Evening star., 1925-04-29
SCHOOL TO HONOR
ITS PRIZE ORATOR
Eastern High to Have Special
Assembly Friday for Miss
ASenath Graves.

Miss Asenath Graves. the 16-year-
old Eastern High School student who
was unanimously chosen to represent
the District in the national oratorical
contest finals at the new Washington
Auditorium May 8. will be honored at
a special assembly at the school Fri
day morning at Q o'clock. The school
has planned to make the celebration
of the victory a gala event.
Although details for the assembly
have not been completed, Principal
Charles Hart announced today that he
is arranging to have representatives
of the student body, the alumni, the
home and school association and the
oratorical contest committee make
short congratulatory talks.
VIII Receive $500 Check.
At this time Miss Graves will be
presented with a check for $500 by
The Evening Star, the prize for win
ming the District championship. She
received yesterday a check from The
Star for S100 as the result of her
selection as best orator at Eastern. By
virtue of winning the District cham
pionship Miss Graves Is also certain
or one of the national awards, which
range from $3OO to 81 900.
A preliminary celebration of Miss
Graves victory was staged at Eastern
yesterday afternoon soon after the
judges made known their decision.
The student body and faculty were
hastily assembled in the auditorium,
and Mr.. Hart made known the result
of the contest amid deafening cheers.
School songs and school yells subse-
quently rang throughout the big audi
torium and reverberated in the corri-
dors.
Principal Hart and the faculty at
Eastern are elated over the honor
which Miss Graves has brought to
the school. The principal pointed out
that she is one of Eastern's outstand-
ing students. both in scholarship and
student activities.
Scholastic Rating High.
Throughout her four-year course at
Eastern which is now drawing to a
close, Miss Graves has a scholastic
rating averaging close to 95 per cent.
She has never received a mark less
than G good, while the majority of
her grades have been E excellent
Despite the attention Miss Graves
has given to her studies she has found
time to participate in a number of
student organizations, in which she
has been honored with election to i'm
portant offices. She holds membership
in the Debating Society. the Glee Club
and the Dramatic Association and
took one of the principal roles in the
1925 edition of the schools Spring
play. Adam and Eva
Miss Graves also has a penchant
for newspaper work. She became con-
nected with the staff of the Fastener,
official school organ, and her meritori-
GUS work soon won for her the posi-
ton of first assistant literary editor.
In addition, she is editor of THE
Cub" an occasional supplement to the
Fastener, published by the class in
Journalism.
Poet of Graduating Class.
In June Miss Graves will graduate
from Eastern holding the office of
poet of the graduating class. She
will continue her education at Mount
Holyoke in the fall, and Is planning
to specialize in English, with a news
paper career as the ambition of her
LIES work. The prizes she has won
in the oratorical contest will be used
to pay her tuition at Mount Holyoke.
The oratorical contest is not the
first competition conducted by The
Star in which Miss Graves has par
ticipated. She took one of the lead
ing prizes in The Stars current
events contest several years ago.
1t was the determination of Miss
Graves to be a winner that brought
her the District championship in the
oratorical contest finals this year. In
the initial contest last year she was
chosen as one Of the two best orators
at the school, but was not given the
opportunity to participate in the
finals. Undismayed, she entered the
1925 competition, and won the school
championship as well as the city
championship, and now has an oppor-
tunity to win even greater laurels in
the national finals