The Washington herald., 1919-07-01
ALEXANDRIA
THE HRALD BUREAU,
A. s. Doniphsn.
" King Street.

a . Doniphsn.
n King Street
Alexandria, va June so. =
Diplomas of graduation touight
were conferred on class of thirty
at the annual commencement exer-
cises of the Alexandria High school.
held in the auditorium of that
school. Attendipg the exercises
were a large number of relatives
and friends OF the graduates. the
auditorium being packed.
The diplomas were awarded by
w. +. II. Finke. president OF the
city school board. Captain W. H
Sweeney. superintendent Of schools.
presided and assisted in the dis
tribution OF the diplomas.
Those who graduated were Misses
Leonie Simms. Ruth Ward. Ida
Harvey, Marion Adams. Margaret
Abramson. Elvs Walters Irene
Manley. Almedis Park. Reba o'Nesi
Margaret Linn, Rose Shapiro. Helen
Farmhouse and Hilda Pullman.
Charles Smith, Edgar Dare, Herbert
O'Meara. Thomas Brooke Howard.
Thomas Kelly Leslie beavers,
Everett PohI. George Smith. Puryis
Downham. Alvin Friedlander. Hugh
Marsh. Paul SpetIman, Paul Barrett
William Blake. Edward TrunbIe
William DuvaIl and Elmer Davis.
The exercises were opened with
invocation by the Rev. John Lee
Allison. ID. D.. pastor Of the Second
Presbyterian church. Miss Irene
Manley gave the salutatory and
Edgar w. Dare the valedictory. In
vocation was pronounced b. Rev.
Edgar Carpenter. rector OF Grace
n. Z. church.
During the evening selections
were given by an orchestra The
graduates were the recipients OF
flowers and other presents.
Representative r. Walton Moore
addressed the graduates. He told
of the possibilities ahead for the
graduates which he declared to he
as great today as ever before. The
speaker lauded the progress made
by the public schools in Virginia
since the time OF George Wasn.
ington.
He recommended higher educa-
tion f.. all who could. and en-
phasized character building and ex-
pressed the hope that the gradual
would do honor to themselves. their
city. state and country.
Superintendent Sweeney made a
short address on the unit system
now operating in thC schools.
In the Alexandra High School
today. and also in all Of the Other
| public schools the awards of cards
| of distinction were made
In the high school the promotions
in the different classes follow:
From the first to second year. Eu.
gene Jackson, Raymond Mahanes
Dorothy Pierpoint. Fanny Rosen.
berg. Clarence Schriner. MilIart
Suthard. Louise Anderson. Eliza
Crump. Lena Goldman. Dorothy Hin.
ton, Thelma Lunsford. Joseph Kauf-
man. Thomas McDermott. Walter
Nails. lie Drew Strobe. Marshal
Travers. Keith Wade. Richard Ac.
ton. Francis Cox. Marion Dienelt
Kathleen Kemper, Annie Knight
Margaret Paff. Jack Pohl. Susar
Risheill. Lucille Spencer. Virgins
Steele, Raymond Thomas, Nancy
Wattles
Those promoted from second tc
third year: Lucy Brookheld. T
Gaines. V. Hicks. Wilmer Myers
Catherine Parker. Fannie Peasants
E. Starnell, Effie ST. Clair. l. Wolf
Margaret Alexander. RoXie Brawner
Grafton Cockey, Jeanette Cochra n
Eliza Cox. Jack Dinwiddie. Clarenc,
Dyson. Josephine Gregg. Harr,
Lyles. Esther Lambert. Cecelis
Murphy, Louise Marsh. Edith Phil
lips.
From third to four year class
Laura Blewet. Libby Berman. Lind'
Carver. Cecilia Cox. Allie Grey Dor
min. Mildred Lloyd. Inez Moore
Hilda Noonan. Laura Peverill. Vir
ginia Schwab. Elizabeth Schneider
Albert Shaffer. Jeanette West
James Bayliss. Magnus Bales. Mel
win beavers. James Conner. Emmett
Lawler. willard McGraw. Clsud
Richmond. Milton Stonnell, Freder
ick West. Davis Jackson and Everett
James.
Mrs. Emma Harrell. wife OF Dr. X
B. HarreIl. OF this city. died ear.
mis- morning at her home a. Elixir
n. c. She was Miss Topping. daugh
ter of Mrs. Judith Topping. this city
Her husband and an infant child ar
living. The body will be brought her
for burial
Mrs. Rena f. Davis. a former resi-
dent OF Fairfax County. died ycsteT
day afternoon at her residence. o
Four-and-a-Half street southwest
this city. The body WAS brought her
and taken TO Demaine's Mortuar
Chapel and prepared for burial