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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD ^ugusitme’sf 3^ecorb I ubhshed bi-monthly during the College year at Ealeigh, N. C., in the interest of St. Augustine's College, Rev. E. H. Goold. President SuBscurPTioN. 25 cents. the poatoffice in Raleigh as second-class matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. maiier. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized April 11, 1921.' SAINT AGNES HOSPITAL Perhaps no better bogiimiiig to notes on the activities of graduates of St. Agnes’ Hospital J raining School for IN^iirses could he found than this (juotation from the North Carolina lIcaHh liuUciin: ‘It may be said without fear of contra diction from any quarter, tliat the nurses who have graduated from this hospital during the last thirty years have done as mueli to ameliorate suf fering among the Aegro race as any other agencv in the State.” Among those engaged in public health work in JSTortli Carolina we find Mrs. Mamie E. Hill Ox- ley, H)09; Miss Carrie B. Hayes, I'JH); Mrs. Mary E. (Jrifiin Street, 1917, and Miss Edith McXeill, In hos])ital work we have Miss J’attie H. Car ter, li)()0, Superintendent of Nnrses, and Miss Marie K. (Jary, 1!):U), Instructor in Lincoln Hos- ])ital, Durluim; Miss Edith C. Steele, 1029, Super intendent of Xurses, Miss Lejoy Holmes, 1925, Night Suj)ervisor, and Miss Emily M. Nixon, lOliO, Operating Room Supervisor in (Jood Sa maritan Hos])ital, (''harlotte; Miss Hettie Hroad- hurst. 1920, and Miss Virginia I). Joyner, 1928, in Susie Cheatham Memorial Hospital, Oxford; Miss Versie llohbs, 1920, in State Hospital, Goldsboro; Miss Rebecca Ilennie, 1920, in Sana torium, N. C.; Mrs. Madeline (iihner Womack, 1921, in Veteran’s Hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama; Mrs. Augusta (Jraiuly Pearson, 1920, in a hosi>i- tal in Danville, Va.; Miss Sarah (ireeiie, 192!i, in State Ilos])ital, Petersburg, Va.; Miss Olise L. Campbell, 1927, Instructor Charity Hospital, Savannah, (ia.; J\Iiss Jessie L. Stewart, 19:!0, nnrs(i at the Negro Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Insti tute, Raleigh, and last, our three here at St. Agnes’, Miss Mattie I). Wescott, 1928; Miss (Jeneva S. (’ollins, 1929; Miss Thelni'a E. Reid, 19.‘iO; all holding res])onsil)le positions. Many other graduates are in liosj)ital work, from one in St. John’s Hos])ital, Antigua, B.W.I.. througli tlm soutliern states to those who are in Soa View Hospital, Staten Island, New York. ^1 liat we ar‘ ])roud of our graduates and the work that th>y are doing goes without saying, and wo lik(^ to feel that their training here* has helped to make them not only good nurses but nurses whose influence is for good in any community wliere tiiey may be at work.—F.A.W. RECORD NOTES The week beginning January 8th was observed as Institute eek.” During the morning chapel hour several members of the staff made informa tive talks about the work of the American Church Institute for Negroes and the various institutions under its care. At a special assembly Wednesday morning students of St. Augustine’s who have at tended one of the Tnstitute schools gave descrip tions of the respective schools. On Sunday, “In stitute Day,” a representative offering was taken and dedicated as a contribution to the work of the Institute. Jiecent assembly addresses have been made by Mr. X. C. Newbold, Director of the Division of Negro Education of the State Department of Edu cation; ilr. H. L. Trigg, State Sujjervisor of Negro High Schools; Rev. E. [McNeill Poteat, pastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, ilr. Newbold spoke on phases of the State education program, and ilr. Trigg on the work of the Interracial Commission. Dr. Poteat brought a timely, serious Christmas message. St. .Vugustine’s was host January 1 to a con ference of the State “I? to 1” clubs, organized for teachers and students of vocational agriculture to promote efficient subsistence farming. Meetings were address(Hl by l^resident (ioold and Su]>erin- tendent Holmes. Diinier was served the guests in the Cheshire Building, and a basketball game was arranged for their entertainment. Among the guests were Director Simmons of the Voca tional Agricultural Education service, President Bluford of the Negro Agricultural and Technical College, (;reensboro, and Dean Staley of Bennett College for Women, (Jreensboro. At the December meeting of the Colored Inter collegiate Athletic Association held at St. Paul’s School, St. Augustine’s College was unanimously ek'ctwl to full niembershi]). For several years St. Augustine’s has had associations with most of tlie membership, which includes the leading Negro colleges of the Atlantic seaboard from Pennsyl vania to North Carolina. The C.I.A.A. is the oldest and best known of the Negro intercollegiate atliletic associations. The Dramatic Club under the direction of Mrs. Julia Delany of the English Department ])re- sented a one-act Christmas play on the Friday evening following Christmas.
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