Evening star., 1941-06-20
Nine Maryland
High Schools
Hold Exercises
Record Size Glasses
Are Graduated
In Some Instances


and four in Prince Georges, hello
commencement exercises last night
in some instances graduating re-
cord size classes.
Montgomery's largest class, num-
bering 277 students, received diplo-
mas at Montgomery Blair High
School exercises in the Silver Spring
Armory. Other Montgomery schools
to graduate were Bethesda Chevy
Chase, Sherwood, Poolesville and
Damascus
In Prince Georges County IS STU
dents we're graduated at the Mount
Rainier High School. 81 at Upper
Marlboro, IA at Bowie and II at
Baden.
At Montgomery Blair brief talks
we're given by Marie Hillyard, vale
dictorian: William LinkinS, Richard
Sabin and Leland Roberts, all Of
whom were student speakers. The
Rev. Walter Gale, rector of Grace
Episcopal Church in Woodside, pro-
nounced the invocation and bene-
diction. The diplomas were pre-
sented by F. K. Metzger of the
Board of Education.
HOnors and Awards Presented.
Honors and awards were pre-
sented by E. Merritt Douglas, prin-
cipal. The citizenship awards pre-
sented by Erasmus Perry Chapter,
D. A. R., went to Audrey Mae Sti-
peck and Chester Harding Ma
gruder, with honorable mention 60
ing to Marion Vivian Dinger and
Donald Charles Fyler.
Donald Fyler also received the
Rensselaer, Alumni Medal for excel
lence in mathematics and science,
with Walter Charles McKenna re-
ceiving honorable mention. Mr.
Fyler tied for salutatorian with
Chester Magruder.
Blair keys went to Miss Dinger
Mr.. Fyler. Frances Moore, Eva Pars-
ley, Richard Phillips and Ruth
Quickel. Marie Hillyard, Marian
Mccain and Calvin Rich were given
special awards for "A" average for
the year.
Scholarships were awarded as fol-
lows: Corcoran Art School, Mar
garet Elizabeth Mess; Strayers
Dorothy Tyrrell; Temple, Mary Jane
Whittlesey with Edythe Beeber, al
ternate; Benjamin Franklin. Nor
man D. Martin with Raymond
Smallmood as alternate: Southeast
ern, Calvin Rich with MI. Small
wood as alternate.
Attendance awards went to
George Earle Moore for a per-
feet record during his entire school
career; Lois Cheney. Edith Babies,
Richard Hackston. Robert Tittsler
and Marion Williams.
Athletes Rewarded.
Bronze pins as commercial awards
were presented to Eleanor Hall, Mil
dred Stewart and Frances Thomp-
son. Doris Lundquist was the out
standing girl athlete and Herbert
Southgate the outstanding boy ath-
lete.
Silver school letters for outstand-
ing work were given to Elwood Cole,
Jr.; Norman D. Martin, George
Moore, Robert Myers. Mary Eliza
beth Smith, Margaret Strahley,
Dorothy Tyrrell, Betty Jane Ward
and Marjorie Louise Weiss.
Graduates of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School last night heard
an address by DR.. Peter Marshall.
pastor of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. Diplomas
were awarded to the 215 graduates
of the class, largest in the history
of the school, by Julius P. Stadler, a
member of the Montgomery County
Board of Education.
Scholarship awards were as fol-
lows: George Washington Uni
versity, Mary V. Ring and John
Waits; alternates, Nancy Troth and
Milton Lachenbruch: Southern Uni
versity, James Callan; Benjamin
Franklin University, James Sullivan:
National Art School, Doris Yeomans;
Butler University. Mary Ann Moi
fett; Chevy Chase Junior College,
Catherine Williams; Lehigh Uni
versity, regional, William Graham,
jr.: American University, Frank
Dorsey, Lydia Stauffer and M. Jane
Winnings; Temple Secretarial School,
Betty Jane Dickinson.
Scholarships Still Open.
1t was announced at last nights
exercises that scholarships are still
open to class graduates at Shenan-
doah College, Washington and Lee
University and National Park Junior
College.
Music by the school orchestra. un-
der the direction of Mr.. Kenneth
Frisbie, school music director; scrip
ture reading by William Benson, a
welcome to the parents by Robert
Lebling, class president, and a short
talk by Principal Thomas w. Pyle,
completed the program.
Thirty-three graduates of the
Sherwood High School heard four
of their classmates speak at last
nights ceremonies. Anne Boiling,
Hamilton Hobbs, James Trundle and
Reeves Graybill, president of the
senior class, were the speakers.
Prize winners were Mr.. Hobbs, the
Elger scholarship award; Germain
Bryan, the Good Citizenship award ;
Mr.. Hobbs, the Rensselaer, Alumni
Medal for mathematics and science;
Elizabeth Nicholson, the Wednes-
day Club improvement Medal Mr..
Hobbs, the Readers Digest award;
Edward Wilson, the st. Johns Young
Mems Club of Olney award, and
william Gates, the School Boy Pa
troll Medal.
DIR. Steinmyer Speaks.
DR.. Reuben Steinmyer, profess
cor OF political science at the Uni
versity of Maryland, made the prin-
cipal address at commencement eX-
ercises of the Poolesville High
School. before IA graduates. G.
Merrick Wilson, principal, made the
following awards:
Robert o. Stone, the Rensselaer,
Medal; Mary Ann Bodner, the Read
er's Digest award, and Secretary
Elizabeth Pearson, the Good Cltl-
zenship Medal of the Sons OF the
American Revolution