The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
YOUNG LADY GRADUAT TES,
Receive Honors From the Con
vent of Our Lady of the
Sacred Heart.
Archbishop Riordan Presides at Very
Interesting and Novel Entertain.
ment by the Students.

OAKLAND, CAL, May 29-The gradu-
ating exercises of the Convent of Our Lady
of the Sacred Heart were held this after
noon in the MUSHROOM of that institu-
ton, which had been transformed into a
perfect fairyland by the pupils and sisters.
The class colors were pink, white and
gold. Ribbons of satin and roses of these
colors were worked into the decorations,
making a most striking effect.
The most unique and novel feature of
the decorations, however, was the plat
form. 1t was made to represent a cave in
rocks, from every nook and corner of
which was growing beautiful ferns of all
kinds and the trailing smilax. The room
was darkened and the cave lit with arti-
fetal candles and fairy lamps.
This was most delightful spot for the
center piece of the exercises, entitled "a
Dream of Fair Women" Miss E. Corri-
gan as the dreamer called up her life and
various characters she had met came be-
fore her, and the audience in costume and
entertained them with appropriate selec-
tons, which were commented upon by
the dreamer. The characters came in
the following order: Mother Goose, NJ.
Lynch; Bo-peep, q. Robinson; Red Rid
ing Hood, M. Buffers; Cinderella, v. Dow
ney; fairy godmother, i. Atwood; May
Queen, E. Hayward; Mother of May
Queen, G. Burr; Gypsy Queen, G. Crab;
mingway: Highland Mary. NJ. Tenant;
Evangeline, G.. Burr; Aunt Samantha, NJ
Ennis; Ruth, Miss K. Dalton; Rebecca,
Miss 0. Bemis; Mary Queen of Scots, Miss
NJ. Dougherty; Joan of Arc, o. Ingle; Isa-
bella of Spain, Miss P. Lamy; st. Agnes,
Miss NJ. Mccall, patroness of youth; st.
Catherine, Miss A. Prefontaine, patroness
Of c0hnlorc. CT Mnniaa Mice M
patroness of Christian mothers; maidens,
the graduates.
Arch bishop Riordan presided during the
programme which opened with a piano
duet and in which three instruments were
used by six young ladies, as follows:
NJ. Sorley, M. Dougherty and K. Dalton.
The music class gave a vocal selection
after which ''Serenade Espagnole" was
rendered by the following mandolins: P.
Lamy, G. Bernard, D. Cool, NJ. Ennis, G.
Crab, E. Burr; guitars, NJ. Dougherty, NJ.
Tenant, N. 0Connelll; pianos, NJ. NJ.
Sorley, g. Burr; violin, "A. Brady.
A band of little girls gave ''The Frolic
of the Birds" in a most pleasing manner.
They adapted themselves to the piece most
effectually. The three pianos were used
in rendering ''Esmani" by the same young
ladies referred to before, and after another
vocal selection portions of robin Hood"
were given Wy lut COIU DlHaIlOn OF man
dolins, piano and violin by the following
Mandolins, ID. Cool, P. Lamy, M. Ennis,
M. Tenant, E. Burr; piano, NJ. O'Con-
nell, E. Hayward; violin, A. Brady.
The graduates read their essays last
evening before the school, faculty and as
sembled sisters The essays and readers
were:
Literature the Index of a Nations Iife.p
Miss Grace Burr, Monterey; "Was the Middle
Age a Starless Night?" Miss Clophine Bernard.
Kern; "Athens and Sparta, q Parallel" Miss
Katherine Dalton, Oakland; "Woman-the
New, the True" Miss Mamie Dougherty, San
Jose; "Age of Leo *" Miss Edna Harvard
San Francisco; Genesis and Geology Miss
Philomene Lsmy. Santa Fe, n. NJ.
Following the reading OF. the ESSAYS the
graduates were presented with the con-
vent medal. Four special gold medals
were awarded as follows: Christian doe
trine, Philomepe Lamy; excellence in
studies, Mamie Dougherty; application
Mabel OConnell and Victoria Downey.
School Vacation.
ALAMEDA, CAL, May 2s.-The mid
summer vacation of the public schools
commencing June ~, will extend over
seven weeks. No graduating exercises
will be held except at the Porter school
and these will be held on Friday, June s.