Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-19
286 WESTERN HIGH
SENIORS A RECORD
Diplomas Presented by Prin-
CipaI Newton and As
SiStant, Nelson.

With 2s6 diplomas awarded the 1880
class Of Western High School, gradu-
ated Yesterday afternoon at commence
ment exercises in the school auditorium,
comprised the largest graduation class
In the history Of the school, Last year
the rob was 23S
The valedictorian address was deliv-
cred by Miss Villette Sullivan. Miss
Helen Rose Arons was the class saluta-
torian,
Elmer S. Newton. principal. assisted
by Norman j. Nelson. assistant princi-
pal, made the presentation of diplomas.
Invocation was pronounced by Rev. E.
L. Eaton of the field department, Meth
odiSt Church.
Orchestral selections played by the
school orchestra, under direction of
Herman c. Rakemann, interpreted the
brief program.
Students receiving awards for I'M
usual excellence in essay writing and
classical languages were Myra Fix, first
prize in chemical essay contest; Keith
Covert, honorable mention in chemical
essay contest: Helen Arons. medal for
excellence in Virgil; Villette Sullivan,
medal for excellence in Virgil, and Lii
liam Hemsley, Colonial Daughters es-
say medal.
Records for Scholarships.
The best scholarship records during
the four years we're achieved by Villette
Sullivan. Helen Arons. Anne Woodbury.,
Billy Dix and Dorothy Moomaw.
Miss Nancy Stark was the class prod
Icy, graduating at the age of Is. Eleven
other graduates were under 16 years
of age.
College and university scholarship
awards were received by the following
graduates: Thomas Naughton, Harvard
Club; Darrell Smith, Pennsylvania;
Eunice Jameson, Smith College; Jeanne
Spencer, Wellesley College; Billy Car
penter and Henrietta Goodner, Ameri-
can University; Helen Arons. George
Washington University; Robert Lama
sure, University of Virginia: John
Battle, Washington and Lee; Margaret
Murray, Benjamin Franklin College;
Annette Lidoff, Columbia Business Col
lege. and Mildred Sullivan, Strayer's
Business College.
Students awarded honorary WIS, with
the Office under which the award was
attained. follow:
Ivan Alfaro, as business manager of
Westerner; Helen Arons, in scholar
ship; Robert Beck, in stagecraft; Ell
bridge Church, eS captain of winning
company; Charles Clark, in stagecraft:
Billy Dix, in scholarship; Jessie Eaton,
in dramatics: Dorothy Ebersole as
utility worker on Breeze; Richard
Fletcher, as enthusiastic captain of
band; Melvin Fox, in dramatics, as
actor and director; Mary Griffith, in
musical productions; Edmund Gullion,
as winner of National Oratorical Con-
test; Martha Hickam, in stagecraft;
George Holman, in school orchestra;
Vernon Hodges, in dramatics; Janice
Holland, as art editor and special
writer on Breeze; Eunice Jameson, as
editor and in school citizenship: Rich
ard KreuZburg, in dramatics; Dorothy
Lauder, in original work as associate
editor; Frederick Lorenz. in stagecraft;
Leah Macarthur, in school orchestra:
Dorothy Moomaw, in scholarship:
DanariS Peck, in Skillful work on
Breeze; Ella Pharoah, as headline writer
on Breeze; Virginia Robey, in musical
productions; Darrell Smith, as editor of
Breeze; Marion Stanley, in stagecraft;
Villette Sullivan, in scholarship: Joseph
Thomas, in musical productions; Vir-
GINA Voeth, In dramatics; Mary WHEEL
chel, in dramatics; Myrta williams, as
associate editor; Lawrence Wilson, in
stagecraft, and Anne woodbury., in
scholarship.
Those Given Diplomas.
Diplomas were awarded to the fol-
lowing graduates:
Madeline Jeanette Adams, Helen
Rose Arons, Janet Constance Baker,
Nellie Frances Barnes, Eunice Barzyn-
ski, Erna Mae Behrend, Dorothy Ruth
Bell. Clara Viola Benedict, Judith
Vance Birge, Mary Grace Bogusch, Ma
RE jeanette Bonbrest, Nancy Frazier
Booth, Margaret Ravenscroft Bowman,
Mary Ruth Britt, Faith Cooper Bugbee,
Mildred BrTsley, Ethel Christine Butt,
Madge Carter, Alice Marion Cobb, Har-
riet Rebekah Coldiron, Isabelle Meade
Collins, Louise Marie Conrad, Ona
Carey Cooper, Dorothy Louise Corbett.
Mary Edith Cosdon, Doris Elizabeth
Cover, Catherine Harrington Crane,
Rose Cubbison, Lillian Louise Enid Dan
forth, Emma Louise Danielson, Nancy