Evening journal., 1915-06-23
URGE GRADUATES TO
PATRIOTIC Service
Howard School Class Is
Told to Always Defend
Nations Flag
AWARD PRIZES.
TO THE SCHOLARS

Commencement exercises OF the
Howard High School we're held in the
Playhouse last night. An audience
that filled the theatre to its capacity
attended Warner T. McQuinn. of
Baltimore. made the address to the
graduates Those who received their
diplomas we're Miriam Theresa
Bryan, Elsie Thelma Bryan, Nilah
Jeffers Cain. Annis Grace Appleby.
Edith Irma Dillahay Aubrey Lee
Hoxter. Ccurtley Lavinia Jefferson,
Ruth Odessa Jobes, Gertrude Baldwin
Loper, Blanche Ruth McDaniels,
Olivia Ruth Murray Ethel Purneil'
Eleanor Lloyd Spencer and jeanette
Bowers Stubbs.
The following have completed the
course in .he Normal Training De-
partment. Annie Jane Anderson.
Katherine Hamilton Bayard. Beatrice
virginia Mayo, Bertha Jones Smith,
Helen Sophia Starkey, Lillian Arena
Turner.
The graduates wore the academic
caps IA gownG. They filed in on the
stage amid much applause and their
entrance was followed by the entrance
of members Of the Board If Education
and Superintendent of Schools Clifford
j. Scott.
Following selection by the orches-
ira. the Rev. w. I. Hemsley made the
invocation. The musical program, under
the direction of Miss Nell {. krumme
supervisor of music in the public
.N Itf
Pilgrims Chorus" Wagner; a piano
solo "Rachmaninoff," by Jesnnett'
Bowers Stubhs; chorus. Schubert
"Serenade, by the class, and two selee
tions "Winter Song" by Bulard, anc
Hail Festal Day. by Rossini, which
were given by the Boys Glee Club.
John o. Hopkins, city councilman
from the Sixth ward, awarded prizes t'
the following pupils;
The Board of Education first honol
prizes. for first standing in the clasi
during the four years of the High Schoo
course. TO Miss Elsie Thelma Bryant
and Miss Jeanette Bowers Stubbs; thu
Hopkins and Bantcn manual training
prize. for best work in woodwork, t'
Wilbert Fisher; honorable mention t.
Aubrey Hoxter; the Mary Hayes Ste
vens prize. for the best work in sewing
10 Helen Walker; honorable mention t.
Flossie Anderson. Antoinette Frazier
Blanche Clarke and Ethel Young
The Mary Hayes Stevens prize foi
the best loaf of bread was awarded
TO Estella Sewall Honorable mention
was given TO Flossie Anderson anC
Madrene Holmes The Bishop Fred
srick J. Kinsman prize for the h.ghes
standing in English for the four year
n High School was awarded TO Mis-
lrma Dillahay
Optimism. An Asset in Racial De
velopment." vas the subject OF tn
address by Mr. McGuinn. He said tn
colored man has always been a sub
iect of preiudices which have eve
stood in the way of his progress ant
that the colored man as an individ
ual must seek to overcome them.
He pointed out that the South hal
not kept faith with the colored man
that he has been robbed of his per
sonality in a country which his fore
fathers helped TO make. He said thl
negro has been denied privileges Il
the courts Of justice and that Of
every hand he has been made to fee
that he stands at the closed door o
Justice In continuing the speake
showed that "it demands strang
loyalty TO be a negro in a day lik
this. When one recalls the histor
of this country and the part the negr
has played in it, it is enough to max
him lose his faith in humanity"
In conclusion the speaker urge
each of. the graduates keep faith II
the equalities and possibilities of IN
race and to remember always'the fla
Of his country. for which he shoul
at all times stand ready TO give hi
very life.
A number of essays and oration
were delivered during the evening b
members of the graduating elias
Miss Elsie Thelma Bryant, the homo
student, delivered an oration on tn
subject, THE Negros Civil. Politici
and Social Rights, and Courtley Ia
vinia Jefferson read an essay entitle
1.-THE Negro in American History
This essay was written by Miss Eles
nor Lloyd Spencer.
Two solos were sung by Wilhei
Fisher The stage was attractivel
decorated with palms and cut flower
. while over il hung the class mott
enblazoned in electric lights.
Following the exercises. Miss TX
wilma Kruse, principal of the schoo
entertained at a reception at hS
home, No. 206 East Tenth street,
honor Of the graduating class.