Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-15

StaHor made the
ments: a bequest of $4,000 from the
late Stephanio Beaupland. OF Madison,
N. j.. for a fund to provide a day
scholarship to ST. E~lizabeth's, open to
the children of st. Vincent Parochial
School of Madison. A scholarship in
either piano or voice. including har-
mony. counterpart and composition,
for one full year at the College of st.
Elizabeth. BY the decision of DR..
/ Franz Bellinger. professor of music at
Columbia University. and also at the
College of st. Elizabeth, this honor
for the veal 1e11-1el2. was merited
summa cum laude by Regina Mary
Byrne. 10, of Newark. Next in merit
for his honor. Mary Ellen Quinn. High
School. II. New Haven, Conn.
Degrees We're awarded as follows;
Master of Arts-Anna Cecilia Fox, A.
B.. Rochester, n. Y, Germanic Ian
guages and l~iteratures; Mary Agnes
O'Connor. A. b., White Plains, N. Y,
botany.
Bachelor OF Arts-Myrtie Valerie
Blackmore. New York; Anna Mildred
Brady, -Palisade; Beatrice Frances Call
lahan, Lewiston. Me-. Margaret Eliza
beth Conboy, East Orange; Martha An
gela Tanning, Troy, N. Y; Agnes
Louise Fleming, Burlington, Ia: Anna
Marcells Flynn, Rochester, N. T.; Te-
resa Veronica Grimley, Troy, N. Y:
Margaret Louise Hernon. Cortland. n.
Y; Mary Irene Howley, Dunmore, Pa:
Hazel Agnes Kerwin, Elizabeth;
Genevieve Lucia Lawler. Port Allegany,
Pa; Veronica Marie Mcguire, Railways
G~eneyieve Loretto Morris. Atlanta, Ga. !;
Anifa AGa1inn Quinn Ncato RI. Nj r{u
de Mercedes Schramm, Pittsburg. Pa;
Edith Marie Tetreault. Augusta, Me-;
Lila Elizabeth Theali, Washington,
D. c. =
Bachelor of Pedagogy-Myrtle. VAL
eric B~lackmore, Anna Mildred Brady,
Martha Angela Tanning. Anna Marcel
la Flynn, Mary Irene Howley, Gene
We've Lucia LAWYER. Anita Aveline
Quinn, Veronica Marie Mcguire,
Bishops Address.
Bishop O'Connor said in part:
with fond and affectionate solicit
tude we have watched the progress of
ST. Elizabeth College toward the sue
cess which we know it deserved, but
which we hardly dared TO hope It
would attain9so soon. What seemed at
best a fond hope has become a vivid
reality. The college has already won
an honored place among the recognized
institutions of the Higher learning and
Its continued progress Is now assured.
Among the proofs of the high es-
TEEN in which 1t is held ma be men,
toned the fact that it has merited the
c~ountenance and approval of the dis
tinguished scholar and statesman who
Is our honored guest and orator
of the day. In your name, q In the
name of the diocese, l beg thank
him for the courtesy that has . mpted
him to lend the lustre of his name and
presence to the college on which we
repose so many high hopes of educa-
tional and religious progress.
Fortunately, 1 feel justified in as
surfing him from my own personal
knowledge that this institution has
proved itself not unworthy of his APP
probation. In the brief period of it's
existence it has accredited its claim to
recognition by the earnestness of pur-
pose and t~horoughness of accomplish
ment which have characterized both
teachers and students. 1t has proved
c~onclusively not only that the need
existed Of such a college for young
women, but that st. Elizabeth's is fully
equipped to supply that need. With
all due modesty. the college nay ap-
peal for a favorable judgment on the
plea: BY their fruits o shall know
Them
"Henceforth-. tbs. experimental stage
is a memory of the past. Achievement
has succeeded aspiration. The college
is now a living and effective power for
good, exerting its influence in the world
of thought and action in the higher
walks of life hat are open to women.
Some of its graduates are adjoining the
religious life, thus consecrating direct
ly to the service of God the mental and
moral gifts with which He has bounti-
fully endowed them. Others are pur-
suing careers of usefulness in the
world whereby they are to prove that
in the world no less than in the ~cloister
unselfsh devotion to duty under the
inspiration of ennobling ideals merits
the approval of the Divine Teacher
and Shepherd of our souls.
Masters Degree Conferred.
To-day we behold with qualification
and delight still further evidence of
progress in the fact that the masters
degree is conferred for the first time,
n in the large number of graduates
who now receive the commission of
their alma mater to go forth and dis
seminate among others the blessings
and benefits of education, mental dis
cipline and refinement of mind and
heart, which their benign mother has
labored so ~assiduously to confer on
them. That commission entities them
to rank as leaders in the army of
scholars who in the name of God and
His church are waging valiant war
fare against ignorance and vice and In
behalf of knowledge, virtue and the
progress of civilization among men.
ut is true that this high commission
imposes weighty obligations on\its re-
cipients, but to those obligations 1 have
no doubt the graduates of st. Eliza
beth's will prove faithful and true. l
am confident that they will ever be
mindful of their duties to God, their
Creator, and, remembering hat all
true wisdom cometh down from above,
will seek at the foot of the Crucihx, as
did Thomas Aquinas, the prince of
Christian scholars. the humility of
mind, the purity of heart and the Holt
ness of life, without which knowledge,
culture or erudition can produce no
permanent results for the glory of
God or the true welfare and happiness
of mankind"