The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-11
DIT TOMAS GIVEN.
YOUNG MINISTERS.
Union Theological Seminary
Holds Final Exercises iii
Watts Chapel. !,
ENDOWMENT FUND GROWS
George ". Watts Makes His
Gifts Reach a Total OF
$4,000,

Closing exercises were held In Watts
Chapel, at Union Theological Seminary.
yesterday, degrees and diplomas being
awarded to thir,r-two full graduates.
Many visitors from Richmond and
elsewhere attended the exercises The
address to the students was delivered
by Rev. d. j. Woods. OF Biacksburg.
Va Rev. y. G. Hopkins, ID. D., mem
Der of the board, presided and dcliv-
cred the diplomas
The Moses d. Hoge fellowship for
post graduate study. endowed by the
Second Presbyterian Church, Of Rich
mond, In memory of Rev. Moses ID.
King. of Greenvlllc. y. c.. and j. Ken
ION Parker, OF Floyd. Va.
Endowment Campaign.
1ohn S. Alunce read the report of the
board of the Institution. announcing
the results of campaig n which has
been in progress for an increase in the
endowment. The Tooth anniversary OF
the founding OF the seminary at Hamp-
dem Sidney will occur at next years
commencement. by which time Il, Is
hoped to have completed the endow-
ment campaign. Churches and indi :
viduals, mainly In North Carolina and
Virginia, it was reported, had con
trihuted to the endowment fund during
the year. largely through the work OF
Field Secretary c. r. Lacy, the SON
of s29T,396.4S.
Each of the graduates of the insti-
tuition was presented by Rev. James
y. Smith. d. D.. with a copy of The
Life and Letters of Rev. B. NJ. Palmer
on behalf of the Presbyterian Commit
tee OF Publication. President Walter
w Moore. recently recovered from a
serious operation, made brief address
at the close OF the exercises.
In addition 10 the amounts reported
as subscribed for the endowment fund.
it was also announced that George w.
Watts, of Durham n. c.. who has
hitherto contributed $4,000 to the en-
dowment fund, had added similar
amount. Five thousand Of this will
20 TO repairs TO Watts Hall, and SEQ
600 will hes,uscd in endowment of the
Walter w. Moore Foundation. the in
come to be used toward the payment
of the salary of the president of the
seminary. HI
An invitation will be extended TO
the General Assembly of the Presby
terrain Church, South, to hold its an
nual meeting in the seminary buildings
in 1872. and thus take part in the cell
ebratIon of the centennial of the insu-
tuition.
Those receiving diplomas, with the
fields in which they will work were
oliver May Anderson. Leland, Miss;
James Andrew Armstrong. Ellamore,
W. Va; John Tilman Barr Jr., Won
hle. Ark; Robert Dabney Bedinger
Broolneal Va; Thomas Mcneil
Bulla, Eniporla, Va; Herman Lewis
Cathey, Lynchburg Va; Muir Reid
Clayton. Milton. y. G.; Charles re
Coste Crane, Atlanta, Ca; Andrew
Secrest Crowell. Itta Bona. Miss.
william Denham. stanton. Va; Ed
gar Graham Cannon, Clarksburg. W.
Va; Guy Tillman Gillespie. Cordell,
Okla. Samuel Baldwin Hannah. AR
borvale. Va: Thomas l.ittleton Harms
berger, Horton. W. Va; James Ed
win Hcmphili. Willow Spring. y. c.:
Walter Reynolds Hill, Romney. w.
Va. John Scott Johnson. Duncan
Okla Robert King, Circenviile. y.
G.: Gurdon Foster iiirkpatrick, Ken
~ y. c.. Nathaniel White tuynek-
dali. Beverly, W. Va. Thomas NJ.
Alexander Mclean. Gotebo. Okla.
John Alexander Mawhinncy. Macal-
pine, ". Va; Juan orts Gonsalez
Texas: Joseph Kenton Parker. Floyd
VA; Frank Wendell Phillips, Gintcr
Park. Richmond; Charles Henry Phipps
Fincastic, Va; Charles w Reed, Rocky
Mount Va; Waldo p. Robertson. Bris-
tol. Va; Ja-.es Harvey Wiser. Burke
Vile. Va; Robert Hardy Wiser. Pied
mont. ". Va; Samuel Dwight VIM
Lexington. Va; Thomas Kay Young
Holden. w VA.
. MIR Phillips. one of the graduates
entered the seminary from Iowa, where
ne practiced law for a number of years
and served Tor Il while on the bench
before determining 10 enter the min
istrH. He has accepted a call TO the
passionate of Hogc Memorial Church
Richmond, and viii enter upon his pas
tora duties at once.