Evening star., 1926-05-30
HOLTON-ARMS SCHOOL
EXERCISES PLANNED
25th Anniversary of Institution
Will Be Observed This Week.
Commencement Friday.

Holton.Arms School, located in u
group of buildings on the north side
Of S street between Twentieth and
Twenty-firSt streets, and on Bancroft
place, will celebrate it's tWenty-fifth
anniversary with a program of events
beginning next Wednesday and ex-
tending over three days. There are
80 members of the graduating class.
Eight of these will receive diplomas
cum laude. because of averages for
two years of more than so per cent.
Two will receive diplomas magma cum
laude, because of averages for two
years of more than S5 per cent.
These two students ARE Miss Sara
Worthington and Miss Katherine
Wilkins. both Washington girls. The
1926 class has attained the highest
grade Of scholarship and is the
largest graduating class in the his
tory of the school. Holton-Arms has
registered more than 215 pupils dur
ing the past school year. This school
was established in 1901 by Mrs. Jessie
Moon Holton and Miss Caroline
Hough Arms. Mrs. Holton has car
ried on the responsibilities of the
school since 1910. When Holton-
Arms was started at 202o iillyer
place in 1901, it was a tutoring school
Among the students in the opening
year were Mrs. Randall Hagner, Mrs.
Edward 3. Mclean and Miss Eliza
beth Sampson Woodruff, daughter of
Col. and Mrs. Thomas Woodruff. Mrs.
Joseph Vance, q daughter of Gen.
Rreckinridge, was another student.
The first graduate was Miss Carolyn
Saterlee Postlethwaite.
Miss Mary Earle Hoxton is chair
man of the alumnae reunion. She is
daughter of Head Master A. w.
Hoxton Vf the Episcopal High School
for Boys. DIR. Crawford of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania will be toast
master and Miss Emily Van Lear of
Wilmington will be toastmistress at
dinner in honor of the alumnae and
friends of the school to be held at
Holton Arms Thursday evening.
Among the guests will be DIR. Ulysses
G.. B. Pierce, who presented the di-
plomas to the graduating class for 10
years, and Mrs. Pierce. Other guests
will include Mr.. and Mrs. William
Rallantyne, Mr.. julius Garfinckel. Mr..
and Mrs. John Remy of New York
Can't. and Mrs Paul Kellogg of Homo.
lulu and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert w.
/, Laml, of Adrian. Mich. Miss Margaret
Wyiie and Miss Sallie McAdoo, who
are graduating with a. II. degrees at
Bryn Mawr and who took their pre-
paratory courses at HoltonArms, will
be among the guests. Among the
speakers at the alumnae dinner will
he Mrs. Alice Bliss Massey, who has
lust returned from the Philippines.
There is keen interest at Holton-
Arms in the forthcoming debate on
prohibition by the college preparatory
girls This event is scheduled for
Thursday afternoon.
The thesis by Miss Louise Spencer.
entitled 1.-THE Poets Poet has been
selected to be read by her at the cere-
monies of graduation.
Mrs. Holton will award diplomas to
the class of 1926 Friday afternoon. The
exercises incident to the commence
ment and celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary will be brought to a
close by the senior reception, the
school exhibition and a senior BAN
quet. Miss Sara Worthington. one
Of the graduates, will leave with her
parents for Europe Immediately after
receiving her diploma.