The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
BISHOP DObBS To
Sc RM0N To
GRADUATING CLASS
Birmingham Southern Com
mencement Events Con-
cIude Monday Evening

Bishop Hoyt NJ Dobbs. ID.
LID. alumnus Birmingham South
ern college, is to deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon before the senior
class at exercises to be held Sunday
morning. Commencement exercises
will continue through Sunday and
Monday, ending with the awarding of
degrees at the graduation exercises
Tuesday morning by President Guy
L. Snavely. The comm encement ad-
dress will be delivered by Chancellor
Joseph Neely Powers, University of
Mississippi, an alumnus of Birming-
ham southern.
Members of the graduating class.
of which there are 3S, are a. follows;
Rufus Beauregard Bagley "a. NJ,
Goodwater; Paul Lee Abernethy, Ste
venson; John Keith Benton, Birming-
ham: Richard Edwin Branso omb,
Anniston; Eugene Hobson Clark, AL
bany; Henry Watterson Dark, Alex
ander City; William Neal Dark.
Alexander City; Rufus A. Duvall,
Birmingham; Edward Redding\ En-
mems, Trinity; Lerah Lille EN- son,
Birmingham; J. CASTOR Golsan,
Birmingham; John Lincoln Hall,
Florence; Percy Leon Howard, Ash
land: Erwin Jackson. Birmingham;
Mary Amelia Jackson, Birmingham;
Harold Bray Johnson, Tekonsha,
Mich; Reuben Aaron Jones, Bir-
ningham: Tracey Mitchell Kegley,
Birmingham: Waldemar Hiram LET
stead, Thorsby; Allen George Loehr,
Birmingham; Grady Wilson Miller.
ham, Virginia Nixon, birmingham;
Annie Louise Moon, Bessemer; Rob-
ert Edwin Moore, Valley Head; Mar
win Eugene Moorhead. CORTLAND,
Miss; james Edgar Moreno, Mobile
Catherine Harriet Newsom. Birming-
ham; Anna LaPaSe Neese, Birming-
ham, Ethelbert Brinkley Norton. Biz
mingham; Lorena Norton. Brming-
ham; Ida Taylor Roberts, Birming-
ham; Pauline Sanders. Birmingham
Frances liberia Taylor, Birming
ham, Nellie Waldrip. Goodwater
William Marion Westbrook. Bir-
mingham; Francis Pane White, Good
water.
Medals To BE .wnrded.
Approximately IS r cd2ls. for
scholastic, athletic and orstorich ex
cellence, are to be awarded at the
commencement exercises Tuesday
morning. The names of ; edal win
ners will be announced at the sam
time the diplomas are presented to
the members of the graduating class.
Among the medals to be awarded
are the scholarship medal, award ed
to the student havil the highest
grade in college work; the trustees
medal, awarded to the member of the
senior class who submits the best
original essay; the Conner English
medal. provided by former Governor
Conner to be presented to the excell-
ing English student; tt Eva Conner
medal, exeelling mathematics stu
dent: the Porter athletic cup. to the
best all-around athlete: Robertson
athletic medal, presented with the
Porter cup: Cooper loving cup. class
winning inter-class track meet, and
gold. silver and bronze medals to
runners winning first three places;
Stanton Ready debators' medal. stu.
dent excelling Il ready debate;
medals will be presented to winners
of the freshman and sophor- ,re de-
clamation contests. Junior orstorical
contest, and inter-society oratorical
contest.
Among The Speakers.
At the commencement exercises
Russell Johnson is to represent the
Belle Lettres Literary society. and
will spe>.. on The Aristocracy of
Service" Following his address
Bowling Barnes will spo k on "A
Youths Estimate CT Wilson" as
representative of the Clarasophic
Literary society.
The program for tho junior oratori-
cal contest. which ' Il be held Mon
day afternoon, is as f lows:
J. NJ. Clark, Albany; All Things
Are Equal !. .th God" w. 0. Bar
row, Ozark, The Strength of the
Nation" G.. r. Stuart. Birmingham
rs Wor.I Peace Possib- % P. B.
James, Tuscaloosa, Am erica, The