in the assembly room Of the
Franklin School building. An address by
Commissioner Macfarland who predicted
that before long the Normal School Will
have a building of its own: speech by
Representative Hobson of Alabama, who
called attention to the fact that the flag
was missing from the decorations of the
room. and the impromptu singing of the
Star Spangled Banner as flag was
brought in were interesting features OF
the occasion.
Promptly at 1890 O'Clock the members
of the graduating classes, in the regular
and kindergarten courses, attfed IN
white filed I'M through both entrances to
the hall, to the applause of relatives.
friends. teachers and guests. lsefore
taking their seats on the stage. and al d
signal from Miss Bentley, the musical in
structor. the classes opened the exercises
hy singing in chorus Handels s Holy,
Holy
Congratulates the Glasses.
Rev Charles +. Guthrie. pastor of
Hamline NJ T.. Church. led in prayer,
after which DR.. Barton W. Evermann,
chairman of the committee on normal,
high and manual training schools of the
board of education. who presided at the
exercises, introduced Mr.. Macfarand.
The president of the board or COM
missioners congratulated the classes. and
complimenting the young women gradu-
ates drew a picture Of the beauty of the
scene, reflected in the eyes of admring
friends.
I'VE are going to get the Normal School
invite me to be present at your first
commencement exercises in the new
building.
This commencement is the most i'm
portant to our public school system Mr..
Macfarland remarked. because you who
are TO be teachers are Indispensable to
its success. The teacher and the pupil
alone are absolutely necessary. We are
glad to have better buildings and larger
facilities but If We have good teachers
the school product will be good what
ever the buildings or the facilities may
be.
In the past good teachers. working in
poor buildings and with limited means
turned out the fine men and women who
are carrying on our civic life today
You with your greater advantages should
make better teachers. and the next gen.
Grafton of public school graduates ought
to be better.
1T is a great trust and great re-
sponsibility to have the making of the
future citizens of the National Capital.
We congratulate you upon the oppor-
tunity and wish you all success not only
in your interest. but that of the COM
munity.'
Representative Hobson Speaks.
Representative Hobson offered his serv-
ices to the Normal School as a messenger
to take TO the Capitol word that the school
was ready for new building.
You can count on me to do all l can for
YOU" he said Il do not feel so very
much out of place here, because 1 was a
teacher once myself
He advised the Normal School graduates
always to instifl in their teaching the idea
of the greatness of this country which,
he said. is not nation. but an aggrega-
tion of nations.
America" he said. must not be COM
pared with nations. but with continents"
He referred TO the expanding organization
of industry. and declared there were dan
gers to liberty today such as the fore
fathers never dreamed of.
The representative then spoke of the
beautiful scene around him. (which Com
missioner Macfarland described so we'll"
Il do not refer to the decorations on the
WALL he said, but TO the human deco
rations. l have seen the iris of Japan.
the my VI Out nowhere nave L
ever seen flowers to compare with this
group Of American beauties beside me.
But there is one thing lacking. he
added as the applause died down.
II do not see the flag" came like a
shock to the audience.
For a moment there was silence, as
teachers and pupils glanced at one an
other, conscious that something had been
forgotten. Representative Hobson then
told of how. as a prisoner at Santiago
he watched day after day for the Ameri-
can flag. and how he now looks for it or
all occasions.
Flag Is Procured.
Greatly impressed by the words, the pu-
pills started at once to make amends, and
long before Representative Hobson fin
ished his address, flag was procured and
secretly passed to the center Of the
stage. There was hurried conference
between some of the teachers and ther
whispered instructions were passed along
TO the pupils on the stage.
As Representative Hobson finished Gs
address the class arose. the flag was un
furled, and with the greatest enthusiasm
everybody in the hall stood up and. lee
by the graduates, sang the Star Span
Sled Banner with spirit.
Capt. James +. oyster, president of the
board of education conferred the dipio-
mas. The exercises closed with "Pippa S
Song" Miss Sallie t. Mason and Mrs. c.
V. Byram, accompanies.
Received Diplomas.
Those who received diplomas were:
Regular course-Elsie May Allwine, Mel
lie Boyle. Mabel A. Byer Cornelia Rey-
nolds Capers. Ethel Haxton Carswell
Mary Elizabeth Cobey, Elsie Janet Cum
ningham. Grace Irene Curl. Gertrude Jo-
sephine Dixon, Freda Dorothy Egbert,
Iottie Lee Fahrenbruch. Ella Davidson
Falconer, Margaret Gessford Jennie Har-
mel. Harriet Ellen Harding. Sara Teresa
Hart. Mamie France Hefiin, Helen Ma
linda Herbert, Florence Mabel Hillyard
Selma Kause. 1rma Louise King, Myrtle
Virginia King. Olga Edith Krey. Mary
Katherine Lowry. Elizabeth Cummins
Magruder. Joy Hills Marston. Alice May
McElvare. Marie Cecilia McGill, Mary Nc
kee, Grace Gettings Meyer. Cornelia Fea-
kins Muddman, Ethel Irene Noack. Eliza
beth Tabler Petingale. Laura Virginia
Pyweli. Mary Agnes Cecilia Rafferty,.
Bernice Dunnell Randall Grace Rice. Bes-
sic Robinson. Sadie Pauline Rucker Grace
Anatolia Schneider. Fredericka Denman
Smith. Laura Virginia Speer Emily La
vinia Sprightley. Mary Adeline Stephen
son. Imogene Cawood Stockett, Marie
Louise Stockett Ethel Swaine. Myrtle
Louis Thomas. Gertrude Thomas. Joseph
inc Marie Tomlin. Louise Veihmeyer and
Sarah Elizabeth Watkins.
kindergarten Course.
Margaret Mary Barrett. Ruth Collins
Elizabeth Pullen Crawford. Mildred
Earnest, Katharine Follin. Clara Cynthit
Grandfield Margaret Purnell Handy
Er;d IIoISep Geneyjeye Kinnear Am,