The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-06-08
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TUskEGEE COMMENCEMENT.
a Fine Years Work Closes With In.
teresting Exercises.

teresting Exercises.
The 26th annual commencement ex.
ercises OF Tuskegee Institute we're
held last week. Bishop Warner A.
Gambler OF Atlanta, Ca, delivered the
annual sermon There were nine grad.
yates from the Phelps Hall Bible
Training School, five OF whom gave
excellent addresses.
The $25 oratorical prize OF the Trim.
ity Church Boston, was won by James
L. Douglass with '.Lincoln's Place in
History" the second or SIS prize was
won by Gladys Baker with "a Plea
for the Plantation Melodies Melvin
Jackson received honorable mention
for an Grafton on "The Value of Ro.
tation in Crops
The literary and industrial depart.
ments were combined this year in
their commencement exercises
The salutatory was by Jerry Deca
ture McCord, How Afro-Americans
Have Built Town. the valedictory
by Andrew Battle Mckenzie, "Freder
lex Douglass Contribution to a Race
AS a cooking school exhibit dinner
for six OF four courses was actually
prepared at a cost of FL cents each
The annual address was by DR.. j. w
3. Bowen, president of Cannon Theo
logical Seminary. Atlanta, Ga.
DR.. Booker T. Washington delivered
the diplomas and certificates and an
nounced the prizes for the year as fol
lows:
Charles F. Moritz Prize, $1O-Award
ed to Mary Goose.
w. Graham Tyler Prizes, $5O-Win
ners: First prize. Mary Emma Foster;
Russell Bingham, John Landon Ander
son, Jacy John Stringer and Herman
Peter Warmack, all seniors
Banks Prizes, s25-Winners:' Abra
ham Nettles, senior class, $40; Harri
son Jackson. middle class, $40; and
Henry Perry, junior class, SIS.
General Armstrong Prize, the in
come on $500-Winner, George Welton
Lee, Junior class.
Belknap Prize, Chest of Carpenter
Tools-Winner of prize, Joseph Viii
liam North, A, Middle Glass; Carpen-
try Division.
Joseph Frye Prize, $10-Winner of
Prize, Ebba Cornelia Dorsett, senior.
Sumner Prize, $20-Winner OF prize
Claude Davis
Nathan Alexander Prize, $10-Win
ner of :,rize, Claude Davis.
Joseph 0: Thompson Medal CA gold
medaD Winner of prize, Olyander A.
Johnson.
Selig Gassenheimer Prize, $10-Win
ner of prize, Dennis Andrew Starks.
special prize of SIS was awarded
M Wi, T1111 <,ft 1D al e.
his excellent. address on agriculture
Leo Strassburger Prizes, two Prizes
Of $40 each-Winners of prizes, In
strumental music, Bessie Galloway !;
vocal music, Mary Runyon.
The total enrolment Of boarding stu,
dents has reached 1,648 during the
year, ILL young men, 537 young wo-
men. In the Tuskegee town night
school, Lightweight were enrolled and
in the Tuskegee town cooking school,
seventeen Adding these to the mum
her enrolled in, the training school,. or
Children's House, the total reaches
about 1000. They represent thirty
six States and Territories and twenty.
one foreign countries.
The graduates number 100. 100 from
the Normal Department and nine from
Phelps Hall. OF these sixty-two re.
ceived certificates for the completion
of some trade, and several of them
for the completion of two, and quite
a number three trades Most of those
in the senior class who did not re-
ceive certificates received them in pre-
vious years, thirty nine undergraduates
received certificates and ten post.
graduates, making total of 1853 in
dividuals who received diplomas and
certificates.
Five young women and one young
man graduated as nurses. The sen
iors represent twenty-five different
states, Alabama leading with twenty
six. Georgia next with fourteen, South
Carolina third with eight. OF foreign
countries, Porto Rico has five; Cen
trail America two; Jamaica, British
West Indies, Africa /.
A son of DR.. Washington and a
daughter of Treasurer Warren Logan
graduated.
After the delivery of the prizes an
excellent address was given by Rabbi
B. G. Ehrenrech of the Jewish Temple
in Montgomery. And W. w. Campbell
of Tuskegee, vice-president of the
Board of Trustees spoke brief word
followed by Hon. J. o. Thompson of
Birmingham
The Hallelujah Chorus and the Bene.
diction closed Tuskegees twenty sixth
and most memorable commencement