The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-19
Rowland Hall Holds Appropriate.
Celebration.
BISHOP LE0N,lRDPREsIDEs
PRETTY CEREMONIES MADE
PROGRAMME.
Institution Is In Most Prosperous
Condition as Evidenced By the
Showing Made Last Night-Dean
Halssy, Rev. Ellis Bishop, Mrs.
Jennings and Others Make Talks.

Founders day was celebrated with
appropriate ceremonies at Rowland hall
last evening, and the new buildings of
the school were dedicated by Bishop
Leonard.
The regular exercises of the evening
were preceded by a dinner for the
alumnae and a number of invited
guests. After the good things to eat
had been disposed OF. there was a very
pretty little ceremonial. A fire had
been laid in the capacious fireplace and
this Bishop Leonard lighted while the
students sang the school song, In the
Walls of Our Own Rowland Hall"
Programme of Toasts.
Then followed a brief programme of
toasts, with the bishop as POSTMASTER.
Dean Halsey was the first speaker, and
his address dealt chiefly of his own
alma mater, the University of Penn
sylvania. He was followed by Miss Clara
Colburn. the principal of the school,
who spoke of the new buildings and the
contrast they were to the old ones,
where the school had spent many pleas
ant years.
Mrs. Martha Burgess Jennings spoke
of the necessity of united effort among
the women of the day, and Rev. Ellis
Bishop described the advantages of the
smaller institution of learning over the
larger ones. He said that Rowland
hall was to be congratulated that it had
not great numbers of pupils like other
institutions, as. in the smaller schools
the pupils came into personal contact
with their teachers and were much
more benefited by their course than
they would be in a larger school,
Visited the Buildings
visitors to going over the buildings.
The principal changes that have been
made this past summer consist in the
erection of two new dormitorieS. The
old building has had two stories added
to it, and this additional space has been
devoted TO cemmodieus dormitories,
where each of the boarding pupils has
an alcove to herself. The dormitories
are large and airy, and they give ac-
commodationS for thirty-eight more pu-
pills.
Then came the dedication ceremonies.
First the guests and pupils gathered in
the dining hall, and the bishop recited
several special prayers, and the pupils
sang g. hymn. Proceeding thence to
the big school rooms the same ceremo-
MES were gone through with, and then
the bishop made a little speech, in
which he recited the history of the
school.
History of Hall.
Rowland hall was founded in 1879 by
bequest of Mr.. Rowland of Philadel-
phia, the father-in-law of the Rev. Mr.,
Kirby of this city. BY his generosity
Mr.. Kirby was enabled to purchase the
property where the school now is. Other
gifts had helped the school at various
times, and from a single boarding pupil
the school had grown until there are
now in attendance nearly as many pu-
pills as there are accommodations for.
Last year there was q total attend
ance at the school of 165, and this year
there babe fair TO be. a large increase.
The chief thing for which he was now
laboring, the bishop said, was to secure
a chapel, and he exhibited a nickel
which he said he had found during the
evening, and announced that he pro-
posed to make that the nucleus of
chapel fund.
A very pleasant reception followed the
exercises, and large numbers of friends
of the school attended. Hereafter the
exercises of Founders day will take
place on Sept. %, which is the anniver-
sary of the birth of Mrs. Rowland, the
wife of the founder of the school.