The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-04-07
ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT
The Final Arrangements For the Occa-
sion Almost Complete.

The Program for the Event Briefly
Outlined-The EiShty-ninth Com
mencement to be one of the Most
Interesting in the History of the
School-A Very Successful Year.
The 89th annual session of the
| famous old Salem Female Academy
is drawing to = close. In eight
weeks from today the commence
ment exercises will be over and the
hundreds of young ladies who have
searched diligently within the walls
| of the old institution for knowledge,
| will have left for their respective
homes.
Principal Clewell is now making
| the final examinations in the various
| dep .rtments, end thirty seven
''sweet girl graduates are taxing
| their mental capacity in search of
strong and interesting essay sub
| jects.
The programs for the commerce
| ment exercises are about completed
| and through the courtesy of Princi
| pal Clewell THE SENTINEL is permit
ted this afternoon to tell its readers
| what the near future has in store for
| them.
On Sunday morning, May 22nd,
| the Baccalaureate sermon will be
| preached in the Moravian church.
The name of the divine who is to
conduct the service has not been an
| nounced.
Monday and Tuesday will be Sen
ior's evenings, when their essays
will be read and interspersed with
music.
Tuesday afternoon will be devoted
| to exhibits Of the art and industrial
departments. The Academy chapel
will be beautifully decorated. Be
sides paintings and drawings there
will be separate tables containing a
handsome display Of work in the in
dusOial department, consisting of
sewing, embroidery and cooking;
stenography, telegraph, type-writing
and book keeping from the CONNER
| cial department. All these will be
specimens of the own work of the
pupils.
Wednesday afternoon there will
be a meeting of the Alumna A ssoci
| alton which will be divided into
three parts. First will be literary,
which will consist of reading papers
and letters from old pupils, etc; sec
ond, business meeting to look af-
| ter the endowment fund which the
| socie;y has IN hand; third will be
social feature in which old pupils
| will meet and renew former ac-
quaintanceship in connection with a
Moravian love feast.
Wednesday night grand musical
concert will be given when all the
results of the musical department
| for the year will be brought for
| ward. The concert will close with a
portion of the Oratoria, "The Mes
siah." This will be the more inter-
esting from the fact that this year is
the 150th anniversary of the first
| rendition of this great musical com
position. The Elocution Department,
| in cha,g ge of Miss Scriber, will also
| be brought with fine effects on that
night.
Thursday will be Commencement
Day proper. The exercises will
open at a. NJ, when the annual
| address will be delivered by Presi-
| dent George Taylor Winston, LII.
D., of the State University, the di-
| plomas awarded and the honor es-
! says read.
The Salem Orchestra will take
part in all the exercises.
Although this has been a hard
year financially through the South,
Principal Clewell tells a SENTINEL
reporter that it has been one oe the
most successful sessions in the his
| of pupils the past year numbers
about $50, and the health of these has
been remarkably good. Every de-
partment has made fine progress,
and been exceptionally prosperous.
| The following is the names of the
young ladies who will complete their
studies and be awarded diplomas:
| NORTH CAROLINA. = Hattie Ad-
ans, Daisy Brooks, Edna Fisher,
Agnes Fogle, Ella Hege, Emma
Kapp, Frances Leach, Christiana
McFadyen, Blanche Morgan, Lizzie
Patterson, Bessie Purnell, Annie
Penn, Loui Siddall, Sadie Siceloff,
Tilla Stockton, Onie Terrill, Flor
ence Tise, Blanche Wood, Hessie
Yancey, Lille Yancey.
FLoRIDA.-Annie Adams, Carrie
Ollinger.
GEoRGlA.-Lillian Crenshaw, Ma
mie Lewis.
TENNESSEE. = Ollie Fain, May
Franklin, Alice Gillespie, Alice
Rawlings.
SOUTH CARoLINA.-Mary Clark,
Ethel Morris, Mary Wood.
/ TExAs.-Cleora HewsoE, Eldred
Malloroy, Fannie Lou Pace, Ava
Stroup.
VIRGINIA. Annie May:
| ALABAMA.-Many Stillwell.
The Huntsinger Gold Cure.