Brooklyn Standard Union
12 June 1918 
Commencement for Adelphi Academy 
 
The Barlow Medal, presented each year the the student attaining the 
highest rank in chorarship during the 4 years of the academic  course, was 
awarded to Helen PERRY McCAFFREY. 
Helen EDSON FRADENBURGH won the medal of the Alliance Francaise for 
the greastest proficiency  in the study of the French language and literature. 

The taking of the oath of loyalty by the graduates was an especially 
timely and patriotic feature of the exercises. Each graduate pledged my 
undivided loyalty to the cause of justice and human liberty. 
'I gladly lay upon the altar of the Nation's need my material possessions, 
my bodily strength and my mental powers. To serve and to save America and 
those ideals for which it stands and to keep the Stars ans Stripes 
floating with honor, I pledge my hand my heart and my life. 

The graduates winning memberships in the Cum Laude Society were:

Gretch Elise BOERUM
Harriet Caroline BROWN
Edwin Charles KOCH
Duryee Wilson LYNES
Helen PERRY McCAFFREY
Sophy STRENGER

The graduates were:

Franklin PARSONS ADAMS
William Henry BLESECKER
Gretchen Elise BOERUM
Harriet Caroline BROWN
Otis Livingston DEMAREST
Mildred Lynn GREENWALD
John Houghton GRIEBEL
Emily Carolyn GROSCH
Viola Cecilia HARTIACH
Elizabeth VIRGINAI HEATH
Marion HENRY
Edith HUBBARD HOLCH
Edna Geraldine ISAACS
Edwin Charles KOCH
Lillian HALE LINEBERGER
Duryee Wilson  LYNES
Eleanor Helen LYON
Rosamond Augusta MARTIN
Helen PERRY McCAFFEY
Frederick TILLINGHAST PAINE
William PECKHAM PASHLEY
John MURRAY REYNOLDS
Emily WHARTON SCHOEFER
John James STEPHENS II
SOPHY STRENGER
Carl William TIDEMAN
Gertrude Marie WAFER
Myrtle WEISGLASS
Margaret CLAIRE WHITE
Grace LOCKWOOD WILSON
Thorndyke DELAND WING
Margaret Alma ZANKER

transcribed by Anna Heller-Campbell
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