Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-30

The silver medal for catechism was
awarded to Maggie Kennedy IN hrs'
junior class.
The silver medal for department in first
Junior class was voted to Miss Kennedy
The gold medal for Christian doctrine
in senior classes, donated by very ReV
E., Cafferty. and contested for by CARA
Grady, Agnes Black, Lizzie Moriarty
Katie Grady and Mary Ray, was won by
Katie Grady.
The gold medal for mathematics IN
senior classes, donated by Very Rev. T.
| CafFerty. and drawn for by Misses lyman.
Carson, Kennedy, Roy, Houlihan, Black
c. Grady, NJ. Bradley, and j. Bragdoni
was won by Miss Agnes Black.
The gold medal for lady-lik2 department
donated by Right Rev. W. H. Gross, was
voted to Miss Mary Bradley.
Misses Jeanette King and Carrie Mil
Ter are deserving of honorable mention,
but owing to late entrance, were not
eligible for the medal.
Prizes for instrumental music were
awarded to Misses Smart, V. Connolly,
E. LAWN, A. Black, n. Mcmahon and
Mary Houlihan.
Prizes in vocal music were awarded to
Misses Theus and Ray.
Gold medals for instrumental music
were awarded to Misses Carson and
Clure and Ward. Gold medal for i'm
provement in vocal music awarded to
Miss lyman.
Academic honors, diploma, gold medal
and laurel crown were conferred on
Misses Marie lyman, Alice Kennedy, Liz
zie E. Carson, Melina Roy and Mary K.
Houlihan.
THE VALEDICTORY.
The yaledictory by Miss Marie lyman
was happily conceived and most admlra-
bly, expressed. The address was very
gracefully read, showing careful thought
in its production, and was credit to
its author. The farewell to the scho oil
with its happy pleasures, touched ten
der chord in every hearth
DEAR GRADUATES: From our school land
scape with its varying light and shadow have
faded the days and months since, on you as
First Seniors" devolved the farewell and
''God speed to the class of 81.
Two years. and the acme is reached. Your
class motto, Excelsior" terminates in "Finis
Coronat Opus"
Long months you have spent in search OF
science and guided you have been by the soft
light of our beautiful faith and tonight in
very deed ''The End doth Crown the Work. =
From the school room at st. N1ncents
another band steps forth, radiant with the
hope of the great things in the future-a band
of happy girls for whom "the lessons of school
are all ended and the lessons of life begun.
In the past you have done well, in the future
do still better Ready heart and willing brain
are needed ere you attempt coming that other
and longer lesson, learned only from the book
of experience,
The volume lies open before you-'tis yours
to mar its tne snowy pfges %beR Reep
As the class of 'S3 you have
much to be proud Of-small in number, great
in deed, You first won, afterwards mann
tanned, an envable reputation for amiable de-
pertinent, combined with rare studious-
ness, and, too. among schoolmates you were
ever recognized as the unfailing defenders of
one another against the playful attacks OF
This evening st. Vincent's has given you the
most cherished gift in her pOssession-the
right of claiming her as your Alma Mater.
lis a sacred trust; guard it well, and SO
shape your future careers as to be brilliant
ornaments in the crown of our old instltu-
ton. Ere the final farewell is spoken permit
us, destined to be your successors, to con-
graduate you on the great dear acmeVed,
and in parting pray:
''Soft be the sky of your pleasant hours,
And calm be the seas you goam.
May the way you travel be lighted by Faith
Till it guide you safely home.
And when we whose hearts are overlooking
thus,
Ourselves may be doomed to stray,
May some kind orisOn rise for us
When we shall be far away"
The address was received with applause,
and its fair author was the recipient of
many beautiful bouquets Of flowers.
THE RESPONSE.
Miss Nora Mcmahon of the school re-
sDonded to the valedictory in a very pleas
ing and happy style. Her response was
as follows:
Twelve long monthsl How time glides BY!
Months checkered with the JOYS and SORROWS,
the gains and losses of a school girls career.
