The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-09
WOODS SCHOOL
LEADS IN HONORS
FOR TYPE WRITING
Commercial Institution Turns
Out Many Who Are Pro-
hcient on Keyboard.

Woods Commercial School Is equipped
with number 10 Remington typewriters
and the following persons were awarded
sold medals for superior work and 40
curacy on the Remington-some OF these
students wrote as high as ninety words q
minute with but two errors:
Gertrude Martin, 'Bernice Wilson, Elis-
abeth Keir, Ruby Canter. Elsie Fox.
Josephine Collins, Margaret Parater,
Gertrude Wintermyer
More Of these medals were awarded
TO Woods Commercial School than to all
OF the other schools in Washington COM
bined; IN fact since the awards plan per
hitting but one error a minute for ten
minutes, the above named school has
captured all Of the medals awarded by
the Remington Company in Washington.
Awarded Card Cases.
The following forty-one students were
awarded certificates and card cases by
the Remington Typewriter Company Of
New York for writing forty words or
over a minute on the Remington for
ten minutes with not over fifteen err
rors:
Ora Carver, Anita Dom. Marie Smith,
Robert Fellers, Wallace Thurman, Ida
Hartig, Esther Hunter Johnson, Mar
garet Parater, Emily Taylor, John Mo-
Connell. Agnes McL.ane, May Robey,
Downs, Mae Burns, Gertrude Martin,
Lawrence RoyS, Jean Jackson, Harry
Young, Bernice Wilson, Josephine Col
Inns. Bertha Sanders. Helen Hopkins,
Gertrude Wintermeyer. Bernice Good
rich, Eva Sokol, Josiebelle Metz, Fran
ees Martin, Carrie Matthews, Walter
Disney Mary Hickey, Katherine Scan
lon, Charlotte Brown, William ReeS
Mrs. W. H. Jones, Russell w. Ritenour,
Margaret McFadden. Leonard J. Nc
Carthy Earl s. Baldwin, Shaw ThOmp-
son.
Eighty-hve students received the I'm
derwood credential certificates since
April /, 1913 This Is more certificates
than were awarded to all the other
schools in Washington combined.
These students all wrote forty or more
words a minute according to the in
ternatiOnal contest rules. and It speaks
volumes for the Underwood typewriter.
and for the teacher at Woods Com
merical School. The same teacher has
been secured for the ensuing year. The
successful students follow:
Miss Naomi O'DOnnell, Miss Edna
Nell, William Oshinsky. Miss Agnes
Stewart, Miss Doris Petrova, Miss Bes-
sic Burke, Miss Rose Burns. Miss Alice
Gibbons Miss Lillian Kastendike, Miss
Mabel Logue, Miss Sue MaGruder, Miss
Athena Viner, Miss Hattie NOEL, Miss
Alpa PuEh, Miss Ellen MagrudeT, Miss
Rose HyIer Robert Fellers. Miss Kath-
ryn Burke, Vincent Smith, Miss Jean
Gruickshauks, Miss Ruby Canter. Miss
Mona Nelson, Miss Ida Hartig. William
Weber. Miss Anna Barker, Miss
JosiebeIle Metz. John Davis, Miss
Agnes McLane. Carl Willingham,
Charles F. Watts. Miss Emily Taylor,
Brewer Clark, John Mcconnell, Miss
May Robey, Walter Disney. Miss Elsie
Fox, Clyde Bailey. Miss Ruth Aims
worth, Leonard Mccarthy, McNair
Arthur. John Stewart, Arthur Jones,
Edward Brosman, Miss Elizabeth Keir,
Miss Katherine Scanlon, William Rees,
Miss Frances Martin, Miss Eva Clark,
Miss Catherine Brown, Russell Rite
nour, Miss Mary Hickey, Miss Anna
varnon, Miss Amelia Kern, Miss Ora
Carver. Miss Mary Pape, Harry West.
Vincent Wintermyer. Lawrence Roys,
Kenneth Meem, Miss Anita Dom, Miss
Katherine Rafferty,. Francis jenkins,
Miss Gertrude Martin. Willard Blum.
Miss Jean Jackson, Miss Helen Hop
kins, Miss Bertha Sanders, Albert Bow
man, Miss Ester H. Johnson. Miss JOS
ephine Collins Miss Bernice Wilson,
Miss Gertrude wintermyer. Lewis E.
TaIbert Miss Helen O'Donnen, Miss
Eva Sokol, Miss Carrie Matthews,
AlonzO Alley, Miss Mae Burns, Miss
Matilda Edwards, Shaw Thompson. Miss
Rebekah NacDaniel Miss Grace Blau-
welt, William BaChteu. Joseph F. Fra
tantuonO, Miss Mary MCFadden.