The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1917-05-17
.141 SENIORS To
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
GRADUATING CLASS TO 5E
THE LARGEST IN
HISTORY.
EXERCISES WILL
BEGIN MAY PATH
Baccalaureate Address Is to Be
Delivered by Hon. Bradford
Knapp.

Ohs nuhqfeu ana forty-one young
ladies from over the state are
scheduled to receive graduation d.
plomas, and several hundreds of
others will be given certificates of
proficiency at the close Of Mississippi
Industrial Institute and College, the
commencement exercises beginning
on May "a and continuing for four
days. The list Of graduates is the
largest in the history of the institu-
ton.
Commencement exercises incidental
to the close of the thirty-third annual
session of the l. I. & C. will begin
Thursday, May "a The commence
ment sermon on the following Sun
day will be delivered by DR.. Joseph
Rennie, pastor of the First Presby-
terian church, of Greenwood, Miss.
The baccalaureate address on Mon
day will be delivered by Hon. Bradfod
Knapp, of Washington, ID. c., head
of the Bureau of Plant Industry
of the United States Department of
Agriculture. On Friday afternoon,
May 25, class day exercises will be
held on the front campus of the col
Iege In keeping with the times, the
patriotic element will be brought into
the program, making it unusually i'm
pressive and effective.
The following are the graduates:
ABB. Degrees.
Misses Flora Ethel Adams, Hatties-
burg; Sarah Fisher Ames, Macon;
Lillian Lowther Anderson, Shuqua-
lax; Mary Chastelette Avery, Holly
Springs; Ruby Kate Barnhill, Brooks
vile; Myrtis Christine Beckwith, Co
lumbus; Mildred Bell, StarkviIle;
Winnie Meade Bennett, Walden; An
ME Rose Berry, Prentiss; Marie An
toinette Berry, Florence; Ruth
Brand, McCondy; Irma Branum, Cof-
feeville; Almarine Brown, Pontotoe;
Leila Maye Bullen, Natchez; Beulah
Burgin, Mayhem; Viola Cole Burns,
Brandon; Retus Butler, Bogue Chit
to; Annelle Caine, Columbus; Ro-
zelle Galloway, Pontotoc Exis Car
Isle, Vineville; Georgia Carlisle,
Monticello; AzaIee Carpenter, Co
umbus; Effie Janeta Coghlan, Lau-
rel; Cora Lillian Cook, Hattiesburg;
Bonnie Crawford, Leland; Mona
Cross, Enterprise; Catherine Eutelle
Grove, Eupora; Ruth Clifton Culley,
Madison; Erma Lucille Curry, Laurel;
Mary Belle Davis, Dadeville; Elise
Dement,. Jackson; Margaretha Don
nell, Columbus; Ada G. Dorr, Epley;
jamie Edwards, Shuqualak; Mamie
Dell Ellis, Columbus; Mamie Rose
Fletcher, Winona; Irma Flynn, Aber-
deem; Mildred Gabbert, Senatobia;
Sarah Thomas Gilbert, Bonneville;
Helen Glass, Okolona; Mary Foota
Halbert, Columbus; Hattie Han
mond, Newton; May Haney, Burn
vile; Naomie Hardee, Eupora; Re
bekah Allison Hardy, Columbus; VIII
mot Remington, Terry; Mar
Charles Hester, Flora; Mary Hill,
Bonneville; Frances Hill, Ellisville;
Thelma Hill, Ellisville; Aubra Hol-
comb, Como; Thankful Howell, Co
lumbus; Eunice Howe, Lumberton;
Elsa Hull, Louisville; Willye Sue
Hull. Lousville Vivian Johnston,
Carrollton; Laura Peyton Jones, Her
manvllle Ruth Ardrey Kellogg, Rose
dale; Beatrice Kerr, Greenwood;
Corinne Kervin, Collins; Viedella
Kuykendall. Oakland; Lucy Lawley,
Columbus; Mary Leigh, Eupora; Lot
tie Belle Llewellen, Baldwin; Evelyn
Lewis, Hazlehurst; Ouida Lewis, Ty-
lertown; Loui Lloyd, Starkville;
Alberta Yvonne McSwain, Hatties-
burg; Charlotte Mcknight, Memphis,
Tenn; Katherine Oliver Mckinley,
Columbus; Ruth Elizabeth Mabus,
Ackerman; Katie Durelle Mauldin,
Pontotoc; Ann Maxwell, Monticello;
Iettye Brooks Mitchell, Eupora;
Ethel Elizabeth Moore, Durant;
Gladys Elizabeth Moore, Clarksdaie;
Naneie Moore, Columbus; Ella Mos
by, Columbus: ARA Zette Nelms,
Corinth; Eva Lillian Noah, koscius-
ko: Jim Kate Nolen, Eupora; Bessie
Clay 0verstreet, Shuqualak; Mar
earet Owen, Mobile, Ala; Matte
Maxwell Pegues, Columbus; Martha
Pickett, Columbia; Ottihe Pierce,
Hickory; Myrtle Pollard, Batesville;
Mary Nettie Pope, Columbus; Geor-
gle Quarles, Greenwood; Fannie Wal
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