Evening star., 1918-06-16
IN THE SCHOOLS.

The public schools of the District of
Columbia officially close for the sum-
mer vacation Wednesday, June 19.
Two days for checking up on final
averages and to inform pupils who
tions and marks will be allowed
teachers and faculty members.
Commencement dates for the gradu-
ations of the high schools of Wash
fngton have been announced as fol-
lows:
! Business High School. fourth year
course. Tuesday, June 1S, 500 pm; TO
preside, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes: to
give diplomas, William w. Everett.
Business High School. second year
| course. Monday, June Il. 500 pm: to
! preside. Mr. Kramer; to give diplomas,
Charles W. Ray.
! Central High School. Wednesday,
June 10. 500 pm: to preside, Mr.
George E. Hamilton; to give diplomas,
| Louis Brownlow.
Eastern High School. Tuesday. June
! 1s, 500 pm: to preside. Mr. Thurston; /;
! to give diplomas, DR.. H. B. Learned:
Western High School. Thursday,
June 20, 4:so pm; to preside. DIR. H. b.
| Learned; to give diplomas, Mrs. susie
Root Rhodes.
Mckinley High School, Thursday,
June 20. 500 pm; to preside. Mr..
Mrs. Margarita spalding Gerry.
Wilson Normal School, Friday, June
| 81, 500 pm; to preside, Mrs. Mar
garita Spalding Gerry; to give Dip
Tomas. Mr.. Thurston.
Representative C. C. Dill of Ohio
will deliver the graduation address at
| commencement exercises for the two
year graduating class at Business
High School. The invocation will be
| pronounced by Rev. ]. F. Wenchell.
| Representative George M. Chandler
will address the four-year class and
| the invocation will be pronounced by
Rev. Freely Rohrer.
Glass night for the two-year grad
uating class at Business High School
| was held at the school Thursday
| night. Instead of the usual play, an
| illustrated history of the school was
| given by the pupils. The principal
/ parts were taken by Henry Schwein-
hart, Martha Buckley, Alvin Kaufman
Helen Barrett and Charles Israel. The
| address to the members of the class
was given by Wilfred Pryor and the
reply by James kirkland of the two
year class. julius Sanber was vale
| dictorian.
Class night exercises for the four
year graduating class at Business
High were held at the school Friday
! night. The class prophecy was read
by Lesta Henderson. Fimon Levitan
and Waldo Pastel. Songs We're e'tng
by Miss Henderson and Adelaide Wat
son.
Flag day exercises were held at
| Business Friday morning. The prin-
cipal speech was made by Col. John
McElroy.
An exhibition of the Red Cross work
done at the school during part of the
past year has been held at Business
during the past week.
The Business High School year book
came out Friday.
Scholarship examinations held at
George Washington University re-
Gently resulted in the winning of four
of the seven scholarships by Central
High School students. They are; Alice
Johnson and Foster Hagan. Two went
to Tech, as follows: A. R. Dennison
and ". L. Shearer, and one to a girl
from Western. Elizabeth Earnest.
Glass night exercises were held at
Central High School Wednesday night.
A cylinder press for the printing
class is to be installed at Central
High School during the summer. The
difficulty experienced in finding
printer to print the school publica-
tions has Influenced the school off,
cials to install press of their own.
The total number of books collected
in Centrafs booksdrive was $50.