Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
1876 GET DIPLOMAS
At MINER NORMAL
Rain Forces Commencement
Participants to Quit
Howard Campus.
A hundred and eighty,six graduates

A hundred and eighty-siX graduates
of the Miner Normal School, repre-
senting six different courses, were
awarded diplomas at commencement
exercises yesterday evening. The
program began on the Howard I'M
yersitv campus at c o'clock, but was
INTERRUPTED by rain, forcing the par
rjcinants into the auditorium OF the
Miner Normal School for the remain
der of the exercises.
The program was opened with
music by the Community Center
Band, while the graduates malcied
in, following which invocation was
delivered by Rev. W. l.. Washington.
Selections by tho Miner Normal 6lee
Club and members Of the civic or.
rhestra came next. after which brief
address was delivered by DIR. j. hay
den johnson, member of the Board
of Education, who presided at the eN-
ercises. The remainder Of the pro
gram included the class Grafton by
Beatrice Louise Walker, an a0dfesS
to the graduates by Dean J. II. hay
wood of Morgan College, bItlmofe'
an address by Garnet G. WILKINSON.
first assistant superintendent Oh
schools; the presentation or dlliolf"S
by DR.. +. I. 4. Bennett, mempef oil
the Board of Education, and the sing.
ing of the class song. The words or
The latter were written 10y Margaret
f, Wallace and the music by Alice
Iandria Grant.
The graduates are as follows:
Primary grade course--Esther LII
cretia Adams, Louise Elizabeth
Adams, Ellen Marion Allen, Lotue
Inez Anthony, Deborah Banks. Mar
raret Eliza beth Barnes. Rosa Booker.
Gursta Bell Boyd, Ruth Augustus
Boyd, Sarah Jane Boyd, Bernice Edna
Branham, Edward Rutherford Brook
er. Lucille Alice Brown, Ruth Evelyn
Brown, Thelma Catherine BroWn,
lydia Augusta Budd Christine Butler
Helen Christiana Butler. Selma Nir-
ginia Butler. Cecilia Lonsey Burton.
Bernice Rosa Campbell, Naomi Eliza
beth Churchwin, Isadore Matilda
Coates, Maude Johnson Collins, Der
Meta Conway, Ethel Mae Craney'
Willie Estella Crew. Utilla Catcher
Valentine Parthenia Dial, Agnes Elsie
Digcs. Mary Elizabeth Donoho, Mabel
Magdeline Edmonds, Edward Joseph
Edwards, jr.; Mary Catherine Elns'
Marguerite Helen Evans, Martina
Evans, Ethel Maria Flood. Lucille
Louise Ford, GeneVieve Edith iran
els. Francena Marguerite Frye, Por-
TIA LdNlIld NTdl ttttt l. W. 'N''S 1880
Glascoe. Alice Eunice Gaffney.
Rudella Fdythe Gordon. Annice
CAROLYN Gray. Gertrude Ann Green,
Catherine Louise Grey, Arneta Fran
ces Grinage. Louise Hairston, Theo-
dosia Lue Hamlin, Madeline Teresa
Harris. Louise Gladys Harry, Ethel
Juanita Hart. Mary Elaine Hughes,
Lottie Gertrude Hunter, Lula Leila
jackson, Sojourner Eleanor Jackson,
Willie Ruth Jackson, Margaret Celest-
inc jefferson, Marion Rosa jefferson,
Minerva Elizabeth Jenkins, Clytle
Mae Johns. Ellen wilkins Johns, Dor
othy Vonzella Johnson, Drusilla FOR
ter johnson. Gertrude Cecilia John-
son, Gretell Viola Jones, VIVIAN
Agatha Jones, Ruth Niree Kemp,
Hazel Ethelda King, Truden Artence
King. Miriam Lacey, Olive Yolanda
Lacey, Flava Parralee Landers. Alice
Armenia Lane, Gwinnette Louise
lennon. Helen Maria Lewis, Mary
Ruth Lucas, Mary Katherine Mercer,
Bernice Caroline Mcdonald, Blanche
Elaine Mckinney. Virginia Elvester
Mcleod, Gladys Pernel Moore, Lula
Daisy Lee Mundy, James Oliver Neal,
Eliza Amanda Nixon, Mamie Estella
Norwood, Helen Irene Ogle, Lois Al.
thea Pair, Alma Bernice Parks, Cecll
Cleo Patrick. Ruth Antoinette Phil
lips, Ethel Beatrice Proctor, George
Holland Quander, William Ellsworth
Reid, Margaret Eugene Rhoden'
Elinor Virginia Robinson, Allne La
vinia Scott, Eleanor Walton Scott,
Elise Galloway Scott, Louise Davis
Scott Alice Elizabeth Smith, Dorothy
Pearl Smith, Margaret Otwiner Smith,
Winnie Aston Stokes, Elizabeth Wilder
Syphax. Mary Louise Syphax, Grace
Elizabeth Taylor. Claude Russell
Terrell, Alvia Rebecca Terry, Dor
othy Louise Trimmer, Beatrice
Louise Walker, Bernice Elizabeth
Walker, Mary Ardelle Walker, Ma
thelda Virginia Walker, Margaret
Elizabethe Wallace. Susie Albertha
Washington, Corinne Melicent Wat
son, Hilda Vernice Webb, Charlotte
Elizabeth White, Marie Morton White,
Celeste Mozelle Williams, Edith Vivian
Williams, Frances Edith Willis, Leah
Henrietta Williston, Nettie Elizabeth
Wood, Catherine lola Wright and
Rosa Martha Yancey.
Home economics course-Lillian
Herolene Andrews, Gertrude Loretta
Ashton, Sadye Ethelyn Banks, Nina
Belle Bolden, Catherine Johnson Cole
man, Edna Earle Fitzhugh, Virgie
Beulah Gilbert, Lillian Loretta Giles,
Louise Elizabeth Gregory, Ella Belle
lIIardesty. Inez Elizabeth Holman,
Marion Brown Houston, Corinne Hy-