The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-04
TWENTY-NINE GRADUATES
FROM COLORED COLLEGE
We're Awarded Diplomas at Annual Commence
ment
ment.

the graduates with an abiding inter-
est. He warned the class that it had
Just begun it's education; that it
had done only the preparation for the
work that is yet to be done.
Judge S. B. Adams was called upon.
He said that he was deeply in SYM
pathy with the colored race ana had
always been. He thought If it were
not for the bad men of botlI races
there would be no race problem. 1t is
entirely wrong, he said. to magnify
every little row into race riots. He
was determined to encourage every
man of Every race to make the best
of himself.
Col. p. A. Stovall said that he had
never heard on a commencement oc-
casion a better address than that of
Dr. Mason. He charged the graduates
if they wanted to be something that
they must do something.
President Wright referred with
deepest feeling to Mr.. F. H. Richard
son, editor of the Atlanta Journal, who
although absent and lying stricken on
his sick bed, always found time to en-
courage the poor and struggling negro.
The audience rose in respect to Mr..
Richardson.
Supt. Ashmore told the students
that whatever they should undertake
they should do it well. True great
: ness, he said, is ability to meet a cri-
| sis. He congratulated the school upon
the great work which it is doing.
Col. Meldrim said that the commits
sion takes great pride in the school.
While the school is for negroes the
best thought, the best blood, and the
best courage is back of it. 1t must
rise or fall on the responsibility of the
negro. He declared that good work
must be done, that inside of the
campus there must be no politics or
sectarianism. Outside the people are
/ free to do as they please. He compli-
: mented L. B. Thompson, the teacher
of masonry, on the good work which
! he had done in erecting with the
boys the large building on the ground.
/ Chancellor Hill also spoke briefly
! There were Twenty-Five graduates in
the various departments. One was
from the college course; one from
blacksmithing, one from masonry, four
from dressmaking. The graduates
are:
/ College, y. C. Few; Normal, Louise
M. Bennett, Lucille F. Dixon, William
Handy, Nettie A. Harris Charles f.
Haskins, Annie NJ Howard, Naomi
+ Johnston, Allen Jones, B. A. Judkins,
Essie L. Munroe, Hattie L. Riley, John
H Sampson, F. F. Screen, John A.
Snyder, c. c. Strickland, James A.
Thomas. E. w. Werner, Anna Williams.
Susie A. Shellman, w. o. P. Sherman,
Jr.
Blacksmithing: P. S. Moore.
Masonry c. F. Carroll.
! Dressmaking: Annette Handy, Hat
tie Riley, Essie L. Munroe, c. A. Love.
! A fact worthy of note is that on a
poll of the students by President
Wright in order to secure teachers for
summer schools for which he had had
applications, it was ascertained that
( So per cent. of the boys and Go per
/ cent. of the girls intended working at
their trades during the vacation.
The school has closed the best year
! in it's history. Five hundred students
! have been in attendance. The work
! has gone on with remarkable smooth
! ness and the people have been highly
! pleased with the results. President
| Wright has received applications from
students in South Africa and also from
Hayti for next year.