The following was transcribed for the Bklyn Info Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html Brooklyn Standard Union June 11, 1929 Graduations PACKER INSTITUTE CLASS OF FIFTY GETS DIPLOMAS; JAZZ EXTOLLED IN ESSAY    Packer Collegiate Institute officially closed its 1929 session with the awarding of diplomas to fifty members of the senior class in exercises held last night at the chapel of the institute, Joralemon and Clinton streets.    Jazz will not be appreciated by this generation, according to Miss Jeanette L. GEISMAR, reading her essay, “Jazz as an Expression of American Life.” “ Only in time to come will the beauty of jazz be fully known,” Miss GEISMAR continued. “The meaning of the word ‘jazz’ implies brevity, clashing and rhythm. But like modern art it was not accepted at first, but is slowly gaining favor.”    Miss Mary BAILEY read an essay on “Superstition in the Light of To-day.” Miss Virginia STEEL, president of the class, was valedictorian.    The following received diplomas:    Vera ACKERSON, Janet ANDREWS, Margaret BABTISTE, Mary BAILEY, Jean BEATTY, Edna BLATZ, Jean BODKIN, Helen CAYE, Ruth CLARK, Martha COGHILL, Jane CORWIN, Virginia CRISFIELD, Monica CROOKALL, Isabel CURTIS, Joan DAVIS, Grace Parthenia DOMINGE, Elizabeth Maud DUFFY,  Ethel Virginia EHLENBERGER, Marie Elizabeth EITELBACH, Dorothy Willard FISH, Jean Banks FITZGERALD, Jeanette Lillian GEISMAR, Ann Tempany GROFF, Helen Elizabeth HENJES, Florence Muriel JACKSON, Mary A. INGRAHAM, Alice LAY, Isabel LIEBMANN, Grace MEYER, Barbara MILLER, Doris MURPHY, Ruth NICHOL, Doris NORTHRIDGE, Betty PECK, Ellen PENNY, Dorothy POTTS, Evelyn M. POWERS, Marjorie PRYOR, Mabel ROLLINS, Ruth SCHEPMOES, Viola SCHUBART, Elizabeth SEAVER, Marion Louise SHARMAN, Bertha Roslyn SPEER, Beatrice Yardley SPICER, Virginia Beatrice STEEL, Ann STEINBUGLER, Doris THOMPSON, Olga Mildred VREELAND and Carolyn WIDMANN.