Evening star., 1928-06-21
CENTRAL AWARDS
DIPLOMAS TO So
Bishop Mcdowell Delivers
Commencement Address,
Stressing Life Duties.

Advocating the best possible prepara-
ton for life by education. Bishop Will
liam F. Mcdowell of the Methodist
Episcopal Church delivered an address
last night at the commencement exer-
cises at Central High School. With
Isaac Cans. a member of the Board of
Education, presiding. Rev DR.. J. Phelps
Hand, district superintendent of the
Washington district of the Methodist
Episcopal Church whose son. John
Phelps Hand. ir.. was a graduate, de-
livered the invocation, There were $50
graduates.
Bishop Mcdowell took as his text this
6ictum: The great question is not how
late or early docs one come TO life's
task. but how well prepared he comes. -
Declaring that he presented the grad
yates for a new and better type Of
American citizenship than We are" the
bishop said he would say to parents
who thought they have done all they
should for their cllildren's education by
giving them high school course, these
words Of his own father: II must give
you a better chance than have had.
as the world will not let you of as easily
as it let me of"
Stresses Life Struggle.
living and making a life was cited by
Bishop Mcdowell. who said he wished
10 set The emphasis not upon the living
the graduates viii make, but upon the
life they make. The bishop said he did
not want the graduates to so out into
.ne world with any moral confusion and
e .clare6 he wanted them to know of
the struggle to establish Righteousness
IL the world. He concluded by asking
benediction upon the graduates, their
parents, teachers and friends
The school orchestra played during
The evening and the commencement eX-
ercises opened with the march of the
graduates TO the stage. The school song,
"Tenax Propositi, was sung by the
graduates. Alvin w. Miller. principal
OF Central High School. announced the
scholarships and awards and Robert A.
Maurer. professor constitutional law
al Georgetown Law School. presented
"l1e diplomas.
TWO additional scholarships were an
rounced last night-that of the Colum-
bia University Club school going to
Johnathan Downer Springer, jr, and
tire freshman scholarship to Goucher
College going to Katharine Merrick
Scott.
Diploma List.
Presided over by Isaac Cans, member
of the Board Of Education. Central's
commencement exercises marked the
graduation Of the largest class of senior
students in Washington during the
present school year elimination. The
exercises were opened by DR. j. Phelps
Hand who recited the invocation, which
in turn was followed Immediately by
Bishop McDoweIl's address.
Alvin w. Miller, principal of Central.
next took the stage to announce the
scholarship winners and the graduates
who had made" the honor roll.
The scholarship winners were an
n0unce0 as follow
To American University-Gwendolyn
Bevington Folsom. Walter Earl Masin-
c4p and Mary Margaret Guerin.
To Catholic University-David Woog
Dreyfuss.
To Dartmouth College - Benjamin
Davis Burch and Robert Coltman.
To Georgetown University-Weldon
Aubrey Price. February, 1928.
To University of Pennsylvania-James
Lawrence Bates.
To washington and Lee University
Robert Tennyson Adams.
To Wesleyan Uniyersity-Henry
Ferdinand Lerch.
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Goodwin Belote.
To Southern Brothers Business Col
lege-Mary Crawford Bubb.
To Washington College Of Law-Ben-
tamin Earle Hinden.
To George Washington University
Eleanor Elizabeth KiSe, Cary Wolcott
Asl and Nanette Matilda DembitZ.
To Harvard College-Spencer Drum
n1Ond Pollard
To University of Virginia George
Raymond Jones and John Payne Nc
Donneli
TO wellesley College-Dorothy Marie
Willard.
To Benjamin Franklin University-
Walter Etrouse Baum.
To Columbia School Of Business-Vio-
iet Sylvia Yasseil.
To District of Columbia College Of the
Young Mems Christian Association
Virginia Grimsley Edelin,.
To Strayer Coliege-Caroline Ashby
Hamnlin.
The following students In the gradu-
sting class who made a perfect scholar
ship record by receiving 100 per cent
"E,s" cut Of the 80 points Hequired for
graduation were announced as CentraIs
honor roll graduates:
Walter Baum, Theodore Bel0te, Muriei
Chamberlain. Terrelle Crum. Nanette
Dembitz, David Dreyfuss. Nathaniel
Eyeyard, Gwendolyn Folsom, Amalie
Frank. Margaret Hardy, Eleanor Kise,
Earl Masincup. william May, Beatrice