Evening star., 1915-06-18
BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS NIGHT OBSERVED
-Four. Year Graduating Class Holds
Make e-Believe Five -Year-Hence
Exhibit.
Records, Achievements and Careers
of Members Shown in Mimic
Exposition.


year graduating class of Business High
School were held in the assembly hall
of the school building. Rhode Island
avenue and 9Th street. last night A
great world exhibit. five years hence.
in which the exhibits are the records
| of the class of 1915 and of the later
careers of members was a feature. The
play presented by the amateur actors
| of the class depicted future success
| full strike of women by which they OBJ
| tanned the franchise. Through the
program concert numbers were given
| by the Business High School Orchestra
Joseph c. McGarraghy, president OF
the class, made the address OF welcome.
He took rather a pessimistic view OF
the future of the class membership,
pointing out that there are thousands
and thousands of unemployed, and that
it may be difficult to get even footing
! in the business world with slim pros
poets of the instantaneous success that
some may anticipate on launching
themselves into the world Ihe war
situation in Europe was seized upon
by him to illustrate the idea of dis
appearing civilization.
Norman E. Duehring. as historian.
was the barker for the exposition OF
the accomplishments of the class of
The almost bare stage of the assem-
bly, hail he pictured in words as
crowded with exhibits and elegant with
architectural and mural decoration. He
described the exhibits, all MARKING
some characteristic of members OF the
class.
A Novel Feature.
I A novel feature of this exposition lee
ture was the introduction OF members
of the class, in their own persons, but
alleged to be 'Iay figures" on exhibit
tion. representative of what they had
heen in the DAYS of 1915 The four
classes of the school were represented,
! the singing quartet Of the class OF 1919,
| the debaters, the lunch girl, the sunra
gists. the base ball favorites and the
| picnickerS.
/ Lucie Barber and Josephine Bedinger
| as class prophets described the future
| occupations of class members ana told
of their prospective achievements as
| coveries and contributions TO the
worlds advance.
The play was then given. entitled
How the Vote Was Won" 1t told OF
the strike of all woman wage-earners
| in 1920 in England and their quarteT
ing themselves upon their nearest male
relatives for support. in the expecta-
tion of becoming a burden that would
force the males to grant the franchlse.
The plan succeeds and the unhappy
men so loaded down with added re-
sponsibilities rush to the commons. de-
manding that the franchise be granted.
The scene of the play Is in London,
the home of a clerk who supports
wife on his meager salary. The strike
is called; all the, servants leave the
house; then, one after another. his
feminine relatives. even to the fourth
removed, some of them little known to
him. many of them earners OF big
money, come and billet themselves upon
him as next of kin. His views as to
suffrage change in a fash. and he Joins
the parade of men to urge upon the
commons the granting of suffrage to
women.
The Players.
Phidias Nicolaides was the clerk.
Horace Cole; Mary Kleindienst. the
wife, Ethel Cole: Elizabeth Speiser. her
sister winifred: Zoe Shea. Coles sis
ter, Agatha Cole; Ida Mills. Molly.
niece of Cole; Marie Kubel. as Nine.
Christine, a distant relative: Anne Rick
er. Coles first cousin, Maude Sparks Jo-
sephine Bedinger. his aunt. Miss Lizzie
wilkins; Mae Mcmillan. maid Of all
work. Lily, and Joseph McGarraghy,
neighbor. Gerald Williams.
Leroy J. Mccarthy, in an address to
undergraduates, presented tne InAAihs
of the class of 1915 governing the in
struction and manners and morals of
| those who came after them. Their
| value was disputed by Romaine Tay-
| lor, class of 1916, who made the under
graduate reply. He presented the max
| inns Of the class Of 1916 as amending
and perfecting all that had been set
| forth by the class preceding.
AS arbitrator. Allan Davis. principal
of the school. decided that the baked
| hricL tablets Of RabylOn recorded all
| that had been set forth In ANY later
| maxims of student classes, and that
neither had any claims to originality
| or profundity. He made the faculty
| address.
! A valedictory was delivered by Miss
Hester Carter. A selection was given
| by Miss Leona Kremkau and Millard
| Horn played violin solo.