Evening star., 1915-06-23
BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES CLASS OF 45
Diplomas, Prizes and Scholarship
Eonors Awarded at the Annual
Commencement.
Addresses to Glass by Supt. E. L.
Thurston, d. A. Edwards
and S. E. Kramer.

With Supt. Ernest L. Thurston. ste
phen f. Kramer, assistant superintend-
ent of schools, and Henry r. Blair
president of the board of education, as
guests of honor, forty-five young men
and women of Business High School
were graduated as members of the
four-year class at commencement ex-
ercises held in the auditorium of the
school last night. The hall was crowd
ed with parents and friends of the
graduates.
business is so broad today that one
can feel, II he is willing to work. that
he will be sure to find a calling in
which he can be happy" was the mes
sage brought the graduates by Mr.
ihurston. who spoke briefly upon the
ideals and standards demanded in bust
ness operations today
Advises Push, Energy and Honesty.
Push. energy, honesty are things that
will insure you success" D. A. Edwards
president of the Lincoln Park Citizens
ASSOCIATION, told the graduates in the
course of an address, in which he re-
iateo incidents in his own life and told
Oh his early struggles for success.
The speaker declared that there are
three types of school graduates-those
VINO go out of the colleges and uniyer-
sites with enlarged ego and are DOOM
ed to failure; those who are confident
OF failure before they start and who do
fa1l, and those who face difficulties
bravely and who win.
The world has moved more in the
last thirty years intellectually than
since Julius Caesars time" said Mr.
Edwards. pointing out to the gradu-
ating class the opportunities for life
work which were unknown only a few
years ago
Mr.. Kramer complimented the Busi-
ness High School highly, and said:
Business High School ought to re-
late to life more closely than any other
great vocational school of this town"
Distribution Of Honors.
Miss Pauline Margaret Floyd was
awarded the scholarship in the Wash
ington College of Law, when the award
Of scholarships and prizes took place
following the addresses. The announce
ments were made by Mr.. Kramer
Phidias John Joseph Nicolailes was
awarded the law scholarship in George
town University. Arthur Knabe Fox
and Rose Wolf were admitted to COM
cial history and sociology. and Leola
Beckwith and Louise Eppley were ap-
pointed competitors for the Gait prizes
in commercial geography.
Charles F. Nesbit, superintendent of
insurance of the District, brought to
the Business High School last night
the two first prizes out of a number
awarded in his recent contest on the
prevention OF fire waste. Amid the
Mooers was handed a twenty-dollar
gold piece by Mr.. Nesbit as winner of
first prize. anu Miss Marguerite Marie
Milne was presented a ten-dollar gold
piece as winner Of second place.
Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson pronounced
the invocation. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes
presided. William T. Galliher con-
ferred the diplomas. Music by the high
school orchestra was feature.
The class officers were Joseph c.
McGarraghy, president: Marguerite M.
Milne. vice president; Edna F. Colburn,
secretary, and Raymond J. Wise. treas
urer. The class executive committee
was composed Of Mary E.. speiser.
and Norman E. Duehring.
Diploma Winners.
Those who received diplomas last
night included Lucie Hayden Barber.
Josephine Bedinger. Jennie Biron, Helen
oldCh, Dculdu dy \dTteT, I1eS-
ter Luvita Carter, Edna Frances Col
burn, Ruth Marie Corder, Marian Char
ity Dearborn, Mae Lauretta Pagan,
Pauline Margaret Floyd, Frances Eliza
beth Freund, Mary Elizabeth Cunning,
Helen Irene Helm, Mary Elizabeth
Kleindienst. Leona Grace Kremkau,
Ruth Teresa Lainhart, Mae Olga Nc
MILAN, Ida Louise Mills, Marguerite
Marie Milne. Eliza McAdory Moncure,
Anne Elizabeth Kicker. Lucille Saun-
ders, Zoe Margaret Shea, Mary Eliza
beth Speiser, Elizabeth Maude Torrey-
son, Charles Kohler Balst<r, Kenneth
Joseph Blundon, Charles Reginald Gull
ligan, Charles Wade Downing, Norman
Edward Duehring, Maurice Preston
Freeman, MIllard Jacob Horn, Olin An
drew Theodore Hornig. Thomas Errett
Lipscomb. Harry Wright Little. Leroy
Jerome McCarty, Joseph Charles Nc
Garraghy, James Bernard Mahoney,
Phidias John Joseph Nicolaides. Ken
meth Pearce Strawn, William West
Taliaferro, Talmadge Milton Thorne,
Edward Leroy Weber and Raymond
Joseph Francis Wise.