Evening star., 1931-06-18
|331 GET DIPLOMAS
|. At WESTERN HIGH
Nineteen Members Of Gradu.
ating Class Elected to
Honorary Society.

Western High School graduated 33l
students at its June commencement late
yesterday when 10 members OF the
class were announced as members Of the
Phi Beta Rho, national high school
honor society.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, vice presi-
dent Of the Board of Education, pre-
sided over the exercises. which were
opened with the invocation by Comdr.
@. A. Neyman. Chaplain Corps. u. 8.
NJ; Meta Dean Scantlin delivered the
valedictory. while Helen Margaret
Waters presented the Salutatory.
DIR. Newton Names Winners.
DR.. Elmer 8. Newton, principal. as
sisted by Miss p. e. Thomson, assistant
principal announced the winners OF
prizes and scholarships.
The graduates who have been elected
10 the Phi Beta Rho Society were
Evelyn Ault, Helen Bittiuger, Mariette
Booth, Marion Erwin, Marie Harrington,
Frederic LAise. Raymond Lewis. Martha
Louise Little, Katherine MccAndless,
Meta Seantlin, Cherte Seaman, Agnes
Ernest Stout. Joseph Summers. Helen
Waters, william Weitze and Helen
Wolcott.
Honorary "W's' were presented rs
follows:
Allan Barnard, as business manager Of
Westerner, school paper; Helen Bit
finger, in excellent citizenship and edi-
torial work; Helen Bittinger, in scholar
ship; Nadine Brownf1eld, in dramaties;
Gertrude Bunch, IN dramatics: John
Busick, as sports editor Of the Breeze;
Thomas Canham, In stagecraft; Warren
Clardy, In stagecraft; Charles Cook. as
member of business stan Of Westerner;
Murray Drysdale, as District junior
chess champion: Helen Dugan. a. en-
cient business aid; Merrill Fullerton, in
stagecraft; Charlotte Garland, as faith
full library assistant; Florence Grady, IN
outstanding citizenship; Marjorie Grim
stead, in music; Mary Haley, in unseh-
ish service; Thomas Hayes, in winning
Western favorable publicity; Louis HeiSs,
in stageeraft; Katherine McCandless.
in unselflsh service; Edwin McClintock,
as editor and public speaker; Joseph
Mattare, in exemplary school citizenship
and colonel Of winning regiment; James
Moore. as winner of District oratortcal
contest; Frances Mueller, as faithful
library assistant; Anne Reed, In un.
selfish service; william Rodier, in dra-
nlatics and music; Meta Scantlin, in
scholarship and Latin editorship: Mar
garet Schreiber, as efficient business
dAQ, Fnku11A ECnuA5s III Auuo1Nt A8ACo
Shapter, in scholarship; Dorothy Sktrm,
in winning western favorable publicity;
Alice Snyder, as circulation manager
Of Westerner; Helen SpaSoff, in Schol-
arship; Catherine Street. a. an accom-
pliShed editor Of the Westerner; Jo-
Seph Summers, in athletics, dranaticS
and scholarship; Betty Rose sutton. In
dramatics; Charlotte Thoenen, in many
useful ways; Paul Ward, In dramaties
and music; Helen Waters, in scholar
ship; Luther Winstead, IN Stagecraft;
Helen Woleott, as associate editor Of
the Breeze; Dorothy Wyvell, in un-
selfish service; Blanche e. Lewis. as
efficient coach in debate and oratory,
and Alice L. Wood, in notable work IN
instruction and in writing.
Graduates Cited.
In making his announcements DR..
Newton pointed out that SO of the grad
yates completed the four-year course in
three and a half years and three COM
pleted it in three years. These latter
were Kathryn Allen, Albert Crowelf and
Frances Dorr. The youngest graduate
was Agnes Shapter, who was just IA
years, 6 months and IS days old when
she was handed her diploma
tions of higher learning were announced
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Barber, American University; Robert
Foley, Georgetown University Helen
Waters, George Washington University;
Edwin McClintock, University Of Vtr-
ginia; Robert Lane, washington and
Lee University; Francis Goodrich, VIII
liam and Mary College; Katherine Nc
Candless, Strayer College; Ernest Stout,
New York University; Evelyn Ault,
Oberlin College; Joseph Summers, Syra-
cuse University, and Edmund Gullion,
Harvard.
The following also graduated under
16 years of age: Stanley Crane. Jane
Hughes, William Maxwell, James Moore,
Elizabeth OMalley, Virginia Pope, John
Lathouder, Constance Russell, Alvord
Rutherford, Katherine Smith, Phyllis
Solyom, Adele Sparhawk, Mary Agnes
Young and Maury Young.
List Of Graduates.
DR.. Newton, assisted by Norman J.
Nelson, assistant principal, and Miss
Mary E. Bass Of the faculty, presented
diplomas to the following: Kathryn
Paris Allen, Theodosia Culver Armes,
Theodore Theresa Asehenbach, Evelyn
Geraldine Ault, Jessie Campbell Barton,
Reba Elaine Barton, Frances Louise
Beanes, Dorothy Lloyd Bender,
Virginia Denny Birgfeld, Helen Mof-
fett Bittinger, Marietta Elizabeth
Booth, Caroline Bosworth, Martha Car