Evening star., 1928-02-01
81 GET DIPLOMAS
! At M'K|NLEY HIGH
William Knowles Cooper Is
Speaker at Commence
ment Exercises. :

AdNlSiNS lfleu 10 lnNiOk au biStoAH,
seosraphy and political science. so that
they may best sscrve their Nation as
worthy citizens william Knowles
Cooper. general secretary Of the WASH
.ngton Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton. last night gave the 81 nidyear
graduates of Mckinley Technical High
School a verbal Send-off into their new
life" Of promised golden opportunities.
As the principal speaker on the pro-
gram of commencement exercises at
tending the award OF diplomas to the
graduates. Mr. Cooper told the ~ girls
and 20 boys of the class that their high
school graduation. because 1t opens to
them literal new world Of new friends.
new endeavorS. new communities and
new problems, is the outstanding event
in their lives Deploring the failure Of
4e per cent of the franchised citizenry
10 cast the ballot on important ques-
fions before the country, he urged the
graduates TO study particularly history.
geography and political science. that
they may become intelligent. stable and
educated citizens. Addressing the
white-costumed girls set prettily in a
Kinley auditorium stage. where the
pink sweet pea corsage bouquets they
wore gave the setting its only vestige
Of color. Mr.. Cooper told them they
were equal partners with the dark
suited boys of the class that served
as their background in the carrying
out Of the duties Of citizenship.
Principal Daniel Presides.
In the absence of Charles F. Carusi
president OF the Board Of Education
and scheduled presiding oficer Of the
commencement exercises, Frank c.
Daniel. principal. introduced the par.
Iicipants. The first person whom Mr..
Daniel presented to the audience Of
students and parents was Rev. Henry
Msnken. Jr.. pastor Of the Incarnation
Lutheran Church, who intoned rev.
erent prayer for the success OF the
graduates.
When he rose to announce the honor
graduates, Mr.. Daniel told the class
that they had the distinction of being
one Of the last groups Of Tech" stu
dents 10 be graduated from the school
in the present building. Next Septem-
Der. he told them, their successors will
be installed in the new Mckinley
Building. at Third and r streets north
east. where. he suggested. the school
viii be housed for the first time in
Tech history in quarters which are
adequate.
Diplomas were presented to the grad
ustes BY ?. A. Woodward. assistant
principal Of Mckinley. and the pro-
gram was completed by selections by
the Mckinley Technical High School
Orchestra. under the direction Of Dore
walten. faculty leader.
Honor Graduates Announced.
McKinley's honor graduates. includ-
Ing those who completed the course OF
study with grades OF 90 per cent or
above, were announced as follows:
Oscar Pittleman, Louise Prescott. Doro-
thy Robb. Austin Saunders and NAL
colm Taylor.
The scholarship winners are cald-
well Slack, who was awarded the
scholarship to the Young Mems Chris
tian Association School OF Accountancy.
and Oscar Pittleman, Who captured q
similar award offered BY Strayer's Bus
The Mckinley Technical graduates
of the midyear class are: Helen M.
Colt. Elizabeth Downing, Marie c.
Frech. Doris p. French, Mildred @.
Marshall. Doris s. Miller. Evelyn l.
Prescott. Nancy r Randolph. Anne
Reikes, Dorothy Z. Robb. Helen Y.
Singer. Drusilla II. Waite, Winbern H.
Adcock. John O. Andrews, Arthur B.
Bennett. Robert Chan Bing. John w.
Briehtenburg, Donald A Charles. Les
ter S. Consol, Cari p. Daudt. Charles z.
Duvall. James H. Duvall, William Fish
man, Daniel P. Galotta. Paul v. Guy.
Robert II. Hamilton, Robert 3. Hayel,
Hubert w Hudson. Eugene J. Heiss,
Arthur D. Kriemelmeyer. Louis Levy.
snf1
Ralph A. Meyer. Joseph r. Myers. Will
liam g. Oehmann. John @. Osterman,
Oscar ". Pittleman. Joseph B. Ragan.
Edwin T. Rice. Grafton H. Rice. ir.;
Harold 3. Robinson, Joseph Rudden.
George r. Ruhl, Austin c. Saunders.
Philip Shurman, Harry c. Slack. Alex
ander K Stanton. Samuel J. Sugar.
Theodore Taube. Malcolm Taylor and
Herbert A Van Ceuder.