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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
RECORD NOTES
A regional meeting of Alumni and friends of the
Bishop Payne Divinity School, of Petersburg, Vir
ginia, was held at St. Augustine’s on February 25th,
under the auspices of the American Church Institute
for Negroes. At the meeting resolutions were adopted
advocating the removal of the Institution to Raleigh,
so that it may be near St. Augustine’s College and
enjoy affiliation with it.
Plans were also made for raising money toward the
building and equipment program of the School.
Since that time the Trustees of the Bishop Payne
Divinity School have voted that the removal of the
School to Raleigh is desirable and plans are being
matured with this end in view.
Mrs. Mabel C. Latham, Matron and Dean of Women,
recently attended a very helpful conference of Ad
visors of College women held at Talladega College in
Alabama. This meeting was sponsored by the National
Negro Association of College Women.
A group of St. Augustine’s students under the
direction of Mrs. Julia Delany presented a short
play, “Ridin’ the Goat,” at the Annual Festival of the
Carolina Dramatic Association held at the University
of North Carolina, the latter part of March. The St.
Augustine’s Players were enthusiastically applauded
and have received numerous favorable criticisms on
their performance, including commendation from
Mr. Frederick Koch, director of the Carolina Play-
makers, and Mr. N. C. Newbold, State Director of
Negro Education.
St. Augustine’s will this year graduate its first
four-year college Class, with appropriate degrees,
at Commencement, May 27th.
The Alumni Association is urging graduates and
former students to attend the Commencement exer
cises and celebrate a Home Coming in recognition
of the event.
The Choral Club, under the direction of Mr. Cald
well, rendered a beautiful Musical of Easter music
on the afternoon of the First Sunday after Easter.
The College Chapel was crowded with students and
friends from Raleigh. .
Beautiful palms for the College Chapel were sent
us for the Palm Sunday service by Mr. J. C. DuBig-
non, of Brunswick, Ga., a former student, and by Mr.
John T. Clark, of Tampa, Fla., the father of one of
our present students.
Clergy who have recently given sermons or ad
dresses in the College Chapel inclu(Ve the Rev.
Bravid W. Harris, rector of Grace Church, Norfolk,
Virginia; the Rev. Eugene Henderson, rector of St.
Titus Church, Durham, N. C.; the Rev. Jacob Jones,
rector of All Saints Church, Warrenton, N. C., and
our Honorary President, the Rev. Dr. A. B. Hunter.
Captain B. Frank Mountford of the Church Army
has also visited the campus and talked to the stu
dents In the Chapel and at the Bishop Tuttle School.
One of the most loyal former students of St.
Augustine’s, Mrs. Polly King, widow of the late Rev.
James E. King, died in Wilmington, N. C„ on April
(ith. Her loss is mourned by many friends through
out the State.
The St. Augustine’s Conference for Clergy and
other Church workers will be held the first week in
June. Full Information can be secured from the
Executive Secretary, Mr. Arthur P. Chippey, St.
Augustine’s College.
The March Issue of the North Carolina Teachers’
Record, published by the North Carolina Negro
Teachers’ Association, contains an article on the
teaching of General Science in Secondary Schools by
Professor Chippey, the head of the St. Augustine’s
College Science Department.
THE BISHOP TUTTLE SCHOOL
There is a Woman’s Auxiliary branch in the Tuttle
School with six members, and every member is an
officer, so that we cover the work of the Auxiliary
by activity in each department. Aside from that the
regular work of the school brings us in touch with
the various phases, for the problems with which the
girls are working in their training are those with
which the Auxiliary deals. Religious education,
social service, missions, the United Thank Offering—
they are the very foundation stones on which we
build.
The end of the year is in sight now, and excitement
runs high as positions for the seniors are secured,
and summer work for the juniors is arranged. Pros
pects are bright for them all and the emphasis this
year is stronger for Church work than it has been
before. The field work is coming to a triumphant
close with a Mother and Daughter Banquet to which
every Negro club and organization in Raleigh will
contribute something. We are almost ready to move
over the hundred and thirty children, members of the
various clubs, now raging through this house, to the
beautiful little Community House that Mrs. Hunter
has provided for us just around the corner. It
means the greatest expansion of our usefulness and
will afford many valuable opportunities. The class
in handicrafts has some truly lovely pottery to show,
and is working now on rugs.
Meanwhile regular class work goes on, with out
side speakers and interesting guests and an occas
ional party. Gardening has revived and the enthus
iastic interest and cooperation of some of the seniors
have greatly stimulated our landscape hopes.
I w’as utterly dismayed, before coming to St. Au
gustine’s, by Deaconess Carter’s saying that I should
have to learn to ask for money, and have been con
gratulating myself through the years because I have
had so little of it to do. But when a grandchild
appears, courage rises, and now I am eager to ask for
help for the new activities at the Community House.
It must be furnished and run, I know well that we
have good friends who will be interested to share in
one or the other of those aspects of the work. We
need equipment for every kind of club. We need
furniture for a living room, a large enclosed piazza,
a reading room, a kitchen. There are two bed rooms.
Can’t you see the possibilities? B. R.