Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-18
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
GIVEN Is SCHOLARSHIPS
Award Honors. With Three Excep.
lions, on Pupils Complete Record
ut John Marshall.
LIST INCLUDES SEVERAL GIRLS
Principal HARDWOOD, in Address mt
City Auditorium, Refers to Insti-
tution's Alumni Who Made Su.
prcme Sacrifice in France.

81 inc close or the annual commence
ment exercises of John Marshall High
school last night at the City Audi
forum. With the exception OF only
three, the scholarships were all made
on a basis of the pupils complete re-
G0ru IN the John Marshall High School.
The list OF the awards follows:
-, fi W award. Albert NJ. Smith. University
:, Second award, Laura Brown Gwa,hmey.
randolph Macon Woman's College
R; rh,rd aw yard. Louis Cornclius Carlton.
=, Fourth award. Robert Corbin Pettway, the
n menry > MaileTstein Scholarship in Rich-
Fifth award William Jefferson Judd.
"asninston and Lee University.
. Sixth award. Edward I. Held. tho NJ l.
S,raus Memorial Scholarship in Richmond
Seventh award, !. Berkeley Gordon. Ran
doiph- Macon College.
s, EiSh'h h award, Resale whtlock Wills.
Ninth award. Virginia Randolph Davis,
THnth award. Edith Start Garrett. the VII
liam Franklin HARDWOOD Scholarship in Rich
EiGysmth award. Evelyn Frances Crowder.
snip IN Richmond College.
ftsn sMarG W ains Arthur Evans Jr
wi niiiri9en nth Hward Alan Burton Clarke.
Fourteenth award. Raymond Brandenbu-r
Pq q,,1,nrn, :, LehEh University tAcademic>.
Mention Other Students.
Honorable mention is made of the
following young women who made
standings higher than the last four
boys who were awarded scholarships.
as All of the girl scholarships had all
ready been awarded: Elizabeth Jones
hin. Rehecca May Brereton. Marion
katherine Rudd. Grace Caroline Reese.
Nnna gladys Lee. Miriam Boykin
II the principal of the John Mar
shall High School is not notified of
the acceptance OF any scholarship
scholarship shall revert to the COM
mittce and shall be awarded by the
principal to the pupil standing next
in order The principal shall be en-
acceptance of scholarships awarded by
him"
In order to stimulate interest in the
Alumni Association OF the John Mar
of the Alumni Association, DR.. Ramon
ID. Garc!n. gives annually life mem
beT,sh!p in the Alumni Association
is awarded by vote OF the faculty to
the pupil who has shown the greatest
amount of school spirit. This year
this membership has been awarded TO
Lawrence Miles Whitehurs;.
The commencement address was
made by DR.. Douglas S. Freeman.
HARDWOOD Makes Address.
Principal Harwood gave brief re-
sumo of the work OF the year in John
Marshall lie said. in part:
I'VE have FOR the first time in the
history OF the school introduced the
teaching OF trades in the high school.
learning TO be machinists. They will
finish their course in three years. In
September we shall add the trade OF
electrician and possibly other trades
If they are demanded.
our lunch counter has been sue
cess from every standpoint. We have
provided a dining-room SO that pupils
may sit down to eat their lunches and
very low cost. We did not intend TO
make money, but somehow we could
not help il and we close this term
with net profit of sl.679.69. which
sum VIII be expended in improving the
equipment for next year.
The greatest increase in enrolment
in the public schools OF Richmond this
year was In the fourth year of the
third year and the third greatest in
the second year of the high school.
II We can hold the boys and girls
IN school the battle is half won.
Praises Summer School.
II wish to say a word or two In
praise OF the summer school. About
third OF the pupils who will re-
ceive their diplomas tonight (siXty-
nine 10 be cAaCt) would nave peen de-
layed from onc-half to one year in
graduating but for the opportunities
afforded by the summer school. l be-
licve the work done in the summer
school fully justities the appropriations
made TO them.
Il think it not inappropriate that I
should mention on this occasion the
names OF those who made the supreme
sacrifice:
Captain w. E. Word. Jr.. winner of
the Distinguished Service Cross and
the first Nirginian 20 receive this hon
or: George Marion Betty, Lieutenant
Charles b. Sands. Warren Hill Mercer.
Lieutenant Warren Allen PortiauX.
Jacob f;del Cohen, radio operator on
the unfortunate Lakemore. torpedocd
off the coast OF France; Powhatan
Dance, United States Marines; Ser
geant RAYMOND Wilson Rector. Roy
Bennett Pace, Captain Newton r. An
carrow, killed in action in tho AR
gonne; Leo Il. Andrews. Slower Ash
brook. John L. Rabineau, Jr.. John
Thurston.
The annual this year was dedicated
10 these men. and the patriotic society
OF the school has undertaken to raise
funds to erect a suitable bronze tablet
TO their memory. The senior class has