The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-24
18th SUGGEST I'LL
YEAR CLOSES At
JUDS0N COLLEGE
No Successor Announced Yet
To DR.. Bomar, Who
Resigned

MARION, Ala, May 23.-(SpeclaI.)
Judson college brought to a success
full close it's eighty-fifth year of con-
tinual existence last night when IS
young women received diplomas and
certificates from the hands of DR..
Bomar. president of the institution.
The announcement of the resignation
of DR.. Bomar as president was made
last Saturday and has been received
with regret by all the friends of the
institution. His successor has not
yet been announced.
DR.. Bomar stated in his introduce
tory remarks last night that so far as
he knew Judson was the oldest Bap-
fist Woman's college in the world,
and that while Wesleyan college OF
Macon. Ga. was granted a charter
three years before Judson opened its
doors. that the two schools actually
opened for real work on the same
day.
1t was founded in 1888 and its first
president was Dr. Milo p. Jewett. who
afterward founded Vassarf college.
The foremost honor at Judson is TIC
winning of the Quisenberry Bible
medal. DR.. Bomar called the Rev. Mr..
Wright of Roanoke from the audience
to deliver the medal and when the
winner was announced 1t was Mr..
Wright's own daughter, Miss Annie
Lydia Wright, the president of the
senior class. Miss Annie Dix was the
winner of the second of the Bible
medals.
Thirty-two of the young women re-
ceived the degree of bachelor of arts.
as follows: Mildred Aleine Barber.
Elizabeth Ann Bradford, Eleanor
Boyce Braodus, Eva Pearl Brunson,
fpo To- 1xyn "a
Clements, Louise Virginia Conner. An
ME Gouldlng Dix, Lucille Draughon,
Flora Dainwood England. Leora
Grady. Annie Lee Holloway. Mary
Howell, Alice Leigh Latimer, Merle
Looney. Caroline Emma Lowry, Ma
McDavid Louise McLelland, Christine
Oden Parker, Marion Provine. Mary
C. Ray, Annie Eulalia Rollins, Reba
Sellers, Blanche Victoria Shivers, Re-
becca Stickney, Eleanor Ross Still
well, olivette Suttles, Laura Victoria
Thomas. Annie Lottie Wallace, Annie
Lydia Wright.
The degree of bachelor of music
was awarded to the following: Mil
bred Adair, Alice Ashford Broughton.
Margaret Elizabeth Haynes. Sarah
Margaret Hester, Ruby May Varda-
man.
Diplomas were awarded as follows:
and Annie Lydia Wright.
In home economics, Mildred Aleine
Barber, Annie Goulding Dix. Marietta
Moody. Ida McCoilum, Christine Oden
Parker, Mary G. Ray, Olivette Sui
ties.
In plano, Augusta Lee Johnston and
Nancy lnez White.
In violin, Leta Mae Hendricks and
Louise Mickleboro.
In voice, Augusta Lee Johnston.
Certificates were awarded as fol-
lows: In art. Willie Mai Discher.
Betty Conway Lawrence, Mary Fred
die Nichols Hazel Thornton.
In home economics, Louise Almon.
Minnie Patton, Lois Rudolph, Dutchle
Lee Shelley. Dorothy Louise Strad-
ford.
In piano, Frances Davidson Scale;
cal education, Eva Pearl Brunson,
Annie Lee Holloway, Lila Murfee, Ida
McCollum.
Rev. E. A. Fuller. D. D.. of Green
wood, s. c., who recently held such u
successful series of services at Sloan
Baptist church in Marion. delivered
an inspiring address to the gradual
ing class.
The home economics department,
which occupies the beautiful old colo
NAL home in which John Trdtwood
Moore was reared, was open to the
public from to 4. Misses Ida Nc
Collum and Olivette Suttles. both
Marion girls, received the highest
honors in this department. Miss Mary
B. Davis, the head of this departm ent,
will be chief dietician at the Blue
Ridge conferences in North Carolina
this summer.
ATTENDS BAPrnfsTc CONVENTION
Rev. b Kelly White. pastor of ST.
loan Baptist church Of Marion, is at
tending the annual meeting of the
Southern Baptist convention in Kan
sas City.