June, 1882, saw group of merry girls looking
askance at one year more of diligent study
and steady application to school duties.
June, 1883, bears witness that the long COW
eted moment is at hand, speaking elOquently
of release from book toll and freedom from
the school rooms thrall. Are we glad or are
we sorry? Perhaps, did We analyze carefully
the feelings which influence us this evening,
we would find that in each heart there is joy
contending with sorrow for the supremacy
Still, we speak truly IN saying, tbs SO hard TO
realize that for the last time We stand to-
gether happy school girls, for the last time
play our part in school commencements.
From the future, yelled tho it be, We
have all things to hope for and nothing to
fear, yet even, now on our festive
night heart and fancy carry us back
to other days aud bring visions of faces come
and gone, of fieeting joys and sorrows.
Some of the flowers are dead that strewed the
way;
But others are blossoming sweetly to-day.
Turn we then to the spot where were spent
our earliest and happiest DAYS and of that
take first farewell-the deer oIa convent,
which has so long boon witness to our triumphs
and failures and shared in our successes and
disappOintments. From the cross crownd
mound in the garden to the pleasant study
hall every step is sacred with early assocla-
lions.
= Other years win come bringing with them
strange faces, other lips pronounce WELCOME"
and 'sValedictoryN to commencement eXer
cises, others too represent in our stead the
cherished Alma Mater, but none love her
hoI hnVd do fban no a. of
iS3.
A tender adieu to the cross crowned institu-
tion which has so long and ably SHIELD its own"
against the novelties of younger and mayhap
fairer rivals.
In coming years, when we too shall be
among the Far Away" memories of Tonight
will awaken in the sweet visitings of quiet
thought, and We'll add our hearts music to
swell the notes of joy caroled by the future
pupils of st. Nincent's,
More painful, still, the farewell to loved
teachers-cherished guides and councillors as
they have ever beep-teachers whose smiles
for ten bright years have lightened the weari-
est task and dispelled the clouds which w0nld
sometimes dafken even our horizon. Teach
ers whose words of reproof were never want
ing when needed, nor sweet spoken approval
when earned. Classmates, dear. in the new
life which tO-mOrrow's dawn ushers IN, may
we never meet with friends less true than
those whose names and memories will ever
live enshrned in the loving hearts of their
grateful pupils.
Our sisters of the Senior grade will remem-
Der that in one short year school days for
many of them will be ended. All unheeding,
moments slip by, and tits only when beyond
recall do we recognize that each was tiny
gem in the crown of our eternity.
Every Wednesday of the past year witness
ed our reunion, and together we were willing
and attentive listeners to the salutary cOun-
sells of our beloved director, Father Cafferty,
What he has been to us we well know-the
dear father to the little ones; the unfailing
fri IN n Olnpr n
our goodbye to him dwells our farewell to
him:
some word ere yet the evening ends,
Let's close it with parting lay.
On life's wide scenes you too have parts
That fate ere long shall bid you play;
And if in time of sacred youth
We've learned at school to love and pray,
Pray heaven that early love and truth
Shall never wholly pass away"
Classmates dear, well has it been impressed
upon us that with graduation our education
is not completed. Life is but a training school
for the glorious hereafter, and it holds in store
more difficult lessons than those cOnned and
solved at st. Nincents.
From tonight paths dlYerge, God above
knows who in the fqture misses or who wins;
we must go, lose or conquer as we can. Yet
shall we not always love to recall the time
when many were the ties that bound us
when together we shared each others joy and
sorrow.
s'We met in hope and part in tears,
Yet, 0, tits sadly sweet to know
That life, with ali its future years,
No sweeter memory can best0w."
From your hands, Rt. Rev. Bishop, we are
proud to receive the highest hOnors our
academy can bestOw. On her behalf you
crowned us with laurel crown; in her name
YOU decorated us with ribbon and medal; as
her head you presented us with diploma.
Permit us, then, to respond by wishing you
many years of happiness in your EpiscOpate,
and when time shall be no more the crown
ofiIamortality adorned with the priceless Jewel