Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
CHILDREN GUESTS
OF ARMSTRONG CORPS
Little Folks of Vicinity Given
Christmas Party by School
Members.

Seventy children from the vicinity
of Armstrong Manual Training School,
whose addresses were not in the Santa
Claus book, were guests of the pupils
at the special Christmas assembly.
On account OF the limited facilities,
two assemblies were held-one for
the freshmen and sophs and the last
for the juniors and seniors. At the
first Capt. A. c. Newman presid ed,
and in the afternoon Capt Cornelius
Burke, president of the senior class,
was master of ceremonies. Christmas
carols were sung, to which the tiny
guests added their fresh voices. Spe-
cial numbers were given by Miss
Clara Armstead, Howard Spriggs,
Berenice Williams, Mary Green. Mar
garet Jefferson, Helene Woodward,
Miss Ethel Hall, who read delightfully."-
THE Birds Christmas Carol; Lucille
Pinckney and Rosita Silas contributed
short talks on Christmas To-day" and
THE Christmas Spirit at Armstrong"
and then Santa Claus, impersonated
by Rozier Gaddis and William Gray,
came in from the frozen north" with
his packages Of toys, nuts, candy and
other goodies, which he piled high
around the beautifully lighted and
decorated Christmas tree. The sue
cess Of the affair was due to the CO.
operative efforts of section teachers
and pupils. Efforts of the senior
junior group were directed by Miss
C. E. S. Lee. Miss S. V. Jennings. Mr..
Buckner, Miss E. NJ. Hall, I. n. Miller,
Miss c. J. Williams, Lieut.. George A
Ferguson and Mrs. E. D. Burrel d.
rected the committee work of the
freshmen and sophomores.
A pleasant sequel to the rendition
OF THE Courtship of Miles Standish,"
so creditably produced by the public
speaking classes, was the award of
three prizes by an anonymous donor,
said to be member of the faculty Of
Howard University. Among the
guests at the final performance was
Nathaniel Guy and Mss Angelina
Void Grimke, the former an expo
nent of the dramatic art and the lat
ter well known playwright. That
they were present to Judge the quail
| ity OF work Of the individual per-
formers was not generally known. II
was therefore somewhat surprising
| when the real nature of their mission
| was disclosed. To Miss Mary Hayes
i impersonating Priscilla Mullens, was
| awarded first prize. Irving Gee and
! Arthur Lanier were awarded second
and third prizes, respectively. An
nouncement of the selections was
made by Miss Ophelia NJ. c. Davidson
| under whose direction the play was
! produced.
The announcement that The Star
| would be sponsor for another ora
; torical contest dealing with the Fed
! eral Constitution has created grea;
! interest in the school. Nowhere ve-s
/ the general benefits to be derived
| from this highly patriotic, as well as
! practical enterprise, more keenly
i realized than at Armstrong. Another
| angle productive of much apprecia-
| ton was that under the leadership
| of The Star all of the schools OF
! Washington were placed upon a fail
competitive basis, and Armstrong was
| just a much interested and plea ed
at the success of Central High Schoo
| as would have been the case had the
| coveted city prize fallen to its lot.