The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-09-26
OPENING OF THIRD SEES
SION OF THE INDUS
TRIAL INSTITUTE.
ApprOpriate Ceremonies Mark
the AuspiciOUs Beginning Of
the Years Work.

The following special to the
Times-Democrat gives an &C
count of the opening exercises
of the Industrial Institute held
last Tuesday evening.
The formal opening exercises of the
louisiana Industrial Institute,
celebrating the beginning of the third ses.
sion of the school, took place last night in
the auditorium before an audience of nearly
hve hundred persons. A review and sum-
mary of the work accomplished by the insti-
tute during the first two years of its life
were made Ivy President f. l.. Stephens,
and appropriate addresses were made by
Hon. Charles ID. Caffery, mayor of Lafa-
yette; Judge, Julian Mouton of the Circuit
Court of Appeals, aud Rev. DIR. {. c.
Kramer of New Iberia. Music was rem
dered by Sontag's Band, directed by Prof.
Florent Sontag of the Institute.
In recoun,ing the progress of the past two
years, President Stephens stated that during
that time near three hundred students OF
both sexes have been to the Institute, and
have found there opportunities for effort and
study in manual training, with work in wood
and iron. in drafting and mechanical draw
ing; in domestic science, with work in
sewing cooking, household sanitation and
domestic economy; in the commercial course,
with the art of bookkeeping. accounting,
writing and the practical conduct of bust
ness; in the stenography course, with work
in stenography, typewri,ing, dictation, re-
porting; all courses, including work in
English, in mathematics and in other Sc
iected academic branches; and, finally, in a
regular academic course of four years, pre-
work of collegiate and scholarly career. At
the end of the second year eighteen students
graduated, eight in the academic course,
seven in the CONNIE rcial, in domestic
science, one in stenography and one IN
manual training. OF these, seven have
come again to the Institute to pursue more
advanced work and take special courses;
tour have entered college courses in other
institutions; six have found useful employ
ment in lucrative positions. And with sad
ness and the sense of great loss through
on, the school, it announced that
Jacques Domengeaux, the first graduate in
manual training, had died during the sum
mer at his home in Carencro, La.
The following changes were announced in
the faculty: Prot. Florent Sontag of Lafa-
yette succeeds Miss Fila Montgomery in the
department of music; Miss Christine Riis of
Massachusetts, graduate of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, succeeds Miss Gertrude May field
in the department of domestic science; Miss
Frances Ware Blocker of Marshall, Tex,
pupil of Ellsworth Woodward in Newcomb
Art School, succeeds to the work of Miss
Emily H. Huger in the art department., and
Prof. Edmund B. Smith is succeeded by
Miss Mabel Wharton Leftwich of Virginia,
graduate of Mary Baldwin Seminary at
Staunton, in the work in Latin and math-
ema tics.
Since the close of the last session there
have been founded in the institute two
med ais in athletics by DIR. r. E. Girard of
Lafayette-a gold medal for the test all
round athlete and silver medal to the
winner of the 100 yards dash on field day.
An annual cash prize of SIS has been
founded by DIR. James A. Martin of Lafa-
yette for the student attaining to the high
est average of scholarship and department
in school.
Mayor Charles d. Caffery, behalf of
the town and people of Lafayette, extended
a cordial welcome to the pupils and
a successful and prosperous year, and gave
assurance of the continuance of that popu-
lar favor and good spirit which made the
institutes establishment and its rapid pro-
gress possible. He urged that the atten-
ton of patrons throughout the section and
the State should be called to the excellence
of the work being turned out by the work.
shop and the other various departments of
the school. A public auction sale of furni-
ture made by students was proposed, and
marketed advantageously.
Judge Julian Mouton, who has himself
founded medal for excellence in debate
IN the institute, expressed the warmest in
terest in the success of the students, and
spoke words of the highest cheer for the
educational advancement of the entire sec
ton of Southwestern Louisiana. 1t was
noted that all things are now working toget-
her for the advancement of the schools.
Not only has a great State institution been
established, but the public schools have
been improved correspondingly and an OPP
portuuity is being made by the people for
every boy and every girl.
Rev. G. G. Kramer of New Iberia deli
vered the principal address of the evening.
He had worked untiringly to have the insti-
tute established in New Iberia, but havir g
failed in this, he ready to take hold
and help the school develop itself. He
delivered a scholarly. instructive and help-