The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-06-16

EASTERN HONORs
/ CLASSOF NINETY
Many Prizes Awarded at High
School Commencement
Exercises.
NEW HOME IS PREDICTED
Henry Blair Arouses Graduates BY
Saying Congress viii Provide
for Larger Building.
NEW HOME IS PREDICTEl

Ninety graduates received diplomas At
the commencement exercises of Eastern
! High School held In Columbia Theater
| yesterday afternoon.
Wallace Mason Yater. valedictorian Of
the class. was also the most highly
honored at yesterdays exercises, receiv-
| ing the gold medal donated by the Alum
nj Association for general excellence.
| Yater also received first honors In gen.
eral scholastic work as did Marian Hunt
| ley Baldwin. Second honors went to
Mary Catherine Jarboe. Lucy Eleanor
Hopkins. Jessie Bruce Handy. and Hedge
Christopher Dierserud
| Medals Are Awarded.
| gold medal was awarded by Miss
Dorinda z. Rogers. regent Of the Martha
Washington Chapter. D. A. R., for the
prize essay in the annual contest given
by that chapter among the psblic schools.
to GIendora Ellen Knaub. A gold bar
pin. as second honor. in q contest given
by the Daughters of 1872. was awarded
to Marian Elizabeth Hesse.
The following scholarships were award
ed: Wallace Mason Yater. first uni
versity scholarship to George Washing
ton University; Emma Reh. second uni
versity scholarship to the George WASH
ington University: Jessie Bruce Handy.
Washington High School scholarship to
Goucher College; Albert Mathis Weber.
Lafayette College: James Refill Arnold,
Lafayette College, and Egbert James
Armstrong. Syracuse University.
Superintendent Of, Schools Ernest L.
Thurston addressed the class, while
Henry p. Blair. president Of the board Of
education. made the graduating address.
in which he told the class that theirs
was a life to dream and have visions.
Dr. NJ p. Eslin, president Of the Alumni
Association, who presented the medal OF
honor donated by that body. evoked ap-
plause when he declared that Congress
would within a short time heed the needs
OF Eastern High School and give them
larger home.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhoades. member of
the board of education. presided at the
exercises. which opened with an invoca-
alton by Rev. John Van Schaick. jr. DR..
w. s. Small, principal Of the school. made
the announcement of honors- Karl LutZ
read the class poem.
The Graduating Glass.
The graduates class included Egbert
James Armstrong. James Refill Arnold.
George Overton Bassett, Herbert Eugene
Bradburne. Theodore Livinss Chisholm,
Earl Fielding Danforth. Watson Davis.
Frederick Webster Deck. William Ed
ward Dement,. irving Alison Denison.
Hedge Christopher Dieserud. Edward
Harmon Eakle. Tom Henderson Farms
worth, Halbert Laird Faulkner, George
Murdoch Fisher. Josiah MeKim Hadda-
way Clair villiers johnson. Edward
Frank Lawson. Karl Barr Lutx, David,
Evans Mccoy. Lawrence Francis Pope.
Eliot Donald Preston, Leslie Wright Sc
cor. Norman Joseph Stockett, Leon An
thony Tashof. Lewis Hunt Watkins, Al
bert Mathis Weber. Harold Wilson VIII
Jams. Walter ]. Wood. Wallace NJ. Yater,
Anna Florence Allen. Isabelle May
Allen. Ghodsea Marian Ashraf. Annie
Anna Bacon, Marion Huntley Baldwin,
Marion Marguerite Ballenger, Helen Mir
lam Bartlett. Helen Elizabeth. Benzler.
Mary Ethel Brockman, Annie Eva Clark.
Laurene Cunningham. Thelma Virginia
Davis, Virginia Thomas Early. Helen
Rockwell Earns. ", Miriam Dony Ent-
wistle. Edna Pearle Everatt, Mary Kolb
Flohr. Elsie Eleanor Frisbie. Estelle
Caroline Griest. Jessie Bruce Schley
Handy. Audrey Veronica Hazel. marion
Elizabeth Hesse, Anna Mary higham.
Elizabeth Hind. Winifred Thornton
Hodge, Allie Holm. Lucy Eleanor Hop
kins. Ada Margaret Howell. Catherine
Mary Jarboe, Nan Kendrick Jeffers.
Margaret King, Lucille Adele Knapp,
Clendora Ellen Knaub, Margaret Amelia
Kramer. Mary Eugene Loman, Lillian