Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-07
126 GRADUATES
GET DIPLOMAS
Many Attend the First Com
mencement of Beckley
Business College

The first annual commencement
| exercises of Beckley Business Col
| lege was held last evening in the
Board of Trade Auditorium. Every
seat in the hall was occupied, the
decorations and flowers added
touches of beauty to the occasion.
Updegrove's orchestra furnished ex-
cellent music, both for the program
proper and the dancing that fol-
lowed. Miss Mary Buttorff sang
two excellent vocal selections, ac-
companied by Mrs. Phillips at the
piano. Al X. Thomas presided and
made happy and effective intro
ductory speech, after which the Rev.
Henry w. A. Hanson, pastor of
Messiah Lutheran Church, offered
prayer. Mayor Daniel l.. Kiester. in
the presentation of diplomas to the
graduating class, gave a practical
and helpful talk to the young folks.
DR.. j. George Becht, made the ad-
dress of the evening. The graduates,
l26 in number, are as follows:
Ruth May Lang, Irma Howard
Moore, Harold Montgomery Mowery.
clyde Robert Huber, Stella May Fehl,
Janet Elizabeth Wallace, Olive Foun-
l.,
Buela Della Spangler, Ralph Nelson
Ansel, Walter Daniel BorSeemay
Marie Augusta Fox, Mary Barbara
Jones, Flo Elizabeth Umberhocker
Olive Beatrice Hoffman. Ruth Cath
crime Shope. Leola Eli.I beth Shope,
Mildred Bertha Bomgardner, Mary
Lenora Shearer, Mary Ellen Rudy,
Adah Elizabeth Bender, Harry Lee
Westhafer, John Herman Marshall,
Helen Elizabeth Parkin, Mary Mar
garet Landis, Gladys Ellen Bitner,
Annabel Whitmyer, Esther Kathryn
Yeagley. Lulu Marie Heller, Clara
Mary Watson, Henrietta Loise Wick
ey, Clarence Lester Wolf. Helen
Margaret Nesbit, Marie Otstot, Emma
T. Moore, Gladys Gettel, Ruth Esther
Lay. Dorothy Neoma Lay Hazel
Blair Giveler, Katherine Elizabeth
kutz, Mary Allwine. Esther May
Heiges, Myrtle Irene Specht, Hazel
Alice Shoop. Gladys Fac Wolf. Fac
Pauline Zeigler. Lillian Mildred
Wagner, Julia Mae Yingling, Hen
rietta Aronson, Ida Mary Boyd, Nor
guerite Monica Bingeman. Mary
Esther Bushey, Mary Elizabeth Re
ward, Minerva Coover, Alta Fern
Hawthorne, Martha Miriam Hall.
Leland Zephaniah Holcombe, Mabel
Lucille Jones, Olive Pauline K".D
penheffer. Ada Lapkin, Ruth EnS a
Mayer, Ruth Elizabeth Raisner
Mary Ellen Sipe, May Annie Sipe.
Esther Mabel Shuman, Bertha Esther
Strayer, Gladys Shire, Kathleen
Slower. Hazel Leib Straw, Ivy May
Umholtz, Mary Catherine Weaver,
Edith Viola Zeiders, Kathryn Wal
ters, Florinda Weaver, Hazel Num-
ma. Romayne Minick, Anna Kath-
ryn Blocker, Ella Balsam, Fannie
Louise Hoffman, Lois Bair, Grace
Brestle, Sarah Elizabeth Croll, Pau
line DrumhelIer, Ada Detweiler. Will
liam Dougherty, Mary Deichler, Hen
rietta Fink, Marie Germyer, Honora
Gaffnery, Ruth Grubb, Fleurene Cos
hen, Mary Gerber, Ruth Hamill.
Frances Hooker, June Hyers, John
Barner, Hosfeld, Jr., Ivy Hardy, Ro-
maine Hinkle, Della James, Daisy
Keller, Ralph Kohler, Addie Knauff,
Marian King, Lucille King, Eliza
beth Lady, Harold Lavine, Elizabeth
Liebtreu, Fannie Minsky, Eleanor
Llanch McAfoos, Goldie Meader,
Florence Orris, Eleanor Paup. Lo-
rene Rickenbaugh, Viola Sauserman,
Leona Switzer, Pauline Schmidt, Jen-
ME Rebecca Shuler, Olive SNaw,
Esther Souder, Irene Smyth, Mabel
Tyler, Frances Wagner, Frances
Weiner, May Yoder, Clara thinner
man, Bertha Shoop, Julia Brubak5r.