Smyrna times., 1920-06-16
ACADEMY Or WILMINGTON
CONFERENCE MAKES REPORT
COMMENCE WEEK OF WESLEY
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, DOVER
DIR. Swartz, of Baltimore, Makes Adj
dress to Graduating Class.-Rev.
Nichols, of Smyrna, a Trustee


The f orty-seventh annual com
mencement exercises of Wesley Col
,aoiate Institute were held last week.
Seventeen students were gra luated
this wear. Rev. Ransom ?. Nichols, OF
SMYRNA. was elected to the board of
trustees.
The Baccalaureate sermon was de-
livered on Sunday morning in Wesley
IT. d. Church by DR.. Morris E. Swartz
{; Baltimore, Md. DR.. Morris and DR..
Budd. President of the Institute were
chuns while attending Dickinson Col
lege.
At the annual meeting of the trus-
tees held on Tuesday morning, Presl-
dent Arley B. Magee submitted his
annual report of the financial condi-
tion of the institution, as follows:
General fund account receipts
Balance on hand June 1, 1919, ST.
8O3.21: received from interest on in
vestments, $6,857.25; from endow-
ment fund for purchase of Liberty
oLan Bonds, $9,3O0.0O; from Board OF
Education of Methodist Episcopal
Church, S3,53A.G6; total, $21,495.12.
! Income account rcceipts-Profit on
/ purchase OF Liberty Loan Bonds,
h $3.50. %; received from interest on in
| vestments, Sc,o17.25 from Board of
Education Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, $3,53466; total, $1O,882.13.
Sinking fund account, receipts
From General Fund, 20 per cent of
Il gross income, $2,17642.
l Balance of cash on hand June /,
/ 1920, $4,2O9.8O.
II Endowment fund account, receipts
III Collections to June 1, 1918, $780,
y 618.88; collections from June l, 1918
N to June l, 1919, S76,558.27; from June
n l, 1919 to June 1, 1920, $32,653.0O;
\ total, S132,83O15.
Il Vacancies in the Board of Trustees
n caused by the designations of E. L.
III Hoffecker and Robert Watt were filled
" by the election of Rev. George c. Will
liams of Wilmington and Rev. Disstor
III w. Jacobs, of Bridgeville. sRev. Ran
III som P. Nichols, of Smyrna, was elect
III ed to the vacancy caused by the deatl
III of Rev. g. T. Wyatt, of Denton, Nd
III The trustees approved of the facul
y ty selected by Principal H. G. Budd
IS the same as that of last year with tn
. exception of Miss Pauline Wilson, ar
teacher, to succeed Miss Parker; Mis-
. Louise VanDyke, short hand and type
! writer, and Miss Maude c. Stanley
vocal and extra piano teacher.
| Following the meeting and lunch
| con, Glass Day exercises were held i
assembly hall and were largely at
tended.
The annual musical, in charge o
| the musical teaching of the faculty
| took place Tuesday evening in assem-
bly, hall.
The commencement exercises prop
er were held on Wednesday evenin
| in the Nixon Opera House. The &C
| dress to the graduates was delivere
/ by Rev. J. w. R. Sumwalt, D. D., pas
/ tor of Grace M. E. Church, Whining
ton.
The graduates included the follow
| ing: Academic Department-MissC
Rose S. Buckson, Dorothy H. Ian
1 Anna L. Raughley, Evelyn P SIM
I son and Ralph K. Hoch. Recommen
ed for graduation in the Comperci
Department-W. Lloyd Barbon, jam
H. Corwin, Charlotte E. Clarke, Hell
Cohee, Katherine H. DOdd, William
Downing, Howard H. Hutchins, Jol
N. Payne, Margaret n. Smith, Sc
Hastings, Ernest Keith, Martin
GIier.