Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
UNIVERSTYOF DELAWARE NUMBER 54.
MANY FROM LOWER COUNTIES.

The University of Delaware with
the commencement exercises held on
Monday closed for the summer and
will reopen the middle of September.
The summer school opens Monday,
June 27. Entrance examinations for
those who anticipate entering Della
ware College or the WOmen's College
of the University of Delaware next
fall, who failed to take such examina-
tions this week will have another Op-
portunity September 20 and 21, when
examinations will be conducted at the
University.
Students from Kent and Sussex
counties made a good record in most
everything connected with the work
at the two colleges during the year
Just closed. The graduates from Kent
county at Delaware College were: Ar
thur F. Spaid and Irving H. Boggs of
Dover; Charles T. Attix of Kenton /;
John A. Barnard, of Wyoming; Harry
H. Jones, of WoOdside; George NJ. Sip
pie of Milford and Joseph c. Wise
and Thomas w. Holland of Smyrna.
George M. Sipple of Milford, Captain
of Company B, r. o. T.. c., which COM
pany several weeks ago won the Rob
erts medal in competitive drill with
the other companies at the commence
ment Monday divided the prize of $25
offered for the student showing the
most proficiency in military affairs
with Leon Hackett GOrdy of Whining
ton. Sipple was also commissioned
for appointment as second lieutenant
in the infantry branch of the officers
Reserved Corps, U. S. A.
Thomas w. Holland of Smyrna is
another Kent County boy to be COM
missioned for appointment as second
lieutenant and he was also elected a
member of the honorary Fraternity
Phi Kappa Phi.
Harry Herman Jones of WOOdside
won the second State Grange prize of
$40 for proficiency in agriculture.
Twenty-three students, holders of
the State Board of Education scholar
ships, having completed the two-year
teacher training course in education
received certificates. Under the terms
of the scholarships, these young wOm-
en- are now required to teach at least
two years in the elementary schools
of the state 1t is likely that after
that time some of them will return
and finish their academic education.
Degrees Conferred
The 16 graduates of the WOmen's
College and the degrees conferred on
them were as follows:
Bachelor of Arts (Arts and Science
Course)-Ruth Emma Bennett and
Madeline Harriet Dixon of Whining
ton; Alphonsa McCOnnor Anderson of
Elkton, Md; Marie Hearne Locates
of Laurel; Edna Ellen Pratt of Clay
ton; Katherine Stevens of SeafOrd;
Lillian Lewis Thornley, of Smyrna;
Anne Van SAINT of Galena, Md, and
Bertha La Tour Welcome of Milford.
Bachelor of Science (Arts and Sci
ence)-Helen Chase Fisher and Wini-
fred Hanchett of Dover; Marian Graf
fin of Hanover, Pa; Anne Lois Ritz
of Newark and Cardelle Williams of
Crescent City, Fla.
Bachelor of Science (Home Eco
nomics) s)-Brita Sarah Buckingham of
Newark and Margaret Groves of Mar
shallton.
The following students having COM
pleted the two-year teachers training
course in education received certifi-
Gates:
Virginia Mary Brown, Eleanor Lin
da Clemo, Ethel Luella Jones, Beatrice
Jane Naylor, Marion Aydon Spruance
and Marian E. Truax of Wilmington;
Ida Kathryn Collins, Mildred Horsey
and Mildred Hitch Wolfe of Laurel;
Ivy Hudson of Wyoming; Margaret
Learned and Anna Pearson of Ches-
void; Anne Pennewill Cahall, Bridge
Vile; Myra Ellen Everett of FELTON,;
Sarah Esther Frazier of Newark;
Miriam Elizabeth Gordy of Frederick;
Elsie Margaretta Johnson of Richard
son Park; A. Edith Kelly, Md; Anna
Virginia Mason of Magnolia; Madge
Richards of Ocean View; Alice Ber-
nice Simpson of Harrington; Pauline
Elizabeth Walker of KentOn and Edna
Higgins Woodkeeper of TaylOr's
Bridge.