Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-13

have completed the two-Sear course a
the Business High School were gradu,
ated. Late in the afternoon members Of
the senior class of Western High Schoo
were presented with their diplomas.
Monday the graduates of Eastern High
School and the four-year class of Bust
ness High School to receive their
"sheepskins" Last night the seniors OF
the first named school made merry al
their Glass night exercises. Glass night
exercises also were held last night by
graduates of Normal School No. 2
Day of Great Opportunity,
Representative J. A. FaIconer
Tells Western Graduates
We do not question the possibilities OF
the next half century" declared Repre-
sentative j. A. Falconer of Washington
to the graduating class of the Western
High School at the commencement exer-
cises held in Memorial Continental Hall
yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
This is a day of great opportunity and
of correspondingy great Individual re-
sponsbility. Go back just one century
and look ut one boy who went to school
for less than year, and yet in later
years was honored by being made Presl-
dent of the United ham Lin
coin.
The one opportunity he had is matched
by a thousand opportunities today. There
is a great opportunity for every young
man and woman. You who go out TO-DAY
as class. tomorrow present yourselves
to the world as individuals. What are
the responsibilities of an individual?
Commitments Miss Westcott.
In answer to his own question, Repre-
sentative FaIconer showed that a nation
is only as great as the individuals that go
to make up that nation, and in enumerat-
ing the qualities that go to make an in
dividuaI strong and worthy he found oc-
casion to compliment Miss Edith c. West
colt, principal of the Western school.
The name of your principal has been a
household word in Washington said the
representative. She has character that
rings true and has left its impress on
your lives
The speaker laid stress upon the hui
manatarian feature of individual respon
sibility. and ended his address with the
recitation of Let Me Live in My House
BY the Side of the Road by Sam Foss.
familiar to every one.
That sentiment finds a warm place
in the heart of every normal man or
woman, he declared.
The exercises We're opened with an in
vocation by Rev. DR.. John Van Schaick.
Preceding the awarding of dipomas DIR.
David T. Day of the United States geo
logical survey made a few remarks upon
the true meaning of desire He declared
that Americans have more desires to the
cubic centimeter than all the orfentals
upon the face Of the earth, but that de-
sires divided into two kinds, appetites
and ambitions
To take the common appetites and sub
stitute for them strong, vrile ambitions Is
the struggle between childhood and man.
hood said DR.. Day. This struggle be-
tween the two As-appetite and ambition
is life. II you will take this wand'-here
DIR. Day held aloft one of the diplomas
he was to present-"you will only have
to look at it. upon your wall in future
Years and the thought Of what 1t means
will tell you whether you are considering
an appetite worthy only of child. or
strong. virile ambition
W. T. Galliher Presides.
VI. T. Galliher of the board of educa-
tion presided. a feature of the exer-
cises was a well chosen and attractive,y
+; ndered musical program.
Preceding the award of diplomas Miss
Westcott read the honor roll, which is
as follows: For excellent scholarship
CuIIllS lU.T StnlO" year. Marian CrlSt,
Chase Donaldson. Monterville Ewing,
Elizabeth Graft. Marjorie kinnan. Mar
sheritta Tillman, Ruth Breuninger
David +. Day. Josephine Gregory. Mum
son Lane. Gladys Shedd, Dorothy West
and Edgar Bernstein.
For excellency during their entire four
years-Ehzabeth Graft, who had no marx
below excellent. Marian Crist. who fin
fshed the course in three and one-half
years.
The following graduates Dera credited
with thirty-two semesters of work. with
the grades of excellent and good, the ma
FORTY being excellent-Edgar Bernstein
captain of Company l.: Ruth Breuninger
Ethel Conner. Margaret Dadmun, David
Day and Chase Donaldson. captain of
Company II carried five subjects in every
semester but one); Laura Duxbury Jo-
sephine Duxbury, Josephine Gregory. Ell
mer Kayser. Marjorie Kinnan, Munsor
Lane, Janney Nichols. Llewellyn Nicolson
Gladys Shedd Carroll Thomas and Ma
hon May. with thirty semesters of work
Those Who Received Diplomas.
Those who received diplomas were:
orlena Halliburton Basim Katherine +
Beach. Lucy Llewellyn Burlingame, Ruth
Breuninger. Paula Chase Ethel Stone
Conner. Marion Brownell Crist, Julia Mar
garet Dadmun. Mary Ida Decker, Choir.
rellts Dixon. jamie Moorman Dortch, Mil
dr"d Christine Duvall. Laura Ross Dux
bury. Irma Emmerich, Helen Harriet
Fetter. Marcia Alice George, Elizabeth S
Graf. Agnes Josephine Gregory. Grac.
l.. Hall Eleanor Virginia Haycock Heller
Pauline Hcitmuller, Ethel Hunter Kath
crime Barber Johnson. Josephine Mari,
Jonas, Marjorie Kinnan MarceIline LIZ
Gar'ie kuElcn. Margaret Springs LYON
katherine Lyons. Annette Foxau McCarte
neN. Mary y. MaNanl. Marion Roberta NAV
Emile Nixon Moss Louise Muldrow
katherin" Newton NunSon Mary Parker
Alice Enith Parsons Elizabeth Aldridr.
PAUL. Susan iiiaisdlelI Plant Jessie Mac
greSor Robson. Margaret H. Schoenfeld
Elizabeth Millikeu Schweyer. Emil.
Louise Settle. Gladys Mildred Shedd
Ethylinde Adele Smith. Anna May Siam
bauSh. Phyllis Patricia stewart Heller
Lee Swormstedt. Beatrice wilkins TAFT
MARY Bernadette Tennyson. Margheritts
Tillman. Catherine Mary Tonge Iaur,
Tolstead, Gertrude Sherman Vrooman
Gladys Ruth Walford. Ethel EHzabet,
Wa!ther. Dorothy West and Juliet Phelp
Williams
John Carver Adams. Z. Keith Allen
Edgar Herbert Bernstein Hoel Smitl
Bishop. r. McGraw Brady Ferguson
Beach Eryan. Edward Munson Ryrne
Richard S. Chew. st. Julien r. Childs
George s. Cooper. jr.; William Maio
Darnall. David l.. Day Chase Donald
son. Monterville Q. Ewing. Harold Alex
ander Falconcr. James King Gray. 10
seph W. HAZEL. Joseph Austin Holmes
jr.; Elmer Louis Kayser. John Vile,
Kendall. Munson Harmon Lane Theo
dore Baskin LashellS, IT.; Neill Heller