Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-17
GIRLS GRADUATED
+ IN NORMAL CLASS
State Institution at MOntcIair
Heights Bids Farewell to
1873 Students.
ALL RADIANTLY HAPPY.
WITH SPICE OF REGRET
Diplomas Equivalent to Seven
Year Teachers Certificates
from the Commonwealth.

The large assembly room of the
state Normal School at Montclair
Heights was crowded this morning TO
witness the fourth annual commence
ment exercises. One hundred and
thirty-three students of the institu-
ton received their diplomas The
graduates, in cap and gown. sat on
the platform, rad;antlv smiling, al
though many of them expressed re-
greet at severing their connection
with the staff and their fellow pupils.
The exercises opened with prayer
by the Rev. Edgar Swan Wiers, pas
tor of Unity Church, Montclair Dr.
Charles S. Chaplin, principal of the
school, presided. and introduced the
speakers.
Professor George D. Strayer. of the
department of school advancement of
Columbia University, made the ae-
dress. He took for his subject THE
Teachers Contribution to Social
Progress" Miss Edna Jean Robbie,
of this city, president of the class,
presented the class gift. which con-
sisted of two pictures by Millet. THE
Sewers and THE Cleaners" The
gift was accepted on behalf of the
school by Edmund b. Osborne, of
Montclair.
Di. William G. Schauff1er, of Lake
wood, president of the State Board of
Education presented the diplomas.
One hundred and thirteen of the
graduates are prepared to teach in
all grades of the public schools Of
this State. and the other twenty took
a special course designed for kinder
garten and lower grade teachers
The diplomas received by the
graduates are equivalent to seven
year State teachers certificates
Those who continue teaching after
seven years may have their diplomas
Endorsed as life certificates.
The residences and names of the
graduates are as follows: Atlantic
City, Maud c. Wilson: Belleville,
Rose M Butler. Edith L. De Puy
Gladys Cooper, Gertrude M. Burns;
Bloomfield. Herminia G. Doscher.
Carrie L. Taylor. Elizabeth F. Har-
rison, Helene M. Nicholson Madeline
Nj. Noll; Bayonne, Flossie E. Mangan
Edith S. NATHAN, Sadie L. Burgess;
. Butler. Mabel T. Daglian; Branch
vile, Virginia B. Mott; Caldwell
Clara L. Condit; Carlsbad, Sophia F.
Ohler; Clifton, Alice Claire Young
Anna B. Jelleme; Dover, Dorothy E.
jenkins; East Newark, Bertha
Negar; East Orange. Grace NJ. Hop
per. Emma F. Ward. Gladys 1. Wis
singer, Hazel F. Bressnan. Marcia B..
Stillwell, Jeannette T. Ferguson, Mar
guerite Baldwin, Ellen A. Clark;
Englewood, Marion S. w. Walker,
Edith e. Chilver, Katheryn G. Tier
ney; Eliza beth, Florence E. Ware;
Flanders, Lulu d. Conkling; Green
Village, Ella E. Jackson Hoboken
Lillian v. Campbell. Ida E. DIFFERING,
Mary E. Delaney, Elfreda G. Door
mann, Helen A. Engelke, Ethel NJ
Heffernan, Edna A. Jensen, Mary
l.. l. Murray, Agnes NJ. Patterson,
Anna E. Foley, Florence NJ Glahe,
Georgine C. Gonzales. Olga A. Gosch,
Theresa F. Rabold, Mary H. Swende-
man, Mabel C. Allen.
High Bridge, Alice NJ Greenfield;
Haledon, Isabella McGlashan. Hanna
E. Roe: Hackensack, Lolita Fl. M.
Finke, Mary r. Blake; Jersey City,
Ella r. Balantyne. Pauline Birn-
baum, Marie M Mctiurr. Isabella F.
Augermeier. Irene ]. Quinlan; Key
port, Lillian " Campbell; Livingston,
Anna e. Parkhurst; iukeview, Will
lam Mclean Little Falls. Agnes j.
Matches; Montclair, Mildred H
Bayne, R. Rosencrans Dunfee. Marion
A. Elmer, Cecilia F. Etzel, Florence
e. Graham, Julia hoffman, Natalie
Pohle, Laura E. Wells; Morristown,
Mary p Dempsey, Elsie l., King,
Helen B. Price, Luella c. Stevens,
Emily E. Moody; Midland Park,
Marion L. Wortendyke.
Graduates from Newark.
Newark, Florence L. Clark. Anne
f. Egner, Dorothy Mitchell, Edna ].
Robbie, Mary Z. Wfllever, Viola M.
Peel, Olive A. Vosburg; Nutley, Flor
ence l.. Dolan, Mary S. Thorne; North
Caldwell, Florence NJ Fischer; Or
ange, Glare NJ. Allen. Mary A. Nc
Nerney, Marie A. Egner, Effie M.
Weeks; Paterson, Wallace M. Broad
bent. Raymond P. Connors, Francis
L. Fuscaldo, Hannah c. Hulme, Es-
tel1e L. Perry, Marguerite ]. Grams,
Ethel B. Keyes, Hazel l. Terhune;
Pine Brook, Ellen A. t. O'Dowd;
Passaic, Helen S. Banker, Katherine
G. Brain Ethel M. Green, Melissa l..
Reynolds, Mabel Walling.
Plainfield, Jeanette Neal, leila A,
Sturges; Rutherford, Edith E. Ste
vens, Lois Gerard; Ridgefield, Helen
e. Perine Minnie Proctor, Agnes e.
Dumke, Julia L. Burtant; South Or
ange, Alice F. Cooper, Ellen l.. Knox;
Toms River, Dorothy A. Hye-s, Town
of Union, Minnie Birbaum. Ethel
Weitz. Freida Weitz, Elvira A. Ben
zoni, Blanche Crawford; West Or
ange, Dorothy A. Apologize, Dorothy
Pierson; West Hoboken, Monica j. d.
FLYNN. Carrie Lieberman. Helen L.
Platt Westwood, Grace Wyman;
Woodbridge, Katherine M. Freeman;
washington, Margaret w. Foss.
One graduate, Miss Esther koelle
D1etarie. is now of Long Island City,
hut when she entered the school her
father was pastor of Hoboken
church. and was recently transferred
to Long Island City. Miss Dietarie
- 40 oh school in this State.