Classon ave and Union st

Brooklyn Daily Standard Union
30 January 1926

Has 95 in Graduating Class
Ninety five future business women made up the graduating class of Girls'
Commericial High School, Classon ave and Union st. ..... last night.
Mrs. Evelyn Wight ALLAN, principal presided and awarded the honors, 
Ray ABRAHAMS and Hannah SUKOFF entertained with violin and piano, followed by
several selections by the school orchestra.
Guest of honor, Miss Reba Talbot SWAIN, Deputy Attorney-General of New York
State, addressed the graduates on the topic "The Women's Place in the World
To-day.  She pointed out the changes, both in opportunity and opinion, which
confront the girl of to-day who starts out a career.  "Things have changed
since mother's day." said Miss SWAIN, "and the world is now ready to accept
a girl for what she knows and is willing to give her a chance.  Business and
professtional opportunities present themselves now as ever before and you
will not be hampered by anything but your own selves.  If you have the will,
the way is open."

The Alliance Francaise Medal was awarded to Eva MOSKOWITZ, 
the medal of American Association of Teachers of Spanish to Alfhild BREVIK, 
Alfred E.BOSSOM medal to Lucille BEDELL and the 
BOSSOM certificate to Ray ABRAHAMS;
the St. Gaudens medal for art to Elise JARDINE.
Honors in accounting went to Matilda DINERMAN and Matilda SELDEN, in
American History to Jennie BROWN; 
in economics to Lillian BARON, 
English to Lucille BEDELL, 
in music to Ray ABRAHAMS, 
in physiography to Clara DIAMOND,
in stenography, gold medal to Matilda DINERMAN, 
silver medal to Anna MIRKIN,
and bronze medal to Bessie SHAPIRO, and the 
honorer girl gold medal went to Matilda DINERMAN.

The ceremonies were closed with the singing by the graduates of the
"Farewell Song," the words of which were written by one of the graduates
Helen SAUNDRY.

The graduates:

ALTSCHULER, Lena
ABRAHAMS, Ray
BALKO, Ethel
BARON, Lillian
BEDELL, Lucell
BERGER, Miriam
BLANKSTEIN, Norma
BOYARSKY, Rebecca
BREVIK, Alfhild
BRODY, Ceila
BROWN, Jennie
BRUNI, Lucretia
CARR, Virginia
COHEN, Frances
COHEN, Jane
DAHUT, Ethel
DAVIDOFF, Sylvia
DIAMOND, Clara
DINERMAN, Matilda
DUBINS, Diana E.
EDLIN, Eugenia
EDMUND, Anna J.
EDWARDS, Viola
ELSTEIN, Ida
FALKOWITZ, Rose
FELDMAN, Edna
FELT, Hazel
FEINBERG, Anna
FEINSTEIN, Lillian
FRACE, Ruth
FREED, Bessie
FREEDMAN, Lillian
FUCCI, Emilia
GALGANO, Josephine
GINSON, Gussie
GOLDBERG, Ida
GOLDMAN, Ida
GUTSTEIN, Yetta
HANTMAN, Ida D.
HAUSER, Marie
HERRING, Estelle
HYMOWITZ, Ray
JACOBSON, Sadie
JARDINE, Elsie
JOHNSON, Anna
JOHNSON, Anna Louise
KARAKIN, Lillian
KAUFMAN, Dora
KOSDEN, Nettie
KRAMER, Frances
KRETH, Emma
LAUB, Miriam
LERMAN, Emma
LEVIN, Freda
LEVY, Gertrude
LEVY, Jeannette
LEVY, Lillian
LIFSCHITZ, Ida
LIPSHUTZ, Ray
MANDEL, Caroline
MERBAUM, Rose
MIGDEN, Rebecca
MIRKIN, Anna
MULAIRE, Ruth
MOSKOWITZ, Eva 
NEWMAN, Fay
NEUWIRTH, La Belle
NOVICK, Eva
ROSENBERG, Lillian
RUTTENBERG, Leona
SAUNDRY, Helen
SCHERZER, Anna
SCHIFREN, Rose
SCHLOSSMAN, Ann
SCHWARTZ, Dora
SELDEN, Matilda
SHAPIRO, Bessie
SHEAR, Dorothy
SONTUPE, Dorothy
STEINHAGE, Louise
STOLLER, Fannie
STRASSNER, Minnie
SUKOFF, Hannah
TANENBOUM, Esther
TEMPLE, Amy
TIDOVSKY, Anna
TRAEGER, Sadie
WASSERMAN, Eva
WEINER, Ruth
WEINBERGER, Rose
WISCHER, Susanne
ZUCKER, Marion 
ZUCKERMAN, Rebecca

Transcriber
Mimi Stevens
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