Evening star., 1921-05-24
FA|RM0NT SCHOOL
GRADUATION HELD
Former Senator Depew, as
Luncheon Speaker, Gives
Advice to Class.

The twentysecond annual COM
mencement exercises of the Farmont
School closed yesterday with a lunch
con at the New Willard to the grad
uating class. given by the Alumnae
Association, and the graduating ex-
ercises in the evening.
The principal speakers at the
luncheon were former Senator Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew. Representative Frank
Crowther Of New York. and Repre-
sentative Hatton w. Summers of
Texas. Senator Depew has been an
annual visitor at these alumnae
luncheons for several years, and be-
mont was yesterday elected an hon
orary member of the Alumnae As
Socia ton.
Local alumnae attending the lunch
con were Mrs. Harry Wilson. Mrs Her
bert Shannon, Mrs Blake tiilpin, Mrs.
Kaufman. Mrs. Miller and Misses Rhea
Patton. Elizabeth Shumate. Gladys Mid
daugh, Morrie Morris and Eugenia Ham,
ilton.
Radium as an Example.
Senator Depew stated that one of
the things that kept him young was
his regular attendance at the Fair
mont commencements. He gave lit
tie bits OF advice to the graduating
girls. and speaking of Nine Curie.
the girls. he stated that while he did
not necessarily expect them to be-
come wonderful inventors or scien-
fists. they could learn from the exam
pie set before them by radium.
Il do expect you" he said. "to do
light of your influence. and the light
Of your education, and the light of
your high example. and the light of
your beautiful lives and your charm
through all the circles with which
you come in contact; and II you do
Of influence will be just as great. and
just as profound. and just as effective
in a small circle where you happen
to be. as though you had striven TO
accomplish some great task: and the
blessings that come to you as a result
you will look back to Fairmont and
say. That's where I received my frst
Inspiration. That's where I learned
the great lesson Of right living and
high thinking and Of service in the
world"
teen graduates. as follows: Emily
Edison Briggs, District Of Columbia;
Miriam Chadeayne, New York: Lucie
Virginia Crouch. Georgia; Margaret
Tate Forester. North Carolina; Sadie
Katherine Evans. Tennessee: Rubye
penter Holt. Massachusetts; Margaret
Easton Liggeu, Pennsylvania: Rachel
Ann McGill. Indiana: Mildred Pauline
Meholin. Idaho: Marie Louise Mil
bank, New York: Thelma Alene Pat
terson, Pennsylvania: Doris Laura
Stevens, California, and Rose Doro-
thy Walsh. Texas.
Omcers Of Glass.
Officers of the class are: Mildred
Pauline Mcholin. president; Margaret
Easton Liggett, vice president: Jane
C. Holt. secretary-treasurer and
Rachel McGill. sergeant-at- arms.
Among the out of town guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Chadeayne and
Miss Fisher. Ossining. n. Y; Mrs. NJ.
Patterson. Sharpesville, Pa; Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. MoGill. Valparaiso, Ind
H. n. Forester. Sumter. S. G.; Mr.. S. o.
Neville. Meridian. Miss: Miss Marie
Smith Memphis, Tenn; William Brad
ford Thompson. Bound Brook, N. j.:
Mrs. Edgar G. Holt. Andover, Mass
Mrs. J. Hungerford Milbank, Freeport.
N. Y, and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson,
Baltimore.
At the graduating exercises in the
evening the address was made by DR..
Thomas E. Green. director OF the na-
tional speakers bureau Of the Amer
ican Red Cross. Taking as his subject
the name Of the school. Fairmont. and
dividing it into its two parts, he de-
veloped as his theme the union OF
beauty and strength as the ideal for
human life and character.
The program for the evening was
as follows: Musical selections by the
Choral Society; prayer by DR.. George
Fiske Dudley: address by DR.. Thomas
E. Green of the American Red Cross:
presentation of the diplomas by the
president, Arthur Ramsay, and benedic-