The Washington times., 1923-06-23
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
EVANSVILLE
STUDENTS
Eighty-three Elementary eu-
pills Complete Course
of Study.
suec,al to The Washington Times.


| HYATTSVILLE, Md, June %
The spacious armory of Company
F., National Guard, here was the
scene of annual closing exercises
of the Hyattsville elementary
school when certificates were pre-
scented eighty-three boys and girls
for having completed the school 5
| seven-grade course. 1t was The
largest class in the schools history
The school faculty consists OF ~
Hontas M. Sturgis, principal and
thirteen assistants. There are two
buildings.
Prof. Nicholas Orem, superintend-
! ent of public schools for Prince
Georges county, presented the GER
tificates before a gathering OF par
ents, friends and pupils that filled
the hall. The address to the grad
yates was by the Rev. c. r.
| Stauffer, pastor of the Ninth Street
| Christian Church Of Washington.
The Rev. j. H. Strong, pastor Of
the Hyattsville Baptist Church
offered invocation and Sherman
James, Edwin Shafer and Lawrence
Keegin, officers of the class, vel
coined the gathering. A violin solo
was given by William Sonnenbery
and Evelyn Harrison gave the
closing speech. Music by the school
chorus was a pleasing feature. Ger
tificates were presented to the fol-
lowing:
Charles Huston Bailey, Leon Ed
ward Linn, Hugh Thomas Barrett,
James Irving Morclay, Everett Lee
Ballard, Ellen Christine Matsudalra,
Bernard Beall, John Wesley May
hew, Marion Blaisdale, Irene Alma
Mcleod, William Ashworth Bur-
Stem, Dorothea Leuvinia Mehring,
Fenton Price Cogar, Adele Bel
bourne, Benjamin Francis C-utty,
Nellie Morton, James Aloin Craw-
ford, Frances Evelyn Noack, Leah
Dietz, George Joseph O'Hare, Lorna
Arberry Dew, Nicholas Orem, jr.
Edward Wallace Dorrelle, Ruth
Nance Parish, Earl Dorrelle, Stella
Ewing Payne, Evelyn May Degges,
Allen Thurman Eney, Mary Alice
freshman, Lillian May Fogle, Rob-
ert Brook Furman, Alfred Julius
FreyZe, Helen Margaret Gardner,
Dorothy Louise Gray, Lucy May
Hammett, Evelyn Bertha Harrison,
Ruth Irene Hartman, Mabel Hop
kinson Hesse, Paul Stuart Higdon,
Kathryn Virginia Hislop, Caroline
Cornelia Hiser, Mary Virginia Hoff
man, Thomas Dale Holmes, Will
liam Wilbert lager, George Sher-
man James, Mary Lucille Jarboe,
Francis Ignatius Jarboe, Lawrence
Bernard Keegin,. Bert Wixon Ken
nedy, John Kelly, George Miller
Edward Latimer, Alice Marie Little,
Albert Raymond Lewis, John Paul
Richter, Janet Robertson, Evelyn
Anna Roeska, Julia Prentiss Rome,
Beatrice Lucille Robb. Margaret
Bowen Rose, Kathryn Saylor, Lii
liam Mae Severe, Edwin Franklin
Shafer, Virginia Elizabeth Smith,
Theodore William Sonnenberg,. Flor
ence Louise SpicknaM, Lawrence
Evelina Steele, William Vernon
Stephens, William Taylor, jr., Mar
tina Rose Temple, Louise Elizabeth
Tharpe, Elsie Virginia Thompson,
Walter Edward Travers, Anna Eliza
beth Webb, Roberta Vernon Webb.
William Randolph Walton, Virginia
Churchill Willis, Frances Beatrice
Weinstein, Durward Belmont Wise
man, Anne Elizabeth Wolf, Harry
James Wright and Eleanor Van
doren.
Charles W.. Clagett, president of
the local board of school trustees,
presented attendance certificates to
pupils of the various grades who
have attended school for $50 or
more days during the year which
numbered 100 school days. For
reading approved books outside of
school reading certificates were pre-
scented pupils by Prof. Orem. THE
Hyattsville Elementary School Med
ley" by the class, and benediction
by the Rev. Mr.. Strong closed the
program.
For the second consecutive year
William d. Harrison has been
chosen chief of the volunteer fire
department of Hyattsville. Other
officers just chosen are Robert A.
King, assistant chief; John Fainter,
treasurer; Raymond Stephens, re-
cording secretary; Stuart J. Can
vim, financial secretary; Herbert j.
Moffat, fire marshal; William H.
Tobin. captain, truck A; f. M.
Hitaffer, lieutenant, truck A: Robert
J. King, captain. truck B; Leonard
Parlett lieutenant, truck B.