Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-28
.V.P,|, GRADUATES CLASS
/ OF FORTY YOUNG MEN
Interesting Feature of Commence
ment Exercises Was Unfurling
Service Flag.
HAS MADE GREAT WAR RECORD
Great Virginia School Has Twenty
Seven Per Cent Of Its Active
Alumni Under Arms-Nany Mem
berS Of Glass in Service.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.I
pLASNSsCRG, VA, May 27.--ln the
absence of President Egglcston, who
was Kept away by illness. Dean Theo-
faculty. presided at the commence
inent exercises OF the Virginia Poly
technic institute to-day and present
cd diplomas or certificates OF gradua-
ton to forty young men.
Inc address to the graduating class
was delivered by r. RI. Willis. OF Roa-
noke, who also presented the service
nag TO the college on behalf OF the
Alumni association. John Thompson
Brown. rector of the board Of visitors
received the nag for the college. and
MISS Alice HoGe. of Biacksburs, pulled
the cord that unfurled the flag with
It's 40 stars. The audience stood while
the Nag was unfurled in the corner
Of the hall. and sang the Star-Spangled
Banner as "a climax TO the most pa
triot!c and historic event in the history
OF the institution.
After the procession OF faculty
alumni. student body and distinguish
ed visitors marched into the audi
torium, Rev. ID. J. Woods. senior
Dean Campbell introduced the speaker
of tho day.
MI. Willis made a brief address on
the causes leading up 10 the war and
dwell; on the part that Tech men are
taking in the great struggle. He con-
Guided with few inspiring sentences
and presented the flag.
In receiving The flag. ]. Thompson
Brown reviewed briefly the statistics
showing the number OF V. 2. /. men
now under arms, the record OF COM
missions secured In the camps, almost
100 per cent. and that 81 per cent OF
the active alumni were now under
arms. This is record for all coll
leges and universities and more by
from : TO 10 per cent than Yale.
Harvard. Princeton. or the University
Of Virginia. An army officer had
stated. he said. that college down in
the mountains OF Southwest Virginia
was carrying of al the honors for it's
State in the war.
FORTY ARE GIVEN
DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES
Dean Campbell presented twenty
nine young men with the degree OF
bachelor OF science, one with the
master Of science degree. two with the
degree OF mechanical engineer and
awarded certificates OF graduation 10
eight students. The exercises closed
with the singing OF Aud Lang Svne
and the bencdiction.
a number of the young men whose
names were read out to-day as
recipients OF uegreeS are already IN
the service, and one. Lewis Edwin
Henley. OF Norfolk, died within Il few
weeks Of lis graduation day.
AS Mr.. Henleys name was called the
audience rose as a silent tribute TO his
memory. The following is the list of
those receiving degrees and certificates:
Bachelors Of sc!ence-Tyler Frazier
Akers. Snowville. Va; Reps Meade
Reville, Crcwe, Va; Conway Russell
BloHton. Falls Church. Va: George
Edward Caffec. Norfolk. Va; Edwin
William Digses. Waterloo. Va: Clar-
ence Henry Driskill, Forest Depot. Va ::
John Wesley Goodman, Cumberland
Va; Archibald Chapman Harrison
Tunstali. Va; Lee Edwin Henley. Nor
folk. Va; Gordon Ear! Johnson. Roa-
noke. Va; George Graham Lancaster,
Richmond. Va; Roger Nathaniel Lee
Fevre, Newport News. Va: Joseph
Hoves Luscinian. Egin. Armenia;
Charles Wade Miller, Chicago. Ill
Baxter Mcintosh, Columbia. s. c.. Will