The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-05-27
COLLECIANS ARE
BOUND FOR Home
Paris Has Four Graduates Among
Students Who Were Away
To Colleges.

Paris is growing nightly proud
of her college graduates. This June
four of her young ladies will return
with A b degrees from four of the
leading colleges. All of them have
done splendid collegiate work, have
upheld the towns reputation for true
worth and leadership, and each has
made her mark in the college she
attended and will leave a pleasant
memory behind her.
Miss Ruby Humphreys, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. C. Humphreys,
Thompson street, will be graduated
next week from Randolph Macon
Womans College, Lynchburg, Va,
perhaps the foremost college for
women in the South. After COM
pleting the first two years of the
college course, she taught for a
term in Atkins Porter school here,
going the following fall to complete
her four year college course at Ran
dolph Macon.
Miss Humphreys is taking her
major in English Literature, in
which subject she is particularly
gifted She has made an excellent
college record, and for the entire
four years has stood among the lead
ers of her class. She is planning
to teach next fall, and has been of
fered a good position in Virginia
She is expected home June 8.
The co-educational college, George
town University, Georgetown, KY, is
presenting an A B degree this week
to Miss Kate Hickman, daughter of
r. l.. Hickman, N. Poplar street.
who is an attractive and brilliant
young woman. Miss Hickman has
been particularly popular at George
town. She was president of the
Student Government Council there
the first half of this year. a most
signal college honor, and tied with
another young woman for the class
salutatory. She is leading in Eng
lish.
Miss Martha Hickman left We'd
nesday to attend the commencement
exercises at Georgetown. Her sister
will not return with her, but will
go from her graduation to camping
party in North Carolina, and will
then come here for the summer
She has made no definite plans for
next year.
Miss Lorene Lansdall will return
home June %, after being graduated
from The American Conservatory of
Music, Chicago. She is taking both
a piano and a voice degree, being
exceptionally talented in music. She
is pianist of ability, and her
soprano voice, of splendid tone quail
tiles and volume, has been creditably
praised by her Chicago instructors.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Lansdall, Dunlap street
Miss Margaret Porter, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel M. Porter, Dunlap
street, who recently received a de-
gree in music at Converse College,
S. c., will also be given, this COM
an academic degree
from Converse, having carried the
literary work along with her voice
and piano study. She is very tai
ented, conscientious and faithful
student popular with her college
mates and will be welcomed home
after her four years at school.
: Julia Porter attended the gradual
ing exercises of her sister, Miss
at Converse, and will re-
turn with her June l, at which time
they are expected home.
There are many other Paris girls
and boys. away at college, who are
one by one, arriving home for the
vacation months, and whose APP
proach is keenly anticipated by their
many friends here. Ateem with life
and youthful optimism, these college
with their contagious pep"
are missed from the family and
social circles of the town. and there
is always a warm welcome awaiting
them here at home.
Carsey Gatlin, from Valparaiso
University, Valparaiso, Ind, and
William Lasater from the University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va, re-
turned home this week.
Misses Elsa Ezell and Elizabeth
Porter, who are with Miss Margaret
Porter at Converse College, Spartan
burg, S. c., will return June |.
Misses Margaret Blanton and Julia
Hensler are expected home June 4,
from Wesleyan College, Lexington,
KY, where they have been in school.
Miss Loren McGehee, who is a
student at Tennessee College, Muir
freesboro, will arrive June 8, and
Miss Marian Lewis will return next
Wednesday from Wesleyan College,
Macon, Georgia.
Newell Dunlap Of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, and Charles Snyder of Bell
Buckle, are expected next week.
Miss Marie Adams is completing
a Domestic Art course at Winthrope
College, Rockhill, S. c., this year,
and will receive certificate. Miss
Adams, who is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. N. Adams, is an honor
graduate of Grove IS, and is an ex-
cellent young woman. She will ar
rive home Saturday, June IL.
Miss Elizabeth Dumas will return
from Maryville College, Maryville,
Tenn, June II, after brief visit
in Murfreesboro en- route home.
The several Paris boys who are at
tending Columbia Military Acadamy,
Columbia. Tenn, Yancy @. Cald
well, Eugene H. Rison, Kent Wom-
ack, j. T. Porter, Jr., and Jasper
Holland, arrive today, Thursday.
Yancy O. Caldwell and Eugene
III. Rison are finishing at Columbia
this term, and their mothers, Mrs.
Y. @. Caldwell and Mrs. A. E.
Rison are attending their gradua-
tfon at Columbia This week Roth