Evening star., 1923-06-19
1873 GRADUATED
FROM DUNBAR HIGH
James Weldon Johnson Tells
Students of Part They Must
Play in World.

Dunbar High School graduated 199
students at commencement exer-
Cises last night in the schooi audi
forum. or this number twenty-six
spsere members of the February grad
uating class. Thirty-six were grad
yates Of the department of business
practice.
James Welden Johnson, the COM
rencement speaker, told the grad
uates of the part they are to play in
the future of the nation. The first
debt of the graduates. he said. is
due the country and must be paid
in the form of general service rem
dered as American citizens.
First and second places for class
honors went to Charlotte Corbin and
Adelaide Cardozo.
Scholarship Awards Made.
Scholarship awards. which were
made by Garnet c. Wilkinson, as
sistant superintendent in charge of
colored schools, went to the follow
ing:
Amherst College. Chauncey Free
man Baker Larry; Dartmouth Col
1ege. Lowell Cheatham Wormley;
Williams College, Julius Sylvester
Carroll. jr.
Goines. Pearl Bailey. Margaret
Brown and Violet Harris won schol-
arships 70 Howard University.
Charles Gibson was awarded a schol-
arship to Lincoln University
Cortez Peters won the medal given
by the Underwood Typewriter Com
panE. while the award of L. l.. Scott
vert to Alma Cooper.
the Calf prizes. first and second.
and Irving johnson. respectively.
Five on Honor Roll.
The honor roll, made up of pupils
who received the mark of "E" in
four major subjects with satisfactory
ratings in all minor subjects and de-
nortment, included Alberta Adams.
Margaret Brown, Adelaide Cardozo
Charlotte Corbin and Thelma Entz-
minger.
Announcement of outstanding
year by 4 Dunbar graduate
was made as follows: Charles
II. Houston. 4 graduate Of the Har"-
ard Law School. a member of the edi-
forial board OF the Harvard Law ite-
"iew, who won the degree of doctor
Of juridical science this year, got tine
1a23-24 from Harvard University &c
study in Spain and travel in Europe
Hr is the first negro to receive such
an honor in the history of Harvard.
Wins Essay Contest.
William H.. Wilkinson won the
freshman engineering essay contest
in Syracuse University, a cash prize
awarded annually.
The commencement exercises were
nnened with Invocation by Rey
Cook. member of the board of educa
, ZION presided. Diplomas were pre-
Sented by DIR. J. Hayden johnson. also
member OF the school board a
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cal numbers rendered by the organ
and school chorus and orchestra.
List of Graduates.
The graduates are: Academic de-
partment. diplomas dated January 81
1879 GirlS-LouiSe Eliza beth Alex
ander. Almener Lucille Brazier, Helen
Teresa Capers. Nerniece Theresa Cliff
ford. Julia Edmonds. Marion Esther
Miles. Alice Mae Richards Alma lsa-
belle Ruffin Boys: william Adolphus
Rodgers CornweI. Harold Thomas
Hawthorne, Vernon Penn Johnson
walter Archie Packe. Llewellyr
Aloysius Ransom. Frederick Hender'
DIPLOMAS dated June %. 1928
Girls-Alberta Victoria Adams. Anna
Maria Atkins. Mercedes Helen Austin
don Baytop. Thelma Vivian Black
we'll. Nelma Loretta Boone: Rita
Bridgeford. Agnes Beatrice Brooks
Nr6Tey Esteile Brown Frances
Elizabeth Brown Margaret Henri
eta Brown. Inez Louisa Budd
Marie Ernestine Burke. Adelaide
Elizabeth Cardozo. Teresa Murphy
Carroll. Martha Rogers Chinn. Doro.
thea FEATHER Clargett. Bessie Hal
Cole, Charlotte Montmason Corbin
Edna Mae Cunringham. CorneIia
Louise Davis. Ida Lucille Denny
Josephine Antoinette De Vaul. Flor
ence Eagles. Sophia Martha Edelin,
Fula Maude Edwards. Thelma Proud
fo0te Entzminger. Ethelyn Blanche
Evans. Edna Mae Forrest. Edna Mae
Fowler. Anita Helen Cant. Mary
1izabeth Gates Violet Marguerite
Harris. Audree 1nease Harrison
Ciementine Bartlett Hart, Thelms