Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-06-02
FINALS At HIGH SCHOOL
Commencement Exercises To-day
Plans for Closing Of Other
Institutions.

have about been completed by all of
them. Final examinations are now be-
ing held in a number Of schools, others
completed them this week.
The Episcopal High School held its
finals at that institute this morning at
1880 o'clock.
The exercises at the Episcopal High
School this morning were largely. at
tended, a large number of the parents
of the boys being present with many
of the cold boys"
Certificates of graduation were con-
ferred on the following:
Carter Standard Cole, of Penn
svlvania; Robert Dixon Eronley, Jr.,
of Petersburg; David Dunlop, Jr., of
Petersburg; Charles Lunsford, Jr.,
! of Petersburg; Frank Robertson
Reade, of Abingdon, and Joseph loor
| Warning, Jr., of South Carolina.
! Medals were awarded as follows:
Joseph Bryan, Memorial Medal, for
excellence in English, to Phillip Bar
new Shield, of Richmond; Williams
Classical Medal, for excellence IN
Latin and Greek, to Littleton McClurg
Wickhan, of Lorraine Robert lay
lor Wilson Medal for excellence IN
English composition, to Phillip Bar
new Shield, of Richmond; Llewellyn
Hoxton Memorial Medal, for excel
lence in mathematics, to Littieton Nc
Clurg Wickham, of Lorraine; William
Garrett Bibb Medal for excellence IN
/ Shakespeare, to David Dunlop, Jr,
of Petersburg; H. S. Liggett, Memoir
ial Medal, for excellence in general
scholarship to Homer Lenoir Fergu-
son, Jr., of Newport News, Va.
Prizes were awarded as follows.
Reading at sight, first prize, Littleton
! NJ. Wickham, of Lorraine; second
prize, Phillip B. Shield, of Richmond;
for reading, first prize, W. w. Bryan,
Jr., of Petersburg; second prize, VIM.
Mex. Parker, of Georgia; for scholar
ship, David Dunlop, Jr, Of, Petersburg,
James N. Greear, Jr., of st. Paul,
Edward Holland, Jr., of Eastville,
Arthur L. Kinsolving, of Maryland,
Stanley Dubois Peter, of Kentucky,
Phillip Barney Shield, of Richmond,
and Joseph l. Waring, Jr., of South
Carolina; JOINTS prize to John b.
/ Cowan, Jr, of Mississippi, John NJ.
/ Dunlop, of Petersburg, Homer L. Fer
guson, Jr., of Newport News; Preston
! Hampton Haskell, Jr., Of Mineral,
John Ray Pugh, Of Fairfax, and Hol-
lie Rinehart, Jr., of Charlottesville;
Meade prize to John Amber, of ia
pan. Carter S. Cole, of Pennsylvania,
and Littleton McClurg Wickham, OF
Lorraine; Laird prize to LIttleton Nc
Clurg Wickham, of Lorraine.
At today's exercises ". Mckenzie
Parker. acclaimed ''Through Life to
Death" ]. Stewart Walker, Jr., read
"The Black Killer" and W. Waiter
BRYAN, Jr., acclaimed "Marce Boz
Zaris."
The finals of the Episcopal Theologl-
cal Seminary of Virginia., will be be-
gun Wednesday night at o'clock.
Rev. Floyd w. Tomkins, D. D.. OF
Philadelphia, will deliver the annual
address before the mel'bers OF the
Stu;ents' Missionary Society.
Graduation and alumni day will be
Thurs. Jay. when the exercises will be-
gin at 10 O'Clock. Essays will be
read by the members of the graduating
class and diplomas will be presented
The annual alumni meeting vii!
take place at noon and the essaylst
will be Rev. ". a. R. Goodwin of
Rochester. n. Y. The alumni dinner
will he served 1T 100 o'clock in the |
afternoon.
Exercises will be conducted Fri
day with ordinary ceremonies held IN
the chapel ard which will be ur:er the
direction of Bishop Gibson Of Virginia.
These exercises will begin at II o'clock
that morning.
The annual commencement en-
ercises of St. Mary's Academy, con-
Quoted by Sisters of the Holy Cross
will be held at , o'clock the afternoon
of June II at Lannon's Opera House.
a concert will be given June 8 in
the evening at the assembly hall OF
the academy by the pupils Of that
institution.
The parochial school of St. Mary's
will hold its closing exercises June 10.
Closing exercises in the public
schools of this city will be held June
Is. Special programs have been pre-
pared for the occasion. Awards will