1897 Spencerian Business College Graduates
Commencement Program:
Presentation of the Class of 1897: Mrs. Sara A. SpencerInvocation: Rev. Samuel H. Green.
Address Before the Graduates: Honorable Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury.
Gentlemen�s Valedictory: Linwood Burton Nicholson
Ladies� Valedictory Address: Miss Edith Emily Hyde (reading for Miss Edith Graham Granville).
Salutatory Address: Roscoe J. C. Dorsey of the Night Class.
Soloist: Mrs. Helen Lamont singing Luckstone�s �Delight.�
Presentation of Diplomas: Secretary Gage.
Graduates of the Day Class:Catherine Ward CarrCatherine Radcliffe Frisby May Florence Garnett Edith Graham Granville, Valedictorian Edith Emily Hyde, Reader Ella Mary O�Donoghue Amanda Lee Thompson Jennie Marion Thompson James F. Lyle Barnes Edgar J. Wallace Clarkson Charles Isaac Crossman Henry Everett Demarest Walter Charles English Joseph Capner Fish Henry Hoskinson John Lawrence Hyde Lloyd James Jones Sydney Charles Kaufman Theodore Albert Mayer Benjamin Macher Meeks Linwood Burton Nicholson Joseph Edward Sorrell Henry Alonzo Storm Albert Hopkins Wells Louis William Weaver |
Graduates of the Night Class:Edward Beamer CranfordRoscoe J. C. Dorsey William A. Faloon Newton Marshall Minnix Paca Oberlin Clarence Joseph Walter Marion Ernest Whitehead Louis Alexander Davis Graduates of the Shorthand and Typewriting Class:Elizabeth Bradley BondEstelle Belle Grady Jennie Matilda Harvey Edith Emily Hyde Eleanor Elizabeth Meyer Jane Henderson Millar (Miller?) Ida Lee Parry Caroline Amelia Rosenbusch Louise A. Rosenbusch William Clinton Harrison Charles Sylvanus Lambdin Theodore Albert Mayer Leon Herman Strauss Frank John Sobotka Howard Allen Townshend Clarence Joseph Walter Eugene E. Willard |
The list of graduates was taken from the May 5, 1897, edition of the Washington Post, Washington, DC, page 9.