Evening star., 1928-06-20
DR.. STOKES SPEAKS
AT DUNBAR FINALS.
Cathedral Official Declares
Religion Is Common Medium
of SeIf-Development.

Characterizing religion as the COM
mon medium of self-development, avail
able to all Ilen, regardless of creed, DR.
Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of the
Washington Cathedral, addressing the
ZIG graduates Of Dunbar High School
in their commencement exercises last
night, asked them to demonstrate by
right living the fact that they acquired
strong wills and sense of right-think-
ing while learning the fundamentals of
knowledge.
you have been learning here to de-
velop your minds DIR. Stokes said.
And ask you to continue to develop
these minds. When you do that, then
you have learned something about the
will. something of the importance of
right decisions. I ask you to put these
lessons mo practice, to show by right
living what it is to have a strong will"
| DR.. Stokes contended that "it makes
no difference whether we are Catholic
| or Protestant, we all believe in a benev-
olent Being" for whom right-living con-
stitutes a power that develops IAN all
around man."
"All-Around Man."
| Defining his idea of IAN all-around
man." DR.. Stokes paid tribute to Paul
Dunbar. the colored man who, he said,
"battled his way up through adverse
circumstances to become one of his
country's most renowned men of let
ters." Dunbar, the speaker said, was
man who thought without confusion,
who loved his fellow man, and who
acted with sincerity and sympathy If
person does these things, he will be
a good citizen, DR.. Stokes concluded.
Presided over by DR.. j. Hayden john
son, member of the Board of Educa-
ton, the Dunbar commencement eXer-
cises were attended by an audience of
l.400 persons, the capacity of the school
auditorium.
In addition to the presentation of
diplomas to the entire graduating class,
scholarships and scholastic attainment
awards were made by G.. G. Wilkinson
flrst assistant superintendent Of schools,
IN charge Of divisions 10 to Is. Edna
Burke was announced as winner of the
$l00 college alumnae scholarship Of
fered by the College Alumnae Club OF
washington to the girl making the
highest record in a competitive exami-
nation.
The winners of scholarships to How
ard University were announced as Mil
ton Quander. Rosetta Berry and George
Jackson, while Burke Syphax was pre-
Sented with the James E. Walker r- ,dal
awarded annually to the student main
tanning the highest record in athletics
scholarship and department throughout
the entire four-year course
/ Other members of the class who will
enter college through the records they
attained at Dunbar were announced as
follows: Blanchard Lloyd. to Rensse.
laer: Charles Weir, to the University oi
Chicago. and Robert MCGUIRE, to Bates
College.
The exercises were opened by the in
vocation of Rev. HALEY B. Taylor. pas
tor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian
Church. Howard H. Long. assistant
superintendent of schools in the tenth
to thirteenth divisions, presented tht
diplomats TO the graduates, a formality
in which he was assisted by Miss julia
Brooks assistant principal.
The program was completed by musi.
cal selections by the Dunbar High
School Orchestra, under the direction
OF Henry Lee Grant. faculty leader
Benediction. pronounced by Rev. Mr.
Taylor, concluded the exercises.
II List Of Graduates.
/ Following are the graduates Of Dun
bar High School who received thei
diplomas last night:
/ Academic department Melvin An
thony Barker. William Benson Bryant
Joseph Henry Chapman. Robert Arm
stead Cooper. Grafton James Daniels
Frank Frederick Davis, Robert MontellC
de FreitaS. Raymond Ambrose Diggs
John Wesley Douglass, Charles Howard
Fennell, Harry Clarence Franklin, JohY
Milton Waldron Greene. Hugh Wiley
Harvey, Walter Lincoln Hawkins. Ben
janin Joseph Henley Charles Theodore
Hopkins. John Henry Harris, George
Jackson, Theodore Anthony Jackson
Carter Randolph jefferson, Theodore
Benjamin Jenkins, Jerome Carlyle Jen.
kyns, Nunley Fields Keets. Milton Gov.
ington Larry, Blanchard Frazier Lloyd
Edward Hamilton Martin, Henry b
Matthews, willard West Matthews
Robert Grayson MCGUIRE. jr.; Charlie:
Emmett Morse. Boynton Anderson Mil.
ton. Joseph Quander Parker. William
Haley Perry. jr.: Karl Francis Phillips
Milton Ford Quander, James Kine
Scott. Lloyd Rudolph Riley. Harry
Granville Robinson, jr.: Joseph Benson
Sewell. Nathaniel Matthew Shelton
Henry Marsutus Smith. Louis Campbell
Stokes. Burke Syphax, John Wilder
Syphax. Malachi Henry Taylor, Howard
OSman Wand. John Phillip waring
Edgar Morris Watson. Charles Edward
Weir. Arthur Clarence Williams, May
nard Leotis Wilson.
i Katherine Antoinette Adams, Julia
Onotta alexander. May Ellen Anthony
Gladys Ada Armstrong. Louise Paulette
Alexander, Annarrie Elsie Alien, Flea
nor Moore Allen Ethel Lorraine Barber
Dorothy Lillian Barnett. Evelyn Serena
Browne, Bernice Chanceir Bland. Ger
aleine Virginia Brown. Bardella Layinia
Berry, Rosetta Alberta Berry. Martha
Marvine Branche. Mary Marvel
Branche, Sarah Branson. Edna Nav
Brooks. Bertha Viola Brown. Frances
Doris Brown. Miriam Teresa Betx. Mary
Edna Burke. Thelma Louise Burt, Flor
erlce Geneva Chichester. Marie Reatrice