Evening star., 1924-06-19
147 GET DIPLOMAS
FROM WESTERN HIGH
Exercises Held Yesterday at Thea
> ter-Cathedral Chancellor
L Speaks.
70 RECEIVE EXTRA CREDITS
College Scholarships Awarded to
Three Students.

A substantial religion in this coun-
try and throughout the world was
declared by Rev. DR.. Levering De
vries, chancellor of the Washington
Cathedral, to be the outstanding need
of the time in order to insure the best
development of civilization, in de-
Lvering the principal address before
the graduating class of Western High
School, at exercises in Polls Theater
yesterday afternoon. The exercises
were held in the theater on account
of repairs being made to the school
auditorium. One hundred and forty
seven graduates received diplomas.
Earl Dana Miller was valedictorian
and Stephen Duncan Bradley, jr.: de-
nvered the salutatory address. The
Americans Creed was recited by
John Spencer Nesbitt. president of
the class.
Diplomas Given Out.
Diplomas were presented by Mrs.
Howard l. Hodgkins, member of
the board of education, assisted by
Nine. Blanche j. Bimont. Elmer >.
Newton, principal of the school: an
nounced that 20 per cent of the
graduates had received extra or edits.
Invocation was delivered at the ex-
ercises by Rev. DR.. Wallace M Rad
cliffe. Ernest Greenwood of the
board of education, presided. and DR..
Frank w. Ballou was on the plat
form.
Scholarship awards were made as
follows: To Maryland University, Nir-
ginia Price; to the University of Vir-
ginia, Robert Burton, and to the Colo
rado School of Mines, David Whelchel.
Miss Price had all marks of the high
est grades. Other honor students
besides those awarded scholarships
we're: Earl Miller, Duncan Bradley,
Roger Robb. Sylvia Meyer, Marjorie
Pickens, Elizabeth Hall Edwin NC
= Schofield.
complishments in some special en-
deavor at the school was awarded
Oliver Gasch. Thomas stephens, Hen
rietta Owens, Virginia Price. Dorothy
Smith Margaret Wilson, James
Mars, Roger Robb and David WHEEL
chel.
The graduates were: Dorothy Irene
Arnold, Juliet Harrison Aukam, Char
lotte Howard Baker, Lucia Banks
Bates. Eileen Virginia Berrall, Es-
tIler Marie Borchers, Ann Brazelton.
Pauline Marie Bresnahan. Mary Eliz-
Eleanor Maxine Burger, Mary Louise
Burns, Ruth Eliza beth Butler. Do
lcres Margaret Carter, Katherine
Elizabeth Chesney. Rachel Edwards
Clarke. Ruth Erma Cloyes. Mary
Ellen Wise Crenshaw. Frances Aileen
Cunningham. Margaret Ruth Davis,
Elizabeth Mary De Kay, Doris
.Teanett Dyson, Kathryn Douglas
Eiker, Mary Frances Elliott, Mary
Virginia Fourier Frances Frost, Fern
Sylvester Gingell. Josephine God bo9d,
Frances Larner Gore, Dorothy Estelie
Ereasley, Eleanor Frances Greasley,
Betty Greenwood, Esther Cordelia
Hall. Catherine Elizab beth Hall, Jane
riman, Mary Ann Henderson, Dorotha
Marie Hennessy, Karia Louise
Heurich, Lillian Dorothy Hilder.
! Virginia Hillyer, Elizabeth Rawlins
Hume, Lena Ray Kaminsky, Eliza
beth Agnes kayser. Edna Stevens
keiley. Elisabeth Thoburn Lane,
Miriam Irene Latterner, Evelyn
Teresa Leech. Virginia Elizabeth
Lipop, Martha Lord Livingston, Maur-
Sylvia zabeth Meyer. Aurelia
Moore. Katherine Spencer Nesbitt,
Mary Louise Omwake, Henrietta Lucy
Owens, Marjorie Pickens, Virginia
Spence Price, Frances Virginia Pro-
bey, Margaret Lucille Rausch, Con-
stance Burke Ridgway. Barbara
Saunders, Gertrude Graham Skinner,
Dorothy Bradford Smith, Marjorie F.
Smith, Alice Pauline Snyder. Kather-
Sturgis. Alexandra B. Taylor, Martha
Mary Taylor. Helen Turnbull. Mary
elizabeth Van Hoesen, Anne Neville
Watson. Rachel Carter Wilson, Mar
Earet Wilson, Susan Bell Winters,
Hattie Marie Wise, Elizabeth Wood