Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-24
ANNUAL EXERCISES
MT. VERNON SEMINARY GRAD
YATES RECEIVE DIPLOMAS.

Mt. Vernon Seminary this morning held
Its annual exercises attending the presenta-
ton of diplomas at the New Willard. The
music was Of exceptional interest, and the
general spectacle of the rostrum where the
white-robed graduates were seated in a
bower of yellow and white flowers. the col
ors Of the school, and of the entire au-
dience where a display Of exquisite toilets
and fascinating millinery thronged and
crowded every available space. proved a
most alluring picture
The prayer at the opening was offered by
the Rt. Rev. Earl Cranston, who also pro-
nounced the benedfctiOn. The address to the
graduating class was made by Rev. Ulysses
q. B. Pierce pastor of All Souls Unitarian
Church. His subject was The ThreeIolo
Law of Service
Every eye of all those in the immense
gathering was riveted on the line of ad-
yancing graduates, who entered from the
rear of the hall, escorted by Miss Ridgely'
'O2. and Miss Halford, '01, acting as
sponsor.
wildering array of pretty girls In dainty
dresses, and even the alumnae members
present were willing to call the class the
handsomest ever graduated at the sem
mary"
The class was unusually large. consisting
of twenty-eight members from all parts of
the states.
The program opened with the professional
by Lackner and the overture Tampa py
Heroid. The musical director was MI
Josef Kaspar.
was sung as a duet by Mrs. Adela Klein
schmidt Payne and Miss Alice E. Edwards.
Mrs. Anton Kasper played the Handel
Largo" as a violin solo, and Miss Fran
ceska Kasper received storm of applause
for a delicate and sympathetic renderirg
of Hayden's aria with Verdure Clad, y
ha A a song
before the presentation of the diplomas
Mrs. Dorothy Rogers Moves sang a group
OF songs which were received with delight.
DIR. Pierce's address was not uniting
presentation of the spirit of service for
school the motto of which is "Vtncft qui
Sc vincit" Mrs. Payne sang an interest
ing aria from La Mort de Jeanne dare
by Bunberg, and the exercises were closed
by a recession march by the graduates
again, under the charge OF the alumnae
sponsors.
without the hall, in the adjoining rooms.
masses of flowers awaited each of the
graduates. The class of 1906 consisted of
Edith Marion Aldrich, New York, N. Y;
Anne Stevenson Cass, Tyrone. Pa; Sarah
Isabel Cox, St. Louis. Mo-; Mildred
Finckel, Washington, d. c.; Jean Cranston
Fitch, Utica, n. Y; Jennie Gamble, Yank-
ton. S. D.. Ancinette Gardner, Evanston.
Ill; Leah Eva Henry. Indianapolis, Ind :
Margery Hill. Washington. D. e; Margaret
Dayton. Ohio: Adelaide King. Toledo.
Ohio; Gertrude Lutz, Washington. D..
c.; Helen Marsh, Chicago. Illinois,;
Edith Frances Meacham. Cincinnati. Ohio;
Hazel Newhall, Glencoe, ILL.,; Mary Adelaide
Nichols. Aurora, ILL.,; Margaret Raymond
Oeland, Brooklyn. N. Y: Marian Lee Pat
terson, Washington. d. c.; Elizabeth Hoi-
lister Pomeroy, Wernersville. Pa: Ruth
Prentiss, Lincoln, Neb.: Yolanda Elma
Smith. Washington. D. c.; Emeline Wilce
Spry, Evanston, H.; Piowden Stevens, Chi
cago, ILL.,; Sarah Elizabeth Van Buskirk.
Brighton N. Y; India-Bell Vedder-Fieming,
Washington. d. c.: Olive Belknap Ward,
Newark. NJ J.; Dorothy Willing, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
The class officers are: President. Emme-
line wilce Spry; vice president, Edith
Marion Aldrich; secretary, foianda Eima
Smith, and. treasurer. Ancinette Gardner.
The various features of commencement will
last q week.