The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-30
T. D7LCzH HER1Ery1 UHgDAY MORfINU, JUNE &C., 1881

REy bfRi- Your con mlilee appointed 10
award by trial contests Tho several medals
offered TO your eloouiion classes, beg leave
To tender you IN connection with this their
report, the congratulations and thanks you
30 certainly have won from tho committee
and the community generally, for tho
care, ilnish, ofliciotcy aud unoxsmpled
success which you havo taught this, the
nobest os arts The general high grade of
merit attained by ALL as well % tho very
brilliant degree Of perfection attained by a
number, speak more than any words of ours
In commondation Of YOU rs a teacher, and
we but add them moi by way of swelling the
chorus Of praise you have won, but by way
OF making some record of II. We regret
more than ever your early departure from
us, md wherever your lot may be cast, you
carry with you the best wishes of our entire
community, and especially the patrons Of the
college.
We award the elocution medals as
follows: Primary class TO Miss Belle Hughes,
(Dr Hughes not sitting in the contest)
Intermediate class to Miss Ssllie Field.
Advanced class TO Miss Annie KEEPER. 1t
was matter of great difficulty TO make these
awards and required the closest grading to
determine the diff, ret CO, and comparison
the young ladies. Among the different com.
petitors we especially commend the follow
ing as only missing the medal by fraction
in the grading:
Primary class, Miss Linda Afford.
Intermediate class, Misses Emmss % penheim
and Anna Aronsohn.
Advanced class, Misses Maria Morgan and
Ella Fendrich.
Rsspgc fully submlLted,
w. L. CRAWFORD,
+. Il. HUGHEs.
GIN. ALDREDGE,
w. G.. STERRETT,
VIM. III. CHILEs,
JOHN f. ELLIOTT,
Committee.
The exercises Of the evening were then
closed, archaeology sung and benediction
by President Mel Iheny pronounced and the
audience departed for their homes all happy
in the pleasant entertainment they had en-
joyed.
President McIlheny announced that be
had severed his connection with the college,
having resigned the presidency and gave
good and sufficient reasons for so doing,
reasons of nature entirely personal to him,
self We take pleasure in stating that Mr..
McIlheny, during the three years he has
Uocu III ShhiSO "a tuo COIItHc. DdS SlNol
entire satisfaction, not only to the patrons of
the college aud the trustees, but
to the po bic generally. both us citizen and
as an educator. The trustees with great
reluctance gave him up, for he had done SO
much TO build up the school, and had so en-
desred himself to the pupils by his justice,
his patient psinstakiDg with them, aud his
stfec ion for them, that they feel ike it was
losing their main,stay. Unanimously and of
their own motion, the trustees and patrons
gave him testimonials Of the highest
order, and commended him not only to
the brethren his church but to tho entire
public es worthy in all respects.
His successor, Rev J. $. Smith, comes to
Dallas with the very best Of recomme Dds,
tons, and Mr.. McIlheny, who knows him
we'll and labored with him some two years in
the same college in Missouri endorses him as
true man q scholar and very fine ,escher
Mr.. Smith is pleasant gentleman and favor,
ably impresses all who meet him, and we
doubt not tbet in his hands the college will
continue 20 flourish and prosper.