Evening star., 1931-06-18
ATHLETICS HELD
VITAL TO STUDENTS
Leo A. Rover Tells Eastern
Graduates Sports Help
in Life.

Athletics were characterized as I'M
bortant to the students life because
they develop a fuller and better un-
derstanding of cooperation, by Leo A.
Rover, United States attorney for the
District of Columbia in an address to
the four-year graduating class of East
ern High School at the commencement
last night.
Properly administered athletics, Mr..
Rover contended, prepare students for
more serious endeavors of life and they
should have the support of parents who
would cooperate with the school per-
sonnel in encouraging boys and girls
to follow the various spoGts during
school days.
J.. Haycock, assistant superintendent OF
schools, who presided over the exercises.
Preceding the main address, William
Andrew Smith delivered the Salutatory.
Charles Hart, principal Of Eastern
High School, announced the winners
of special awards. These included
Janet Walther and Grover Everett. who
were placed on the Michigan Univer-
Sity honor roll; Daniel Radice, winner
of the Civitan Club citizenship award
for good citizenship; Franklin Rich
ards. the business efficiency award;
Katherine Garrett and Leonard Min
koff, the Alumni Association medals
for scholarship and service to the
school; Leah Effenbach and John
Davis, orchestra award for service in
the school musical organization.
Scholarships Announced.
Winners Of scholarships to institu-
lions of higher learning were announced
by Mr.. Hart as John MeadS to George
Washington University; Martin Allwine
and Dorothy Kirsch, American Univer-
Sity; Leonard Minkoff, Georgetown
University; Isaac Janofsky, the Uni
versity of Virginia; William Smith,
Washington and Lee University; Ar
versity; Hugh PAUL, Columbus Uni
versity; Winifred Reeves. Strayer Col
lege; Alberta Scott. Southeastern Uni
verSity, and Abraham Brooks, Wash
1ngton College of Law.
Winners of first honors in the
graduating class were Vida Funkhouser,
Dorothy Kirsch, Winifred Reeves,
Crane. John Meads, Leonard Minkof
and William Smith. Second honor
graduates were named as Josephine
Blakely, Elizabeth Leek, George En-
mart, jr. Isaac Janofsky, Franklin
Richards and Arthur Willis.
Receive Diplomas.
Diplomas were presented to the fol-
lowing: Mae Arkin, Jean Ruth Ash
mum, Sarah Barr, Josephine wilson
Blakely. Ethel Blumberg. Italia Borzella.
Mary Elizabeth Brown, Frances Marie
Callow, Faith Carlson, Pauline Chad
wick, lone Clifton, Ruth Nellie Collins,
Harriet Louise Copenhaver, Hazel Caro-
line De LoZier, Carmel De Marco, Mil
dred Grace Denison, Justina Janet Di
Francesca, Maria Di Francesca, Doro-
thy Whitmore Dodge, Louise Doffer-
myre, Lillian Drake, Charlotte Russell
Rosemary Joan Dunnigan, Elsie Vir-
ginia Edge. Leah Effenbach, jean Ellis,
Madge Julia Everett, Minnie Farber,
Margaret Vance Fisher Mary Anne
Flanagan, Kathleen Fouche, Margaret
Ellsworth Fowler, Elizabeth HaskinS
Frame, Virginia Frances Franklin, Mar
jorie Marie Frazier, Shirley Friedman,
Elizabeth Wright Fritz. Marjorie Van
Aernam Fuller. Vida Pauline Funk
Ruth Cant. Kathryn Wilson Garrett,
Esther Edith Gerber. Bertha Gilbert,
Mae Cecilia Glotzback, Bella Edythe
Gluck, Grace Catherine Griffith, Emily
Thour Harris, Virginia Trewolla Har-
vey, Helen Gabriel Hebrew, Ruth Lii
liam Heintz, Annie Augusta Hickingbot-
tom. Virginia Elizabeth Hoffman,,
GledIlOE GllIdOeCn 1ulIdy, rose Gileu
Jarvis, Helen Catherine johnson, Mar
jorie Adair johnson, Anna Maude
Jones, Catherine Ann Kaufman, Wylma
Rose Kellar, Sylvia Doris Kessler, Ethel
Lorraine King, Dorothy Kirsch, Cath
'erine Ida Koch, Lillian Gladys Kramer,
May Augusta Lacey, Princess Goldie
Lamp Elizabeth Niberte Leek, Mildred
Elizabeth Leiper, Mary Regina Mad
den, Edith Merriam Martin, Margaret
Grono Mofhiacoyo NForu A1ino Nov
Elizabeth Lorena McGill, Frances Jean
McGogney, Loretta Anna McQueeney,
Leona Cary Miller. Mary Jane Mulford,
Mamie Loreen Murphy. Gladys Ruth
Naecker, Frances Elizabeth Nagel,
Sylvia Bertha Nelson, Enid Lynette
Noland, Helen Catherine Oehmann,
Agnes Jean Otterback, Lillian Ger
trude Padgett, Hester Suzanne Par
fridge, Dorothy Jean Payne. Anna May
aryn Reed. Sophia Louise Reeves. Wini-
fred Marjorie Reeves, Marie Susanna
Refer, Ruth Emma Richards, Elizabeth
MARY Riordan, Marjorie Anne Robi-
nette, Helen Saks, Frances Anita
Schrott, Yolande Del Rio Scocca, AL
berta Katie Scott, Margaret Eleanor
Shearer, Frances Margaret Sherrer,
Mary Libby Spector, Nola Elizabeth
Stone, Helen Christina Sunday. Carrie
Eunice Roberta Walters, Janet Eliza
beth Walther, Malvern Virginia War
ner, Cora Alice Wayland, Ruby Lee
Whitley, Marguerite Bessie Whitmire,
Eleanore Wiley Wilson, Sarah
Wostein, Miriam Ann Zeltzer,
Martin Aiken Allwine, Edward Rich
ard Atkins, Hugh Francis Barteman,
Henry Chase Bauer, Lloyd Miller Bau-
man, Walter Raymon Bean, Willard