The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-19
Social and
Personal

interested IN 'I1c COIluleIlCtile
exercises at Holiins Institute
which will begin this session on Satur
day evening, May IS, with the scnio
class reception and bonfire, and closin
with the commencement day exercises
The baccalaurente sermon Will be dc
1ivercd on Sunday evening at ~
O'Clock in the chnpel by Rev. b. +. VII
son, y. D., of H~arrisonburg, and tn
commencement address Will be made b.
Or. Edwin NJ. Poteat. of Furnlan Uni
versity, G~reenvilie, S. C. Academi
honors will be conferred by DR.. VII
liam Fl. peasants, dean of the faculty
This commencement celebrates tn
eixty-seventh session of the institu
ton, and a large number of Richmond
umn will attend the closing cxer
cises for that week and the alut1na'
banquet Monday night.
Officers of the senior class for thi'
year include: President, Miss Anne Hen
rietta Taylor, Arkansas: Nice-Presi
dent, Miss Marguerite MCGEE Geer
South Carolina. Secretary and Treasu'
rer. Miss Pauline Lawton, South Car
DINA.
Class roll-Arisses Natalie Waite
Holman, Virginia; Bessie Shields
louisville: elizabeth IIdaline Major
South Carolina; Div Bealle Butts
Georgia; Mabel Grigsby, Washington
d. c.; Elizabeth Turner Bennett, Geor-
gia; Baron Vaughn Dunton, Virginia;
Maybe Sloane Lyles, South Carolina;
4 Cornelia Horsford Ellis. Virginia; Lucy
Marguerite Lewis. Virginia; Mary Bar
bour Powers, Virginia; Bessie Williams,
fyirginia; Edwina Lockett, North Car
tplina.
luncheon mt Lakeside.
a very attractive affair to be. given
on Saturday afternoon of this week Will
he an al fresco luncheon at the Lake
side Country Tub by the Richmond
Alumni Association of the University OF
Virginia. Instead of the usual nqu
given every year the committee IN
charge has decided to have an old-time
Virginia entertainment, with the usual
accompaniments Of juleps and fried
chicken. An orchestra will play dur
ing the entire afternoon, and President
Alderman Will make the address.
Special cars will leave First and
BROAD Streets at 1885. All alumni in
Richmond, whether affiliated with the
association or not, will be cordially
welcomed, and those who have not SIG
Difed their intention of being present
are asked to do so ut once 10 ftopcrt
N. Pollard, chairman of the ASSOCIATION
Mrs. Boocock's Luncheon.
on Thursday of last week Mrs. Muir
ray Boocock, of "Castalia," in Abe
marie county, entertained the members
of the Daughters of the American Kew
olution of that county at a luncheon
The guests came on a special train an
were driven in carriages to Mrs. Boo
cocks beautiful home. A number o
small table We're laid in the dininE
room and palm room, and decoration:
were in quantities of roses and oranSt
blossoms.
Those present were Mrs. Gooeh. Mrs
William Wood, Mrs. r. T. w. Duke
Jr.. Mrs. W. r. Duke. Mrs. Massie. Mrs
Huntington, Mrs. Probasco, Mrs. Mica
jah Woods, Mrs. Thomas Page, Miss
futile, Mrs. Early, Mrs. Hissinson.
Mrs. Maphis. Mrs. kaufman, Mrs. pitts,
Mrs. Bird and Mrs. Clay-Brown.
Guest of Miss Tempieton.
Mrs. Helen Hill Woodrotfe. of Los An
Eeles. Cal, is the guest of Miss Mary
Osborne Templeton at her home II
Mavnesboro. Mrs. Woodroffe will sal
from New York June 4 to spend tbs
summer abroad.
Sailed Last saturday.
Among the passengers sailing las
Saturday by the steamship Minnewas'
ka, of the Atlantic Transport Line
: were Miss I.ulie Williams, of 1908
West Avenue. and her friends, Miss
Alice Eager, of New York; Mrs. James
II. Jenkins and Miss Gladys jenkins
of Novorton Heights, Conn. Miss
Williams and her party will &c d.
rectly to London for a stay of two
weeks, after which they will spend
some time travelling in England and
on the Continent. remaining abroad
until late in October,
Meet To-day mt Noon.
The Old Dominion Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton will meet to-day at noon at the
nome of Mrs. Henry a, Atkinson, S11
East Grace Street.
Dinner for ar .Megriu.
Monday.. night Mr.. and Mrs. T.. e,
Merritt gave a farewell dinner ~at.tiieir
home in Hamilton Avenue, Norfolk, in
honor of their son, Neville Merritt,
who will leave Tomorrow for New
York. where he will spend a week be-
fore sailing from San Francisco for
China, to accept a position
with the American Tobacco Co.
The table was decorated with cur
flowers and the guests invited We're
n members of the house party who
recently returned from Willoughby.
pited to wish Mr.. Merritt q happy voy-
age, who We're: Misses Bessie and
Susie Howard. Miss EVELYN Harrison,
of Morristown. n. j.: Miss Mamie
Hay. of Raleigh. n. c.; Miss Bessie
Kelly, Miss Iloise Simmons. Miss Res
sic Merritt, BENJAMIN -. Burroughs,
Henry McBlair, Bryant Merritt, Lini-
ford Warren, McChester ~Ieffries ana