Evening star., 1926-06-16
EIGHTY GRADUATED
At Dewitt SCHOOL
Announced Also That Ernest
|. Thurston Will Join
Faculty.

Eighty graduates of the Dewitt Pre-
paratory School received their dlplo'
mas at the sixth annual commence
ment. held last night in Continental
Memorial Hall.
Representative Begg of Ohio, who
presided as chairman, in presenting
Ernest l.. Thurston. former superin-
tendent of the public schools of the
District. and speaker of the evening,
said he needed no introduction, and
the applause which greeted this an
nouncement corroborated his state
ment. Mr.. Thurston told the class
that the choice of a career by youth
after leaving school was never so dif
ficult to make as it is today.
George Raymond Dewitt, principal
of the school, was paid a tribute by
Mr.. Begg, when he said he considered
him the premier handler of boys.
DR.. Dewitt before awarding the diplo
mas announced that Mr.. Thurston
would join the faculty of Dewitt
School next year and become master.
Representative Begg, in his address
to the graduates, warned them
against mediocrity and urged them
to strive to do a little better than the
others in the same line of work. He
told the class that the greatest
tragedy in life is the man or woman
who fails to deliver but so per cent
of his or her ability.
Others on the Program.
The invocation was delivered b:
the Rev. DR.. E. P. Wroth, rector of
Christ Church. Georgetown. The
salutatory was delivered by Frank
Sharpe, and j. Leighton Cornwell de.
livered the farewell address. Charles
Perry Miller. jr., as president of the
1926 graduating class, then made a
brief address.
Diplomas were awarded by DR..
Dewitt, president of the school.
Among the students graduating
with honor. Donald E. Williamson
not only led his class in the study of
Spanish but was the only student in
the history Of the school to receive
100 per cent in English. Bradford
Swope, singled out as the one stu
dent who did the most to promote the
ideals and standards Of the school,
was never known to "cut" a class,
Mr. Dewitt announced. Prizes were
also awarded to the following gradu-
ates for excellins in the subjects indi-
Gated: Frederick keetch Wilson, sci.
ence; Orlando TroXel, English: Sidney
Trundle. Latin, and Charles Willard,
mathematics.
Army-Navy Cl3sS.
Among the graduates of the Army
and Navy class who received their
diplomas last night. the following men
will enter the United States Naval
Academy July I: John Shelby Abbott,
Charles Otis Ashley, Frederick Rich-
ard Brace. Baldwin Frederick Cook.
Thomas Joseph Hurd, jr.; Allan
Lowrie, Charles Perry Miller. jr.:
Walsh Richards and Charles Louis
Willard, jr.
Those graduating who will enter the
United States Military Academy at
West Point July We're Augustus Will
liam Darnemiller, Wilton Brown
Bibson, Richard a. Oliver, Rich
ard j. O'Keefe and Orlando Col.ette
Those entering the United States
Coast Guard service are William Bar.
bee and Philip Schneider.
William L. Rousseau of the Army
and Navy class will enter the Cn1ver-
sity of Alabama. Eye trouble pro-
tary service.
Names of the graduates Of other
departments of the school follow:
college Preparatory School-Robert
Ayers. Job Barnard. James 7. BegE,
ir.: Anthony Bellanca. William ;.
Bowling, Emmett Brandt. Vernon
Rrircs. Charles Luman CogsWelI,
James Leighton Cornwell. Henry +.
C,openhaver, J. Alvin Crogan. Gilbert
Dorsey, Ward NJ. French. Frederick
A. Gutheim. Lawrence Andrew Gred-S
lein. Richard Chalmers Hughes, Miss
Bonnie Holmes. Paul irwin, Douglas
r. Lawrence, Reginald a. Lotus,
Robert Lyman, John G. Markham,
Julien J. Mason.
Francis Nfackin Merrill, John H.
Miller, jr.: Francis l.. Mosely, Howell
NJ. Moss, William Raymond Moulden.
i1..: Gerald Luther Munson, Frederick
William Ribnitzki. Sidney L. Shan
non. Frank Thomas Sharpe, Ralph
Macdonald Seebold, John Snure, ir.;
Bradford Swope. Curtis Stewart,
Francis NJ. Tompkins. Sidney A.
Trundle. ir.: Howard w. Turner,
George W. Nass. Horace Y. Wester,
Robert Emerson Wester James A.
Wilson. William Keetch Wilson. DON
aid r. Williamson. Edward Hillman
Willis.
Evening School-Allen s. Newman.
George n. Fischer. John Hewlett.
Miss Dorothea Cutting, John l.,
I.aing, Robert NJ. Austin, Edward
Wev. Erwin Hair. Owen Mcbride,
Francis E. Murray, William r. Ma
son. Richard Burbank, William A.
Saunders.
Postgraduate certificates-Ford E.
Young, jr: George H. Roberts, NAL
colin L. Merriam, Sidney c. Wooten.