Evening star., 1931-06-18
424 FINISH COURSE
AT CENTRAL HIGH
Capacity Audience Attends
Graduation Ceremony
at Auditorium.

At a ceremony attended by capacity
audience of friends and relatives. 424
students were awarded diplomas by
Central High School last night in the
school auditorium. Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle, member of the Board of
Education and wife Of Dean Henry
Grattan Doyle, who Tuesday night de-
livered the commencement address at
Business High School. acted as pre-
siding officer. and introduced the
speaker Of the evening. Rev. Albert Jo-
seph Mccartney.
Following the entrance Of the gradu-
ates. Rev. Walter NJ Michael opened
the exercises with the invocation. Mrs
Doyle then presented Rev. Mccartney
who urged the young graduates to
place permanently in the halls of their
lives the golden shields of service,
chivalry, patriotism and faith" EN-
ploying the parable Of the decline Of
Solomon'S kingdom under the reign Of
his son, and the substitution of brass
shields for the golden ones which had
adorned the walls of the famous tenn
ple of Solomon, the speaker charged his
audience never to be content with life's
second best, to refuse always to accept
the brass instead Of the gold of true
values.
Lie Pictured as Fight.
Rev. Mccartney told the students
that it is their duty and responsibility
as citizens of this Nation to honor
its past, serve its present and dedicate
yourselves to its future" Life is6a
fight to the finish fight with
oneself" the minister added, and
warned his hearers against the tempta-
ton to challenge the valued institutions
OF society. In closing he pleaded With
them to give their best and prophesied
that the best would come back to them.
DR.. Harvey A. Smith. principal of
the school. made the announcement of
scholarships and awards. Those receiv-
ing scholarships were:
The Marion Kinney Brookings
scholarship to Wellesley College-Arria
Grifdth McGinniss.
Olin scholarship to WESLEYAN Uni
Versity-Bernard White.
Kendall scholarship, George Wash
ington University-Armand Gordon.
American University - Margaret
Hedgcock and George Sanderlin.
American University from the State
OF North Dakota-Kirkley Coulter.
College OF William and Mary-Vir-
Rinia Shankland
st. Johns College. Annapolis, Md
William Mason.
Washington College of Law-Naomi
Friedman
Bliss Electrical School = Armistead
Colman.
strayers Business College = Jean
Creech.
Columbia Business School Bessie
Bragoff.
Southeastern University of the Y. M
c. Ada Malickson
Columbus MISUNDERSTANDING Ka-
SOW.
Wins School Prizes.
The A. w. Miller award. cash prize
for school service not otherwise recog-
nlZed. was given to ARIA Griffith Nc
GinniSs.
Bernard White, who won the olin
scholarship to Wesleyan University.
represented his school this wear in
The Star area finals of the National
Oratorical Contest and received a $l0O
cash prize as winner of his division
competition.
Diplomas were presented to the 1881
class by Jere j. Crane, first assistant
superintendent of schools. The honor
graduates OF the class were: First hon
ors-Bessie Bragoff Irene Guy, Arria
McGinniss. Adele Merriam, Perley put
ting and Helen Sherfey. Second hon
ors-karl Achterkirchcn, Elwood Back
enstosS. Alfred Bronough, Eleanor Gran
ford, James Crawford, Joan Creech,
Charlotte Dublin. Clara Erdman, Ar
mond Gordon. Harold Graves, Thomas
HnKel, Ruth Jenkins, Ethel Jost,
Claude Pierce, Frances Pigg, Frances
Pope. George Sanderlin, Dorothy
Schmidt. Cecilia Silver, Charles weber.
Betty Weist and Matilde Voolfolk,
Ihe program closed with the singing
OF the school song, "Tenax Propositi !"
by the graduates and a march by the
school orchestra.
Diploma Recipients.
The complete list Of those receiving
diplomas is:
Karl Howard Achterkirchen, Louis
P1ckney Allen, ir.; Harry Clifton Anes.
Jr: Clarence William Armstrong, John
Clayton Ashton. Manuel Auerbach, Ross
ElWood Beckenstoss, Moulton Hardy
Balch, Ronald Goheen Balthis. Fred
erick Charles Bamman, Isadore Paul
Bauman, David Bonar Bell, Louis Philip
Bell Otto Benesh. Mark Bensinger,
William Lee Berlinsky. Thomas Edward
Berry. James Mark Bickford, Maulsby
Ness Blackman, Albert Chester Blaisdell.
George Blanken, David Noah Blaser,
Walter Harrington Boaze, Joseph Bor-
rows Began. jr.; Charles Robert Boucher,
George Willard Boynton, Herbert
Brainin, Leroy Albert Brill, Thomas
EdIIdI bIEIOl, f1eIry F1cklnRef Broad
bent, Alfred Taylor Bronaugh, Abraham
Brook, Samuel Howard Brooks, Richard
Blaine Browne, Frederick Louis Brueck-
ner. William oscar Buckingham. Her.
bert Won ARK Burkart. Robert Eugene
Burke, Thornton Rollins Burns, ir.:
Thomas Jefferson BuSby, Jack Daniel
Gallon, Alexander Phillips Campbell,
Joseph Carroll, Roscoe James Carte,
Beverly Randolph Carter, William Alex
ander Carter, Charles Ricardo CaSassa,
Noel Oker Castle, Constantine Peter
Chaconas, Charles Bennett Chamberlin,
jr. John Clivious Chewing, jr.; Leon
Thomas Clark, Eugene Fiore Colella,
Ernest Taylor Coleman, Tracy Carlisle
Coleman. S. Armistead Colman, Louis
George Cossette, Kirkley Schley Coulter
James Allan Councillor, jr.; James Reed
Crawford, Chester Burton Cross, Carl
ton Lambert Crymes, william Mansfield
Day. jr.; Brady James Dayton, jr.; Louis
Frederick deLesdernier, Edward DeLisio,
Jack Diener, Arthur Edward Dinger,
Towers Doggett, Lloyd Wilbur Dorsey,
Claire Orlando Ducker. Jack Camp
bell Dufield, James Wilson Duncan,
Thomas Francis Edwards, Frederic
Arnold EidSness, Charles Showalter
Eller, julius Epstein, Julius Ep-
stein, William Kempton Everett, Henry
Allen Fly, Jack Leon Folstein, Charles
Raymond Fowler. Melville James Fraser,
Fcss Lauder Fryer jr.; william Joseph
FURNACE, jr.; Marvin Allen Gardner,