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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 22 June 1884, Grammar School No. 39 Graduation
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:50:47 EDT
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
22 June 1884
Mayor Low Addresses the Graduating Class of '84.
(excerpts)
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, is situated
on Seventh street, near Sixth avenue. 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; and 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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