Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-20
COMMENCEMENT
At WOODBRIDGE
Graduation Exercises Held
Last Night at the High
School
BIZ special correspondent.

DU EVtfN0H 1WNff E0NtltHAs
WOODBRIDGE, June 20:-The
commencement exercises of the
Woodbridge high school were held in
the Presbyterian church last night.
The church was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. The figures 1919
formed of electric lights among the
roses AM vines added greatly to the
effectiveness of the scene. This ar
rangement, also the trellis work. was
done BY the boys of the manual
training department. Crepe paper in
the class colors, lavender and white,
was f~estooned In the arches and was
used for the class motto, "Volens ct
Potens.'' which being translated
reads Willing and Ready"
Professor Gilhuly announced that
the boy having the highest mark in
mathematics for the four years was
Nathan Duff and presented him with
the Rensaleer medal of the Troy Pol
ytecnic Institute given by the Newark
Society.
When President Tappen presented
the diplomas to the twenty-one mem
bers of the class present as he called
the last name he asked the audience
to stand and as they did so. many
with bowed heads. the name OF
Robert Levi was spoken with rever-
ence.
The program follows:
Prelude-ta) Allegretto ...... Wely
(b) Intermezzo .......... Rogers
Organ. Mrs. Winnie Lockwood
Observation-Disclosures IA F1ambeau
Clark
High School Orchestra. Organ. Piano
Invocation 49,. Rev. l.. v. Bushman
Chant-The Lords Prayer .Schilling
Violin solo-Adoration -. Borowski
Oration-"The Years that the Locust
Hath Eaten 10y Viola Ernst
Girls Trio-Good Night, Beloved
Essay-Government Ownership of
Railroads .......... Nathan Duff
Observation-Disclosures Wal Prob
lens ........... Sallie Mooney
Violin solo
(a) Caprice Viennois ...Kreisler
Obj Spanish Dance
Granados-Kreisler
Oration-The Square Root of 1
Ruth Noe
Violin solo-Scherzo Tarantelle
-Wieniawski ]
Presentation Of graduates
Supervising Principal j. H. Love
Presentation of Diplomas-President
Board of Education II. A. Happen
Star Spangled Banner Audience
Postlude-Marche Pontifcale Hardy
violinist-Oscar Wasserberger.
Accompanies = Wanda Norman
Reusch.
Graduating Class.
=. Norman Lee, president; Ruth
Noe, secretary; Alice r. Hoagland,
treasurer.
Contribution of each to the local
history of Woodbridge:
Nathan Duff. Thrift Stamp. War
Stamp. Memorial Fund, United War
Charities; Alice r.. H~oagland, Senior
and Junior Red Cross; Grace e. |
Liberty Loans; Julia M.
King. Public Demonstration. War
COMMITTEES; Alice NJ. Pender,
Relief, Belgium, Armenian, etc; John {
]. Andrechick, Book Drives. War
Gardens; Clara E. Jensen, Food Con- :
servation: Gilbert L. O'Neill. Four
Speakers; Viola NJ. Ernst, In r
Disease, General Health;
Noe, Explosion; j. Norman Lee, :
Enlistment; William H.. Schwenzer, D
Posters: A. May Walsh. Newspa-
A. Carpenter. Colonia Hospital; c
r. Comunale, N~ationahties i
rs Developed IN Registration; Cath c
M. Shannon. Home Guard, High I
Rifle Corps, Grand Army; \
Michael J.. e. Golden. Churches; Sal Q
ie F. Mooney, Economic Conditions; :
Natalie l.. Berry, Social Conditions; :
Rene A. de Russy, Political Condi-
ions; Josephine C. Farrell, Letters
Photographs of Enlisted Nurses, n
and Soldiers. b
Board OF Education. q
H. A. Tappen, president; M. H. :
ylum, vice president: II. r. Valentine, =
B. F. Walling, Charles Farrell; Il. C.
clerk; Maurice DUNCAN, A. 1
H, Stevenson. Fred Boslen; supervis-
Ing principal OF schools, Joh ii. Love. !
Faculty of the High School. !
O. p. Butterwick, principal, science; ,
Gilhuly. Mathematics and Span
ish; Viola e. Durham, commercial;
Alvenia s. Schultz. history and biol
ogy; Harriet Harrington, English;
Sara Fitzgerald, Latin and French; !
Viva NJ. Playfoot, domestic science:
Edith G.. Hinsdale. drawing and art;
Anna C. Frazer, music; j. NJ. McElroy,
manual training; w. H.. MacNair,
physical training.
Nathan Duff, Athony r. Comuna,e,
Gilbert O'Neill and Rene de Russy
to enter Rutgers.
Miss Alice Hoagland to Swarthmore
College. Miss Evelyn Carpenter to
Drexel Institute, Miss Mary Walsh to
Montclair Normal, Miss Julia NJ. King
ta NautarE Normal. Mics Niala NJ