Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-13
MANY PUPILS co UP
Promotion Certificates Given
at st. Johns College.
REGULATIONS AND SONGS
Tribute Is Paid to Educational
Work in Washington of the
Christian Brothers.
REGULATIONS AND SONGS

Certificates of promotion were awarded
TO students In the academic and prepara-
tory departments at the annual closing
exercises Of st. Johns College last night.
There was a program of recitation and
song. An appreciative audience of par
ents and friends Of the young pupils, who
range from eight to twenty years of age,
filled the hall, which was decorated with
flowers, the American flag and the col
lege colors.
Tribute was paid to the educational
work in Washington Of the Christian
Brothers. under whose direction ST.
Johns College is conducted by Rev. Will
liam J. Carroll. $. T. L., who presided
He also emphasized the necessity Of re-
lstous education for the youth of the
nation. to bring them to a standard of
good citizenship. Father Carroll distrib-
uted certificates.
Several Choral Songs.
Jack Homer Chase, Of the second pre-
paratory class made the opening address.
The valedictory was by Matthew Gillin-
water Tighe of the same class. There
were several choral songs by the entire
student body. and class recitations: The
Village Blacksmith" by the preparatory
classes; Our Flag" by the fourth AGA
demic class: 'Sandy's Romance by the
third academic class, and Marco Boz
zaris," by the second academic class.
Recitations were: John Griswald Hill
"A Receipt for Day: Raymond Joseph
kirsella, "Our Rover: Romulo S. Naon,
The Young Orator.: Louis John jacob
son, 1.-THE Charcoal Man; William Clark
Dc Lacy. Our Robin: James Kenneth
Polk. The Accident: Paul Eugene Cle-
ments, Anthony Wayne; Bernard Leo
Began. The Pride of Battery B.: James
Edward Walsh. Farmer b.. and Law
renee Coleman Milstead, THE Mountain
Pass"
The reception committee was composed
of John Patrick DAILY. Bernard lgnatius
Boudren. Earle Francis Storke, Leo Ed
win Madigan and George Bernard Mullin.
Those Who Were Promoted.
Certificates of promotion were granted
to the following pupils:
Second academic class. A-Wiliam NJ.
Mack, Cumberland F. Dugan. John Paul
Ardeeser, James Edward Walsh Law
Thomas d. Riordan, William O. Ostmann,
Dennis ]. O'Donnel.. John j. Mcneil Ken
meth j. Polk, Roy d. Booth, William j.
Ahern and George NJ. Brown.
Second academic, B-Bernard G.. Mullin
John 7. Hill. Jonn j. MeinDerg, Howard
Fitzgerald. George \. Weiss, John C..
Wynne and Stephen j. Murray.
Third academic A-Char.es Murray,
William G. DE Lacy, Paul Clements, John
J. Do.an. Harry Hartigan. Marion Stott,
Cornell Naughton, Robert Masterman,
Ellsworth Gunion, Charles Tennyson
Richard Walsh. j. Cutler Baker, Eugene
Auldridge. Dennis Dugan, J. Forsyth
Digges. Raymond Cannon. Thomas Priest,
Desmond Fitzgerald, Thomas Reidy.
Ralph Weschler, Joseph Hannah Francis
GTeene. john j. Kane. Andrew Schwartz
and Raymond Madigan.
Third academic, B-Mark Shughrue.
Russell White. Joseph O'Conneil. William
Hettinger. Harold Seyfferth, Francis
Hannah and James Bishop.
Fourth academic clasS-Louis Jacobson.
William Mcclure. William Sinclair.
Charles Muldoon. James Hanley, Robert
Ellis Lamond, Thomas Dugan, Edward
Hanley, John Winston and Joseph DAN
haki.
First preparatory class-Douglas Polk,
John Began. Richard Shea. William
Drury. Joyce McGinness, Thomas
Younger. Cornelius Reidy. Thomas Keane
and Frederick Adams.
Second preparatory class-Mathew G.
Harry r. Nash. William j. Kinsella, Jo-
seph e. McGinness. Bernard H. Benson.
Chester F. Fannon. Francis j. Walsh.
Jack Homer Chase and John L. Hor--
rigan.
Third preparatory class-John A. Co.'S
tello Richard J. Wick, William darcy
Magee. Raymond F. Schwartz. John F.
Dugan. C. Clay Pearoe, Nelson T. Graves.
Charles J. McMullin, Abner B. Drury.
John Lee Abel, Luis Granados. Ambrose
p. Cannon, John .keane and Francis
Muir.