Evening star., 1923-06-20
DECLARES PARENTS
!. NEGLECT SCHOOLS
Lack of Interest Displayed,
| Capt. Peyser Tells Busi-
ness Graduating Class.

Lack of interest in the school dis
played by many parents was criticized
by Capt julius /. Peyser. president of
the District of Columbia Public School
Association, at commencement exercises
of the four-year graduating class or
business High School last night in the
school auditorium.
There are thousands of parents who
never visit the schools where their chill
dren spend a greater part of the day,
Capt Peyser. said These parents, he
declared, do not even take time to see
that the teachers ARE duly compensated
for their valuable services and take too
much for granted.
Capt Peyser also scored the use in
the schools of obsolete textbooks. In
some schools in this happy land of ours"
he said. Children are using histories
and Biographies which were printed
prior to the world war. Maps change
their complexion. histories, their stories
and PHILOSOPHERS. but the proper appro-
priations do not come so that the chill
dren may be taught what exists today
rather than what happened years ago"
Two selection by the Business High
School Orchestra. under the direction
of Miss +. l.. Thompson, opened the
exercises The presiding officer was
Mrs Howard L. Hodgkins. member of
the board of education. Invocauon
was invoked by Rev. John S. Moses
Scholarship Awards.
Allan Davis. principal OF Business.
announced the scholarship awards
which follow:
State University TO Joseph Achstet-
ter class valedictorian. who obtained
forty excellent ratings in his four
years at the school. This number IS
six more than required for gradua-
tion. and represents the highest rat
ing in every one of the subjects ne
undertook.
Scholarship to Washington mad Lee
University to Harry Wasener: schol-
arship to Pace and Pace Institute 10
Thelma Morris, scholarship to Wash
ington College of Law, TO Dorothea
Wassmann. scholarship TO National
University Law School to Constance
Fogle.
Bronze Insig Mas and HonOrs.
Bronze insignias of the school were
awarded to the following for excel
lence in scholarships: Joseph Charles
Achstetter. Minnie Viola Bell, Anna
Marie Clarke. Margaret Frances
Foley. Constance Fogte Thelpa Grace
Morris Ethel Hope Ritter, Gertrude
Bernice Rosenberg. Mildred Myrteen
sisson Mary Sherman, Edna Victoria
Walter and ~0~c thea Matilda Wass-
mann.
lowing fer Improvement in scholar
ship: Charlotte Gertrude Darlington.
Ethel CIinberg. Lillian Kirson, Helen
Florence Murphy; Henrietta RoSen-
ginia Reese Staub, Evelyn Ware,
William Alfred Fisher and Edward
Henry Riecks.
List of Diploma Winners.
Diplomas were presented 10 the
following los graduates by James T.
lloyd. member of the school board:
Laura Amery Baulsir, Ida Marie
Beach, Minnie Viola Bell, Charlotte
Gertrude Darlington Elizabeth
Cecilia Cavanaugh. Catherine Willis
Chamberlain. Margaret Crynant
Chase, Anna Marie Clarke, Margaret
Evelyn Clough, Alice Bernetta Cool.
Nina Olive Crandall. Mildred Ri ~
Cruup. Margaret Louise Curtis. y
g'aret Cecilia Dickinson. Anna CaYo-
line Mary Ehrhart, Dorothy Mae
Elliott, Hilda Rose Emanuel. kath-
eryne Alicia English. Mary Lou
Fogie. Margaret Frances Foley,
Eva Friden. Martha Bowler. Gar
ner. Ethel Ginberg. Ruth Cynthia
Hahn, C1arice Edna Haimes, Alice
Annie HAY eS, I<OulSS I1lliSi, iiie
HoItzclaw, Erma Elizabeth Johnson,
Esther willard Johnson. Margaret
Jones' Mary Middleton Joyce. Mildred
Hunter Kelly, Myrtle Mary keyser'
Sylvia Smith King, Lillian kirson,
Martha Katheryne Knee.
Mary Elizabeth Larcombe. Bessie
Miriam Leibsohn. Jessie Catherine
Livingston. Agnes Louise Lynch,
josephine Agnes Lynch; Helen Dor
rio KafhrVn
Talitha Mater, Hazel Lorraine Miller,
Virginia Louise Miller Thelma Grace
Morris, Helen Florence Murphy.
Doris Evelyn Myers, Erma Louise
Neill, Frances Katherine Neri, Helen
Laura Osborn. Ethel Hope Ritter,
Gertrude Be-nica Rosenberg, Henri
eta Rosenblatt. Norma Repetti
Rou1ee. Beatrice May Russell, Mar
Earot Regina Ryan, Marion Lee Salb,
Regina Marie Schloer, Doris Davies
Schultz, Mary Sherman. Mildred Myr-
teen Sisson, Kathleen Teresa Smith
Virginia Reese Staub. Thryza Steers,
Virginia Perry Thomas. Martha Pau
line Walker, Edna Victoria Walter,
Evelyn Ware, Dorothea Matilda
Wassmann, Rosa Matilda Wassmann,
Fannye Sonia Watzman, Evelyn White
Anna Louis -Worley, Joseph Charles
Achstetter, Robert Elmer Barry,
Charles Edwin Berry. Isadore Brill.
Michael Emmett Broderick, David
Charles Buchalter, Harry Theodore
Robert Chaconas, John Joseph Col
Inns, Pearson Chapman Conlyn. Thorn,
as Joseph Connor, William Alfred
Fisher, Israel Gerber, Francis Chris
tian Huhn, jr.. Russell Marion King.
Gregory Joseph Lanigan. Maurice
Love, John McAuliffe, Andrew Jo-
seph Mccarthy, Robert Emmett May,
Charles Alfred Monroe, Charles Jo-
seph Mudd, Everett Llewellyn Noet-
Eel, Francis Mahlon Padgett, Edward
Henry Riecks, Grant Beckham Smith
and Charles Lewis Walker