The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-21
NAGEL lis ELOQUENT
In TALK TO CLASS
Address by Cabinet Officer to
Western High Graduates.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL HIS THEME
supt. Stuart Gives sketch of the In
stitution and Pays Glowing Trfb-
ute TO Miss Edith westcott, It's
Principal - Miss Giascock Wins
Wellesley Scholarship.

Thirty-eight young women and twenty
three young men, who have worked four
years In the classrooms Of Western High
School. received their rewards yesterday
in the shape of diplomas. presented dur
ing commencement exercises that were
simple and at the same time impressive.
Columbia Theater, the scene OF West
ern's graduations. was comfortably filled
with friends and relatives.
Scores of pretty feminine graduates Of
the old Georgetown school and as many
young men who owe their allegiance 10
it made the theater ring with plaudits
for the latest additions 10 the alumni.
Secretary OF Commerce and Labor
Nagel gave a brief and eloquent sum
mary OF what a high school education
should mean TO those who attain one.
"A high school Is the one distinctly
American educational institution. he
said. Il believe that the boy or girl who
has enjoyed one OF our public school ed
locations has acquired that with which
the fight of life can be successfully
made.
They are splendidIy equipped, but
high school building. for instance. no
matter how beautiful il may be, is, after
all, only the shell The faculty, the
teachers, and the spirit OF the students
these are the soul OF education.
''The sympathetic relations between
teacher and scholar, which are found so
wonderfully apparent in our public
schools. is their greatest asset You can
not give anything that is worth while
10 the world unless you give a part OF
your heart with It. That is what makes
the profession Of teaching so hard.
Opportunity and Success.
Now it is not opportunity alone that
viii bring you success. It is the power
10 seize opportunity when 1t comes You
should have attained that power.
II have always held that the rich mans
son has only half chance against the
world, because when his opportunity
comes he is so apt TO lay down upon IL
He has the temptation TO ignore IL But
the poor boy who has struggled uphill
toward his strength viii fight for it and
grasp it thankfully"
Secretary Nagel said success. after all.
IS not what It used TO be. Individual
success, he said. we have come 10 real
ize. is little. 1t is the success that helps
woman who obtains IT, he asserted, that
is worth while
- are all patches on the same Quilt.
We have come 10 realize that We must
know deep in our hearts that we owe
our allegiance not only 10 ourselves, that
we must work not only for our own well
fare. but that this guilt may be more
closely knit"
The Secretary closed with a beautifully
worded appeal for more generous human
ity, declaring the helping hand is more
10 be preferred than the clenehed fist.
Supt. Stuart Announces Awards.
supt- Of Schools Alexander T. Stuart,
announcing the awards of honor for the
year, gave sketch Of Western High,
incidentally paying a glowing tribute 10
Miss Edith Wescott, its principal. who
has started so many girls and boys on
the highway Of success.
He said Western owes it's name, and Is.
in fact, a direct successor of the school
started by Thomas Jefferson and some
Of his contemporaries los years ago.
There is hardly a college in the coun-
Try. he declared. which has not at least
one alumnus who prepared ct Western.
Vice President William v Cox, of the
upon Rev. DR.. Z. G. B. Pierce. pastor
of All Souls Unitarian Church, for the
invocation.
The following members Of the senior
class graduated with honors: Miss Eliz-
abeth May Armes, Miss Margaret WI
son Bell Miss Dorothy Cobb, Miss Lena
Virginia Curtis, Miss Hannah Schrock
Gillespie, Miss Ella Elizabeth Glascock.
Miss Eleanor Margaret Hugh. Miss Char
iotte O'Byrne Saunders. Miss Helen ITp-
degran. Frank Joseph German, Paul
Richmond, jr., and George Edward Whit |
weH.
Miss Ella E Glascock won a scholar
ship to Wellesley in competitive examt-
ration. Frank J. German passed the
examinations for the United States Rev
Service with credit
The stage was tastefuIy decorated
with palms. In addition to the speakers.
Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph was pres
emf and delivered the diplomas.
Ihere was an entertaining programme
0I music by n section Of the Marine Band. !
List of Graduates.
The graduates are:
Juanita Townsend Anderson, Helen Irene Apnle-
Elizabeth Nay Armes Jessie Ames. Margaret
Wilson Bell, Edith Campbell Louisa LYNCH Car
nody. Florida Frances Clevenger. Dorothy Cobb
Anna Ramsay Cumpston. Leona Virginia Curtis |
Susie Howard Davis. Alice Jeanette De Mar. Doro |
thy Dobyns Mary Elizabeth Easton. Marjorie |
hsndin Edson, Rosa KOn Calm Hannah schrock /
GHles ne Ella Elizabeth Giascock, Esther Louise
hende son. Emily Ome Hetheld. Ada Louise |
hinzeih Mildred Ray Hoge Eleanor Margaret 4
Hough. Florence Mae Howard. Mary Vireinia /
hibier, Edna Hazel Lads0 Isabelle Murphy /
Josephine Newell. Fannie Bell Ostrom. Ruth
Katherine Rice, Ethel Richards. Isabelle Rizer
Sharotte o Byme Saunders Josephine Stambangh /
Helen updesraf, Martha Dyson Waters Winifred /
Wilson.
Roger Morse Bone. John S. Burrell Robert f /
Daniel, Thomas Hambleton Dawson. William RILEY
Decide. James Duyan. George DashielI Fowle
Nelson sandys George NJ. AlvoFd Gore Prank /
Joseph German arthur Randolph Guy. Harold G. 4
Hayes. William Milton Johnson William DouesI
Lee1ch, John Lyon, Newman Blaine Mallan. Valen-
Inc May. James Taylor Richards. Paul Richmond
r. Theodore Mead Robbie. William GUY sbreye
George Hunt Weber. George Edward WhitweIl.
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