Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-01
SOCIAL WORK SCHOOL
HOLDS COMMENCEMENT
Address Is Made by Rev. Floyd
Rogers, Head OF Juvenile Pro-
tectivc Association.
MANY DIPLOMAS ARE AWARDED
Announcement Is Made of Approach
ing Marriage OF DIR. ii. Ii. Hibbs,
Director OF tho School, to Miss
Pcrsingcr, OF Birmingham, Ala.

Featuring the commencement oyer
cises OF the School Of Social Work and
Public Health yesterday afternoon M
lll2 Capitol street was the address Of
Rev. Floyd Rogers. OF I.ynchburg. head
OF the Covington Home for Homeless
Boys. and president of the Juvenile
Protective Association of Virginia Mr..
Rogers was introduced by Rev. J. J.
Schcrer. Jr., pastor of the First English
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Of This
city, chairman of the board of direc-
tors.
THE great question--the social dues
tion-'Am | my brothers keeper? is
being answered to-day in the af,irma-
tive" declared Mr.. Rogers in begin
ming his address. land a spcculatiye
ethereal. and nebulous religion is maxi
ing landing upon earth and is again
establishing contact with the lives as
we'll as the hearts and minds Of men
This mutual intcrdepcndence and CO.
operation is the basis of world
progress. The purpose TO serve spend
and sacrifce-to preserve in sacred
security that right relationship-is the
heart and core of social cndcavor" Mr.
Rogers went on to say, and he claSsi-
fed social disorders under five general
heads-N disease: CD poverty: (3)
arrested mental development: tD the
poverty OF moral ideals and impover-
ished purpose: go abnormal material
ambitionis. nations and rulers.
HIS ADDRESS AN
INSPIRING CALL TO SERVICE
Combating these social disorders
Mr. Rogers spoke % of the deliberate
purpose to deal with these disorders in
combination with A faith in the success
deferred: cd the intelligent Willingness
to qualify as we'll as enlist for this
warfare Of work and sacrifice: and go
the value of these facts as means OF
encouragement to thosc-the objects of
the endeavors of social workers-when
known to them. MIR. Rogcrss entire
address was an inspiring call to service
faction that will lift and love and
save" he said in conclusion.
Before the presentation OF diplomas
by DR.. II. II. Hibbs. director of the
school, MIR. Scherer gave "A brief his
tory of the School Of Social Work and
Public Health. paying high tribute
TO the splendid work of DIR. Hibbs.
and reminding the graduates of their
yates OF the first and only school OF
this kind in the South. DIR. Hibbs then
presented diplomas TO the following
young women:
Department Of Social Work-Mary
Purcell Dupuy, Worsham. Va; Alice
Hopkins. Penn Laird. Va; Mary Hop
Eins. Penn Laird, Va; Elizabeth John
s;on. Warm Springs. Va.
Department of Public. Health Nurs-
inE-Mrs. Emily w. Bennett, Rich
mond, Va; SIrs. Myrtle CONQUEST. New
port News. Va; Mrs. Vera B. Jones
Camden, Tenn; Misses Marion Day
Charlottesville. Va; Helen l.. Donald
son. London. Ky; Helen A. Ernest Alb
inGdcn. Va: Draper Fultz, Fairfield
Va: Elizabeth Harrison. Lenoir. " c.:
Helen Russell Hearnc. Albcmarlc. y. c.;
Hannah Lee Martin. Glade Springs. Va:
Caro- Belle Mcleod. Lynchburg. s. c.:
Margic McLaurin. McColl. S. G.; Ncttie
Oteman owens, Richmond, Va: Vivian
Adair Tignor, Richmond. Va: Julia
Waddill, Richmond. Va; Bettia Jane
WinEield. Richmond. Va: Maud Eliz-
abcth Witt. WITT Va
CERTIFICATES IN
RED CROSS HOME SERVICE
Red Cross Home Service Institutes
Minnie Adkins. Salisbury. Md; Mrc.
Elizabeth Boiling Cameron. Peters
Grundy. Va. Mary Purcell Dupuy.
Wcrsham. Va: Brenda Earhart. Roa-
noke. Va; Lucetta Euck Hill. Locust
Dale. Va; Mrs. Walter a. Holland
Danrilfe. Va; Mary Hook!ns. Penn
Laird. Va; Alice Hopkins. Penn Laird
Va; Flora Beatrice Hume, Philippi
w Va; Mrs. w. Martin johnson, Warm
Springs, Va; Virginia Kite. Lewis
burg. w. Va; Lois Lyon, Lynchburg,
Va: Mrs. F. y. Mallory Lawrenceville.
Va; Cora Munger. Ncwbern. y. c.;
Mrs. Olivia Patrick Nixon, Petersburg.
Va; Margaret Clifton Payne. Lynch
burg. Va. Susan Perry. Kinston. n.
c.: Lucy Ashton Plaster, Bluemont,
Va: Minnie Rider Potts. Salisbury. Md:
Hattie Marie Scott. Ashcville, y. c.;
Lucy Temple Witt. Richmond. Va;
Mildred Whitehill, Richmond.
At the close of the exercises. DR..
iibhs was presented with a beautiful
set OF Robert Brownings poems bound
in leather by the graduating class. end
Mr.. Scherer made an informal an
nounc.me1t of tho fact that Dr. Hibhs
was leaving Immediately for BirminS-
ham, Ala, where. on "Wednesday of
next week. he will he married to Miss
Jessie PcrsinCcr. DIR. and Mrs Hibbs
Will spend their honeymoon at Natural
bridge. Va. and will live at 210 East
Grace Street on their return to Rich
mond later in the summer