The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
ST. MARY's AT NOTRE DAME
SIXTY : FIRST COMMENCEMENT
HELD ON JUNE 1s-DIPLoMAs
AND AWARDS PRESENTED BY
BISHOP MULDooN-ADDREss BY
HONORABLE MAX PAM.

The exercises for the siXty-first
commencement at ST. Marys College
and Academy, Notre Dame, Ind, took
morning, June Is. The program, while
embracing the features characteristic
of the day, was splendidly appropriate
in the comprehensiveness and repre-
sentative character of it's numbers.
The musical numbers, in both variety
and perfection, demonstrated the JUS
tice of ST. Mary's reputation for emf
hence in this department. They COM
prised two numbers by the Violin Club,
two piano selections, violin solos, and
choruses, vocal quartettes and solos.
A class poem of decided literary merit
and class essay, thoughtful, definite
and scholarly, represented the work of
the Seniors in the English department.
The literary and civic events of the
year, the Shakespeare Precautionary,
and the. Centenary Of Indiana's admis-
sion to the Union were the subjects of
very excellent poem to the memory
of Shakespeare and of the valedictory.
Under the title, THE Indiana Cen
tenary and ST. Mary's,' Miss Irene
Finnup, the valedictorian, presented
beautifully and clearly summary of
the Catholicity, established in Indiana
in 1856, by the Jesuit missionary, Fa-
Their Claude Allouez, in the form of a
chapel on the present site of Notre
Dame University and the preservation
of that heritage of Faith by the
Apostles of Indiana, Fathers Theodore
Badin and Edward Sorin. ST. Mary s
itself is an outgrowth of the Catholic
educational zeal, communicated by
them to Mother Angela, and with it's
fifteen sister missions in the State of
Indiana, stands today splendid
tribute, as we'll as a privilege to the
state within whose boundaries it has
grown.
Degrees and medals were conferred
on eight graduates from collegiate
courses, medals from the Conservatory
of Music on four graduates, normal
certificates on four, diplomas in Home
Economics on a class of four, and GER
tificates from the Academic Depart,
ment on twenty-seven young ladies.
The medals, diplomas, and certificates
were presented by the Right Reverend
Peter ]. Muldoon, D. D., Bishop of
Rockford.
The distinguishing feature of the
program was the address with which
it closed, given by the Honorable Max
Pam. The simplicity of deep thought
fundamental truth and high purpose
characterized the address. Finding
his inspiration in the eminently
spiritual and intellectual atmosphere
of the place and the occasion, Mr.
Pam used the evidence before him OF
the splendid accomplishment of women
in the educational field to develop his
idea of the essential greatness OF
woman and the scope of her posi-
bilities. Christian education is her
supreme work, the vocation of teacher
is the greatest, the most far reaching
| in influence of any activity into which
woman can enter St. Marys is the
embodiment as well as the realization
of such tremendous possibilities. The
very colors with which her closing
exercises were beautifed are com
pletely symbolic; above the deep RED
of passionate devotion were raised the
white of purity, the blue of fidelity and
hope, which finds external expression
in the heavens themselves. Mr.. Pam
concluded his very personal and appre
ciative address with the beautiful wish
to the young ladies finishing school OF
leaving it for a time, Living the life
of purity typified by the white of your
school colors, may the gates of the
celestial blue be opened to you.'' II