Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-30
49 ARE GRADUATED
At BUSINESS HIGH
Certificates Given Students
Who Complete Two-Year
Course of Study.

Forty-nine students of Business High
School who had completed a two-year
course in that institution received their
certificates Of graduation at exercises
| in the school auditorium at 1890
, O'Clock this morning
/ Presided over by Harry o. Hine, sec
rotary Of the Board of Education, the
commencement program was opened by
an invocation by Rev George L. Farm
han. pastor of the Cleveland Park Con-
gregational Church. Mr.. Hine intro
duced DR.. George G. Havenner. presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens As
SociationS, who spoke on Know Your
City"
Reviews History of City.
In his address to the graduates, DR.
Havenner warned the boys and girls
that when they get in life they will
lind many vacancies in the chain of
knowledge which they believed is COM
pleted by virtue of their graduation
and which, he said, can be filled only
by rubbing elbows with their fellow
men,
He reviewed the history Of Washing
ton from the first provision for its es-
tabl1shnent in the Constitution, to the
organization Of citizens associations, b.
which, he contended, Washington citi-
5ens express their desires today. DR..
HaVenner urged the graduates to join
their local associations.
Allan Davis, principal of Business
High, presented to each of the students
who had attained particularly high rat
ing during their course, medals for their
excellence. Two of the students, Flora
Adler and Anna r. DeFabio. were leav-
ing school entirely following their grad
uatlon today, while the remaining six
nave decided to continue at Business
to complete the four-year course. The
latter were Robert Hid, Dorothy S.
Tiatta, Charlotte D. Kimball. Elaine M.
!und, Bernard Margolius and Sarah
SIlYerman.
Riley Presents Certificates.
Certificates of graduation were pre-
Sented by John Riley, past president of
the Business High School Alumni Asso-
cation. who was graduated from the
school in 1921.
The program was completed with or
cheStral selections by the Business High
School orchestra under leadership of
Miss Emma Louise Thompson.
The 40 students who received GER
tlfcates of graduation were: Flora
Adler. Madeline Caroline Bagelman.
Dorothy Edna Barrett, Gertrude Mar
garet Merle Began. Mildred Bremen.
Bethel Margeret Cooksey, Anna Rita
De Fabio, Lillian Rose Dorman, Nav
Isabelle Ferrari. Bernice Catherine FUR.
Catherine Campbell Hodge, Margaret
Anthonette Holland. Cecilia Leiderman.
Elsie Esther Lunch, Florence Lunch,
Dorothy Virginia McClary. Margaret
Russell Mathiot Helen Eileen Nash.
Vera Ruth Payne Carrie Agnes Phillips,
Alva Ridgeway, Helen Claire Salkeld.
Dorothy Evelyn Shertzer. Jeanette Sid
man, Eleanor Louise Simmons, Nellie
Eads Sinclair, Mary Wannamaker
Smathers, Elma Irene Smith, Josephine
Sparks. Helen Margaret Thompson.
Doris Louise Veirs, Bertha May VOL
finger. Sadie Virginia Wolff, Marion
Francis Woodend. Irene Mary Young
blood. Hilda Shirley Zimmerman.
Frank Maybee Alligood, jr.; Norman
Macdonald Boss, Charles Emmett
Burke, Carlton Maurice Eaton. William
Arthur Gibson, Thomas Hartley Heff-
ner. Linwood Stuart Jones, James
William Knapp. Joseph Moore, Curtis
Norman Risley, jacob Silverman,
Vincent Leo Sullivan.