Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-25
MARYS EXERCISES
Of COMMENCEMENT
Solemn and Impressive Ceremony
-Four Girls Graduate.
PUPILS WORTHY OF MENTION.
Promotions From Various Grades to
Higher Ones Delightful Picnic
Closes School Year.


scribed glaringly in the annals of St.
Mary's School. That night beheld
four young graduates, Miss Catherine
Geraci, Miss Gertrude Jones, Miss
Geraldine Kimball, and Miss Catherine
Handbook, passing from the shelter
ing walls of st. Mary's, from the
guiding hands of the Sisters of Nctre
Dame, to other halls of instruction, or
to different sphere of work.
The exercises began at 8.I5. The
program previously published was
carried out with exactness. The
graduates strengthened by a number
of children from the different classes,
opened the evening into the singing of
the Ave Maria" This was succeed
ed by number of drills, given at the
recent entertainment.
Opportunity then favored Miss Ger
trude jones to deliver the valedictory.
Be it said to the credit of Miss Jones,
she pronounced her words of farewell,
with much pathos and distinctness.
Rev. FIR. Barron, Rector of st.
Mary's then stepped before the gradu-
ates and an especially large audience.
there, delivering an address signif-
cant for interest in the graduates.
His address centered about two sacred
duties of the graduates, the honor
their futures should bring to their old
school--the heavy debt of gratitude
they owe to the noble untiring Sisters
of Notre Dame for enabling them to
win the honor of this evening. He
urged most forcibly upon them a cer-
tain fondness for the sisters who drill
ed them in the laws of right, pure and
holy living. The address ended the
Rev. Rector presented the diplomas,
and the Bibles the usual gift of the
school, to the respective graduates.
The evenings program closed with a
chorus. singing song entitled: {:
"Fleeting Days"
June 22nd, besides being memoir
able for the graduates of the school,
will be marked by the majority of St.
Mary's pupils as a day of singular
happiness for them. because on that date
they received the results of the exam
ination for promotion. The following
pupils are deserving of particular
mention because of their high average
in the examination work They are
named under the grade promotion has
placed them.
First Grade-Bernard Nees, Gabriel
Pantaleo, Edward 0'Neill, Victoria
PerlitZ.
Second Grade Daniel Keller, Angela
Hughes, Myrtle Bassford, Katherine
Lutz.
Third Grade-Albert Droll. Freder-
ick Brown, Theresa Mayhem, William
Coughlin.
Fourth Grade-M Margaret Hill, Au-
gusta Brown, Marie Callahan, Joanna
Connell.
Fifth Grade Mary Cole, Joseph
Neville, Catherine Keller. Elizabeth
Sanders
Sixth Grade Gertrude Myers, Will
lam McWilliams, Beatrice Wahab.
Alma Robeck.
Seventh Grade Reginald Jones,
Catherine Brock, Bernard Tilghman.
Mary Dammeyer.
Eighth Grade-Jos. Himmelheber.
Eva Himmelheber, Paul Wiegard,
Katherine. ..Kimball, Catherine Tolson.
The day following the close of
school, Wednesday, June 2Srd, the
pupils of st. Mary's had their annual
picnic to the Church. farm on the Sew
ern. Most of the children went by
boat from Clark's wharf. The boat
left the landing at 9 a. m. Fifty
eight of the children, the smaller ones
preferably, were conveyed to the pic
mic grounds in one of Mr.. Clancy
| wagons.
The day was delightfully."- cool, and
much enjoyed by the young picnicers.
All returned to the city, at about IL
D. m, happy that they spent the day
on the shores of the Severn.