The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1918-05-05
NEARLY $50 YOUNG LADIES
TO RECEIVE THEIR
DIPLOMAS.
FINE ADDRESSES
Judge r. B. Fletcher and Rev.
Burchard Brundge to be the
Orators.

While the Mississippi Industrial
Institute and College will not close
its session until Friday, May "a, the
baccalaurate address will be deliver.
ed Saturday, May lS and examina.
tlons will continue throughout the
following week. This course was
adopted by President Whitfield in or
der to keep the students here until
the end of the session, as under the
old regime many Of the young ladies'
in the lower classes did not remain
for the graduating exercises, having
left for their homes rs soon as the
examinations were completed.
The baccalaurstte address will be
delivered Saturday. May IS, by Judge
r. B, Fletcher, who is native of
Mississippi and who for a number of
years was on the state supreme
court bench but who now is assistant
general counsel Of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, with headquarters in
Chicago, while the baccalaurette SER
mon will be delivered the following
day by Rev. Burchard Brundidge,
chaplain Of the lS9th Field Artillery
at Camp Shelby.
The graduation class is one of
the largest In the history
OF the college, embracing
nearly $50 students, and in addition |
to these, diplomas will be delivered
TO the relatives Of two young ladies, |
Misses Lilly Louise Coen and Lois
Moore, who recently died and who
would have completed the course had
they lived until the close of the ses-
sion. A list Of the A. B. and B. s.
graduates follows:
Misses Jessie Barfield Adams. CO.
lumbus; Mary Lila Ashley, Rock
port; Margaret Anderson, Canton;
Mary Emma Anderson, Mayhew;
Irene Hickman Bass. Greenville; .Bes.
sic Alice Baines, Jackson; Katherine
Lucille Barham, Meridian; Christine
Berry, Bolton; Sethelle Phedre Biles.
sumner; Nellie May Bobo, Clarks-
iale; Nellie Gray Bordeaux. Meri-
iian; Margaret Angelo Brown, Co
umbus, Mary Elizabeth Brownlee.
Columbus; Lessie Louise Burwell.
ierldian; Bonnie Jean Byrd, New
on; Ruth Blair, Shubuta; Lula
litchell Campbell, Kosciusko; Chris
inc Cate, Coldwater; Ruby Lee q
'hance, Natchez; Claudia Chapline,
ackson; Lucille Colony, BrooksvilIe;
larry Coen, Corinth; Erin Rosamond
cooper, Bobo; Erie Munger Corley, i
Frances Rosalee Cox, Co, U
lmbus; Minnie Rebecca Cross, En- Il
erprise; Iris Curry, Ruleville; Norma &
,Lzabeth Cunningham, Starkville :
'eulah May DeLano, Meridian; n
iladys Geneva Dent, Morgan City; v
ate Marguerite Downer, Moore N
cad; Ruby Sue Dunn, West Point; Il
arolyn Reed Ezell, Columbus; Thelma +
armer, Ruleville; Jennie Ruth Z
niger, Ripley; Bonnie Kate Franks; a
Philadelphia; Jane Geoghagan, Fa-
cite; Ada Cornelis Germany, Center
lille; May Graham, Jackson, Cora
reer, Houston; Rachael Una Griffin, il
ckerman; Alma May Gunter, CO. N
Imbus; Laura Oakley Halbert, CO. s.
mbus; Byrd Haney, Gholson; Dixie cl
llison Hardy, Crawford; Ethel H
llison Hardy, Crawford; Elma Har- A
'ove, Shubuta; Vadie Estelle Harri- Id'
IN, Crawford; Maggie Beatrice &c
icks, Sucarnoochee; Jessie Holly
alden; Lille Hockingheimer, Sar-
s; Lucille Holmes, fernando; Olivia 81
owerton, A. and NJ. College; Matte tn
Hunter, Macon; Ellen Chamber be
in Hyland. Yokena; Hattie Belle ii,
Ickson, Lexington; Ina James, Cor WE
nth; Nell James, Hattiesburg; Bes-
e Camilla Jamison. Brooksville;
ianita Jenkins, Shuqulak; Kittie be
ie Johnson, Durant Mamie Johnson, TIE
azoo City; Margaret Joyner. Tupe- cit
I; Minnie Lee Kennedy, Shelby; ex
ne Kent. Kilmichael; Alicia Kline, tn,
Dora May Kirkwood, Wa
r Valley; Katherine Lawless, Mem
lis, Tenn; Jennie Gladys Law. Can Gil
n; Sarah Augusta Lipsey. Colum- pa
IS; Thera Little, Amory; Hannah Bs
elene Loeb, Hazlehurst; Ernestine
'wther, Jackson; Martha Mellone
'wther, jackson: Courtenay Lusius, wo
eveland; Anna Belle Mcdonald, Sc,
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