Evening star., 1933-06-14
|38 ARE GRADUATED
IN GA|THERSBURG
Class Is Largest in History
of High SchooI-AWards
Are Presented.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| opeCiei DAsphtCH u Lie StSr.
| GATTHERSBURG. June IA. - The
largest class in the history of the Gath
ersburg High School was graduated here
| last evening when 38 senior students
were presented diplomas by William H.
McCeney, member Of the County Board
of Education, at the annual commence
ment exercises held in the school audi
torium here with a capacity audience In
attendance.
Featuring this interesting program ar
ranged under the direction of Miss Re-
becca Fields of the high school faculty
was the invocation by Rev. j. E. James,
pastor of the Epworth Methodist Epis
copal Church. which was followed by
a musical chorus by the Senior Girls
IGlee Club and an overture by the Senior
Orchestra
Members Of the graduating class de-
livered essays. The speakers were Ma
rion Lowe, Betty Ward and Norman
Jacobs, jr
Other musical selections consisted of
violin solo by Isadore Wolfson, vocal
solos by Marian Lowe and Julia Ward.
Lowe, Julia Ward. Welbie Shipe. Alice
Thompson, Isadore Wolfson, Jack
Haske, Robert Louis Wells and Arthur
Beall, and song by the senior class.
Special Awards Made.
Special awards were presented by T.
w. Troxell principal, as follows: First
forensic medal, Marian Lowe; second
forensic medal, Norman Jacobs jr:
scholastic medal, Elva Hawkins (junior
class.
The following students received hon.
orable mention for having the next best
reports IN each of the years of high
school: Ninth grade, Mildred Lee Byrne;
tenth grade, Dawn Boyer; eleventh
grade, Elizabeth Du Laney; twelfth
grade, Norman Jacobs, jr.
The following boys received athletic
awards for proficiency in soccer, basket
ball and track: Arthur Beall, jr., Jack
Haske, Fenton Kephart. Harry Ham,
mann and Samuel Gloyd. The follow
ing girls also received letters for pro-
ficiency in athletics: Laura Hershey,
Margaret Musser, Isabella Gritflth and
Virginia Davis.
The athletic cup for the best all
around senior boy athlete. given by Mr..
Harry Bertschy, instructor. was Won by
Jack Haske of Washington Grove.
The, commercial award. donated by
Miss Lillian Moore, instructor, for the
student who has shown the greatest
proficiency in the commercial subjects,
was awarded to Miss Alice Thompson.
Miss Thompson also won scholarship
to a commercial college in Washing
ton, D. G.
Miss Alverda White, senior, won the
honor medal given by Miss Broome
for the student showing the greatest
effort, cooperation and helpfulness.
Others who received honorable mention
were Arthur Beall and Samuel Gloyd.
Citizenship Medal.
The citizenship medal, given by the
Sons OF the American Revolution to the
boy in the senior class proving himself
the most worthy citizen of the school
and who has led a good moral life was
awarded to Arthur Beall. jr., first presi-
dent of the Student Council OF the
Gaithersburg High School.
Norman Jacobs, jr., was awarded the
alumni medal. given for the best all
around student in the senior class.
The Cissell Memorial Medal for loyal
ty to the school was won by Evelyn
Myers Of Gaithersburg.
The Student Council pins Were won
by Evelyn Myers and Norman Jacobs,
jr, with the presentation speech by
Arthur Beall.
The American Legion Medal, donated
by the Barker Briggs Post, No. 104. to
the outstanding boy in the elementary
school. was won by Clayton Watkins,
jr., of Gaithersburg.
The Citizenship Medal in the sixth
grade was awarded to Hazel Glover.
The exercises ended with the bene-
diction by DR.. Frank A. Tyler, pastor
of the Grace NJ E. Church, Gathers
burg.
List Of Graduates.
The graduates We're:
Academic-Arthur Wilcoxon Beall, jr.;
John Petrie Haske, jr.; Norman Bliss
Jacobs, jr.; Robert Louis Wells, Isadore
Wolfson Catherine Louise Boland, Ellen
Greenwell Freeman, Mary Isabella Crit
fifth. Mary Lee Griffth,, Hazel Adelaide
Howard, Gladys Virginia Liskey, Marian
Elizabeth Lowe, Evelyn Myers, Virginia
Lee Thomas, Hilda Rebecca Walker.
Elizabeth Ann Ward. Julia Louisa Ward.
Minnie Gertrude Watkins and Alverda
Griffith White.
Commercial-Bertha Hazel Duvall.
Laura Victoria Hershey and Margaret
Louise Musscr.
VocationaI-Fenton Jerome Kephart
and Virginia West Beall.
General - George Thaddeus Bean,
Harry Weller Hamm2nn, Guy Kenneth
HCwes, Charles Montgomery Schwartz
beck, Christine Violette Connell, Mari
eta Alice Crawford. Virginia Lee Davis.
Helen Lucille Fraley. Helen Louise
Mainhart. Evelyn Cecilia Gloyd, Mary
Annabel Schwartz. Welbie Agatha Shipe,
Alice Virginia Thompson and Dorothy