4 ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
ALUMNI NEWS
Miss Maria Mclver, ’14, has been appointed
Supervisor of Colored Elementary Schools of
the State of North Carolina, and began her duties
Janiiary 1. Miss Mclver is a graduate of Hamp
ton Institute, and in 1934 and 1935 was a mem
ber of the summer school faculty there. She
was county supervisor in Halifax County for
fourteen years, and afterward adult education
supervisor for fourteen counties of N^orth Caro
lina. Miss Mclver has also served as supervisor
in Monroe County, Georgia, and was until re
cently director of the teacher training practice
school at Fort Valley Normal and Industrial
School, Fort Valley, Ga. Though a native of
Georgia, most of her professional career has been
in JSTorth Carolina. She is well fitted by training
and experience for the very important post which
she now occupies.
Miss Mclver is a loyal alumna of St. Augus
tine’s, and St. Augustine’s is proud of her. Her
office is in Raleigh, and she expressed herself as
being pleased with the opportunity of seeing more
of St. Augustine’s than has been possible in re
cent years.
Among the recent graduates known to be en
gaged in business are Ernest McCaleb and Cecil
N. Coble, both of the class of 1933, who are suc
cessfully operating the College Cash Grocery,
near the campus. They have recently moved the
store into new and larger quarters owned by a
fellow alumnus. Dr. Lemuel T. Delaney, ’07.
Another local alumnus in the commercial world
is P. A. Simmons, ’34, who is a life insurance
salesman. The Record would bo glad to report
on other alumni engaged in business.
The Recoui) has received news of the marriage
on December 26 of Miss Gwendolyn Elliott Coch
ran, ’24, to Mr. Newman McCauley Goldston,
in Holy Trinity Church, Nashville, Tennessee.
'Die rector of the church and father of the bride,
the Rev. A. Myron Cochran, was formerly rector
of St. Ambrose Church, Raleigh, and director of
music at St. Augustine’s.
The former Miss Cochran was for several yeai’s
a member of the faculty at Shaw University, and
is now on the teaching staff of Howard University.
Miss Ellen Allen, ’36, has accepted a position
teaching in the higli school at Gastonia, N. C.
U(‘v. Samuel N. Vass, D.D., ’82, for many
years Secretary of Religious Education and edi
tor of the Sunday School Teacher for the Na
tional Baptist Convention, Incorporated, has re
tired and returned to Raleigh to make his home
here. Dr. Vass, whose office was in Nashville,
Tenn., is one of the best known of St. Augustine’s
alumni.
Mrs. Sadie Perry Herndon, ’31, is a member of
the faculty of the Colored High School of Creed-
moor, N. C.
George Wimbish, ’35, has been appointed
teacher in the high school department of Selma
University, Selma, Alabama. Mr. Wimbish will
also have charge of the boys’ dormitory.
Miss Cornelia Sanders, ’34, and Leonidas Hay
wood, ’32, were united in marriage in Raleigh
last November 28. Mrs. Haywood is a teacher
in the High School at Wake Forest, N. C. Mr.
Haywood teaches at Palmyra, N. C.
Editor’s Note: We print below extracts from
a letter written by Mrs. Anne Morgan Oxley,
’35, to a faculty member. The Record would be
glad to include more often interesting news and
comments sent in by the graduates themselves.
Mrs. Oxley writes from Laurinburg N. and I.
Institute;
“I am doing well with my classes and with
the nice, kind friends here at the school. There
is such a friendly, homey atmosphere here that
I feel quite at home. Our principal, Mr. Mc
Duffie, is most kind. I have three classes to teach
here. Geography, Biology and General Science.
There is another graduate of St. Augustine’s here,
Mrs. Marie Hendrick Moore, of the class of
1920, and she has done splendid work and well
represented St. Augustine’s College. It was the
successful work of !NIrs. ^Moore, a graduate of St.
Augustine’s, which prompted ilr. McDuffie to
employ another graduate from St. Augustine’s.
I am further very happy to state that my ’’Alma
Plater’ is well thought of here. I am striving to
the best of my ability to uphold the standard of
my ‘Alma Mater,’ just as Mrs. Moore, and even
better. I am happy to state, for our college’s
sake, that my work thus far has been acceptable
to those of this institution.”
Among the alumni who came from a distance
to attend the Epiphany service were Miss Mary
Hill, ’33, of Louisburg, N. C., and Mrs. Flora
Clark Bethel, ’24, of Wilson, N. C. Mrs. Bethel
was accompanied by Mr. Bethel, a former student
of St. Augustine’s, and by Mr. and Mrs. Clark,
her father and mother, who also attended St.
Augustine’s years ago.
Word has just been received at the time of
going to press of the death of George II. Wil
liams, ’82, at Fayetteville, N. C. Mr. Williams
was one of our oldest alumni. He never lost his
interest in St. Augustine’s, and was a frequent
commencement season visitor. Acting Dean
Lynch and Supt. Holmes attendetl the funeral
services, representing the institution.