Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13

Of Normal School No. was held Friday
at True Reformers' Hall Although the
weather was very Indictment. a large num-
Der OF the class members AMI their
friends were in attendance The hall
was prettily decorated in class colors
After a short business meeting the
mainder of the evening was spent in
dancing. Refreshments were served ana
appropriate favors Were distributed
Those present were: Miss Edna Muir
ray. Miss isabelle Wood. Miss Angela
Braxton. Miss Rae Cornish. Miss Marion
Sumner. Miss Hattie Edmonds. Miss
Willie Brown. Miss Matte Scurlock. Miss
Sallie Fisher. Miss Maud Fleming. Miss
Miss Eliza beth Tancil Miss Thomasile
Corrothers Miss Florence Barker, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert \. Logan. Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel -. Matthews, and William H.
Hermon Howard. Charles Westmoreland.
Ernest Marshall Lynwood Trueheart.
West A Hamilton. Walter Grimshav.
Tracy Wayman. Milton Opey. Oswald
Burke. James Minor. Henry Penn and
William Chandler.
Teachers and children of the John r.
Slater School were given a monograph
recital Friday afternoon by William I.
Graves.
In Speaking at the testimonial reception
rendered him by the colored teachers, Of
ficials and employees of the schools at the
NJ Street High School Friday afternoon,
Capt James l.. Oyster. retiring president
of the board of education. said i'm part:
IF / have been of any service to the
teachers and other employees or the board
of educat on. to the schools in the COM
munty. it has been glad service For.
ever since / reached mans estate. | have
been deeply Interested in public educa-
ton Long ago l. realized the truth that
the only assurance of perpetuity that a
great democratic nation like ours really
has lies i'm the character and the intel
ligence of its rulers. Its rulers, OF
course are its citizens. So "A democracy
must provide every citizen, however
humble his birth, however slight his
abilities however modest his prospects.
opportunities for the development OF
civic character and civic intelligence.
Public schools. then, vital TO the
stability and the progress of every dem
ocrat;c nation. 1t is the duty and bust
ness of all the people to promote the
interests of public education: the best ia
none. too good fer our children. III |
have, served the public schools of my
native city in the smallest measure l
am a happy man.
Il must congratulate you upon the
substantial progress that your schools
have made since July |, 1906. Wheu
the new organic school law became
effective. Let me name at random the
new schoolhouses that have been
opened since that date: Lucretia Mott,
Military road. Bunker Hill road, Alex
ander Crummell, Cardoza Vocational.
Burville, Garfield o Street Industrial
Center II I include the sixty-five-
thousand dollar addition to Armstrong.
here you have nine new structures.
In addition. the board of education has
persuaded Congress TO appropriate
moneys for an annex TO Birney School
and for splendid sites and modern
buildings to accommodate Normal
School No. 2 and NJ Street High School
You will note that the board of educa-
ton has been quite solicitous to
provide properly for the higher as for
the lower schools, for the academic as
for the vocational However, the
progress which the schools have made
i'm these great tangible terms OF
buildings and grounds has been not
half SO important as the progress they
have made in the scope Of their in
tellectual and moral opportunities in
the efficiency of their administration
and supervision and teaching"