The Washington herald., 1914-06-13
ONE GIRL AND SIX BOYS
OF TECH HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATE WITH HONOR

The Mckinley Manual Training school
|-'Tech"-head. its annual commence
ment exercis,s at the school. Florida ave-
nue. and Sew enth street northwest last
night. but that's only part Of the story.
Some received scholarships. others got
medals. few received money prizes. but
all got diplom as. The sweet girl grad
uate, that clsr4ac feature of all COM
mencement exsreises-blossomed forth in
her full June glory and 500 plessed-to-
pieces relati yes. parents and friends. sat
In the audience and looked on.
There were sixty graduates In all. and
just one-sixth were of the sweet-girl va
riety. Tech runs to boys and the boys
made the rest OF the sixty. One Of the
girls and six of the boys had stars print
ed behind their names on the program.
indicating that tsey graduated with hon
or. Six Of the boy graduates also re-
ceived scholarships to universities. and
the honor strndelIts received medals to
show for theF h,,nors To complete the
statistics, four fStrts of the school. al
though not m'.rnbers of the graduating
class. were arded the four subdivI-
sions of the G George u. Kober prize for
the best menus
Miss Helen Sni n. who composed the
most tasty, the most substantial, and the
least expensive program for a square
meal. was awarded the first prize of SIC.
Miss Ora Ward G,Dt the second: Miss
Elizabeth Ford. nle third: and Miss Mar
jorie Adler. the f1Irth prize. all of $
each.
As far as the spe akers were concerned
Representative J. Hampton Moore. OF
Pennsylvania, made the principal ora
ton He spoke oil ,matrimony, mechanics.
and the high cost of living. Before Mr.
Moore's speech. however, there were
some other features
The Tech" orch estra. led by Dore
Wolfsteiner. one OF the teachers. gave a
few selections. 1t hs the crack high
school orchestra of be town-this Tech"
band. The Rev. L. c. Clark delivered
the invocation. and Lenry p. Blair, presi-
dent of the board of education. intro
duced the speaker in several hundred
words Of his own
Representative Moore talked 10 the
grads of their aim and ambitions
and advised them to be not hasty in
choosing a lifework.
Then came some more music and the
presentation of the d. plomas. Mrs Susie
Root Rhodes. member OF the board of
education. made the presentation to the
graduates. without IA lEng into the com.i
mon error Of making long speech.
Superintendent Of Schools Thurston
then announced the scholarships Au-
brey Eugene Hummer. won a scholar
ship to George Washington University:
Henry Evan McElfrtsh and Hugh J.
Phillips. tr.. to Lafayette: Clarence J
Rammling. to SyraCSi$A Leonard Ser
geant. to Lehigh. and 81 mon wasserman
TO the University of PENNSYLVANIA.
The honor students we're Miss Mar
garet Birdsell, Aubrey E Hummer. Simon
Wasserman. William NEsiverly Taylor
Clarence J. Rammling. High J. Phillips
jr., and Henry Evan McElfresh The
class officers were He,rry E. McElfresh
president: Marjorie n. stIeton, vice presi-
Margaret Birdsell. trefIsuEer
The graduates follow Margaret Bird
sell. Rosa Bttner. Ethel Mae BuckIer.
Ethel Deardorf, Nanrhtte Isabelle
Hocheisen, o. Quintin Arrser. Henry Adler
Bcrlner Edward Norwood BessIing.
George Little Bliss. William Edgar
Borycr. Harlow Davis Bur inside. Edward
John CopDing. Theron Gs r,es Councillor,
Robert Otis Cupp. Henry Joseph Darcy.
Chester Robert Draper. Edwin Henry
Felt. Lionel Rudolph Pie 5ler. Edward
Fox, David Ariolph GIushak.
Arthur NJ. Hahn. George Louis Haines.
Joseph Hanlein. Elmer pif2ley HardeIl.
Charles Wells Herbert. Charles Wells
Herbert. Aubrey Eugene Hummer. James
Karnes. Conrad Kinyoun. Ber-
tram York Kinney, Frank: Lester Knowl-
ton, Elfic Maxwell Judd. Ma rjorie Nettle-
ton. Anna Sandberg. Edith Shine. Mildred
Reid Taylor. Raymond Mo ses Langley.
John Mcchesney Latimer. Henry Evan
McElfresh, Nelson A. Miller Ralph San
ford Moore, Lawrence R2I,mOnd Moran,
Frank Baer Morgan, Lou is Keith Morri-
son, Earle Tanner Muter staugh. Harold
Reed Northup, Hugh J. Phillips. ir.,
Clarence J. Rammling. William Andrew
Smith. tr, Robert Julius Taslsey. WILL
lam Waveriy Taylor. Hugh Harlow TEL
Ter, George Phelps Thrall. John Wilder
Tomlinson. Francis WooIley Walter.
James Willard Walters. Sim son Wasser-
mann, Carl Seth Winner. EarIe Ben
iamin White. Noel White james Law