The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

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And Oh. my school mates. in your
! midst today,
With welcome on my lips and in my
| heart.
i greet You now for all time--and
pray,
Tho after greetinAgiven we shall part
You may remember that the greeting
For now and then forcyer-tho' the
| OF other worlds lis waiting after this.
| The nest remains tho nestlings take thoir
flight.
o friends who gather in our midst
today
To brighten with your thought dark
ened year
My greeting asks for all, THAT light
which may
BE with us always, be with all the
school.
Our ministers, our school mates. yours
and mine,
BE with the governor and with those
who rule,
Our friends, and with the class of
ninety mine.
Miss Busbee valedictory VAS as fol-
lows:
For more than fifty years Commence
men Day at st. Mary's has Witnessed
many partings. For more han fifty
years girls have left their Alma Mater:
for more than fifty years it has been
some ones part to say the last good
bye yet the duty seems none the less
hard on each successive year. aud the
sorrow of parting from the school of
our affections is new to usthe class of
80. We feel that no others could have
valued more highly their schoollfn, ana
we know that none ever felt more deep
y than we the beauty and the sadness
of loving farewell.
''To our Bishop we must say our first
goodbye. We appreciate deeply yonr
interest, and the loving care YOU have
shown for st. Mary's, especially during
our sad time of trouble. From you.
Reverend Father, we feel that we are
not really parting, for the greater num-
Der of us will continue 10 he under your
spiritual guidance and supervision. We
will still hear your earnest words of
guidance and truth.
I'VE alone of all st. Mary's graduates
have only reverent pause where DC
loved name once was. We are bereft
of that gracious presence which for two
and twenty years guided and strengthen
ed the great work which his father had
begun.
We see him as he moved,
How modest, kindly, all-accomplished,
wise.
With what sublime repression of him
SELF
But, although his visible presence
has been taken from us for a little
while, the influence of him who lived
and worked among us, who had no sin
gle thought of self in the accomplish
ment of his work, who gave his time
and love and strength to the glory of
God and the service of his fellow
creatures, this influence will never cease
to bless and beautify st. Mary's and
will be the noblest heritage of all her
girls.
ITO our teachers it is hard to say good
bye. 1t brings us sorrow to think that
the daily intercourse must cease, and
the ties must be broken that have bound
us together. You will go your way with
your widening influence and increasing
knowledge; we will go ours, with the
loving memory of your kind sympathy
and ready helpfulness towards us, ana
with your earnest words in our minds
and hearts.
My classmates | bid you goodbye in
the truest sense of the word. God be
with you. Though we may be far away
from each other in times to come, the
sympathy and companionship that exist
among us will only grow with the years,
and we will always think of our school
life as period of varied joys, much
experience, and many ennobling influ-
ences. May we always look back on our
Alma Mater with the love we bear her
today, and in the battle of life may we
all abide by our MOTTO 'Nive Victor
The year has brought us many things;
but it's best and noblcst legacy has been
the influence of life given to the SER
vice of others.
ITO the friends of st. Mary's, to the
people of Raleigh, in the name of my
class, | say farewell. We extend to
you our gratitude for your sympathy
and interest in our work, and we hope
that the interest will grow as the years
go by. The friendship between you and
the girls of the class make us feel sure
that our parting will not be a long one.
The sorrow of our separation on Com
mencement Day is lightened by the pros
pect of meeting in the future; and so it
is not with entire sadness that | say
to our Bishop and ministers, to my
teachers and classmates, to the people
of Raleigh, farewell
The other essays by the graduates
were:
Twilght-Miss Josephine Ashe Os-
borne.
A Heroic Life-Miss Lilly Elizabeth
Dodd.
Fashions and Follies-Mss Margaret
Dughi.
A Few of Shakspeare's Rustics- Miss
Margaret Cameron Trapier.
Methods of Transportation-Miss
Alice Doane Smallbones.
The Art of Flattery-Miss Lucy
Catherine Cannady.
The program of the exercises in the
chapel was as follows:
Professional Hymn, 523.
Reading of the Roll of Honor.
Address to the graduates, by the Rev.
Nj. NJ Marshall. ID. ID.
Presentation of Diplomas and distinc-
t;anS INV tho RI Row Jocauh RIount