Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-15
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Commencement Exercises of
Theological Seminary.
PROMINENT. GUESTS
THE GRADUATING CLASS LARGER
THAN THE AVERAGE.
Danenhower-Rust Marriage Last Even
ing at Christ Episcopal Church
General Matters.
PROMINENT. GUESTS

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June Is. 1905.
The eighty-second annual commencement
exercises of the Episcopal Theological Sem
mary Of Virginia, situated just west of this
city, took place this morning at 10 O'Clock
in the chapel of the seminary before a large
audience, which included many prominent
churchmen. Earlier in the morning devo-
tional services were held. and shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock the faculty and members OF
the graduating class, followed by the rest
Of the student body, marched from the
main building to the chapel. On the plat
form were seated Right Rev. Robert A.
Gibson, DID,, bishop Of the diocese OF Viz
ginia: Right Rev. Alfred M. Randolph,
DID,, bishop of the diocese of southern
Virginia: Right Rev. George w Peterkin,
DID, and Right Rev. William l. Gravatt,
DID,. bishops of West Virginia, in addl-
ton to the professors. Bishop Gibson, who
Is president of the board of trustees. and
thereby head of the seminary, presided, the
other bishops and the professors taking
part in the exercises.
Essays on theological subjects were read
by three members of the graduating class
Messrs. Wilbur Cosby Bell, Pierce Naylor
Mcdonald and Beverly d. Tucker, j.. The
following received certificates of gradua-
ton: Robert Young Barber, Virginia. do
cese of Virginia; Wilbur Cosby Bell, B.A.,
virginia, diocese or southern virginia, Al
bert Edwin Clattensburg, Massachusetts,
diocese OF Massachusetts; John Francis
Coleman, Virginia. diocese of Virginia
George Peyton Craghill, Virginia, diocese
of southern Virginia; Walker Miller Gage,
New York, diocese of Albany; Thomas Getz
Hill, Maryland, diocese of West Virgin "a;
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, NJ A. West Viz
gina, diocese of West Virginia; Pierce
Mayor Mcdonald. A.B-, West Virginia, do
cese of West Virginia; Hugh White Shelf
fey Powers, Maryland, diocese of Mary
land; William Proctor Remington, BIS,
Penns ylvania, diocese of Pennsylvania;
Beverly d. Tucker, jr., B.A., Virginia, do
cese of southern Virginia; Luke Nj. White,
MA. Alabama, diocese of Virginia. and
Sidney William Greasy, Virginia, diocese of
Boise.
The annual ordination exercises will be
held tomorrow morning a IL o'clock in the
chapel The ordination sermon will be de-
livered by Bishop Randolph.
Mr.. Tucker of the graduating class will
leave soon for England, to begin his studies
at oxford, he having received one Of the
Rhodes scholarships
The graduating class this session was
somewhat larger than the average in re-
cent years. The present favorable condi-
ton of the affairs of the seminary Is a mat
ter of great satisfaction to the friends of
this old institution, both in Virginia and
elsewhere. The seminary has given to the
Episcopal church over LOCO ministers, and
twenty-seven of Its alumni have attained to
the episcopare, while more than fifty Of Its
graduates have given their lives to labors
in foreign missionary fields. The seminary
Is in fact the founder of the foreign mis-
sons of the church to which it belongs.