Smyrna times., 1903-06-17
CONFERENCE ACADEMY IN
MUCH BETTER CONDITION
DEBT CONSIDERABLY REDUCED AND IS
FLOURlSHlNG UNDER PRINCIPAL CROSS.
Joseph Smithers Of Smyrna ReappOinted Sec
retary of the Board of Trustees-COm-
mencemeut Exercises Wednesday.


Twelve graduates received their
diplomas at the commencement of the
Wilmington Conference Acad DENY
held IN Wesley NJ. E. Church, Dover,
Wednesday night They were Miss
Mabel L. Lodge of Magnolia, Miss A.
Mae Jump of Houston, Miss Mary X.
Mearns of North East, Md, Miss
Lillian Fisher, Wyoming; Miss Eliza
beth Harper, Hurlock, Md, Miss Eva
Q. Frear, Rising Sun; Herbert Green
Cochran, Laurel; Wallace Stuart
Handy, Milford; Miss F. May Bunker,
Miss Kate Hope, Miss Mabel E. Cole
and Arthur W. Swain of Dover.
The musical part of the commence
ment programme was furnished bv
Miss Mabel Ramsey, pianist; and Prof
y. A. Hopkins, violinist, instructors in
the musical department of the Acad-
emy, and by the academy orchestra.
led by Professor Hopkins.
Over $3.50 in cash was awarded to
progressive and alert students. The
500 cash prize for the best general
scholarship and fidelity of duty in
helping with the work of the school
was won by Grover G. Parvis of Mil
ford. Mabel j. Lodge won first mon
ey and W. W. Banks second in the
Scott Literary Society's prize orator
ical contest, which was held last Sat
urday night and adjudged by Asso-
clate Justice Pennewill, Former Sec
retary of State James H. Hughes and
the Rev. William L. Wright, tenn
perance orator of Seaford. This award
was not made known until tonight.
Those winning the best scholarship
and department prizes were as fol
lows:
First-Bessis Harper, Mary Bunker.
MJsPPel j. Lodge; second, J. w. Long
Niara Belle Savin, W. W. Banks. Eta
Matthews, Hester Poole; third. Mar.
garet Swain, Anna R. Maybrey, Grace
Griffith, G. NJ. Simpler, Edgar Pretty
man.
Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Methodists from all over the PENN.
sula gathered at Dover at the ANNA,
meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the Wilmington Conference Academy
From the reports of Principal Cross II
was shown for the first time IN many
years the Institution had paid its own
way and, after meeting ell current ex-
e. l.es.e = = =: :: : - 80 trs he'd s2S IN
the treasury. The board of managers
raised the salary of Professor Cross
$500 and one of his assistants 800.
steps were taken to wipe out the re.
naming $4,000 of binding indebted-
ness before the Dover meeting of the
Wilmington Conference next spring
and a committee was appointed to
carry out this object.
These officers were elected bv the
board: President. William SALISBURY
Dover; Vice-President, Rev. T. F
Martindale, Elkton, Md, Secretary.
oseph Smithers; Treasurer, John S.
COLLINS, Dover. The faculty for the
coming school year will be as follows.
E. L. Cross, latin and peda-
sogy;J. t. Van Burkalow, Jr., Greek,
derman, ethics; Arthur H. Sloop.
mathematics and sciences;J. M. Belts.
English and history; Miss Emma R.
Porter, French and literature; Miss
Mabel r. Ramsey, vocal and instru-
mental music; Joseph A. Hopkins.
holm and orchestra classes; Miss
Ienevieve Kittridge, art; Miss Grace
u. Andrews, assistant in mathematics:
drs. Emma L. Cross, preceptress.