Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23
CENTRAL STUDENTS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Robertson Urges Class of SAB
to Continue Education
through College.

C-cnlplimenting the 54S graduates o
Central High School upon the compile
ton of their four-year course, DaVi'
Allan Robertson, assistant director o
the American Council on Education
and the speaker of the evening, ad
monished them al the graduation eX
ercises held at the school last nigh
TO obtain as much college education a:
possible and emphasized that there
always is demand in the world for the
edu .ated man or woman"
Facing the graduates who maSSeC
the expansive auditorium stage. Mr.
Robertson told them that when they
received their diplomas they auto
matt cally we're elevated TO a higher
educational level and became mem
bers of select educational group.
Mr.. Robertson urged the graduates
to have a purpose in life. He said
that it was the American instinct to
"get somewhere" and cited as exam
pies the covered wagon" Oregon pio-
neers. the discovery of the North Pole
by Admiral Peary and the flight OF
Comdr. Byrd to the Pole. ITO exc
cute the desire to get somewhere,
Mr. Robertson impressed upon the
graduates. "necessitates preparation,
and the more educational preparation
YOU have the better you will be pre-
pared to take your proper place in
life"
Award School Honors.
Henry Gilligan, member of the
Board of Education, presided at the
exercises. Commissioner Proctor l..
Dougherty and DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of schools. sat on the
stage. DR.. Howard f.. Snyder pastor
of the Church of the Atonement. pro-
nounced the invocation. While Robert
A. Maurer of the Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School presented the diplo-
mas. Principal Alvin w. Miller made
announcement of the scholarships,
honor roll and awards.
Scholarship awards: Swarthmore
College. open scholarship for women.
Mildred Pressler: Swarthmore College.
alumnae scholarship, Gwendolyn Nor
ton, District OF Columbia awards:
Harvard Club freshman scholarship.
Frances Marion Goodwin (alternate1:
Yale alumni scholarship. Rodney New
lille Hatcher; Wesleyan University
scholarship, Luther Wilson Gray; Wei
lesley Club. Marion Kinney Bookings
scholarship. Elizabeth Alexander, &c.
Special scholarships: Smith College,
Laura Ashley Brundage: Hamilton
College. Graeme Campbell Bannerman:
petitive eXamination-First university,
Jean McGregor: second university. Ju-
dith Wood: fifth university. John
Thacker; sixth university, Francesca
Martin. Awarded in c. H. s. competi-
ton in record: American University.
LYMAN Lewis February, 1920, Miriam
Lloyd: Catholic University. Albert
Raeder: Georgetown pre-medical, How
ard Kaufman; st. Johns College, An
narolis. Md, Joseph Wilson Leverton;
University of Virginia. Ellis April;
Benjamin Franklin University. Ethel
Yassell: Columbia Business College,
Annie Louise Newkirk; Steward School
for Secretaries. Frances Skinner;
Strayer College, Dorothea Lewis.
The following students in the grad
uating class had a perfect scholarship
record by receiving 100 per cent Els
out of the 80 points required for
graduation: Solomon Alpher, Eva An
ma Carlson, Dorothea Ramsey BelZ,
Jean Elizabeth Eckels. Willard Jeffrey,
Dorothy Wheat Kneesi, Dorothea JEFF
ferson Lewis, Jean McGregor, Gwen
dolyn Norton. Elizabeth Pile, Mildred
Hannah Pressler, Henrietta Audrey
Schneider. Hazel Pauline Shoemaker,
Albert Webster Small. Douglas Emory
Wilson, Judith Goodwin Wood.
ord Of rs per cent Els to their credit
at least "a Els out Of the 80 required
points: Elsie Sanders Behrend, Anna
Bernstein, John Royal Brasel, Donald
Fowler Brown. Charles Willard Burns,
Elizabeth G. Crawley. Dorothy Fried
man, Louise F. Goldenburg, Francis
Marion Goodwin. Paul Haney. Fred
erick Haskin. Maude Percy Hudson,
Elizabeth Julihn, Dorothy Athene
Kirkwood. Miriam Lloyd. Francesca
Martin, Mary Frances May. Elizabeth
Catherine Morrow, Maurice Frank
Neufeld, Annie Louise Newkirk, Phyl-
lis Adele Oberlin. Gladys Marie Ober-
lin, Louise Parker, Warren Price, AL
sanberg, Frances Bertha Skinner,
Homer Grove Smith. Vivian Elizabeth
Stokes. Dorothy G. Stubs. John
Thacker, Gertrude Mary Wagner,
Carroll Wolcott, Roberta Wright,
Ethel Clara Yassell.
The following students had perfect
record in attendance s:aving been
present and punctual every day for
fo'ir years: John Rodger Beall, Re-
be6ah Crockett. Dorothy A. Kirkwood.
Diplomas Awarded.
Members Of the graduating class fol.
low: Emma Carolyne Abel. Adeline AL.
exander, Florence Burns Allison, Anna
Augusta Amrein. Derrice Ernestine An.
derson, Catherine Thorpe Austin. Eve
lyn Virginia Ayres, Kathryn Baker
Elizabeth Boesser BATE, Anna Louise
Barham, Mary Bell Beach. Josephine
Amanda Beals. Elsie Sanders Behrend
Lucille Marie Belhumeur, Virginia
Helen Belt, Dorothea Ramsey Belz
Esther Bendheim. Elizabeth Muriel
Bergman. Madeline Marie Bernard
Anna Belle Bernstein, Ruth Green
Bivins. Dorothy Jane Blaisdell, Martha