Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-16
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Diplomas and Honor Awards
to Public School Pupils.
CLOSING EXERCISES HELD
Elks Give Orphans an Outing at
Marshall Hall-Record of
Recent Deaths.
EXERCISES HELD
Special Correspondence of The star.

ltS closing exercises at 10 o CLOCK to-
night in the Young Peoples building
Diplomas of graduation will be awarded
by Representative c. c. Carlin and med
ais by DR.. w. NJ. Smith. president of the
school board. and H. D. Kirk, clerk. will
award the honors. Invocation will be
pronounced by Rev j. w Duffey, pastor
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church South
Music will be furnished by the American
Indian Guard Band.
Diplomas and Honors.
The following will receive diplomas of
graduation in the high school for COM
pleting the fouryear course: Herman
Phol, William l.. Phillips, j. Marshall
Gaines. Frank B. Howard, Verna McDer-
mott. Thomas NJ. Jones. jr., Walter l..
Nails
Cards of honor from third to fourth
year: Frank Johnson, Mary Moore. Mad
cline Martin. Agnes Plaskett Robert E.
Knight. lr.: Barton Philips. Mabel Hen
derson. Howard st. Clair, William Bos-
well, Flora Glasgow, Joseph Chauncey.
Elton Raison.
Helen Davis. William Wells. Marian Hen
shaw. Lucille Dienelt, Jack Rear Her
pert Byrne, Cora Pullman. Otis Sunder-
nm Herbert Mills Hirst Hayes. Esther
JdHleS CUNNINGHAM, susie
Murphy, Bruce Morton.
First to second grade: Arthur Akin
SON Mildred Callahan. Dolly Callahan,
William Shafer. Elsie Cornwell Francis
Hugent' tleta Vaughn. Wilton Arlington,
Robert Gulland, Ruth ST Clair, Louise
Bender. Robert Hancock. Francis Down
nam. Thomas Wattles, Albert BRYAN.
Raymond Barnett, Harold Martin, Yer
non Marheld Elizabeth Hantzmon. Tup-
per Barrett. Ashby Bladen. Jennie Cook
oINue Smith, James GOodWiD
Special Awards.
Special awards for attendance in High
School will be as follows:
Fourth year. Frank B. Howard. Thom-
as NJ. Jones. ir. Herman H. Pohl: third
year Flora Glasgow. r. E. knight. jr.,
Mary Moore. Corinne Reardon: first wear,
Dolly NJ. Callahan. Louise Bender. Elsie
CornWell. Francis Downham James
DWyer Elizabeth Hantzman Harold Mar
TN; Anna Hook. Elena Norris. Inez Otis
ROBERT II. Poss. William Schafer Vernon
Warfield Hugh Williams For greatest
Improvement during year in their respec-
tive order Robert E. knight, jr, j. Mar
shall Gaines. Wilton Arlington. Elsie
CornWell. Herbert Mills. Robert Gulland
and Ruth st. Clair.
average attained in various studies fol-
lows: Mathematics. Herman Pohl,
% 6-1Oo; Mary Moore. 9s 6-10; r. F.
might IT.. 9S. Latin. Albert BRYAN
% 40; Mary Hayden, 80
For department in this school 100 per
cent was made by the following: Fourth
year. Vera McDermott. Walter L. Nails,
William l.. Phillips, Herman H. Pohl,
J Jn1ra oear Mar Mary G; Brown Frank E.
Helen Davis. Agnes Dienelt, Lucille Die
melt, Marian Hayden. Esther Mansfield
susie Murphy, Cora Pullman: first year.
upper Barrett. Raymond Barrett Ashby
Ihnv
Mildred Callahan. Jennie Cook, James
Goodwin, Lawrence Fawcett Elizabeth
Hartman. Mary Hayden, William
Schafer. Eva Smith, Fleta Vaughn and
Thomas l.. Wattles.
In Other Grades.
In the seventh grade. taught by Miss
v A. Grigg, cards Of honor were award
ed to the following: Louise Abbott Alice
Bladen, Pauline Ballenger. Zelda Carter
Sarah Cox, Ruth Deahl Ellie Faulkner
Eutha Uranium, Marian Greenaway.
Mary Grillbortzer Helen Gulland. Anna
Haslett Lydia Hammond. Merlin Hard
ing, Freda Hantzman, Katherine Hen
derson. Katherine Howard Mildred
Keller. Helen Knight. Ruth Hew, Hattie
Meade, Ethel McCuen. Francis McDer-
Lucy Robinson for attendance Helen
Gulland and Marian Otis received cards
of honor.
In this room the following program was
given: Prayer: school essay, Robert E.
Come Come Away" school: essay.
George Washington Eutha Uranium:
song, Vacation Days" the school: us
tribution of cards, remarks and closing
with singing OF America
Miss Rubie Broadus-Cards of honor
awarded the following: Caroline West, |
Coriine Ponton. Gertrude Column Esther
Rose. Audrey Gaines. Mary Reed Inez
Lucy Reardon. Grace Stone, Elizabeth |
Whedbee. Katie Burns, Helen Farmhouse, |
Mary Stout ,Thelma Ballenger Lillian |
Grimes. Maggie Bond, Abbie Brown, !
Elizabeth Howell. Catherine Pullman. Beu- |
lah Weisener Mary Deva De Vaughn. |
Fay Ross. Florence Butler Eunice Jones |
Lille Lacey. Nora Lanum, Ora Dickert |
Mildred Crockett, Louise Davis, Marie |
Fleet. Thelma Purvis. Special mention |
for attendance was made of Inez Pier
and Eunice Jones.
In the fifth grade. taught by Miss Anna |
Summers. cards of honor: Beatrice |
Ayers Elsie Ayers. Genera Arlington,
rell, Marion Darling. Irene Dettor. Ger
trude Gahan. Ethel Hardy. Rebecca King, |
Margaret Merchant, Estele Nagel. Reba
o Neal: Hilda Pullman. Almedia Park.
Tesh. Grace Wells. Helen Wood, Helen
Warning and BERTHE Wilburn
For attendance awards were made to |
Almedia Park, Pauline Taylor, Ethel |
Hardy and Marion Darling.
School for Boys.
In Washington School for Boys Col. T.
H. Ficklin. principal, cards OF honor
were awarded to julius Abramson,
Weston Atkinson. William c. Ayers,
Aubrey Barnett, C.. Waller Barrett.
Charles Bender, Lambart Bergman, Eivin
I. Brawner, Frank Corsa, John s. Curtin,
Louis De Moll, William M. Desmond,
Alexander S. Doniphan. jr.. Reginald
Dyson. Leon Eddington. ]. Gordon Hall.
Vincent Hasson, Claude L. Haynes, Oak
leigh Henderson. Harry M. Howard, Bed
ford Howell, Gordon Jones, Merrill c.
Lynch. Wesley Mills. Melvin McCuen,
Edward d. Nails. Raymond Peverill,
Frederick schwab. Francis Summers,
Charles Walker. William G. Wells. N
Arthur Dickert and Smith Chauncey.
In the room taught by George Ander-
son, sixth grade, cards OF honor were
awarded to Raymond Arnold, James
Bayne Leon Browne, William v. Grad
lin, Charlie Edmunds. Robert Elliott, jr..
German Ferguson, Francis Grimes. Du-
laney Hammond, FitzhuSh Hall. Byron
Herring. Claude Hunt, Adrian KATE. Ev-
erett Kelly, Hugh Marsh. Preston Mer
chant, Turner Moore, William Morton,
jr Hugh Murphy. Forest Neal, John MI