Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-12
PRIZES AWARDED
At WESTERN HIGH
Leaders in Various Schoo!
Activities Honored at
Flag Day Exercises.
TRACK TEAM IS GIVEN :
SILVER CUP By STAR
Athletes Receive Letters and Those
Achieving High Scholarship
Ale Announced.

frlzes won in various school activities
| and awards OF honors in scholar
| snip were announced at Western High
| schooi TO-DAY. in connection with the Flag
| day exercises. The affair was in the
| nature OF a celebration. concluding with
| the singing of a Western song. Miss Ed
It'll {. Westcott. principal of the school
presided
Westerns track team. consisting of
Edmund Jones. captain. and Mrssrs.
Stearnes, Ross ead Brewer, which was
victorious in the recent interhigh school
athletic meet. was presented with sill
Yer cup by The Star
| Mrs w III. Howard. superintendent of
sclentinc temperance instruction for the
'" C. I. L., presented MARCEL Conway
with gold medal for writing one of the
pest essays submitted in the recent essay
contest of the temperance organi2a ton.
Robert Elsn and Blandford Jennings
| We're given honorable mention.
| Irene Rice was announced as one O.
the winners IN the national contest for
the Llndgren peace prize. Gertrude
: Malone was announced passing the
| entrance eXamina ton to B1yn Mawr Col
| lese This the first time any West
| ern students had taken the eXamna ton
successfully in several years, it said.
r. Letters for Base Ball Men.
Letters, were. given to the following
base ball men: Messrs. Stearns, Peyton.
3. Howard. Cook. Roger. 1. Howard.
Bethel. Donovan. Lehman, Adams and
Brewer. In basket ball Tvs were given
| to Harry Hough, Harry Jones, l.. Nicho-
| son. Philip Pepper. Walter DoXon, Paul
| Cathcart. stevens Bradley, Clarence
Donovan, Fred Lehman and n. Leetch.
/ Claude Roberts, captain of Company l..
was awarded the prize for Winning the
| officers match in the recent inter-high
school rife tournament
William Brooks was awarded the prize
| for winning the junior marksmen's
match and the high score match in the
same tournament. G. r. Dewitt, who has
! charge of the rifle shooting at Western,
| made these awards, and in doing so COM
| plimented the boys on the spirit of fair
! play which they had shown throughout
| the contest. He said that rifle shooting
! was one of the best indicators of the
physical condition, and that no boy who
was not in good physical condition or
| who did not live correctly could become
an adept with the rifle. He urged all
the boys to join in the sport next year.
Three to Get Medals.
| Winners of letters in Western Athletic
Association We're Messrs. Donaldson,
| betnel, bradley. PrODey and Leetch.
| Winners in a recent school rife tourna-
ment will be awarded prizes in the near
future. They are Irving Newcombe, gold
medal: Fl. W. Nicolson, silver medal and
| II. S. Baker, bronze medal
/ r Chew and James Heron received
Nv. for winning in a recent tennis
| tournament held at the SCHOOL.
| Pupils making the highest marks in
fscholarship. were announced as follows:
| Arlyne Baker, Helen Hough, Enid
! iStms. Marian Dawson. James Holmes,
| Martha Warning, Dorothy Finckel, Har-
| riett Miller, Louise Damn, John WHEEL
/ chel. Ruth Parker. Julia Irene Daniel, Hugh
/ Sturgis, Lee Warren, Margaret Granger,
ICreswell Micou, George b. Roberts,
j Helen Morey, Irene Rice, Jeanette Hough,
Gertrude Malone. Dorothy Copenhaver,
Helena Griffin, Mary Maxam, Helena
! Maxwell, Esther Reed Beatrice TAFT.
Josephine Gregory. Edgar Bernstein.
Chase Donaldson, Marion May. Level
lyn Nicholson. Marjorie Kinnan. Mum
son I"ne. Elizabeth Graft. Elmer Kay
ser, Elizabeth Paul. Margaret Dadmun
Marguerite Golze Mitchell Carroll. Ruth
Pickford. Bates Warren, Fay Hull, Mary
| Pearre, Richard Stands, Rosalie Bowen,
| Margaret Prent!ss. Harold Dutton, Eu-
genia Mauldin and Otto Praeger.
Gladys Walford. Anna Grove, Gladys
Shedd and May Shannbaugh were an
nounced as having been neither absent
nor taRly.
| Music was furnished by special
| chorus. led by Mrs. Frank Byram.