Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-31
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AWARD DIPLOMAS
AT BUSINESS HIGH
Thirty Graduates of Four
Year Course Get
Sheepskins.

Business men, whose field of endeavor
rapidly is assuming the elements OF q
profession, soon will dominate the az
fairs of the world. just as at various
times in history clergymen, militarists
and statesmen have had control, DR..
Frederick w. Perkins pastor of Uni
versalist National Memorial Church,
told the SO graduates of the four-yesr
course at Business High School at their
commencement last night.
Taking as his text" the statement
of Owen D. Young, that business is
the oldest of occupations and the most
youthful of professions" DR.. Perkins
declared that the trend of business"
toward the professional field is evil
denced by the induction of ethics which
heretofore were found only in profess
sions, the growing tendency toward
service rather than mere gain as the
goal of business, and the widening of
the business scope to include the max
ing OF lives as well as livelihoodS.
Explaining these indications of the
recently only such groups as physicians,
surgeons and lawyers would have under
taken to penaliZe a colleague in their
respective professions fer breach of
ethics, similar tactics now are being
undertaken in business for the purpose
OF elevating business standards. Dr.
Perkins cited the recent attempt of an
oil company head to GUST prominent
member of his board who had been
accused Of business misdeeds. Whereas
formerly the only reason for entering
business was to earn a livelihood. DR..
Perkins suggested last night that bust
ness today is developing character and
personality in its conductors that credits
It actually with the making of lives.
Hoover as Example.
Such transition as is taking place
In business today, DR.. Perkins con-
cluded, can lead only to the asSump-
ton Of world control by men in the
business profession, just as prominent
clergymen, military leaders and states
men have dominated in past history.
This dominance already Is begun, DR..
Perkins commended, in the election to
the presidency of Herbert Hoover, who,
while an engineer, also Is a business
man" in the larger sense, in that he
rose to the highest governmental office
from ranks other than those Of clergy,
soldiers or legislators,
The commencement was presided
over by Henry L. Gilligan, member of
the Board Of. Education, and was opened
by the invocation, intoned by Rev.
Richard Schmidt.
Following DR.. Perkins address to the
graduates, Miss Angela Marie Myers,
honor graduate, delivered the valedic-
tory.
Allan Davis, principal of the school,
announced the names of five students
who had merited awards for their
scholastic attainments. Medals were
presented to them by Mr.. Davis, first to
Miss Myers, the valedictorian, and then
to- Doris Wilhelmina Rizzo, Margaret
Ruth Weber. Evelyn Lucille White and
Clara Zanoff.
Receive Diplomas.
As the names of the graduates were
called by Miss May p. Bradshaw, as
sistant principal 1.-THE members of the
class, walked to the stage. the girls
dressed in traditional white and the
boys. in dark suits, to receive thsir
diplomas from Mr. Davis. When tire
name of Henry Goldsteiu was reached
ate had taken an opportunity to Journey
South as a player in a prominent or
chcstra. He read a telegram from
young Goldstein in which the player
graduate extended his greetings to his
classmates.
The recipients of diplomas at Business
were Margaret Elizabeth Bennett, Dor.
othy Virginia Benz, Mary Bleicher,.
Virginia Josephine Calvagno, Helen Ca
sale, Myra Coons. Sarah Ann Crawley,
Frances Fine. Pauline Alice CARRIER,
Lois Frances Horsnell, Margaret Helen
Houser, Winifred Mary Ing, Winifred
Lila King, Mary Bertha Lewis, Ruth
Gertrude Lihhey, Marion Bell MacDon-
aid, Dorothy Helen Mccarthy, Marie
Agnes Miller, Angela Marie Myers, Myf-
tie Vivian Pigg, Sadie Porte, Charlotte
Anna Reichel, Doris Wilhelmina Rizzo,
Adelaide Frances Sheahan, Helen Sor-
enson, Margaret Ruth Weber, Evelyn
Lucille White, Anna Evelyn Wilmer,
Helen Isabelle Young, Clara Zanoff,
Dorothy Louise Zimmerman, David CO.
hen, Leon Cohn, Henry Goldstein, Her
bert Pittle and Lester Singman.