The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-18

Invitations have been issued by
Bishop James Wise, president of Beth
any college, and Mrs. Alice Wors-
wick, principal of the school, for COM
mencement affairs at the college, be-
ginning Monday. May %.
A cantata will be given Monday
evening at o'clock in the Guild hall.
Indian Summer is the piece selected
Thursday. May 81. is the date for
the corporate communion at the col
lege chapel at 1880 in the morning.
The closing exercises of the kinder
garten and elementary school will be
held in the Guild hall at $50 o'clock
of the same day.
The annual May fete, which is one
of the important and attractive af-
fairs of college closing days, will be
held on the campus at $50 O'Clock
Friday evening, June l.
The part of the festivities for Sat
urday, June 2. will be the senior play,
Loves Labor Lost" on the college
campus at o'clock in the evening.
Sunday, June 3, the baccalaureate
sermon will be preached at Grace ca
thedral at IL o'clock, by the bishop.
Commencement exercises will be
held at 10 o'clock Monday morning,
June 4. and a reception in the college
parlors will follow, at 12 o'clock.
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The Tuesday Bridge-Iuncheon club
had its last meeting of the season to-
day al the home of Mrs. George Eagle
of Quincy street. Mrs. Frank Brad
ley, who is leaving Saturday for a
trip to Iowa, before going to California
to make her home. was an honor
guest. Mrs. Bradley is one of the
early members of the club, and the
meeting today was made farewell
to her. Those who played for absent
members were: Mrs. w. N. West
Mrs. Lee Redden Gordon and Mrs.
Kistler.
Miss Florence Lund, head of the ex-
preston department of the college of
the Sisters of Bethany. will present
Miss Virginia Leach in recital this
evening at the Guild hall, at Sis
o'clock. Miss Leach will read Ger
hart Hauptmann's masterpiece. 1.-The
Sunken Bell" The public is cordially
invited to attend.
The Woman's club musical depart
ment gave a concert Thursday after
noon at the First Baptist church. to
which all members of the club were in
vited, and each privileged to bring a
guest.
The afternoon was devoted chiefly to
the consideration of organ music. The
program began with an organ and
piano number. "Fantasie,' by Dam
rosch, an American crganist, played by
Mrs. ARA Clark and Mrs. C. ]. Wilson
Mrs Clark is the OrganiSt for the First
Baptist church Two preludes for or
gan, violin and cello were given by
Mrs Clark Miss Helen Phipps and
Mr.. o. e Hunt. These numbers were
followed by paper read by Mrs. B. H.
Pugh. Mrs. Pugh gave a history of
the organ, describing the simple de-
vices of arrangements of reeds of diff
ferent length which were the forerun-
ners of the organ. She traced the de-
Yelopment of the instrument from it's
crudest stages to it's present perfected
state as eXemplified in the great or
gans of concert halls and churches of
the present day. She considered it
from its mechanical, artistic and archi-
tectural sides. She gave also a brief
review of the lives of five great Amer
lean orsanists.
Miss Mildred Hazelrigg. who is or
ganist at the First Christian church
and supervisor of Topeka public school
music. was on the program. She
played numbers by two of her own
teachers, Clarence Dickerson and
Charles Skilton of Lawrence. Mrs.
George Parkhurst gave two vocal
numbers. She took the place of Mrs
Horace Whitehouse. who was unable
to appear on account of the shock she