The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-05

| 18TH COMMENCEMENT
Interesting ana IIssrucuve Exercises
Mako tI10 CSosin9 Ceeemonics
Tor me Tenn.
Blackstone College commencement
Blackstone. Va. Juno 4.-The an
nual concert on Friday evening. May
goth, Was the bright beginning Of the
commencement exercises or the Black
stone College for Girls. In all re-.
spects the concert sustained the high
reputation OF the college for excel
lence in concert work and rendering
The academic class day exercises on
saturday forenoon were also tndica.
tive OF high grade work and study
The essays read compared favorably
with the best papers featuring other
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that il giving
them high praiSe. hut no higher than
ia rightly deserved, The following
| list names the readers and essays
Woman and Eudcation''--Rut
Hundley Richardson. Glass Saluta-
! torian.
The child"-carrie Elizabeth
Pierce. Glass Historian.
MY Vision" Mary Inez Banks
Class Prophet
The Brotherhood of Man"---Mary
Seward Young, Class Testatrix.
The Development Of the Educa-
ton OF Woman''--Eli Blue
Locke. Class valedictorian.
At the close of the class exercises
the graduates were addressed by Rev.
DR.. T. A. Smoot, pastor of Centenary
church. Richmond. on THE Transng-
ured Commonplace"
Diplomas were then presented to
the following graduates by the presi-
dent. Rev. w. A. Christian, D. -.
Academic Department Mary Inez
Banks. Jennie Martha Barnes. airline
ryn Mildred Guider. Edna Bonney
Halstead, Sarah Eiiza'th Headley,
Marjorie f. Hepburn, Mary Elizabeth
Hodges, Agnes irene Horner. Mary
Everlyn Lilly. Elizabeth Blue Locke,
Mary Leigh Logwood, Pauline Shack
ford Logwood, Lena Norris Mayton,
Mary Elizabeth Moore, Mabel May
Murphy, Ruth Naudain, Miriam Lee
Orion, Louise Virginia Orwell, Carrie
Elizabeth Pierce, Ruth Hundley Rich
ardson. Marie Viola Riggan. Ruth G.
Shell. Emma Elizabeth Simms, Grace
Tululia Singleton, Emily Stafford,
Mary Speed Stewart, India Love
Thompson. Margaret Demaris Trader
Jessie Geneva Turner. Mildred Fulalia
Williams, Susie Irene Wynne, Mary
Seward Young.
College Department: Betty Agnes
Burgess. Mary Virginia Russells. Car
RE Lee Clark. Wilma Virginia Clark,
Ethel Caroline Fishpaw. Juanita June
f1sas ALI d flA Cs~1
lie Wingfeld Hardy, Louise Taylor
Harry. Esther Lucille James. Lucille
Moyler Pond. Mary Selden Ragland,
Grace Marguerite Rouse. Ora Leigh
Saffold. Sarah Katherine Saffoid.
At s=o,elock Saturday night dra-
matization OF Mrs. Gaskelrs novel,
Crawford" was presented by the
college Class Of 1919" When the
play ended delightful reception
followed.
On Sunday morning. the COM
mencement sermon was preached by
Rev. DR.. G.. D. Harris, editor OF the
Baltimore Methodist. The text was
taken fro Psalms 9Th, and was a
glowing and Illuminating answer to
the question OF the fourth verse,
What is man that thou art mindful
of him? And the son OF man that
thou visitest him."
Special music including a tender
and touching rendering OF Rock OF
Ages" by a selected auartette Of from,
| the ranks OF the graduates. added
| much to the value and joys Of the
| morning service.-which practically
closed the public commencement ex-
ercisas.
The night service Of the closing
Sunday Is always a most interesting
occasion. but is never service to
which the public is admitted. 1t is a
college home service. The college
guests are always admitted. In that
number might be the most distin-
guished preacher in the world, but he
would not be invited to preach that
night The sermon is always deliv-
cred by the president OF the institu-
ton. No other could preach it, for
at that time and place the school is
a family assembled for the parting
words OF one who has stood as a
father or an elder brother al the head
of the family for long period. The
family is now breaking up and going
out,--some OF the members to no
more return. Some of the most inn
pressive sermons ever heard by this
writer were preached on these sacred
and segregated nights.
This commencement closed the first
quarter OF century for this institu-
esoAas AhA1 aCSciVu 90 ouGSSSSiuiy IOH-
Quoted and closed greatly gratifies its
! many friends. because there is always
| more or less Of risk and experiment.
ing In changing the heads OF college.
1t was known in advance, however.
| that Rev. w. A. Christian, ID. D.. had
those gifts2 and endowments that
would enable him to utilize and make
the mcst of every good feature and
factor marking the administration of
his nradacASxnr
bishop) James Cannon, ID. D., and to
also originate on his own initiative
any change or new movement essen
tial to the best future standing and
achievements for the school.
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