Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-15
TRADES SCHOOL
HAS BIG CLASSES
Commencement Exercises
Tonight for Day and
Evening Pupils
MANY PRIZE AWARDS
4Address.to Graduates by Head of
the Williamson
School

Commencement exercises for the Febru-
cry and June ana the evening classes OF
ehe Philadelphia Trades School at Twelfth
and Locust streets will be held tonight at
o.1B O'Clock in the auditorium Of the VIII
liam Penn High School for Girls. Fifteenth
and Mount Vernon streets. OF the ll3
70 be awarded diplomas. twenty-four are
Of the February class, thlrty-one Of the
June class Of the day school, and fifty
eight are members Of the evening classes.
The address 20 the graduates will be
made by James A. Pratt, director Of the
Williamson Free School Of Mechanical
Trades The. diplomas will be presented by
William Rowen, chairman OF the committee
on elementary education, The valedictory
Grafton will be made by Leslie w. Kramer
The MurrelI Dobbins endowment prizes
will be presented by william c. Ash to
the following:
Charles T. Friedrich pttoo J. Atele
Nicholas 3. FilppOue AUe J.. bfoohs
Edward j. Nethammor
Augustine l.. Nc MtllN'W q. Assn
Edssr SSHOF +. Byery
AWARD OF PRIZES
The Master Plumbers prize will be pre-
scented by Edward +. Roberts, president Of
the Master Plumbers Association Of Phtla-
delphia, 10 Augustine L. Mcmahon.
The Richard H. Watson prize viii be pre-
sented by Mr.. Roberts to Edgar T.. Byerly
The Master Sheet Metal Workers Associa-
tion prize will be presented by the president
Charles F. Geissler. 10 John w. Campbell.
The pioneer class prize will be presented
by j. Hans Gelpke. president of the class Of
1909 to Edward w. Lewis. The John T.
Lewis & Brothers Company prizes will be
presented by +. Newton Wiglan, plant
superintendent. to Walter Graham, Joseph
Henderson and Oscar Marshall.
Following are the graduates Of the Feb
ruary class:
Cabinet making, Nicholas S. Fillppone car
pentry, Norman s. SMITH architectural ora
p Friedricb, 'rHS Oliver d, Gaskns. William W.
Heilman; mechanical draftins. Charles W
Sgsh ioy gohn Her e. MErdocE MSrtin T. Reilly eorEo
o. Roth, Charles T.. Sauers; electrical constTq9G3-
wards, Charles L. Fortune Thomas ID; "T2Egil,
Sh45lss g. Hgmms Mosr9{R sIhwI NyIg Solomon T%r;
machine construction John @. Mills.
Those in the June class are:
Cabinet making, Harry +. Cole. Attiii9 d. j..
tGrsY IsSsYH' draftinF. Ernest S brchmann john 4.
MsS Mss'fS5 Rdscntoor 2SPe" LesdP T. s5Saisr Herman
schulze; mechanical dvtunE; George ASH
Bender Bender Joseph Sia J. Klnsio| Wtam H. Pcnneck
george A. Sayor' sleStTeol fGns,tTCg.eq9n, Uto
Wilmer C. Borlase, Maurice IIallman. Howard
NJ. Hill, Leslie W. Kramer, Edward w. lewis,
Anthony a. Malta, Rudolph Molenick EdWard
]. Neithammer, William J. lellF, Mllllhn
struction, Isadore n Sjngerman.
Those I'm the evening classes are:
. Carpentry George Plepls John Schwartz
architectural drafting, Charles Reichert, WI
Ham G.. Francke; mechanical drafting Harry
T. oliver. Frederick q. ksmpin; electrical con
SNYDER, winford T. milestone, George Podem
ski, Abraham Fishman, Jacob a, Stnubloin
Jr.; pattern making, Edwin Stcgman; printing
Philip Wiener; sheet metal pattern drafting
Clarence Peace, Henry Werner; plumbing, VII
liam ]. Aiken, Carl W. Bongart, Francis p
Brown, Edgar I. Byerly, Marion NJ. Grove
Harry Dawes, Dominick +. DoMarco, John j
Homer II. Ferguson, I'd, A. Cannon, Frani
d. Gavin. Frederick II. Gotwols, William 4
Hopson, Jr., Walter Johnson, Jr, William G
Keil, George i Iange, Arthur J. McAndrew
A. Menna, Fred r, Miller, Albert J. Mondrosch
Frank 3. Murphy, Charles l.. Murta, Stanlel
r. Nou. Thomas n, O'Brieu, Martin A. o Don
nell Frederick Pilla, Edwin H. Hnc3r, Jr.
John ]. Sheehan. Alfred A, Spohror Dominica
vinci, John X. Walton, Morris n, Weisman
The Philadelphia Trades School Is a pub
lie vocational school OF secondary grad
located at Seventeenth and Wood streets
In 1906 the school was organized with
small student body of not more than thirty
Since then the trade idea has grown no
only among the people Of Philadelphia, bu
among educators throughout the country
The enrolment Of students has Increase
each year until at present there are uearl
500 students attending the school