Evening journal., 1890-06-27
ONE GENT.
ACADEMY or VISITATION.
ANIMAL Commencement Exercises and
Award of Premiums.

Award Of Premiums
The annual exercises and distribution
OF prizes took place at the Academy Of
Visitation yesterday afternoon, before a
large and appreciative audience, comprised
chiefly of the friends and parents OF the
pupils There were also present Vicar
General Lyons who distributed the pre-.
miums, end Father OFT, and Donaghy.
| Senator Donahoe kindly assisted In re-
ceiving the visitors
The hall where the exercises were held.
was tastefullY decorated with flowers and
eyergreens, presenting a CAV and at
| tractive appearance, while the brilliant
manner in which most Of the graduates
acquitted themselves, evoked warm but
suppressed applause The exercises
opened with the "Grand Entrance
March, in which all the pupils Of the
school participated, They wore very at
tractiye costumes, carrying handsome
boquets, and formed most pleasing
picture, as they marched to the music Of
the piano, played by Miss Loretta
Bottomer
Tie program, which was very extern
sive, was successfully carried out, and
the following ladies deserve special
mention for the grace and feeling with
4
Misses Frances Gallagher, Nellie Flynn
and Ella Byrne. Misses Regina Pie,
Katie Donahoe, Dean Pie and Gertrude
Byers did some excellent work at the
piano, while the singing of the following
ladies was admirable: Misses Frances
Gallagher, Annie Long, Katie Donahoe
and Nellie Flynn.
In the operatta "Little Red Riding
Hood, each pupil ably sustained her
character; Miss Amelia Lonergen In
'The Wolf" created much amusement.
Academic honors were conferred on
the following: Grown aud gold medal,
. Miss Lizzie Lee; crowns. Misses Theresa
Guthrie, Alice Fahey, Ella Byrne, Lizzie
! Neary, Mary Gibson, Agnes Donahoe,
Regina Pie, Julia Murray Mary Guthrie,
Elvira Schneider, Ida Gallagher, Anna
Bicta, Mary Long, Mary Duncan, Cassie
! Duncan, Agnes Mention Annie
3 Horlsk, Florence Brennan and
Mamie Dougherty. Second honors-Ger-
q trude Byers, Madeline German, Mary
q Russell. Lillian Donahoe, Blanche Tenn
pie, Mary Wilson, Marion Clavey, Mar
: guerite Bradford.
The following received gold medals in
the senior cass--Katie Donahoe, Katie
Farren, Frances Gallagher. Ella Byrne
Theresa Guthrie, Alice Fahey ant
4 Blanche Temple. Silver medals
Theresa Guthrie. Lizzie Neary, Gertrude
Byers Nellie Flynn, Loretta Bottomer
& Agnes Donahoe and Annie Flynn. Th'
i following received premiums for thei
y answering on the different subjects
! Misses Edanna Hergaemether, ELL
|, Byrne, Alice Fahey, lizzie Lee
! Nellie Flynn, Dean Pie. Made
II line German, Loretta Bottamer
Annie Flynn, Mamie Dougherty, Blanch
Temple. Agnes Donahoe, Alice Moore
Mary Guthrie, Julia Murray, Ameli
Lonergen, Mary Wilson, Mamie Dough
Z erta. Anna Bicfa, Mary Russell, Nelli
Ford. Regina Pie, Katie Mcdonnell, Id
NJ Gallagher, Annie Long, Mary Duncan
VI Cassie Duncan, Mary Lang, e
AZ vira Schneider, Katie Cobl
Florence Brennan, Sarah Newell, Lillia
!. Donahoe, Annie Horisk, Agnes Mentor
N Evelyn Dougherty. Nancy Ford, Nor
NJ Walters, Marion Clavey Katie Refill,
M Annie Dorsey, Nellie Long, jamie Crelll
al Lillian Gardner, Blanche keaveny, Mar
ly guerite Bradford, Leona Clavey
al Mary Long, Katie Farren, Kat
ke Donahoe, Frances Gallagher, Liz
M Lee, Lizzie Neary, Dean Pi
Gertrude Byers, Madeline Gormal
Mary Wilson, Mary Guthri
Amelia Lonergen, Regina Pie, AliC
Moore, Anna Bicta, Julia Murray, Nell
Ford, Sarah Newell Mary Russell an
Ies Nancy Ford.
!. At the conclusion Of the exercisl
=. Father Lyons addressed the graduates {
~ wisdom" He declared that true vii
nn dom did not consist in shrewdness
VI worldly affairs. or in ones ability TO ct
~ cumvent neighbor but in resisting Il
ri seductive allnrements Of the world al
~ serving, with unabated devotion, Il
N Omnipotent Creator through life. I'll
a., @ closing year has been one of the mo
~ successful in the history Of the instiU
~ ~ tion. The pupils in attendance numbers
~ sixty-one.