CENTRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL 

Central Grammar School Graduation Held at the First Baptist Church,
Pierrepont & Clinton Sts., Brooklyn, NY

29 June 1883
Source: Brooklyn Eagle

The graduating exercises of the Central Grammar School was held last evening. 

Graduates Rosa ROEHR and Effie OPP performed an entree on the piano.

Mr. A. Lincoln BURNS gave the Salutatory.

Nellie MCDONALD, 
Lillie M. DUGARD, 
May L. LOGUE,
Hattie T. SWEENEY, 
Mamie W. STRONG, 
Bertha M. SCHELKER, 
Clara L. WALKER, 
Althea H. ZOBLE and other young ladies sang a semi-chorus of "Sweet Visions".

"A Midsummer Idyll," written by Miss Hattie PARENT, was delivered by Miss Lucie A. QUINN.

A three part song was sung, 
Carrie L. TYLER, 
Bettie S. DEMAREST and 
Bertha M. WHEELER singing the solos.

Frank W. HILL spoke a poem by himself on the "The Survival of the Fittest."

Charles F. CARTY delivered the Class History.

Miss Mary T. BEEBE delivered the valedictory, entitled "We Cross the Bridge."

DIPLOMAS
Hon. Eugene D. BERRI presented diplomas to the graduates as follows:

Regular Course--
ABRAMS, Minnie A.
ABRAMS, Minnie F.
ADAMS, Gertie
ALLEN, May F.
BAIRDAIN, Hattie
BEEBE, Mary T.
BLACK, Luian
BREWSTER, Annie P.
BROWN, Annie L.
BROWN, Mary A.
CAMPBELL, HARRIET C.
DAWES, Martha M.
DECKER, Marion S.
DEMEREST, Betty S.
DRAPER, Julia E.
DUGARD, Lillie M.
ENEAS, Josie
FIELDING, Fanny
GAMGEE, Florence
GOODMAN, Cora B.
GRAHAM, Christina M.
HURST, Nellie E.
JOHNSON, Jennie T.
KEENAN, Clara M.
KERBY, Hattie A.
LAHENS, Isabel S.
LANDSWERSICK, Mary C.
LAYTON, Eliza A.
LINDSLEY, Jennie 
LOGAE, May L.
MACDONALD, Nellie L.
MARSDEN, Sarah M.
MILLER, Beatrice L.
MONK, Carrie L.
MOORE, Martha J.
MORRIS, Julia
OAKES, Fannie
OPP, Effie R.
OPP, Katie E.
PARENT, Hattie D.
QUIN, Lucie A.
RICHARDS, Jennie
ROEHR, Rosa
RUEGER, Emily
SAYRE, Ida L.
SCHELKER, Bertha M.
SINCLAIR, Marion M.
SMITH, Katie
SMITH, Maggie H.
STEELE, Viola M.
STRONG, Mamie W.
STRYPE, Mary E.
SWEENEY, Hattie M.
TRIVETT, Nita S.
TYLER, Carrie L.
VAN BENTHUYSEN, Margaret B.
WALKER, Clara J.
WALTERS, Mary E.
WHEELER, Bertha M.
WILLIAMS, S. Lillian
ZOBLE, Alethra H.
BURNS, A. Lincoln
CARTY, Charles P.
DOANE, Sidney A.
FOSTER, Wolcott C.
HALL, Burton P.
HILL, Frank W.
SCHAUF Jr., Adam

Commercial Course--
BEEKMAN, Gerard T.
BROWN, Richard D.
BURGER, Louis G.
CLARKE, Walter E.
DAVIS, Irving S.
DU BOIS, Harry
HOWLAND, Egbert
JOYCE, John P. 
MARKS, Aaron
SCHLUER, Charles A.
SOCHMAN, Maurice S.
SMITH, Frank M.
SPARROW, Thomas A.
VAN DOORN, George
VOFREI, Theodore M.

Graduates in Music--
ABRAMS, Minnie A.
ABRAMS, Minnie F.
ALLEN, May F.
BAIRDAIN, Hattie
BEEBE, Mary T.
BREWSTER, Annie P.
BROWN, Mary A.
CAMPBELL, Harriet C.
DAWES, Martha M.
DECKER, Marion S.
DRAPER, Julia E.
DUGARD, Lillie M.
FIELDING, Fannie
GRAHAM, Christina M.
HART, Nellie E.
JOHNSON, Jennie T.
KEENAN, Clara M.
KERBY, Hattie A.
LAYTON, Eliza A.
LINDSLEY, Jennie
MARSDEN, Sarah M.
MONK, Carrie L.
MOORE, Martha J.
OPP, Effie R.
PARENT, Hattie D.
RICHARDS, Jennie
ROEHR, Rosa
RUEGER, Emily
SAYRE, Ida L.
SCHELKER, Bertha M.
SINCLAIR, Marion M.
SMITH, Katie
SMITH, Maggie H.
STEELE, Viola M.
STRONG, Mamie W.
SWEENEY, Hattie T.
TYLER, Carrie L.
VAN BENTHUYSEN, Margaret B.
WALKER, Clara L.
WALTERS, Mary F.
WHEELER, Bertha M.
WILLIAMS, S. Lillian
ZOBLE, Alethea H.
BURNS, A. Lincoln
SCHAUF Jr., Adam
BEEKMAN, Gerard T.
BROWN, Richard D.
SCHLEUR, Charles A.

In the audience were :
Issac H. FROTHINGHAM, 
Rev. Dr. C.
H. HALL, 
William HARKNESS, 
D.W. TALMADGE, 
Felix CAMPBELL, 
Rev. Dr. FARLEY, 
Hon. J. Hyatt SMITH, 
Colonel MCLEER, 
Professor TAYLOR, 
Hon. W.E. ROBINSON, 
Eugene D. BERRI, 
James H. WARD, 
Henry MARTIN, 
Charles E. TEALE, 
Hayden W. WHEELER, 
Horace E. DRESSER, 
Superintendent PATTERSON, 
Principal Robert F. LEIGHTON,
Principal MERWIN and others.

The chairman of the Central School Committee, Mr. SANGER was not in attendance.

The music was under the direction of A.S. CASWELL, director of music of the 
Brooklyn Public Schools.
Miss Alice JUDGE was the accompanist.


Transcribed by Blanche Craton
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