Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29
MT. ST. MARKS ACADEMY
Commencement Exercises Held
Friday Afternoon.
Seven Young Ladies' Receive Diplomas
and Divide Gold Medals md Special
Prizes for Scholarship and
Religious Work.


day the graduating exercises OF the year
| were held before n large audience Of par
ents, relatives and friends Of the class
of 1911. The day began with community
moss. which was said at 6:45 a. M by the
Tt Rev. Joseph ]. Rice, bishop Of Bur-
| lington. This was followed by high mass
| for the graduates, held at eight O'Clock.
the cclchrant being the Rev. FIR ]. F.
ellis, and all the student body receiving
holy communion in body
| The academy choir assisted by the
graduating class, sang the mass by
Erosir. Tho oblgatos were violin, cello
! ard flute, and the solo in the creuo.
"Et Incsrnatus Est" was sung by Miss
| Catherine Daley
Bishop Rice presided ut the graduating
exercises. which began at 2:3o O'Clock in
| the afternoon He was attircd in the
| Episcopal robes, and besides delivering
. remarkably fine address, fcrceful and
| practical in its application, he presented
! the diplomas to the seven graduates of
the academy whose ESSAYS he warmly
commended, and the gold prize gold
medals to the winners Of distinguished
| hOnors.
The program Of the graduating exer-
| ciSes was as follows
| symphony in @ nator .......... Haydn.
Allegro Moderate.
Trio.
St. Cecila's club.
! The Madonna in Art.
(O-History. Agnes Loretta Mccain.
tb.)-A Painter of Madonnas.
NJ. Helen LAWYER.
(c)-Gieanngs from the Poets,
Mary Helena Richie.
Evening Star from Tannhauser
Wagner
Spring song ................ Mcndelssohn.
Scmi-C horus.
Men of Genius Mary Catherine Nash.
Capital NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Martha O'Neil
Jungfrau Maria Himmlisch Verklartc
Flotow
St. Cecilia's club.
Courage .... Eleanor Frances O'Sulivan.
C.ass motto" Fidclitas ct Justitia."
Mary Augusta LAvellc.
ChorUs-"Light as Air ..........G ounod.
Presentation of diplomas and awarding
OF medals.
Address to graduates,
The Right Reverend Bishop.
Diplomas were awarded as follows:
Diplomas for the Latin course to Miss
Eleanor Frances O'Sullivan of Burlingto on (;
Miss Agnes Loretta Mccain of New
YORK city. Miss Mary Augusta Lavelle
Of burlington, and Miss Mary Catherine
Nash of Burlington diplomas for the
English course to Miss Martha Ann
} ONeil OF Burlington; Miss NJ. Helen
Iawlcr Of Philadelphia. and Miss Mary
; Helena Ritchie of Burlington.
: Prize medals were awarded as follows
: First honor gold medals to Miss Eleanor
Frances O'Sullivan, Miss Agnes Loretta
Mccain, 20. L), Miss Mary Catherine
Nash, Miss Mary Augusta Lavele; sec
| ond honor gold medals to Miss Martha
Ann O'Nei and Miss NJ. Helen Lawler.
. The 20. l." (our lady's) medal is the
highest honor in the boarding school.
Special prizes We're awarded as follows
Prize for church history, gift Of the Rt.
Rev, Bishop, to Miss Mary Catherine
Nash gold medal for sacred history T.
SiGt Of a friend to Miss Helen Patricia
MaEner; prize for sacred history II, gift
, of friend to Miss Madeline Cray OF
Bellows Falls; prize for Christian doc
p trine, gift of a friend, to Miss Margaret
l Kelley
The medals We're donated by the Rev
J. =. Rand. Rev. u. L. Coffcy, Mrs. E
NJ. Baird and Mrs Mccain.
First honors are awarded to students
who have attained an average of 95 pei
. cent for scholarship and department
during the scholastic year; second honors
80 per cent.
The members of the orchestra, st. Ce
elias club, are as follows: LIST violins
Helen Mccain, Dorothy Drew, Ressic
Riley; 2nd Violns Pauline Canning