The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
PRESIDENT PATRICK
|. AWARDS DIPLOMAS
TO JUDSON GIRLS
Baccalaureate Address De-
liyered Yesterday by r. V.
Taylor of Mobile
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
REFLECTS FACULTY
Features of Endowment Taken Under
Amusement and Committee Named
to Push oposition-Perform-
ance ON Campus Last Night

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] piest day in the life of the Judson girl Is
that which she receives her diploma.
This has been College day, Seniors day.
Following the usual academic procession,
in which the members of the faculty, the
seniors and then the pupils of all other
grades march into the auditorium in two
long single file lines, the organ prelude
is played and the doXolosy sung. After
| the invocation the hymn, Round the
Lord in Glory Seated was sung by the
| audience, and announcements for the day
| made.
Graduates Receive Diplomas
! Diplomas were delivered by the presi-
dent. DR.. r. G. Patrick, as follows:
| Bachelor of Arts-N!iss Hattie lane Bar
| field. Miss Esther Mai Damneer, Miss
Wiley Jewell Davis Miss Annie Dainwood
England, Miss Lota Emily Hargrove, Miss
Erlmette Matthews, Miss McEy b. Scott,
Miss Marion Alice Tate.
| Bachelors of Science--Miss Annette
| Louise Address, Miss Margaret Erin
Blake, Miss Eula Maude Bachelor Miss
| Clyde Jane Foshee, Miss Lucille katrine
| Preston, Miss Marion Altee Tate
1 Piano-Miss Aharie Elyn Kemp, Miss
| Katie Cameron McEachern Miss Ruth
| Elizabeth Pettus.
! Organ-Miss Mttie Louise Edwards.
| Certificate of Award in Junior College
Course-Miss Lola Mae Byrd,
| Certificates of Award in Normal Piano.
forte Course-Mss aIittie Louise Edwards,
Miss I.avinia shealey Miss Lille Strick-
| land. Miss Katie Cameron McEachecn.
| Miss Ruth Elizabeth Pettus, Miss Louise
| Maxwell Griggs.
| Certificate of Award in Expression-Miss
| Elise Meadows.
The baccalaureate address was delivered
| by Richard V. Taylor of Mobile.
! In the afternoon the celebration of the
| twentieth anniversary of the Conversa-
| tionai club was held in the club parlors
of the Carnegie library. This club was
formed by Miss Sirtley of the department.
of English for The purpose of securing
| some of the very best talent in music, or
| atory and drama each year for the benefit
| of the student body, and in more recent
years has been the means by which every
| leading singer and pianist that has visited
| America has been Heard in Marion. In no
instance has the price to be paid been a
| draw back TO securing the artist If the
quality of the performance was worth it.
| Informal class teas were served again on
the lawn from 10 7 o'clock
Play Given on Campus
This evening the Thalian Players, a
| company secured in Chicago. and brought
here for this purpose, are giving per-
| Torrance on the improvised lawn stage
| on which the scenes of last nights sunset
! pageant We're given
Those who had witnessed the per-
formances of the Sunset pagent pre-
vious to the final presentation of the
plays of last night We're unable to
| anticipate the grandeur of the scenes
and the elaborate expenditure of the
performance. Many of the men and
women who came down from the north
ern universities to witness the per-
| formance We're very generous in their
praise of the undertaking, and in soma
instances were skeptical of the ability
of Judson to carry out the programme
as outlined but today say the event
will be copied by many large universi-
| ties during the next two years.
There were 5000 to witness the per-
! formance, in which no less than 500
| persons took place, and the costumes
| which represented every period of
Judson history as well almost every
century for 5000 years, there We're no
| two alike. And with the blending OF
| the colors. the movement of the rythm
and the beauty of the young women the
scenes were the most splendid to have
ever been staged in the southland
Recommendation Agreed To
The board of trustees of Judson ad-
iourned today after making a complete
examination of the affairs of the in
stitution. All of the recommendations
of the president were agreed to and
so far as practicable the present facul-
ty were reelected, some changes be-
ing made each year among the minor