1914 Business High School Graduates (January Class)
Commencement Program:
Presiding Official: John B. Lamar, Board of Education.
Invocation: Rev. John Van Shaick, Jr.
Address Before the Graduates: Secretary of Labor Wilson, speaking on "Ideals."
Presentation of Diplomas: Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, Board of Education.
Music: The High School Orchestra.
The List of January Graduates
Beavers, Lucy May Bender, Alma Amelia Frances Bennit, Elizabeth Woodhull Beuchert, Katherine Beuchert, Nettie Bieber, Mary Philabena Blackford, Dorothy Frances Bruce, Alice Ellen Burdette, Laura Edith Burns, Margaret Alicia Carr, Doris Elizabeth Carroll, Mildred Cleary, Josephine Winifred Cottrell, Grace Elise Cowsill, Arthur Rutherford Delaney, Martha Katherine Dickey, Frederick Morse Dickey, Howard Noble Duvall, Mabel Margaret |
Flynn, Lucy Kathleen Gardner, Marie Joseph Gibson, Helen Gladstone, Harry Goodman, Nathan Leonard Gorman, Minnie Esther Grieb, Elfrieda Marie Grossberg, Katherine Haase, Agnes Catherine Hainsworth, Edith Octavia Hoffman, Ethel Maureen Holbrook, Elmira Valietia King, Raymond Francis Kunkel, Margaretha Hoffman Lazerow, Bessie Lucas, Marie Ellen Malcolm, Kilda DeWolfe Marks, Frank Henry Marks, Mary Magdalen |
Meyer, Ellen Marguerite Nash, Charles Byron Matthews O'Day, Wilbur James Parkhurst, Margaret Gittings Presnell, Theodora Pyles, Blanche Valesca Rector, Mamie Lois Regan, Agnes Mary Sauner, Gertrude May Schutrumpf, John Conrad Simmerman, Edith May Sisson, India Etta Sniffin, Cecil Dulin Thomas, Adele Thompson, Delevan Rodfield Viehman, Philip Joseph Walsh, May Margaret |
The January graduates list of names was taken from the January 31, 1914, edition of the Washington Post, Washington, DC, page 11.
1964 Class Reunion
Classmates Attending Reunion
Marjorie Bartlett Abbott, Silver Spring, MD Adah Louise Bagby, Washington, DC Emily Jefferis Baxter, Arlington, VA David Becker, Washington, DC Lucile Price Blundon, Silver Spring, MD Ralph A. Boernstein, Washington, DC Marion Shannon Carwithen, Washington, DC Ruth Beck Connell, Silver Spring, MD Mary Shea Connor, Washington, DC Nona Mae Cox, Washington, DC Frances Davis De Lawder, Santa Monica, CA Dorothy Davidson Detwiler, Washington, DC Leopold V. Freudberg, Washington, DC |
Minnie Belle Hohn, Washington, DC Edna Carmel Manning, Washington, DC Katherine M. Miller, Centreville, VA Thelma R. Miller, Centreville, VA Clara Warneson Omohundro, Arlington, VA Arthur Lee Perry, Hockessin, Delaware Julia Farr Robertson, Silver Spring, MD Dennis Martin Rogers, Washington, DC Florence Elinor Sharswood, Washington, DC Josephine Ginechesi Stone, Washington, DC Carrie Neeb Toone, Arlington, VA Harry M. Turnburke, Clearwater, FL Charlotte Heine Webster, Washington, DC |
At the request of Harry Turnburke, everyone rose, joined hands while Clara Warneson Omohundro read the names of the eighteen deceased members, and all remained standing for a minute of silent respect to the memory of those members. Their names are shown on the attached list, based upon information obtained to date.
During the course of the excellent luncheon Harry Turnburke spoke briefly, expressing his pleasure at the holding of the Class reunion and the appreciation of all present for the splendid and untiring efforts of Clara Warneson Omohundro and her assistants Minnie Hohn, Charlotte Heine' Webster, Adah Bagby, Thelma and Katherine Miller, and all others whose good help made the affair possible.
Mrs. Omohundro gave a talk describing the decision of a few members to undertake the fiftieth anniversary reunion, and ex-pressed her appreciation of the assistance and co-operation given her by several Class members in handling the project. She reported having received expressions of regrets from Ellen Carmody O'Connell, Helen Linkins Opitz, Ida Zirkin Small, Judith Barbaux Wilson, Loy H. Brodie, Henry Hyland and James L. Martin, all of whom because of illness, travel plans or other personal reasons were unable to attend. She stated that five members have not been located, these being Elva Fitzhugh Beck, Frederick Daniel Connor, Thelma Mills Payne, Besse Ramsey Campbell (Mrs. Eliot Campbell) and Hester Mildred Tancre. Mrs. Omohundro stated that if anyone knows where any of these unlocated members can be reached she would appreciate being furnished the address.
Classmates Deceased as of 1964: In Memoriam
Rcbert Brennan Floyd Houston Crews Walter Edmund Donn George Earl Elliott Agnes Marie Gaskins |
Harry Lewis Harris Clarissa Mullikin Elsie Ellett Offut Theodore Louis Blaine Otte Raymond Leroy Pedlow |
Roger Calvin Power Evelyn Thelma Richman Jesse Bernard Sanford William Ernest Schaaff William Howell Sheehan |
Minnie Rose Tauber Henry Fred Vanderlip Eleanora Marie Warneson |