Evening star., 1911-06-09
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Closing Exercises Of st.
Mary's Academy Today.
LIST OF HONOR WINNERS
Plans for Theological Seminary
Commencement-Proposed Street
Improvements.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. June o. 1911.
In the presence of an audience which
filed the opera house the closing exer-
cises Of St. Mary's Academy. conducted
by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, were
held this afternoon.
Medals and diplomas Of graduation
were conferred upon the following: Kath-
crime Carroll Waller, Ellen Florence Muir
ply, Mary Kathryn Teresa Brill. aca-
1emic course: Lola Fitzhugh Ashton and
Katherine Carroll Waller. music course:
Katharine Joanna Weschler. Theodore g.
Fisher. Ada Pauline Middleton. Alice
Teresa Hamfl and Corrie Marie Tyler,
commercial course.
They were presented by Rev. III. j.
Cutler, who made a short address to the
graduates. in which he wished them sue
tess in life.
large class also received certificates
in one-year commercial course and In
penmanship The following prizes were
awarded: Medal for Christian doctrine.
presented by Rev. Father Payne, Clifton
Forge. Va. Miss Kathryn Brill; medal
for Christian doctrine, renewed, Miss Eva
Crilly. medal for department in senior de-
partment. presented by st. Mary's Alum
nae, Mary Dougherty: In the junior de-
partment. Genevieve Adams; medal for
attendance. in senior department, pre-
Washington. d. c.. Dora Fisher: in junior
department, Pearl Harrington; medals
for having completed the national graded
course in music. Misses Bessie Davis and
Lillian Hill: honor medal for general ex-
cellence in senior class. presented by the
class of 1910. Miss Katherine Waller:
medal for excellence in typewriting, pre-
sented by the Remington Typewriter
rica 4 ,oaa al f0ri
department in the senior boarding depart
ment. Julia Kerby: in the junior. Bertha
Schuler; scholarship prizes in the various
classes. presented by Miss Matte Crilly,
mercial class of 191O presented by Rosa
Crilly. were won by Mildred Hellmuth.
Katherine Weschler, Lottie Ticer. Sue
Florance. Ethel Adams and Gertrude Nc
Dermott: prize in the senior composition
class. presented by Miss Ella Hill, won
by Katherine Waller.
Seminary Commencement.
The commencement exercises of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary Of Vir-
ginia, located west of Alexandra. will
begin Wednesday evening. when Rev.
Hugh l.. Burleson will deliver q sermon
before the Students Missionary Society.
Thursday will be graduation and alumni
day. Essays will be read by the men,
OerS OF the graduating class.
Friday will be ordination day. The
services will be held In the chapel in the
morning.
Members of the senior class are Charles
Aylett Ashby. southern Virginia. Henry
Erving Batcheller, Kansas City; Ed
ward Ryant Dyer. Texas; walter Henry
Pettus, southern Virginia; Robert Theo-
iore Phillips. Atlanta: Clarence Herpert
Reese, Washington: Walter White Reid,
ir.. Washington: John Letcher Showell,
E,ag
West Virginia: Joseph Edmund Thomp-
son, Lexington; Hayward Lewis Winter,
Texas.
Among those expected to speak at
the Fourth Of July celebration at Falls
Church. under the auspices of the WI
lage Improvement Society. are the fol-
lowing: Senator Thomas s. Martin.
Representative C. c. Cariin. Senator
John Lamb of Virginia. The speaking
win take place in Crossman's Grove, and
Charles A. Stewart. president of the VII
lage Improvement Society. will preside.
Mayor George w. Hawxhurst will deliver
an address of welcome.
The program provides for parade In
the morning This will be followed by
athletic sports. and there will be a tour
The celebration will be brought to q close
by . ball at night.
The Alexandria Light Infantry, this
city, has been invited. Should it attend
and go on the night Of July to Falls
Church, a military ball will be given.
Proposed Street Improvements.
The question Of appropriating 10000
for street and sidewalk improvements
was discussed until nearly midnight last
night at a joint meeting Of the commit
tees on finance and streets, in the cham
ber OF the board of aldermen, without
reaching q conclusion. 1t Is said that the
proposed improvements will embrace a
distance of twenty-five city squares.
Alexandria Notes.
An address on Masonry" was delivered
by Representative Thomas L. Sisson Of
Mississippi last night before a large dele
cation of members of Alexandria Wash
ington Lodge of Masons. Others who
spoke were James p. Latta. Nebraska;
James w. Collier, Mississippi; q c.
Brown. Pennsylvania. and the past mas
ter of the Masons of Shanghai. China.
William Heaiey, who was assaulted
yesterday with q crowbar in the hands
of j. c. Brown. regained consciousness
this morning. Brown has not yet been
arrested.
Funeral services for Edward Poole were
held this afternoon from his late resi-
dence. Rev Edgar Carpenter Ofhciated,
and the burial was made in Bethel ceme-
terry.
Mrs. w. 3. Herring, who has been
spending several weeks in Philadelphia,
has returned. accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. Homer Smith, who will visit her.
Bernard G. Cnne has gone to Marshall,
Va. for several weeks.
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