The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-06-09
CLOSING OF WESTMINSTER HIGH
SCHOOL.
Fourteen Students Graduate and Ger
tificates Of Honor are Awarded.

Fourteen Students Graduate and Ger
tiicates Of Honor are Awarded.
The closing exercises Of the West
minister High School were held on
Monday evening, the 9Th instant when
the pupils who have finished their
course in the eighth, ninth, tenth and
eleventh grades received their diplo-
mas This year there were ia gradu-
ates, the largest class up to date.
a very intelligent and remarkably
attentive audience filed the auditori-
UNI OF the High School building at an
early hour; the stage was almost
buried under beautiful flowers and
ported plants arranged with much ar
tistic effect, and the students march
ed in with orderly step showing the
results OF excellent discipline, the I'M
der graduates taking seats which had
been reserved i'm the hall, while the
graduates went upon the stage
The essays and orations were deltv-
cred with composure and in ~ i'm
pressive manner, and the subjects
were handled very creditably, and
showed the training and research
through which the graduates had
passed. The exercises were inter
spersed with splendid music from the
orchestra, and the applause showed
that the audience appreciated this
part of the program, as well as they
did the speaking. Although the
speaker, Rev. VIM. IT. Hetrick, pastor
OF Grace Lutheran Church, who kind
ly consented to address the graduates,
received only a short notice, vet his
address was indeed very appropriate
and instructive The speaker with
telling effect maintained that after all,
The chief thing is Useful Service. !"
Brushing aside with striking illus
trations the popular, the ornamental,
the commercial and the selfish, he
showed that uprightness in character
and service for others are the only
things which can give a person en-
during comfort and final success.
Prof. Simpson, county superintend-
ent, announced that the Board Of
School Commissioners had taken
steps in the direction Of adding a
Domestic Science Department, i'm
proving the conditions for teaching
physics, and also the selection of a
grade supervisor.
The graduating class is as follows:
Mary Marguerite Copenhaver, of Sill
yer Run; Hollis Pauline Lester, Hat
tie Mae Willet, of Medford; Lucas Al
bert Lambert, of New Windsor; Lii
liam Marie KINNEY, Azalea Shipley,
Esther Mae Six, Ellen Katherine
Stone, Helen Levinia Stonesifer, Mae
Beauregard Williams, Jennie Marjorie
Yingling, George Arthur Little, Rob
ert Allen Sharrer, Julian Francis
Williams. The students who had COM
mencement parts were Hattie Mae
Willett, essay, Domestic Science for
High School Girls; George Arthur
Little, Grafton, Canadian Reciprocity
Hollis Pauline Leister, essay, Mary
land Song Birds; Mary Marguerite
Copenhaver, essay, Local Option in
Maryland; Azalea ShipIey, essay, The
Moving Picture Show. All the mem
bers of the class received diplomas.
Certificates Of honor and honorable
mention were awarded the following
pupils:
Fourth Grade-Certiicate Gather
inc Jones; honorable mention, Edwin
Helwig, Milton Rosenstock.
Fifth Grade-Certificate, Charles
Cassell; honorable mention, Irene
Eckenrode, Mary MornIngstar.
Sixth Grade-Certifcate Helen
Fowble; honorable mention, Richard
Roop, Elizabeth Lewis.
Seventh Grade-Certificate, ThOs
Shaw; honorable mention, Dorothy
Mcdaniel, Marie Englar.
Eighth Grade-Certifcate Erman
Kaufman; honorable mention, Reba
Stremmel, Zela Cash.
Ninth Certificate, Rollins
Otto; honorable mention, Ethel Roop
Louise Matthews.
Tenth Grade.-Certifcate Velma
Fleming; honorable mention, Rubie
Yeiser, Mary Weagley.
The elocution prize was awarded tc
Aza1ea Shipley, Of the graduating
class; the eighth grade composition
prize to Ruth ReinecKe; the ninth
grade composition prize to Eugene
Walsh.
The exercises were under the di-
rection Of George F. Morelock, prin-
cipal of the school.