The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
BIC Bible CLASS
Mrs. Menninger's Eleventh An
nuaI Commencement.
Fifty-Three Women VIII Re-
ceive Recognition for Work.
TEACHING CLASSES 10 YEARS
Nearly 900 Women and Girls
Have Been Graduated.
Course of Study Has Been
Taught in Fourteen Towns.
TEACHING CLASSES 10 YEARS

The eleventh annual commencement
of Mrs. c. F. Menninger's Bible classes
will take place tonight at o'clock
at the First Presbyterian church
Fiftythree women will receive recog-
milton for graduate or postgraduate
work.
a feature of tonight's program will
be a review of the years work by
stereopticon views of Hoffman's cele-
brated pictures portraying The Life
of Christ" The entire class will par
ticipate in a drill on the subjects stud
led during the year. DR.. S. S. Estey,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. will deliver the commence
ment address.
Graduates Tonight.
The list of tonights graduates fol-
lows:
Four-year course-Achenbach, Miss
Elizabeth: Boam, Miss Pearl May;
Burkhart Mrs. E. A; Craven, Miss
Florence; Everett, Mrs. Elizabeth,
Paola, KAN; Ferguson, Miss Amy;
Keller. Mrs. Norman E.; Lyon, Miss
Alma; Mills, Mrs. Emma White; owen,
Miss Ethel; Owen. Miss Olive; Peers,
Miss Esther: Rees, Mrs. Adah Lorena;
Rude, Miss Olive; Skinner, Mrs. J. H;
Thorpe, Mrs. L. G.; Warren, Mrs. H.
o.; White. Mrs. H. NJ; Whitney, Mrs.
o. F.: Schesser, Mrs. ]. V, Lawrence,
Mass
Five-year course-Miss Laura Bev
erly, Mrs. NJ. w. Cardwell Miss Nellie
Conklin. Mrs. Robert D. Carver, Miss
Nina Gillett, Miss Elma Holmes, Mrs.
r. S. Magee, Mrs J. D. Pratt, Mrs.
Ollie p. Price. Mrs. j. M Quail, Mrs.
w. f. Scotch, Mrs. Margaret Shad-
niger, Mrs. j. a. Stoner and Mrs. G
+. Worley.
Miss Nina Campbell, Mrs. Hiram c.
Root and Mrs T @ Whital<Pr
Seven-year course-Miss Mary
Coleman, Miss Elizabeth Harkins.
Miss Mabel Holmes, Mrs. r. c. Klop-
fer, Miss Jennie Maxwell, Mrs. George
Jr., Reed. Mrs. Aida True, Perry.
Kansas. Miss Mary Vasholtz and Miss
Antoinette Williams.
Eight or more years-Miss Jessie
Campbell, Mrs. J. w F. Hughes, Mrs.
G. w. Parkhurst. Mrs. E. S. Quinton,
Mrs. H. L. Shirer, Mrs. Chas. Wore
and Mrs. E. J. Whitaker.
At Every Recitation.
Mrs. Keller and Miss Craven were
present at every recitation through
four years. Mrs. White and Miss
Olive Owen were absent only once in
four years, and Mrs. Wore only once
in six years. Mrs. Reed and Miss
Harkins have each only been absent
twice in seven years. Forty-six mem
berS of the class were present for ev-
cry recitation this year and 35 were
absent just once.
Mrs. ]. F. True. member of the five
year course, teacher of class in
Perry of % members, will be present
with the class tonight. Mrs. Elizabeth
Everett. graduate of this years class,
and leader of a class of 80 in their
third year at Paola- will also be pres
ent. Mrs. G. F. Morley. five year
graduate is the leader of class of
so at Holton. Mrs. Worley goes to
Holton every Monday to meet her
classes.
In Fourteen Towns.
In IA towns in Kansas where Mrs.
c. F. Menninger's course of Bible
study is being taught. the teachers are
enrolled in her Topeka class.
The teachers of classes in Laramie,
Wyo., Drumright, Okla. Waverly. Va,
Spokane. Wash, Marshalltown, Iowa,
Columbus. Ohio, and Bakersfield, Cal.
are enrolled in the present Topeka
class and have done the same work
during the past year.
Thousands of Questions
During the 10 years that Mrs.
Menninger has been teaching her
Bible classes in Topeka public recog-
and girls for doing four or more
years of work. Somewhere between
1000 and 10000 questions must be
actually answered and written cut by
every person who secures recognition
for four years work
A feature of the last recitation of
the year is the marking of the books
This took place last Tuesday at the
Young Women'S Christian aSSocia ton
banquet was given at noon for the
day classes, at which $50 were pres
ent and at night for the Y. w. C. A
class and was attended by almost 100