Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
1853 ARE GRADUATED
At CENTRAL HIGH
Dean Wilbur of George Wash
ington U. Addresses Group.
Three Get Scholarships.


of a big idea" was the important
thing. and that development Of origi-
nal thought would come with expert
ence, Dean William Allen Wilbur Of
George Washington University ad
dressed the graduating class of 1853
students at the Central High School
last night, leaving with them the
thought that Imagination coupled with
experience was the real essence of
education.
I'VE cannot overemphasiZe the inn
portance of imagination in educa-
ton" said Dean Wilbur. Abstract
ideas are the means to an end, but
you cannot hold aloof from anthing
and know anything about it. 1t Is
the function of imagination to inter
pref the experiences of the soul into
concrete things"
Charles #. Carusi Presides.
The presiding officer at the exer-
cises was Charles f. Carusi, member
of the Board of Education. The pro-
gram consisted of the invocation rem
dered by the Rev. Earle Whitley. pas
tor of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church; an address by Dean William
Allen Wilbur, music by the school or
chestra, announcement of honor stu
dents by Alvin w. Miller, principal
presentation of diplomas by William
Tyler Page, clerk of the House of
Representatives, who recited THE
Americans Greed" in lieu of a speech
before presenting the diplomas, and
the school song by the graduating
class.
Over $500 parents and friends of the
students filled the auditorium. They
were ushered to seats by the high
school cadets in uniform
Members of the class on the honor
roll are: Emily Kefauver Blake, Mar
guerite Brunschwig, Anna Justine
Davis, Virginia Margaret Hauptmann,
Alice MacCullen, Jean Lillian Milans,
Agnes Catherine Murphy, Jeanette
Barber Pollard. Lucille Bayne Terry,
Esther Rae Wecksler, Irwin Feldman
and Herman Leon Lewis.
Three Receive Scholarships.
Three received scholarships. They
were: Lucille Bayne Terry, American
University; Margaret Ell. Mcmahon,
Strayer's College; Fire A. Mooney
Steward School for Secretaries.
Seventeen members of the class
were elected to the National Honor
Society. They are:
Emily Kefauver Blake, Anna Justine
Davis, Irwin Feldman, Charles Ed
ward Gauss, Esther Sprague Joding,
Virginia Margaret Hauptmann, Bertha
Helen Howard, Hyman Leon Lewis,
Alice MacCullcn, Jean Lillian Milans,
Agnes Catharine Murphy, John Ber-
nard Nesbitt, Jeanette Barber Pol
lard. Barbara Stratton, Lucille Bayne
Terry, Esther Rae Wecksler and Anna
Elizabeth Williamson.
Those who received diplomas are:
Girls--Gertrude Helyn Ashby, Flor
ence Huntington Beall, Mary Mer-
cedes Berry, Emily kefauver Blake.
II e en- LaVerne Boyland, Eunice
Marie Brandt, Marion Evans Brown,
M i | Dire d Virginia Browning, Mar
guerite Brunschwig, Lorraine Bunch,
Anne Cherner, Merrie Fender Child
rey, Mae Harris Clarke, Lucille Coles,
Mary Elizabeth Connolly. Alma, Barry
Cosdon, Virginia Woodbridge Cureton,
Anna Justine Davis. Gnesina De
Nunzio, Dorothy DeVeau, Maud Smell
Dilcer Pauline Somerville Dodson,
Ida Rose Douglas, Anna Louise Drew.
Rae Brown yesterday, Blanch Irene
Edwards, Frances Jane Ehlers, Lorna
Florence Ellis, Norma Gwendolyn
Finch, Clementina Vera F'loria,
Tosca Floria, Ethel Gardner,
Esther Sprague Cooling, Yetta Rosa
lind Halpern, Jane Eleanor Ham
mack, judith Gouldsmythe Harding,
Marion Charlotte Harvey, Virginia
Margaret Hauptmann, Christine Cath
arine Hay, Rnoda Adell Hennig, Mary
Emily Hodge. Bertha Helen Howard.
Marjorie Louise Hughes. Catherine
Margaret Huyett, Mamie Ar1nistead
I'Anson, Sophia Jackerson, Iranell
Marian Jester, Dorothy Craver Jones,
Claire Steece Julihn, Shirley Moncure
Kellam, Madge Virginia Kennedy,
Kathryn Kietner, Virginia Prescott
knight, Estella Ida Lavine, Margaret
Jane Leaman, Claire Eileen Lear,
Eloise Virginia Lindsay, Martha Isa-
b e | a Lofsrrand, Mary Josephine
Lowry, Frances Mackay MacBryde,
Alice MacCullen, Dorothy Marie Nc
Carly, Marian Groves Mcdaniel, Mar
garet Helen Mcmahon, Helena Chris
tine Meininger, Jean Lillian Milans,
Marie Anna Milbourne, Dorothy Ada
line Miller, Elizabeth Wilson Miller,
Emily Bentley Mitchell Leah Matilda
Money, Thelma Virginia Money, Fire
Agnes Mooney Elizabeth Lee Nor
ford, Agnes Catharine Murphy, Lor-
enc Nelson, Ann Augusta Parsons,
Fra n &c s r n a Phillips, Jeanette
Barber Pollard, Constance Proctor.
Rosalinda Marie Racioppi, Blanche
Reinhart, Adrienne Marie Roccaty
Anna Laura Sanford, Minna Gertrude
Smith, Teresa Elizabeth Smith, Edna
Louise Sobotka, Myrtle Carolyn
Standish, Hazel Howard Sterling,
Helen Stevens. Virginia Helen Story,
Barbara Stratton, Lucille Bayne Ter
ry, Mary Katherine Thacker, Virginia
Glenn Thurston, Wilhelmina Wheel,
Margaret Fern Wagy. Esther Rae
Wecksler, Elizabeth Helen White and
Anna Elizabeth Williamson.
Boys-Joseph Fletcher Allen, Ken
meth Shedd Barry, Edgar Baum, jr.:
Henderson Schroeder Bell Woodson
Tyree Birthright. Paul Everett
Blocher, Harry Aaron Bobys, Joseph
Bulman, Herman Corder, John Will
liam Crittenden, Bernard De Boskey,
George Elmore De Vaughan, Jack
Burns Duke, jr.: Irwin Feldman, lisa
dore Fedman. Walter Franc, Frank
John Fugazzi, William Edward Gal.
Iagher, Charles Edward Gauss, Aaron
Gerber, Sidney Goad, Harold Louis
Hamill, Gambler Harris Hoffman, Alex
Gibson Hopkins, Edward Anderson
Jones, Isidore Abraham KATE, Louis
Irving Keren, Adriano kimayong.
Collins Otterback Lamb. John Poague
Leckey, jr; Benjamin Levitin, Hyman
Leon Lewis, Louis Abraham Litman,
Knowles Little, Bernard Albert Liv-
ingston Edward White MCPHERSON
Frank Oswald Mennen, John William
Miller, John Harold Mills, James Por-
teous Mitchell, Thomas Warner
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