Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-15
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
CLOSING EXERCISES
r.lebrates Occasion With a Shake
,oeare Program in Honor of
Ter-Centenary.
rlFTY.ONE PASS TO HIGH SCHOOL
n, George T. Melvin Makes Address
those PrOmoted---Miss Viola
Crob First Honor Girl---Earle
Johnson First Honor Boy.

GrOb FHSt nOnOr OiTl---Earle
Johnson First Honor Boy.
0r stage beautifully decorated
..t v.d and cultivated flowers and
..tto reufeseut "a woodland scene. 26
4... and Is Young girls received from
Mn. hands o.. Mr. William II. Feldmeyer
President of the Board of Trustees, the
..aineaios which signify the compile
...u of the seyen-year course at the
Annapolis Grammar School and give
H.m ll.o tine keeping of the High
school or tHg world.
The exercises commenced at 10
o'clock tine graduates entering from
.nposite sides of the Assembly Hail,
and proceeding TO the stage. There
more songs by the choir of graduates
and reading and musical selections by
members OF the class. The full pro-
gram was Shakesperean and was pub
rslcd in It's entirety in The Capital
Yesterday. 1t was selected from
shakespeare TO do honor to the ter
cutcucry of that famous poet and
dramatist
Dr. Samuel Garner, the County
school superintendent. introduced Mr..
George r. Melvin, who delivered the
following address;
Mr.. Melyin's Address.
Madam Principal. Young Ladies and
Young Gentlemen of the Graduating
Glass, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Five years ago it was my pleasure
and privilege to address the Glass of
1871 as IL left these halls for the High
School aud the growth of the Gram
mar grades in that time has been noted
by me with interest and pride. In
llll tine enrolment of the Grammar
Scooo was SOB and it is now 750
Nuety-soycn pupils were added in
1912 and 3S I'm 1913, the enrolment in
that year reaching 72S. No pupils
from the county outside of German
town were admitted in 1914, when the
total was $50 II rose last year to 7S0
and 20 additional pupils are now on
the rolls. with a graduating class of so.
This increasing attendance is to be
remarked with serious thought by the
parents of Annapolis, and | am sure
that those of you now present who
have children in the Grammar School
and who have shown your interest in
their education and in their teachers
by being here ON this occasion,do have
lively sense of what it means to the
community You know that haphaZ-
ard study and Irregular attendance are
mot best Tor the pupils and that the
earnest work of the teachers, the will
hngnoss aud sacrifice of the taxpayers
90 provide adequate equipment must
De supplemented by the care and in
.grpst of the parents in order that the
best and most fruitful results in the
education and training of Maryland
children may be realized.
lt has been a source of deep pride
and qualification TO me that as men,
atr of the School Board / had a small
s.arc u upbuilding and fostering this
school and the High School, and that
my service was in part associated with
'Hc present management of these
schools Miss Riordan and Miss Lin
'htcum have fully justified the hopes
and expectations, and the conviction.
nt tine Board and of the County School
superintendent that women principals
aro entirely capable. trustworthy and
inorou-hIy suited TO the executive di-
reyion of our city schools. Your
work here Madam Principal, has been
O. large one for the community, and its
influence upon the generation of An
Mpolijaus who have come under you.
inspection. has been deeply felt and
VIII continue 10 he more widespread
4s ,1c boys and girls YOU and your
devoted corps of teachers have trained
e.'W up and take their places in the
world That YOU shonld have a per-
,eHagu of attendance of the enrol
a.. high as so per cent, and a
graduating class of the size of this is
fine tribute to the school in its rela-
.r both 10 pupils and parents. and
perhaps more than all. to The teachers.
lo the boys and girls who have fin
HHt tIo course in the Grammar
School. lonEratulations and good wish
$50 forth from all of us of maturer
Years. They have before them many
-H',altcs and trials in the future
'..a IN the few years they may spend
" o.Her school rooms and in the prob
""s of life that will meet them when
.ae.r school days are over. The very