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4 ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD HOW THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAS OBSERVED The great event of the school year 1917-1918 was the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of St. Augus tine’s School, during commencement week. The com mencement sermon was delivered by Archdeacon Delany, then already elected, but not consecrated, Suffragan Bishop of North Carolina. On Tuesday, May 28th, there was presented a page ant, depicting highlights in the history of the institu tion, with participants from the faculty and every de partment of the school. A historical account of the institution was read by Mrs. Roxanna Lewter Rich, ’06. The commencement address, also of a historical na ture, was delivered on Wednesday morning by the hon orary principal, the Rev. A. B. Hunter, D.D. The climax of the celebration came on the evening of May 30th with a great mass meeting in the City Audi torium. Governor Thomas W. Bickett presided. The principal address was made by Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Samuel G. Atkins, ’86, principal of Slater Normal and Industrial School (now State Teachers College) at Winston-Salem, was the alumni speaker. Bishop Cheshire, Bishop Thomas C. Darst of East Carolina, and Bishop-elect Delany also took part in the program. Near the end of the program the school song, written for the anniversary occasion by William Augustine Perry, ’02, was sung. —From A History of St. Augustine’s, now being pub lished. WORSHIP AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S It is an interesting fact that there are three chapels on the grounds of St. Augustine’s. Besides St. Augus tine’s Chapel itself, there are small chapels, one in St. Agnes Hospital and one in the Bishop Tuttle School. Nurses in training and students at the Tuttle School attend morning services in their respective chapels; but the evening chapel service is a household affair. Here all are gathered at the close of day, from all depart ments of the institution, in the institutional chapel. The same is true of the Sunday services. There is no measuring the influence of the chapel in the lives of those who sojourn at St. Augustine’s. The testimony of graduate after graduate has been given to the effect that of all the features of the life at St. Augustine’s, it is the chapel services that are remem bered with the fondest memories. Many add that the unconscious forming of attitudes and habits built around chapel attendance and worship has been one of the most subtle, yet powerful, forces in their lives. Each year a confirmation class is presented to the Bishop. Those confirmed here have time and again acted as a leaven in distant and obscure places. Hun dreds have been added to the roll of communicants. An effort is made to keep in touch with these confirmed liere. Each year a letter goes out to those of the grad uates and former students who were confirmed in our chapel, inviting them to join the corporate communion on the Fifth Sunday in Lent; at St. Augustine’s Chapel if possible, in the flesh; if not, at some other church, and so to unite in S])irit with those who will gather at the home altar. An increasing response to this call has taken place, and many of the communicants who have graduated send back to St. Augustine’s a gift to be placed on the altar with the Lenten Offering on Easter morning. ALUMXI XEAVS (Continued from page 2) A survey of the College Class of 1937 made by Act ing Dean Lynch in September revealed the whereabouts of most of the members of the class. Of the thirty-nine graduates thirty-four were found to be employed or continuing their education. Of those about whom the most definite information was available, George Harper, Fergus Fulford and Charles Johnson are students at Bishop Payne Divinity School; Leonard Hardie is in the Atlanta School of Social Work and Wilhelmina Roberts in the Bishop Tuttle School; Raphael Millin and Eugene Solomon in the Howard University Law School, Harold Phipps in the Dental School of Howard University, and Joseph Commander in Meharry Medi cal College. Henrietta Kennedy is attending a business school in New York City. Below are listed those who are known to be teaching, with the address given when possible: Gloria Codrington, Raeford, N. C. Corinne Frazier, Winston-Salem, N. C. Clarissa Jackson, Virgin Islands. Lawrence Jackson, Orange, Va. Lucille Jones, Warrenton, Ga. Matthew Jones, Miller’s Tavern, Va. Frances Organ, Warrenton, Ga. Clarice Reeves, Miami, Fla. George E. Smith, Heatsville, Va. Frank Stewart, Mary Potter School, Oxford, N. C. Mary Woodward, Columbia, S. C. Thelma Epps is in social work in Houston, Texas, and Marion Davis is secretary to a supervisor of adult education in Raleigh. It is hoped that in the next Issue more of our recent graduates may be reported on. Robert D. Baskervill, ’25, has just been appointed assistant solicitor of the City of Philadelphia. Mr. Baskervill is a graduate of the law school of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, and has practiced in Philadel phia for several years. He is the son of the late Arch deacon E. L. Baskervill of the Diocese of South Carolina. A new St. Augustine’s Club, composed of graduates and former students, has been formed in the city of Raleigh. Joseph H. Cutchins is president, and Mrs. Bertha Leake secretary. Rev. Lloyd M. Alexander, ’33, has been appointed chaplain of the Fort Valley School, Fort Valley, Ga. Rev. Odell Harris, recently made warden of the Bishop Payne Divinity School, was the first guest preacher of the school year. O.AMPrS XOTE.S Prof. John L. Tilley, dean of the School of Religion of Shaw University, was guest speaker at the morning Chapel services on Sunday, November 14th. Fifty-three men, including every male member of the staff, and more than thirty students, attended the special early Communion Service on the First Sunday in Ad vent, held in connection with the nation-wide observance sponsored by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
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