Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-06
GRADUATING EXERCISES
Diplomas Presented to Graduating
Classes at Theological Seminary
And Episcopal High School.

The graduation exercises of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary Of
Virginia began this morning at ter
o'clock. The diplomas were giver
by the Right Rev. Robert Atkinson
Gibson, Bishop of Virginia, to the
following: Dean Goodwin, NJ A.;
John Lloyd, B. A; and Winfield
Shiers, of the diocese of Virginia,
and the Rev. E. P. Wroth, B. A., OF
the diocese of Maryland. The
giving of diplomas was followed by
the ordination services at II o'clock.
All of the services are marked by
the utmost simplicity this year and
no banquet will be served, owing to
the conditions brought about by the
war.
Yesterday diplomas of graduation
were conferred upon a class of six
at the seventy eighth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Episcopal
High School, of Virginia. The grad
yates were: John Amber, Boydton;
Virginius Dabney, University; East
wood Davidson Herbert, Norfolk; Ar
thur Lee Kinsolving, Maryland; Cary
Stewart Shield, Richmond, and Ed
mund Randolph TAYLOR, Jr., West
Virginia.
The following medals were
presented: Joseph Bryan memorial
prize medal, for excellence in English,
Eastwood Davidson Herbert, Nor
folk; BlacKford CHASING prize medal.
for excellence in Latin and Greek,
James Peasants Massie, Richmond,
Randolph Fairfax memorial prize
medal, for excellence in general
scholarship, James Peasants Massle;
Robert Taylor Wilson prize medal,
for excellence in English compost
ton, Arthur Lee Kinsolving; Lew
ellyn Hoxton memorial prize medal,
for excellence in mathematics, Ed
mund Randolph Taylor. Jr., West Vir-
ginia; William Garrett Bibb prize
medal, for excellence in Shakespeare
("Julius Caesar" Macbeth" and
Twelfth Mighty. Eastwood David.
son Herbert, Norfolk; H. S. Liggett
memorial junior prize medal, for en-
celience in general scholarship, Ar
thur Beverly Elliott. Georgia.
The prizes presented were: For
reading at sight-Second prize, Bo-
CART Ashton Pretlow, Franklin; first
prize, John Cary Page, Maryland.
For reading-Second prize, William
Lee Trenholm, New York; first prize,
John Cary Page, Maryland. For
declamation-Second prize, Sclby
Barnes 'Papin. West Virginia; first
prize, John Cary Page, West Vir-
ginia. For scholarship-Whittle prize,
John lAlmbler, Boydton; Virginius Dab
ney, University; Joseph Burwell Flick
lin, Sd, . Fredericksburg; Richard
Bland Lee Fleming, The Plains;
George .Peterkin Gamble. Alabama;
Philip Maury Harding, Jr., Mississ-
ippi; Eastwood Davidson Herbert,
Norfolk; William Mckenzie jenkins,
Norfolk; James Wilkerson Jervey.
j., South Carolina; William Evans
Martin, South Carolina; James: Pleas
ants Massie, Richmond; Hollis Rine-
hart, Jr., Albemarle county; William
McCaw, Taylor, Norfolk.
Johns prize-Benjamin May Baker,
Jr., Norfolk; Richard Wake Byrd.
Norfolk; John staige Davis, ,Jr., Uni
versity; John Taylor. Lewis, Jr.,
Clarksville; S. Scollay Moore, Jr.,
West Virginia
Meade prize-.William L. Marbury;
Jr., Maryland; Kinloch Yellott,
Maryland.
Laird prize-2ichard Wake Byrd,
Norfolk.
Reading and declamation-John C..
Page declaimed "The Black Death Of
Bergen" and W. Lee Thenholm read
"Mark Twain at Niagara"
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