ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
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ALUMNI NOTES
A Request from the Alumni Treasurer
We are initiating a drive to amass a large
alumni fund, and this oportuuity is being used to
^irge every member of St. Augustine’s Alumni As
sociation to send liis dues ($1.50) to the treasurer
immediately. There is a very urgent need for
close financial co-operation between the Aluni’.ii
and the administration of our Alma Matei, iu
fostering a wider and more comprehensive pio-
gram, in creating new interest in our college, in
sponsoring student activities, and in other ways.
If we wish to exert a worth-while influence upon
the people in general and our college in particulai
Wo must renew our interest in St. Augustine s,
and the right way as well as the best to show that
we are interested is satisfactorily to meet oui
financial obligations to the Association.
CECIL COBLE, Alumni Treasurer,
St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, C.
The President is in receipt of a highly inter
esting annual report on Healtli in the Jv’egro
Schools of Birmingham, Alabama, compiled by
Rose Terry Brown, ’12, Health Worker for the
Colored Public Schools. Mrs. Brown reported
291 school visits, 459 home visits, 892 health les
sons, 188 tonsillectomies and 97 cases referred to
eye clinics. The children in all the public schools
Were weighed and measured twice during the yeai
liy this hard-w'orking alumna.
When Attorney Hubert T. Uelaiiy was ap
pointed Commissioner of Taxes and Assessments
of New York City, with an annual salary of
$10,400, he gave credit, in an interview for the
Associated Press, to his early training at St.
Augustine’s. He is a son of the late Bishop H. B.
Delany and Mrs. Nannie Delany, both for years
connected with our staff.
The annual meeting of the Alumni Assocmtion
was held Tuesday of Commencement Week, in the
Cheshire Building, at 2:00 o’clock. A banquet
Pi-ovided by the College administration afforded
most excellent social contact, following which was
the business session.
The annual election of officers resulted in the
following selections: Dr. E. E. Blackman, I resi
lent; Rev. II. ,1. C. Bowden, Vice President; Rev.
'las. K. Satterwhite, Secretary; Cecil X. Coble,
I'reasurer; John C. Davis, General Secretary.
The interest and welfare of the College was
manifested in plans and projects to be worked out
during the ensuing year.
A local branch of the Alumni Association has
been organized in Edenton, N. C. Miss Tamar R.
McClenny, ’31, is president. Other officers are
Mrs. J. T. Holley, N. ’10, Vice President; Miss
Nettie Payton, Secretary; Miss Sadie Nixon, H.
S. ’27, Treasurer.
THE CONFERENCE
A most successful Conference of Church Work
ers was assembled on the campus, June 4 to 8,
inclusive. About a hundred workers were regis
tered, and an unusually able faculty offered timely
courses. Six of the Institute schools were repre
sented, as well as such distant states as Texas,
Florida and Arkansas.
Rev. Gardiner L. Tucker, D.D., Secretary of
the Department of Religious Education of the
Province of Sew'anee, conducted the course, “Edu
cational Program of the Parish.” Other courses:
Christian Faith and Social Change, hy Rev. J. F.
Fletcher of St. Mary’s School, Raleigh; The Back
ground of the Prayer Book, by Rev. A. S.
Lawrence, Rector of the Chapel of the Cross of
Chapel Hill, N. C.; Church Scliool Methods, by
Miss Louise McKinney, of the Bishop Tuttle
School; Church Music, by Prof. L. T. Caldwell,
St. Augustine’s; Parish Problems Seminar, by
Rev. J. Clyde Perry, Rector of St. Anthansius’
Church, Brunswick, Georgia; Young Peoples’
Work, by Miss Esther Brown, Field Secretary for
the National Council, and Miss Anna Ball Gill,
of the Tuttle Community Center.
A message w'as delivered by Rt. Rev. Edwin A.
Penick, Bishop of North Carolina.
Special features included daily vesper services,
out of doors when the weather permitted; a play,
“Life,” presented by the students who were seen
in it at the University of North Carolina Play
Festival in April; Church Institute Night, with
motion pictures of Brazil and of the Institute
schools, presented by Dr. Wallace A. Battle; an
organ recital by Prof. Caldwell, and tw’o recep
tions. The play was directed by Mrs. Julia B.
Delany, of the college faculty. A special con
ference of the Woman’s Auxiliary and an indoor
picnic for young people were high lights.
Special mention must be made of the Memorial
Service in honor of the late Honorary President
of the College, Dr. A. B. Hunter. The Bishop
presided, and the Ven. E. L. Baskervill, Arch
deacon of South Carolina, conducted Evening
Prayer. President Goold read the lesson. Ap
preciations of Dr. Hunter w’ere offered by Supt,
J. W. Holmes, Dean M. M. Latham, and Dean
Chas. H. Boyer, of the college staff, and by Rev.
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