Grammar School No. 39 Graduation






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Seventh street, near Sixth avenue

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
22 June 1884

Mayor Low Addresses the Graduating Class of '84.
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       Exercises in honor of the graduating class of 
Grammar School No. 39 was held last evening in the spacious 
Twelfth street Reformed Church, near Fifth avenue...

       Grammar School No. 39, whose young female pupils 
(there were but three boy graduates in the June class) 
received diplomas last evening.  The principal is Miss Harriet M. 
MORRIS, who is at present absent from school duties on account of 
sickness incurred through overtaxed energies in the instruction 
of the sixteen hundred pupils under her charge.  

       On the platform were 
Mr. W. H. HINRICHS, chairman of the School Committee; 
Mayor LOW, 
Mr. Charles E. TEALE, of the Board of Education; 
Rev. U. D. GULICK, pastor of the church; 
Mr. Emerson W. KEYES, of the Department of Public Instruction; 
Mr. Elis BYRNES, of the Department of the Board of Education. 
There were about four hundred pupils present.

The following is a list of the June graduates:
  
Nellie K. COMINGS, 
Irene FARRELL, 
Ida E. HARTSHORN, 
Ida H. GABLE, 
Edna C. SMITH, 
Ada TANNER, 
Flora M. THATFORD, 
Justus S. DIFFENBAUCH, 
William H. GREEN, 
Percy B. PURDY.


Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Kate Fitzpatrick.
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