Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-06-11
University Exercises
Sunday and Monday

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In setting OF unusual academic
dignity and color, the University OF
Washington will hold Its 1881 Com
mencement exercises on Sunday and
Monday June IA and IS, when APP
proximately 1000 candidates for de-
grees are expected to file past Presi-
dent M. Lyle Spencer.
It will be the fifty-sixth annual
graduation ceremony for the states
largest higher education institution,
whose present size and stability will
be effectively portrayed by the pro-
cession Of the faculty which numbers
nearly 400. They will march In their
sombre robes Of black, enlivened by
the vari-hued badges of their various
degrees.
Citizens of the state are invited by
the University to attend the cere-
monies on both Sunday afternoon,
when the baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered, and the actual gradu-
alton ceremonies on the following
afternoon. The two exercises will take
place in the large athletic pavilion ON
the lower slope Of the campus, no
cards Of admission being considered
necessary because of the large seating
area available.
The baccalaureate address, the
traditional charge of idealism and
purpose presented to the graduating
seniors, will be presented by Brother
Leo, Chancellor of st. Mary's College.
CAL, noted as one of the Vests OUT
standing Catholic educators. His
topic will be I'VE Workers on the
Walls" He is noted Shakespearian
and Dante scholar and is known as
an inspiring and forceful speaker.
| 1t is the custom of the University
to invite leading clergymen of various
denominations to deliver the bacca-
laureate addresses.
Professor Joseph Daniels, Of the
Mines faculty, chairman OF the COM
mencement committee, has completed
his plans and all is in readiness for
what will probably be the most i'm
pressive ceremonies in the University's
history. Last year Professor Daniels
attended the graduation exercises at
several of the large eastern institu-
lions and, upon his return, recon-
mended several additions and alter
ations to the commencement plans
which are to be put into effect to en-
rich the program
The solemn religious air which pre-
walls when large college bids fare
we'll to its graduates will be further
carried out in the invocation and
benediction which will open and close
each days program.
On Sunday, the Rev. William Major,
pastor emeritus of the Mt. Baker
Presbyterian Church, Seattle, will de-
liver the invocation, while the Rev.
John Hannum, of the Olympic Court
Presbyterian Church, is to read the
benediction.
Mondays commencement invocation
will be pronounced by the Very Rev.
John McLauchlan, Dean of st. Marks
Cathedral, Seattle, while the benedic-
lion will be said by the Rev. Herbert
johnson, of fremont Temple, Boston,
who, during recent months, has been
filling the pulpit of the First Baptist
Church in Tacoma.
Senior Glass Day exercises are
scheduled for Saturday, June 10, when
the leaders of the graduating class,
among other activities, will plant all
Ivy vine at the base of the bare walls
of johnson Hall, the campus newest
structure. 1t is a Washington tradi-
ton that such vine be planted each
year, on a spot selected by Prof Ed
mond S. Meany who presides over the
ceremonies. An alumni reunion. con-
! Guiding with dinner in the evening
in the University Commons, is also on
Saturdays program.
Vashon Island schools are represents
ed in these ceremonies by Pauline
Weiss Rindal, and Virginia and Con-
stance Beall, graduates of vashon
high school, and Gertrude CANNED,
who graduated from Burton high
school, All of these students have
made excellent records. and are a
credit to our local school.