Brooklyn Daily Eagle
26 June 1935

591 GIRLS RECEIVE SCHOOL DIPLOMAS AT CATHOLIC HIGH
       Commencement week for the Catholic Diocesan high schools was a short 
and colorful one.  Opening Monday with the graduation of 274 from the diocese's 
three schools for boys, it closed yesterday when 591 girls received their 
diplomas at the joint exercises of the Bishop McDONNELL Memorial High School and 
St. Brendan's Diocesan High School.  
       
       Bishop Thomas F. MOLLOY presided at the joint commencement, held in 
the auditorium of the memorial school, Eastern Parkway and Classon Ave., at 
which City Court Justice Peter M. DALY delivered the commencement address.

       "The amount of knowledge you have acquired," he said, "is of little 
importance.  The important thing is whether you know how to use that which you 
have.  With everything there is a right and a wrong way and today I fear too 
many graduates are using their knowledge in the wrong way.  

                Urges Use of Education

       "Instead of working with all they possess to build our country and our 
government into a stronger, more important factor in international commerce; 
instead of trying to repay in part, at least, the nation that has give them 
life, education and a chance for success -- they try to tear it down.

       "You have your education," he concluded, "you have a lifetime before 
you, devote it to helping your country.  Give all that you have to that country 
and try to make it the better for your being here."

       The following were presented with medals:

       General excellence, 
Mary J. CLARKE
Ann SCHEUTTINGER.

       Health education, 
Clair SOLAN; 

	   History, 
Bernadette CONRAD; 

	   Economics, 
Ruth GIORGIO;
 
	   French, 
Helen McDONALD;  

	   German, 
Marie WENZLER;

	   Commercial subjects, 
Veronica WUENCHELL.

       Science, 
Rosemary DREWS; 

	   Religion, 
Anne MALLON; 

	   Latin, 
Virginia POWER; 

	   Mathematics, 
Mary LEDDY; 

	   English, 
Dorothy DANILEOWITZ.

       Mother Regina Memorial Scholarship to Mount St. Vincent's College for 
Women, won by Helen McDONALD.

       The school scholarship to the Nurses Secretarial School was won by 
Catherine HOGAN.



Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Kate Fitzpatrick.
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