Evening star., 1915-06-19
NO PULL" IS NEEDED
BY EDUCATED, HE SAYS
Rev. J. T. Stocking Addresses East.
ern High School Graduates at
Commencement Exercises.
Honors Conferred by DR.. W. s. Small,
Principal of School-Diplomas Pre-
sented by Ernest a. Daniel.

That but one out Of every five high
school graduates in Pittsburgh Is good
for anything. was the statement OF
Rev. Jay T. Stocking. pastor of the
First Congregational Church. in an ad-
dress to graduates of the Eastern High
School yesterday afternoon at the Co
lumbia Theater. The speaker said he
had been so informed on the subject by
a prominent manufacturer of that city.
Dr. Stocking said his informer de-
clared the trouble is that the high
school graduates don't know what
work Is. they don't want to work, and
that until they understand what work
is there will be place but for one out
Of every five who apply.
The speaker told his hearers educated
men and women need no pull" He dis
cussed the life of William Henry Bald
win, jr., and urged the young gradu-
ates to endeavor to use his life as an
example for them to live up to. The
responsibilities they will be subjected
to were referred to by the speaker.
Relatives and Friends Fill Theater.
The stage of the theater. on which
the graduates were seated, was be-
decked with palms. potted plants and
cut flowers, while the theater was well
filled with relatives and friends of the
graduates. Following selections by an
orchestra E. L. Thurston, superintend-
ent of schools. who presided, intro
duced Rev Francis NJ. Mccoy. pastor
of Waugh Methodist Church, who gave
the invocation.
DR.. w. S. Small. principal of the
school. announced that honors had been
conferred as follows: First honors,
Lille Maude Ritenour, Annie Drew
Thorne and Lua Marcella Cook. for
having rs per cent excellence during
Catherine Roetschi and Marjorie Lily
Haines, for having so per cent excel
lence during the four years.
The alumni medal, which is pre-
sented to the student each year who,
in the opinion of the faculty, has done
the most for the school, was conferred
upon Miss Lua Marcella Cook. The
presentation was made by DR.. NJ. P.
Eslin. president Of the Alumni Asso-
citation. Diplomas were presented by
Ernest H. Daniel, vice president Of the
board of education. Miss Lille NJ. Rit-
enour was the valedictorian.
The officers of the class are: Gilbert
Church Clark, president: Lasalia Leona
McCaffrey. vice president; Lille Maude
Ritenour, secretary; Nichol Main San
doe. treasurer.
List Of the Graduates.
The graduates are Howard Elliott
America. Harry Lewis Baldwin. Rich
mond James Beck. John Frederick
Buehler. Gilbert Church Clark, Ray
mond Gordon Clark. H. Eugene Cole,
Edward Young Davidson. jr.: Worden
Pope Dyer. George Stoughton Ellis,
Fessenden. Henry Walter Graves,
ham Rice. Norman Leo Roddy, Nichol
Main Sandoe. Elmer Bernard Schwab,
Robert Mitchell Taylor. William V.
Turpin, John Dutton Wainwright,
Margaret Garrett Appold. Elizabeth
Baldwin. Ruth L. L. Ball. Ruth Bell,
Margaret Kerr Beveridge, Frances Per-
sida Blatt, Jane Margaret Breen, Chris
tine Agnes Brennan, Margaret Etzler
Campbell, Genevieve Chaplin, Lua Mar
celia Cook, Eleanor Parke Custis, Ruth
Eleanor Dick, Maude Douglass, Eietta
Marie Droney, Dorothy Adelia Dryer,
Nellita Adelaide Dwyer. Eleanore ALI
son Earnshaw. Mary Elizabeth Estep,
Virginia Butler Farnsworth, Grace WV
ian Freed, Louise Johanna Gerhard,
Anna Malinda Hagan. Marjorie Lily
Haines, Marie Eleanore Harvey, Marie
Margaret Hicks. Hazel Dorothy Hughes.
Marian Virginia Hummer. Ida May
Hunter, Mary Alice Hunter. Louella
Townsend Jacobs. Edith Julia King,
Elsie May Klinehanse, Pauline Lohman.
Lasalia Leona Mccartney. Dorothy Es-
telle McCauley. Mary Bashby McClel-
land, Esther Madeline Mack. May Imo-
gene Mann, Theresa Inez Matthews. Iva
Rae Merritt, Helen Embick Miller.
Flora May Palmer. Helen Gray Rank
in, Helen Anna Rauchenstein. Annabel
Rilen Lille Maude Eitenour, Emma
Catherine Roetschi, Virginia Whittle-
sey Sargent. Mary Power Siggers. Ed
ma Marie Shreve. Mildred sweeney.
Katherine Wade Taylor. Olive Rodgers
Taylor, Brunette ter Linden. Annie
Drew Thorne, Marian Elizabeth Tuck
err Josephine Marie Waight. Marie Es-
telle Walcot, Carol Louise Walker and
Leora Wells