Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-20
larney rose, and the class colorss Ma
room and Gold.

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roon and Gold.
At ten o'clock this morning. cert,
ficates of promotion were presented
at the school to pupils of the frst
second, and third years, who mao
| made the required marks in thei'
classes during the psst year. Mem
bers of the two cadet companies wit
ressed in uniform the presenting OF
handsome gold medal to Adrian
Katz. who was recently adjudged by
competitive drill to be the best drlll-
ed cadet in the battalion. Rev. Edgar
Carpenter made the presentation
Friday the two medals of the Liter
ary Society were presented the r'eaai
for oratory going to Willard H.
Blewett, '18, and that for debate be-
ing awarded to Elwin Brawner, II.
The names of those appointed TO
be officers in the cadet corps Tor the
session 1857, were read this morn
ing by S. G. Blanton, vice-prlnclpal'
The appointments are provisional
that is, if any of those appointed are
not in the proper grade next session,
the place is filled by another cadet.
The commissioned officers must be
Numbers of the fourth year, the ser
peants of the third year, and the cor
porals of the second. Following are
the appointments:
Captains, Thomas L. Wattles ana
Robert Hancock.
First Lieutenants, Merrill Lynch
and Aubrey Barnett.
Second Lieutenants, Reginald Dv-
son and Francis Summers.
First sergeants, Wesley Bitter and
Leo Pohl.
Sergeants, Frederick Schwab, Leon
Eddington, Julian Chauncey, ana
Willard K. Blewett.
Color sergeants: U. S. flag, A. ).
Pohl, Jr. 4; Va. flag, Herbert Allen
Lance corporals, James Kelley
Julian Upton, Leonard Dean, Everett
Pohl, Purvis Downham, John Schwarz-
mann, Norman Simpson, William
Cradlin, Forest Remschell, William
Remington.
The swords were presented to the
commissioned officers and the first
by Ashby Bladen, retiring
junior captain.
Those who made the highest marks
in their respective classes during the
past term were: Third Year, Thomas
l.. Wattles. 81; Miss Jennie Rosen-
berg, 96.5. Second year, Byron Her.
ring, 96 8; Hugh Murphy, 96.2; Will
liam Morton, 95.4. First year, Grace
Stone, 97.6. In the graduating class,
who held their commencement last
night, Albert V. Bryan was the win
ner of the scholarship to the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Those promoted from the third to
the fourth year this morning were as
follows: Louise Abbott, Dolly Burke,
Aubrey Barnett, Alice Bladen, Wal
her Barrett, Reginald Dyson, Mazda
Foster, Willie Fairfax, Ruth LeHew,
Lorine Risheill, Jennie Rosenberg,
Eva Smith, FraAcis Summers, Earl
Trigger, Russell Travers, Thomas l..
Wattles, Louise Adams, Sarah Cox,
Marie Gasson, Marion Greenaway,
Anna Haslett, William Meeks, Elena
Norris, Ruth Deahl, Louise Schwarz-
mann, Carolina Yates, Robert Han
cock and John Curtain. :;
Those promoted from the second to
the third year; Lucy Reardon, Doro-
thy Plaakett, Gertrude McDermott,
Margaret Abramson, Wesley Bitter,
Lillian Schwarzmann, Adrian katz,
Leo Pohl, Anna Pierpont, A. j. Poh!,
Jr., Herbert Allen, Vernon Dyson,
Byron Herring, Charles Keegan, Will
liam Morton, Roy Bragg, Leon Braw-
ner, Hugh Murphy, Julian Chauncey,
Audrey Gaines, William Gilroy, Carl
Dreifus, Margaret DeMasters, Stan
ley King, Nina Fulton, Caroline West,
Elizabeth Howell, Isobel Boswell,
Hilda Schneider, Frederick Schwab,
Harold Quigley, Fay Ross. Francis
Lash, Leon Eddington, Mary Kern,
Dorothy Knight.
Those promoted from the nrst to
the second year: William Blake, Pur-
Wis Downham, Ida Harvey, Evelyn
Howard, Margaret Lynn, jamie Saun-
ders, Grace Stone, Pauline Taylor,
Elizabeth Thomas, Lyles Yates,
Henry Poss, George Petit, Paul Bar
rett, Page Buddin, George Smith
William Smith, James Kelley, Mar.
shall Henderson, Peony Simms, Geral.
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