The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-22
PRETTY SCENE IN
y. PETERS HALL
/. 'aduation Exercises Of St.
Aloysius Academy De-
! GIFTED An Immense Au-
1ience !
s,sELLENT ESSAYS AND MUSIC

4sEDALs AND DIPLOMAS BY
FATHER Fox-THE GRADU-
ATEs OF THREE DEPART
MENTs
1t is difficult to imagine a fairer
scene Than that which st. Peters Hall
presented yesterday afternoon during
the graduating exercises of pupils of St.
Aloysius' Academy. The noble institu-
tion has been in existence for forty
years. but it is safe to say that few, II
any. more brilliant classes have ever
graduated therefrom than that which
faced parents and friends who filed the
auditorium and galleries of st. Peters
Hall Yesterday afternoon. There was a
flavor Of the classics about every feature.
of the programme. The salutatory and
the valedictory addresses were models,
the essays were brilliant the choruses,
trios and vocal solos showed musical tai
ent of high order that had been deVel-
oped by rare skill on the part of the
teachers. The programme was made
even further enjoyable by occasional Sc
lections by splendid orchestra that
played the accompaniment to the vocal
selections. But aside from the artistic
programme and scene, there was a busi-
ness feature. Twenty-four of the thirty
fair graduates were given diplomas for
having successfully graduated from the
commercial stenographic and typerwrit-
ing course.
The graduates are
Academic Department-Misses Agnes
NJ. Doyle, Mary T. Donelan, Florence |.
Gillen, Margaret E. ely, Mary Y.
Meskill, Mary B. Norton.
Commercial Department. High School
Course-Misses Helen NJ. Butler, Cath
crime McGiverin.
Stenographic and Typewriting Course
Misses Catharine G. Donelan, Helen
L. Dowd, May A. Duceys Mary A.
Farmer, Lillian G. Gettings, Anna A.
Gormeley, May F. Gormeley, Claudine
N. Humbert. Margaret E. Keeney, Mary
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NJ. Manning, Gertrude Mcbride, Mary
McCabe, Mary NJ Mclaughlin, Lucy A.
O'Brien, Margaret A. Ranney, Frances
E. Recktenwald, Frances J. Sanborn,
Emma v. Seery, Bertha T. Wachlin,
Nora A. Waldron.
The crowning of the members of the
Academic Course with laurel wreathes
by the Rev Father Fox and presentation
of medals was a pretty feature of the
interesting programme. Miss Norton
won the Davis medal, Miss Doyle the
Doyle medal Miss Meskill the Kinkead
medal and Miss Gillen the Lillis medal
Miss Kelly won the Regents Academic
diploma, which entities her to enter a
higher college without further examina-
ton. Miss Butler won the Mother Xa-
yier (of St. Elizabeth College, Madison).
In her salutary address Miss Gillen
said in part
For months, yes, for years, we have
been sailing in our good ship Alma Ma
ter, voyaging over boundless expanse
of sea, in turbulence and calm, in sum
shine and storm, trusting in her to guide
us in our course and bring US surely to
that haven of safety, TO the shores OF
that land for which we have long sighed.
And see, our trust has not been vain
We have reached the harbor and await
ing us on the shore we see the smiling
faces of those most dear to u.s. They are
hailing us, and with that love and af-
fection do we return their saluatation,
and how eagerly do we embrace the OPP
pcrtunity to display to them the treas
ures we have brought"
Miss Gnlen's address was followed by
chorus ring on Ye Bells,' (AbD by
the vocal classes and then Miss Meskill
gracefully recited Heine's "Belschazzars
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