Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-14
HIGH
GRADUATES CLASS
81 Members Urged to Strive
for Culture, Character.
and Citizenship.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

EVANSVILLE, Md, June IA
Culture, character and citizenship are
the three RS that they should strive
to attain, Frank D. Day, superintend-
ent OF schools for Calvert County, told
the 81 members Of the graduating
class Of Hyattsville High School in adj
dressing them at commencement ex-
ercises last night in the National Guard
Armory. He declared that it was in
their power in large measure to shape
their own destinies. Mr.. Day is a
former member of the faculty Of the
local school.
A crowd that filled the large audi
forum was present. 1t was the largest
graduating class in the annals of the
institution.
Miss Leila Ellis Smith of Hyattsville
was awarded the medal offered an
nually by the alumni association of
the school. for scholarship, leadership
and athletic attachments. Dr. Charles
E. White, professor OF chemistry at the
University of Maryland. and Hyatts-
vile High School alumnus, made the
presentation. 1t was announced that
beginning next year scholarship alone
would be, the basis for this award.
Paul Benjamin Reeley, also Of Hy-
attsville, was awarded the citizenship
medal offered by the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution. George P. McCeney
Of Laurel made the presentation.
Program of Music.
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music by the school orchestra, the girls
glee club, the boys glee club and the
boys III" club under the direction of
Mrs. Starr Preston Sprinkel, musical
instructor at the school.
Rev. B. Andrew Matzen, pastor of the
Berwyn Presbyterian Church, gave the
invocation and benediction.
Mr.. Day and Prof. K. j.. Morris, prin-
cipal of the school, who presided, pre-
sented the diplomas.
The graduates are:
Academic course-Florence Estelle
Barsock, Helen Louise Brigham, Doro-
thy A.. Claim, Charlotte Roberta Davis,
Frances Elizabeth Fainter, Agnes Lee
Gingell, Josephine Z. Griffith, Sara
Lee GUIDE, Alice Pauline Nelson, Claire
Shepherd, Virginia Frances Stein,
Eleanor NJ Winnat, Mynarda Chester
Bodel, MILAN Brooke, Ellen Dugan,
Emma Virginia Fowler, Ruth Marie
Fuller, Marion Frances Kerr, Lucy
Aileen Lynham, Katherine Margaret
Matzen, Marjorie Ruth Mowatt, Mary
Philips Katherine Pyles, Florence H.
Rowe. Helen W. Shaw. Leila Ellis
Smith. Norman Bond Belt, Charles
Atwood Bassford, Henry Cottman
Briscoe, Lynwood NJ Carter, Arthur
Preston Gambrill, jr.; Lee Adelbert
Goss, Loring. Earl Gingell Donald
Richard Hollingsworth, Charles Edward
Kitchin, Harvey Turner Lanier. J.
Carlyle Moore, jr.; James T. Nichols,
er. Charles G. Spicknal, Jack Roberts,
william Parvin Starr. jr.; Justus Steele,
J. Keenan, Taylor, Robert Gladstone
Temple, Robert M. Venemann, Ademar
Grimm Weingartner and T. Hammond
Welsh, jr
Commercial course-Christine Louise
Almond. Helen Claire Appleton, Mar
jorie Harriet Baird, Elizabeth Sybil
Black, Kathryn Florine Clark. Mar
garet Lucille Colbert, Inez Mable Gay
lor, Mildred Louise Gillions. Erma
Evangeltne Godfrey, Ellen Gertrude
Held, Marcia Wilhelmina Hello, Mary
Ruth Johnston, Gladys Kathleen Kilby,
Dorothy Ruth Lamphier, Jean Prescott
McKallor, Adelaide Eunice Moler,
Pauline Laura Ella Reeley. Ruth Eliza
beth Rohrbaugh, Ruth Madeline Salz-
man. May Ruth Smith, Alice Boteler
Soper, Walton Elbridge Arnold, Espey
Theodore Browning. Lloyd Randolph
Coates. Edward Waters Donaldson,
George Andrew England, William
Everett Harlow. James Frederick Keir,
Simon Lebowitz, Edward Mallan Mid
dleton, Robert Warren Middleton, Paul
Benjamin Reeley, Raymond Raphel
Richards, William Everett Robinson
and Herbert Payne Slinkman.
General course - John Fletcher
Moulden, jr., and Elmer M. Petit, tr.