Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-17
M'K|NLEY HIGH
GIVES CLASS PLAY
2eo Graduates Replace Ora
r, tory by Pageant at
! Commencement.

Drama replaced oratory in Mckinley
High Schools graduation last night OF
299 students who have completed It's
four-year course when members OF the
graduating class presented q pageant
1.-THE Gateway" in lieu Of the tradi-
tional commencement address.
The exercises were concluded witch
the awarding of the diplomas by Frank
C. Daniel. principal, and the presenta-
ton of the pageant Immediately pre-
ceded that function.
The pageant depicted the Spirit of
the School leading the graduate to the
gateway of 1.-The city on the hill' which
men call "life." There School sum-
moned Health. Understanding. Accu-
racy, Observation, Appreciation and
Expression, who were Graduates COM
then came forth from the city to re-
veal to the Graduate, the five pursuits,
labor agriculture, commerce, profess
sions and homemaking. Finally, Char
acter, accompanied by Courage, Loyalty,
Truth, Purity, Faith. Aspiration and
Love, came from the CITY, All the
characters finally returned to the city
except Graduate. who tarried for a
moment to bid farewell to the Spirit Of
formed and was revealed as a kindly
mother. Then. as Alma Mater retraces
her steps over the pathway she had led
Graduate, Graduate. in company with
her classmates. passes through the
gateway and into the city.
Cast of Characters.
Harry Sembekos recited the prologue,
while the characters were portrayed by
Mary Stallings. Mary Alice Worthen,
Frank Daniel, Thelma Nelson, Eugene
Castle, Bernard Vinson, Gordon Rob
ertson, Warwick Spates, Amy Veerhof,
Mary Talman. Richard Stringfellow,
Rowland Kinks, Jack Meany, Martha
Baker, Florence Brill, Maurice Jarvis,
George Magdeburger, Anna Pence,
Virginia Klein, Charlotte Allnuti
Frances Fellows, Lois Weadon, Eliza
beth Scroggs, Gwynette Willis, Mar
garet Felter. Martha Furr and Mar
garet Otto.
william johnson delivered the salu-
tatory and Evelyn Brumbaugh deliv-
cred the valedictory. The Tech Sym
phony Orchestra, under Dore Walton,
provided the music for the exercises.
Miss Jessie Coope. vice principal, an
nounced the following scholarship win
ners and the institutions to which each
has won entry: William Dodge, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; Oliver McDar-
man, George Washington University;
Gordon SleVerS ana FRANCES FellOWS,
American University; Harry Sembekos,
Georgetown University; Ralph Will
liams, University of Virginia; Joseph
S. Bendheim, William and Mary Col
lege; Helen Stetson, Strayer College;
Eugene Castle, Benjamin Franklin
University; Florence Brill, Washington
College of Law, and Ruth Janice Tai
bert. Columbia Business School.
Honor Graduate List.
McKinley's honor graduates were, in
the order Of their attainments: Evelyn
Rose Brumbaugh. William Austin john
son, Harry Sembekos, Helen KiInball
Stetson, Laura Marion De Merritt,
Ernestine Marie Loef1er, Oliver Newan
McDarman, Anna Frances Pence,
Samuel w. Lamb, Ruth Janice Talbert,
Doris P. Felter, Beryl Virginia Weeks
Mary L. Stallings, Dorothy E. Tolson
Paul Frank Lavezzo. H. Stewart Klund
Gordon Keefer Sievers, Frances A. Fell
lows, Paul Lowell Beach. Frank E. Glib
son, Constantine z. Lozupone and
Thomas Parker Corwin.
Other awards included the American
Chemical Society prize for an essay to
Charles M. Matthews, and the COM
petive scholarship to the Curtis Insti-
tute of Music at Philadelphia to Eleanor
Blum.
H Dale Davis, vice principal, pre-
Sented the class to Mr.. Daniel and the
principal himself conferred the diplomas