[Education News]  May 19, 1905  Washington Standard

Only fifteen of the thirty-two applicants for teachers’ certificates were successful at the late examination, owing principally, it is said to the fact ta many of them were quit young and found the questions beyond their range of advancement.  Those who passed the ordeal were:  Faith Chambers, Bessie Comstock, Nellie Gwin, Lena Abernathy, Mrs. W. V. Baker, Neil Shahan, Katherine King, T. D. Young, Esther Packwood, Ralph Whitcomb, and Oren R. Richards.