Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-17
Dr.. Alexander Graham Bell
at Western High School
Talks of Life Opportunities

O'NS VI .tIS SPPSs
The principal address at the com
menccment exercises Of Western High
School, held in the assembly hall of the
school yesterday afternoon, was delivered
by DR.. Alexander Graham Bell
DR.. Bell urged the members of the class
to grasp opportunity when it presented
itself, and to make the most of 1t. AS
an ilustra ton of making the most of OPP
portunities. DIR. Eel told the life story of
Glenn Fl. Curtiss, the aviator. He started
as a telegraph messenger, working while
still attending grammar school, the
speaker said
lie studied the mechanism of the tele-
graph, DR.. Bell said, and made a crude
but complete set of telegraph inStl u
mentS. He then entered a camera fac
tory, and after a few months constructed
a camera out OF d cigar box. When he
was twenty-five years old he started to
manufacture bicycles, and within few
years was making gas generators for
lighting number of houses in Ham
nunuSport, y. y.
He next devoted himself to perfect
ing the carburetors for gasoline mo-
tors, DR.. Bell said, and demonstrated
the success of his experiments by
breaking the worlds speed record on a
motor bicycle, making 113 miles an
hour on machine OF his own con-
struction. At present, DR.. Bell de-
clared. Glenn Curtiss is the foremost
"airman" of the world having risen in
comparatively few years from mes
senSer boy to this position of distinc
ton solely through making the most
of his opportunities.
Story of the Telephone.
DIR. Bell said it was really impossible
to tell what line of endeavor one would
eventually follow, and related the his
tory of one great invention, the tele-
phone. to illustrate this point. He said
that when young man. recently grad
uated from the Royal High School of
Edinburgh, the dream of his life was
to become a great musician. He drift ed
into work with the deaf and dumb
and was director of an institute Of
learning for deaf muteS when he in
vented the telephone 1t was only by
rare chance that he was persuaded
to attend the centennial exercises al
Philadelphia in 1876. as he thought he
shouldn't leave the deaf and dumb
visit was the successful commercial
development of the telephone. He wen,
much against his own will, DIR. Bell
said. the last spur which urged him to
go being the tears of the young lady
who was at that time his fiancee now
Mrs. Bell.
Il didn't recognize opportunity until
after it was thrust upon me-" Dr. Bell
said. You can see how far l have
strayed from becoming great mu-
sician."
The diplomas were awarded the
pupils by Frederick l.. Siddons, whose
son is member of the graduating
class. Rev. Herbert Scott Smith. rec
tor of st. Margaret's Episcopal Church
pronounced the invocation. John B.
I n ,hnr of he I'd Nfo cd,
cation. presided at the exercises and
introduced the speakers Diplomas
were awarded by Miss Edith c. West
colt, principal of Western High School
DR.. William NJ. Davidson. superin-
tendent of schools, and Henry p. Blair.
president of the board of education,
were present, but took no part in the
exercises. Otto Radl, one of the gradu-
ating class. played violin solo.
Glass a Record One.
The class receiving diplomas yester-
day is the largest one in the history
of the school, ninety-one being so
honored. The class last year numbered
eighty, and the year before ten less
than that
Those who graduated were: Dorothy
Helen Alien, Edna Chapman Berry, Mar
garet Louise Bridges, Ruth NJ. Bronson.
Margaret Burritt, Edith Conry, Dorothy
Elizabeth Copenhaver, katherine Coville,
Georgianna Davis, Kathryn Drain, Mar
garet Adair Dudley. Helen Dyer, kati-
arine Jerdone Elsom, Frances Evarts
Margaret Fechteler, Frances Hunter Fro
ment, Helena Griffin, Bessie Louise
Haney, Rose Hellinger. Katharine Jul
anita Heron, Helen Hill Hopkins, Jean
nette Winans Hough. Ruth Ashmore ker-
nodle, Gertrude Langtry, Dorothy Lyman
Leetch, Clarice Margaret Livingstone
Kathleen Long, Henry Scott Baker
Louis Vivian Beauregard, Raymond Duff
field Bell, Robert Stevens Bradley, Will
liam B. n. Brookes, Leslie Everette Bur
lingame, Paul Hamilton Cathcart Clar-
ence Gervase Donovan, Arthur Edward
Dowell. Myer Jerome Herschman. Henry
Johnson Hough. Edmund Lydanne Jones,
Homer Franklin Johnson.
Theodore Kelly, Robert Marion La Fol
lette, jr., Harold S, LIE Due, Henry Win
ship Leetch, Theodore F.. A. Lehmann
Lucille Sophia Mcleod. Gertrude Evelyn
Malone Jeanette Virginia Malone. Ma
rila Margaret May, Mabelle Kitchener,
Ter, Helen Bentley Morey. Mildred Need
ham, Elizabeth Perkins, Priscilla Bartlett
Parsons. Mary Elizabeth Porter. Helen
Jessie Price. Carlotta Ebert tQuirollo,
Irene Rice, Susan Virginia Richmond
Martha Earl Rose. Helen Louise Simp-
son. Linda Elizabeth Steuart, Catherine
Maud Stewart. Katharine Dunlop Turn
bull. Wilma Vermillion. Estelle Louise
Waddey Pearl Febrey Walters, Elizabeth
Somerville Wilson, Mildred Newcomb
Wilson, Josephine Wohaupter, Dorothy
Helen Yeager. Russell Lloyd Lepper, Ed
ward Archibald Livingstone. Stephen Pat
rick McGroarty. CresWell MacMurray
Micou. Adolph Frankfort Morris. Irving
Beekman Newcomb, Henry Whitcomb
Nicolson, Homer Phillips, Otto Karl Radl.
Irving Rothwell Richards, Claudius Henry
NJ. Roberts. George Bassett Roberts. AL
bert Neuman Rock, Joseph Benjamin
Schaaff, Herbert Collins Schneider, Garlic
ton Smith, Frederick Hayward Siddons
and Monroe Warren.
Certified to Universities.
The graduates who won full certifica-
ton Of entrance requirements to various
institutions, together with the names of
the colleges. are:
Cornell--Leslie Burlingame, Creswell
Micou and Herbert Schneider.
University of Observation-Disclosures
Covilie. Frederick Fl. Siddons. Robert
Stevens Bradley and Irving r. Richards.
Simmons College-Ruth Updesraff
Wellesley College-DorOthy Allen and
Jeanette Hough.
In addition many of the graduates
were certified to George Washington
University.
Those receiving honors in five sub
jects. none below the grade of 81. were
Gertrude Malone, Creswell Micou and
George Roberts.
Those receiving honors for no absences
or hardness during the four years We're
Rose Heilinser, Cariotta Quirollo.
Sarah Miller and Irving Richards
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