Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-06-11
THE NEGRO AGRICULTURAL AND
TECHNICAL COIIIIIE CLOSES.

lively for twenty-five years Is DR..
James b. Dudley, A. NJ, President o!
the North Carolina Agricultural shd
Technical College for Negroes He has
developed the institution from one
building, unknown. and inctpicnJ I've
ginning until today it covers q very
large acreage numbers many buildings
Of the best construction, ana has turn
cd out thousands of ST Tents rwcn.
ty-fivc years ago the State legislature
contributed ten thousand dollars for
its support and only Il fcw days ago
the recent legislature contributed al
most 5000, 100000 for The support of the
institution. The cu,,rr Ccnlm,cn~t-
mcnt exercises list closing arc q trl
butte to his orgaHlz!rs Ernius ami
as an educator.
The college bGlS's Of one uf the
best farms in the southland and tech
meal engineers who are experts in
their chosen line. The Machine Prnr.
ticc Shop with Prof Robar, l.. Camp
bell in charge is the proud poSscsso'
OF scvrra. gas and electric engines
made entirely by the students Of the
division and each engine capable f
doing mechanical work. The tailoring,
brick-laying, broom and mattress,
dairy, poultry, and other divisions Of
the college are so organized rs tG
give industrial training OF unusually
high order The best science depart
mcnt OF any Negro school in The
south is located at the college ANA
most of the teachers employed with
in its radius are trained by the
Teacher Training department.
The Commencement exercises JUS,
closing were addresses by many prom
mcnt speakers. The address to tho
Sunday School Teacher Training
Graduates was delivered by The Rev
DR., Charles e Stewart, Pastor OF
Ebenezcr y. Nj. T.. Church, Baltimore
the Bnccalaureatc sermon was deIiv-
cred by the REV. DR.. II. \. Cot on
President OF the Henderson Normal
School at Henderson, n. c., to rac
Agricultural and Technical Societies
the address was by Rev. l.. o. Lewis.
Pastor Eighth Street Baptist Church,
l.ynchburg, Va, the annual Alumni
address hcing delivered by President
w. G. Chance, OF the Parmnlcc Indus
trial School, Parmalcc, n. G. The
Principal address OF the Commence.
mcnt day program was by DR.. Plate
II. Durham, Dean of Emory College,
Atlanta, Georgia.
The degrees Of Bachelor Of Science
in Agriculture were awarded to King
Emanual BrOadhurSt Of Seven SPRINGS
John Sicklcr McIvor, Cumnock, n. &.
and James Robert Walker, Henderson
Ky.
The degree Of Bachelor of Science
in Mechanics were to Caswcll Petty
Johnson. Grcenvillc, n. G. and Sylvcs
ter Carlton Robinson, Wade, n. c.
Certificates were awarded to S. c.
Robinson in Auto-Mechanics; Eddie
Brown, Ray Daniel Hazel, in Black
smithing; John David Chalmers.
James Edward IIaus' cy. William Per-
cival Kelley. John c. Mccormick, in
Bricklaying; Lazarus Battle. Moses
Broadhurst, Noah purvis, and Alfred
Berkeley Wynns, in Broom Making:
to Henry Leonard Morgan in Carpen-
try; Caswell p. Jackson in Machine
shop Practice, and to Clifford Thorn
as Written in Typewriting.
Prizes were won as follows: 'Tlc
a. NJ. Scales Scholarship to James
w. Butter OF Summcrton. S. c., Odan
Scholarship TO John b. Small OF Win
dSor, n. C., Gilmore Maxwell Scholar
ship to James T.. Brown OF Altcnn-
haw, n. c., John Mcrrick, Medal to
{. +. johnson of Grrcnville, N. c.,
John Love Medal to James r. Walker
or Henderson. KY John ID. WraY
Medal to John S. McIver of Cunnoch
N. c.. the Charles T.. Stewart Medal
to Sylvester Robinson OF Wade, N. C.,
and the Cone Prize to Robert Lcsucul
OF Fayetteville, n. c., the Phi Beta
Sigma Fraternity prize to be award
cd later. In the competitive drill Nh
der the direction OF Captain VIM. ".
Green, U. s. A., Platoon prize in gal
icry practice was won by the second
Platoon; Highest squad score in gal
lcry practice by the first squad OF
first platoon; Highest Individual
score in gallery pratice by w. A.
tendleman; best drilled in formal
guard mounting by second Platoon;
best drilled in physical exercises,
third platoon. hest drilled in mammal