Evening star., 1932-06-23
WESTERN PRESENTS
DIPLOMAS TO 324
W. Edwin Priest, Retiring as
Teacher, Made Honorary
Member of Class.

Western High School late yesterday
graduated 324 students who had COM
pleted its four-year course. Only the
salutatory Of John Bahmer Hickam and
the valedictory of Louise McKirdy,
honor graduates, provided oratory for
the exercises, which were presided over,
by Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice
president of the Board of Education.
The program marked a salute to w.
Edwin Priest, teacher of history, who
retired yesterday after 43 years of serv-
Ice in the District. public schools. Ad-.
dressing Mr.. Priest himself, John Keith,
president of the graduating class, con-
graduated the instructor on behalf OF
the class, asserting that the retirement
means for Mr.. Priest 'the ending OF
specified term of service here and the
beginning of an undetermined program
elsewhere" 1t promptly was moved.
seconded and unanimously voted that
the retiring educator be made an hon
ornary member of the class OF 1882.
Louise McKirdy Leads Class.
Louise McKirdy was named honor
graduate, with the highest rating OF
any member of the class. Other honor
graduates were announced by DR.. Elmer
S. Newton. principal. as follows, in the
order of their scholarship attainments:
John Hickam. Mary Jane Upson Ches-
ter Morill, Catherine Bour. Richard
Creyke. Kathryn Terhune, Raymond
Lewis, Nancy Brehm and lone Casio.
The graduates who completed the
course in three years were named as
Lewis Brereton, Gladys Ewing. Hertzel
Goodman, John Hickam. Elsie Johnson.
ConGe Raquet and Sophie Stuart Be
ciees these. 81 members of the class
completed their work in three and a
half years, and seven of the graduates
were under 16 years of age.
DR.. Newton also announced the win
ners of scholarships to institutions of
higher learning They follow: Richard
Creyke, to George Washington Univer-
sity: Chester Morrill, and Olive Odom,
to American University: Robert Bur-
bank, to the University of Virginia;
Eleanor Davidson, to William and Mary
College; Robert Stewart, to Columbia
Technical Schools: Raymond Lewis, to
Benjamin Franklin University and
Pauline Davis, to Strayer's Business
College.
Orchestra Plays.
Music by the Western High School
Orchestra completed the program.
Diplomas were awarded to the fol-
lowing:
Helen AINeCk, Julld Berger Allen,
Ruby Cornelia Arentz Helen Lenoir
Armstrong, Dorothy Gertrude Austin.
Arman Bakshian, Margaret Hallette
Baldwin, Elsie Louise Barber, Eva Gu
nilla Christina Beck-Friis, Catherine
Louise Bour. Margaret Edmund Brady.
Nancy Louise Brehm, Miriam Aletha
Broas, Regina Brode, Harriet Waddy
Brooke. Jane Brooke, Catherine Brown,
Frances Lucille Brown, Mildred Brown
ing, Dorothy Bailey Campbell Vivian
Marie Campbell, lone Lorraine Casio.
Audrey Chew, Ella Gibson Cooper, Eliz-
abeth Storrs Cotton, Ellen Honfort
Coward, Ellen Lee Craighill, Frances
Cramer. Maureen Celestine Crowley,
Marguerite Aimee Currau. Madeline
Rose Daidone, Marjorie Jane Damp
man, Warwick Daniel. jeanne Darby,
Helen Marlowe Davis, Margaret Pauline
Davis, Helen Fredricka Decker, Mar
garet Angela Deeds, Frances Mildred De
Lacy, Margaret Evelyn DeLacy. Marcia
Elizabeth DeMoll, Dorothy Catherine
Donovan. Mildred Ainsley Duckett,
Neidie Francis Ducey, Lenora Ruth
Easterson, Louise Olive Virginia Esty.
Gladys Nelson Ewing, Jean Ward Fair
child, Dale Fisher, E3elen Margaret
Fogarty. Ellen Mckee Franklin, Mar