Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-30
NIGHT HIGH SCHOOL
HOLDS COMMENCEMENT
Large Audience Shows It's Interest
In Newest Form OF Public
Education.
SEVERAL ADDRESSES MaD]
Principal Locker Delivers Certificates
to Graduates I'm Many Special
Courses---Josepll bryan Memorial
Prize Awarded to Miss Hill.

| Courses---Joseph bryan Memorial
Prize Awarded to Miss Hill.
| Ihat the work OF the John Marshall
Night High School has aroused n full
| measure or the city's interest and en-
thusiasm was evidenced I'm the Immense
throng OF its citizens who packed the
spacious auditorium of the school last
night To witness tho closing exercises
| of the most successful session I'm it's
history. Men prominent In the liter
arE' educational and political life of the
! city and State delivered addresses, and
each In turn emphasized the important
ana far-reaching results accruing to
thc community. individually and COL
! iectively, from the unique work of the
night school The generous applause
OF the representative audience in each
| instance proved that the speakers had
struck responsive chord. and that the
people OF Richmond regarded the John
Marshall Night High School as an in
stitution fulfilling an important mis-
sion in the elevation Of the civic life
! of the city.
| The Night School Orchestra furnished
| the music for the OCCASION, and Pro-
lessor w. G. Locker, the principal, pre-
sided ana introduced the speakers of
! the evening
LASTING MONUMENT
TO SPIRIT OF CITY
Ferdinand C. Ebel. chairman OF the
CITY School Board and the first speak
Ter IN the program, said that the
John Marshall High School with its
splendid facilities was lasting monu-
inent to the public spirit of the city.
and congratulated the school on the
full use 1t had made of It's opportuni-
ties He traced the rapid growth OF
the school from Its beginning four
years ago to the present time. and paid
glowing tribute to DR.. ]. A. C.
Chandler, superintendent of schools.
and Professor Locker.
DR.. Chandler, who followed Mr.. Ebel,
said that the twentieth century empha-
sized two things. altruism and educa-
tioh. and that Richmond, combining the
two, pursued policy Of aitruistic edu-
cation. Teachers, he said, were mis-
sionares In the cause Of education and
always the end in view was the ele-
walton OF the civic life OF the COM
munity. In proportion to its popula-
ton. Richmond. he said, had the latg-
est attendance at night schools Of any
city in the United States
ATTORNEY POLLARD
MAKES BRIEF ADDRESS
John Garland Pollard. attorney-gen-
eral Of Virginia. explained that he was
In no wise preacher, but that he was
going to take text and preach SER
mon. Unlike the preachers. however,
he said that his text would be longer
than the sermon. and 1t was. Verses
entitled a Bottle OF Ink" was the
text. and Il was the story OF n man
who thought great thoughts, and made
elaborate preparations TO put those
thoughts in concrete form for the en-
lightenment Of the world. but the prep
arations consumed all the time allotted
him In this life, and he died without
touching the ink that was to give ex-
mr. acSin tn 4 ,tnf,
said, OF the educated fool, who did not
learn that service was the real end OF
education.
DR.. Douglas s. Freeman made
strong plea for wide reading as the
only means OF obtaining the broadcast
education. The university OF the book
shelf and the workshop was, after all,
lie said. the greatest seat OF learning
He advocated the expenditure OF more
money on the public schools Of the
city.
The Joseph Bryan memorial prize
was presented in an appropriate speech
by W. Floyd Reams TO Miss Harriet
Ross Hill. and the Phi Kappa Epsilon
dcbaters medal to Jesse Clarion Duke.
Oliver J. Sands delivered the forty
three cash prizes OF the savings de-
partment. The Randolph Macon schol-
arship was awarded TO Warner w
Smith.
CERTIFICATES AWARDED
by PRINCIPAL LOCKER
Professor Locker awarded certificates
TO the following pupils:
Cecilia NJ. Grasberger, stenography.
.typewriting, business, English.
Dora Passamaneck, stenography.
typewritinE, business. English.
Kathleen Alsop, English, stenogra-
ply. business. English.
Herbert f. Taylor. stenography bust
John Herbert Cole. stenograp ply,
Katie Davis. stenography, typewrit-
ing.
Lottie Mae Griffin, stenography, type
writing.
Olive r. Harris, stenography, tyne
writing.
Stenography-Dan F. Martin. Charles
3. Burch, Conrad Gentry. Elsie Harris,
Rena c. Heider. Patricia Mcdonald,
Mary Mclaughlin Marie Rankin. Will
liam NJ. Rindsburg, Eva C. Saunders
Henry Grade Whitehorn, p. Earl Wood.
Business English-Agnes Chester, Ida
Belle Clements. Mrs. Lydia Evans. Min
mic a. Frederckson. Elizabeth Lowery,
Ada Poindexter. Annie Tracker.
Grace V Garrett, Business English,
commercial law, banking.
Robert F. Ritchie, commercial Law,
bookkeeping.
Stuart D. Walden, commercial law.
stenoSraphy.
Elsie f. Fitzwilson, commercial law.
Istenography.
Robert T.. Bell. commercial law,
arithmetic
Clinton S. Ford, commercial lave.
writing.
Commercial Law-Ma rion 6. c. Allen.
Norman r. Flippen Della F.. Hooker,
Julia s. Jennings, Mary Matthews, Cor
nelia Moore, Arthur II. Redfeld, Charlie
Clifford Satterfeld. Louis y. Schuman,
Clifton r. Sutherland, Louise Sutton
Bookkeepng-J. W. Casey. Hannah
FAIRFIELD. Ida Holliger Robert Rylatld
Lacy Elizabeth Maud Watch Harjat