Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-29

On Friday afternoon at o'clock the
School OF Social Work and Public
Health will close its first session. The
graduation address will be delivered
by Rev. George Floyd Rogers, of
Lynchburg. This will be followed by
reception to the graduating class.
There Will be n graduating class OF
twenty-two-eightec in the depart
ment OF public health nursing and
four in the department Of social work.
In addition there will be a class OF
twenty-one graduating in the short
emergency course In Red Cross home
service-a total of forty-three gradu-
ates.
This Is an unusually large class OF
graduates for a school organized only
one year ago. II appears that the
school Will have during the first year
almost as many graduates in the
course In public health nursing as many
much older schools in other parts Of
the country. In the Chicago school for
example. there were only twenty
graduates last year. and In Cleveland
only five. Positions will be waiting
upon graduation for all the graduates
Most of them will be sent into the
smaller towns and rural communities
where the war has produced a marked
shortage OF doctors doe to their en-
listment in such large numbers for
military service.
PRAISES WORK OF
CHAIRMAN MILLER
DR.. II. H, Hibbs, Jr.. the director
considers the rapid growth OF the
school to be due partly to the UMPIRE
cedented need for soctl and public
health workers which the war has
produced and partly TO the whole
hearted cooperation OF the social and
public health workers OF Richmond and
the newspapers with the school.
Much credit" he said is due to John
NJ. Miller Jr., the chairman OF the
finance committee. for putting the
school on safe financial footing. In
a quiet way this committee has raised
quota of the $4,000 required to sup
port the school during the next two
years.
The members of the graduating class
are as follows:
Department. OF Social work-Mary
kins, Penn Laird: Mary Hopkins. Penn
Laird Elizabeth Johnston. Warm
Springs.
Department OF Public Health Nurs-
ing-Mrs. Emily w. Bennett. Richmond:
Mrs. Myrtle CONQUEST. Newport News;
Mrs, Vera b. Jones. Camden. Tenn.
Misses Marion Day. Charlottesville:
Helen l. Donaldson. London. Ky:
Helen A. Ernest. Abingdon; Draper
Fultz. Fairfield: Elizabeth Harrison
Lenoir, y. c.; Helen Russell Hearne.
Albemarle. y. c.: Hannah Lee Martin.
Glade Spring; Caro- Belle Mcleod,
Lynchburs. :. C: Margie McIaurin.
McColl. s. c.: Mcttie Anne Ownes. Will
mington. n. c.: Esther Oteman Owens.
Richmond: Vivian Adair Tignor. Rich
mond: Julia Waddiil. Richmond: Bette
Jane Wingneld. Richmond: Maud Eliza
beth Witt. Witt.
Red Cross home service Institutes
Minnie Adkins. Salisbury. Md: Mrs
Elizabeth Boiling Cameron, Petersburg:
Mrs Morgan l.. Combs. Grundy: Mary
Purcell Dupuy. Worsham: Brenda Ear
hart. Roanoke; Lucetta Buck Hill. To-
Gust Dale: Mrs. Walter a. Holland
Danrille: Mary Hopkins. Penn Laird:
Alice Hopkins, Penn Laird Flora
Beatrice Hume, Philippi. w Va. Mrs.
w Martin Johnson. Richmond: Eliza
beth Johnston. Warm Springs: Virginia
Kite. Somerset: Bessie Belle Laing.
Lewisburg. w. Va; Lois Lyon, Lynch
burg; Mrs. F.. n. Mallory. Lawrence
vile; Cora Munger. New Bern. y. C.;
Mrs. Olivia Patrick Nixon. Petersburg:
Margaret Clifton Payne, Lynchburg
Susan Perry. kinston. y. c.. Lucy
Ashton Plaster. Bluemont: Minnie
Rider Potts, Salisbury, Md: Hattie
Marie Scott Asheville. n c.: Lucy
Temple Witt. Richmond; Mildred
Whitehll. Richmond