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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
ALUMNI NEWS
Annual Meeting
The Aliumii Associutioii of St. Augustine’s College lioUl
it!- iiiinual nieetiug Tuesday of Comineiicement Week in the
CliesUire Building. A largo gathering attended the ban
quet at two o’clock, which was presided over by Dr. Edson
E. lUacknian, president of the association. At the business
ses.sion of the Alunnii considerable interest was manifested
in the growing Alumni Scholarship Fund.
The following ollicers were elected for the ensuing year;
Tresideiit, Dr. E. E. lilackman; vice-president, Ilev. II. J.
C. IJowden; secretary, Rev. .Tas. K. Satterwhite; treasurer,
Cecil N. Coble.
Many prominent alunnii and former students were present
at the annual closing exercises of St. Augustine’s.—.T. K. S.
In a letter to C. N. Coble, ’o.j, treasurer of the general
Alumni Association, Jliss Esther Ford, ’38, announces the
organization of a St.,Augustine’.s Club in Columbus County,
North Carolina, of which she is secretary-treasurer. Other
members are Mrs. Clara I5ond Hicks, supervisor of Colum
bus (’ount,v sch(M)ls, president; Mrs. (Jladys Ix)ngley, Mrs.
Pierce, Woodrow AV. .Jacobs, ’.'iC, and Rozia Singletary, ’:?7.
Miss Ford writes; “A few weeks ago wc gave a prize in a
c(mnt,v-wide contest for the beautification of school grounds
and buildings. For the coming year wo plan to offer a
scholarship.” A donation was sent to the general alumni
fund. Mr. ('oble reports that an active alumni group in
Tarboro, N. C., also sent in a si>ecial donation.
Walter A. McLaughlin, ’.’U, is i>rincipal of the high and
elementary scliool of Ooldston, X. C. The school has been
made ii full, accredited high school under his principalship.
A new building has been erected, the high school enroll
ment trii)led, and the staff increased from four to nine
teachers since Mr. McLaughlin took charge four years ago.
William McLaughlin, ’38, is rt teacher in the same school.
William M. I’erry, ’32, has been elected i)rincii>al of St.
Alark’s School, ISirmingham, Ala. Mr. Terry has been a
member of St. Mark’s faculty since the year of his gradu
ation from St. Augustine’s, and has been acting principal
since the death of the Uev. C. W. Urooks.
William E. Clark, ’33, is now acting principal of the
(iaudet Normal and Industrial School in New Orleans, La.
lioth of tlK'se schools are under the ausplc“es of the Ameri
can Cluirch Institute for Negroes. It is significant that
two “Institute Schools” should be headed by St. Augus
tine’s graduates within nine years of the graduation of her
first f(nir-year college class. Rev. Odell (J. Harris, another
graduate, is warden of the liisho]) I’ayne Divinity School,
and Miss Artemisia Bowden (Normal, 1000, B.A. ’35) is
president of St. I’hilip’s .Junior College, San Ant(mio,
Texas.
Arnold R. .loseph, ’34, received the doctor’s degree in
d(‘ntal siirgery at the recent commencement of Meharry
Jledical (’ollege. .lulio I’etioni, who took the pre-medical
course at St. Augustine’s, received the M.D. degree at
Aleharry. Hubert Creft, a former student, was graduated
with the JLI). degree in the same class.
Miss Alma E. Herndon, ’34, will be nnirried on June 15
to Mr. Lorenzo W. Addison. Miss Heriidon is a teacher of
French in Washington High School, Raleigh, and Mr. Addi-
PRIZES AWARDED AT COMMENCEMENT
An annual ))rize of ten dollars, established by the late
Rev. Milton A. Barber, S.T.D., rector of Christ Church,
Raleigh, awarded to "that student of the College Depart
ment who shall best deliver an address of his own compo
sition”; to Charles N. Atkins. ’41. of New York C'ity.
A prize of ten dollars, given jointly by Mr. .1. C. DuBig-
non, of lirunswick, Ga.. a former student, and the late ^
Mrs. Letitia I-ewis. a friend of the institution, for excellence
in dramatic expression : awarded to William Logan Delany,
(’ollege I’reparatory. ’40, of New York ('ity.
A prize of ten dollars to the student having the best
record in the advanced field of the natural sciences, given
by Dr. E. (}. Bowden, of Atlanta. Ga., a graduate; to
Robert W. Tillman. ’40, of Brooklyn. N. Y.
A prize of ten dollars, given by Beta Chapter of the
Omega I’si I’hi Fraternity, to the young man in the Fresh-
man Class who best exemplifies the four cardinal principles
of the fraternity, viz.: manluKKl, scholarship, uplift and
perseverance; to I'hilip A. Sellers, of ('harlottesville, Va.
A prize of ten dollars, given by the Eta Sigma Chapter
of the I’hi Beta Sigma Fraternity to the young man of the
Freshman Class maintaining the best scholarship record
during the year; to William Young, of Raleigh.
A prize of ten lollars to the freshman earning the highest
scholarship average in general biology, offered by Dr.
Thomas II. Amos, of New York C^ty. a friend of the insti
tution ; to Frances M. JIayo, of Newark, N. .1.
A special prize of five dollars this year, offered by the
Rev. .7. B. Mancebo, a former student about fifty years ago,
to “the student who has done most for the promotion of
peace and happiness in the College”; to .Toseph A. Ben
nett, ’40, of Edenton, N. C.
A i>rize offered by Jliss Queen Esther Stokes, a graduate
of St. Agnes, to the student nurse who has done best in all
her assignments; to Annie Eliza Phillijis, ’39, of Ashe-
boro, N. (’.
son is a member of the faculty of Shaw University. Miss
Sarah Rogers, '32, will l>e married on .Tune 7 to Mr. .TameS
Speed. Both have In>en teaching in Fucpiay Springs, N. 0.
St. .Tulian A. Simpkins, .Ir., ’38, a student at the Bishop
I'ayne Divinity School, has a fellowship to study this sum
mer at the School of Appliwl Religion in (’incinnati.
Rev. M. Bartlett Cochran, H.S. ’28, is chaplain at Gailoi’
Institute, an “Institute School” IcK'ated at Mason, Teiui.
Rev. Lloyd M. Alexander. ’.'!.3, was the alumni siK'aker
at the commencement of St. I’aul School, Lawrenc-evillft
Va. Rev. Mr. Alexander has successively completed the
course at three ‘'Institute Schools”—St. Paul. St. AuguS'
tine’s, and Bishop Payne. He is chaplain at Fort Valley
School.
('hristopher L. Hunt, the one cum Jamie graduate tlii®
year, again won the Colored Inter«)llegiate Athletic Asso
ciation singles championship in tennis, and paired with hi®
brother Douglas, also a member of the graduating class, to
capture the doubles championship for the second straigbt
year.