Sugustiiu’sBecorb
Volume XLV
DECEMBER, 1939-JANUARY, 1940
Number 2
ST. AUGUSTINE’S OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY
At a dinner attended by almost the -whole student
body and staff, St. Augustine’s College observed the
seventv-second anniversary of its opening January 13.
Mrs" Ophelia T. Griffin, ’91, who with her husband,
the late Alfred J. Griffin, ’92, taught at St. Augustine’s
during the closing years of the last century, was the
principal speaker of the occasion, reviewing some _ oi
the high lights of the history of the institution, with
special emphasis on the period in which she was present
as student and teacher. Mrs. Griffin was honored last
year at the meeting of the state Negro Teachers Asso
ciation’s annual meeting as a pioneer in home eco
nomics training in the state, and by the citizens o
High Point N. C., on the occasion of her retirement
from the faculty of the local high school which was
formerly the High Point Normal and Industrial
School. ^
Other speakers included J. W. Holmes, superin
tendent of buildings and grounds, who is veteran ot
the staff which he joined in 1904; Mrs. Bertha A.
Leake, Ealeigh public school teacher, representing the
local alumni association; Cecil D. Halliburton of the
college faculty, and Joseph A. Bennett, °
the senior class. A musical program under the direc
tion of Prof. Charles E. Berry, included numbers by
the men’s quartet, the women’s sextet, and a solo by
Eula Davis, ’43. Kov. Edgar H. Goold p:^ident of
the college, presided. Bishop Edward T. Demby, of
Cleveland, Ohio, was an honor guest.
St. Augustine’s was chartered by i’epJ^e®ent^tives of
the Episcopal Church as a “normal school and collegi
ate institute” in 1867, and began classes Janu^^
1868. The first college degrees were granted in
From the Ealeigh News and Observer, January 14.
JOINT COMMISSION MET HERE
A meeting of the Joint Commission on ^"^gro Work,
a special body authorized by the last
tion to advise with the National Council on the nation
wide work of the Church among
the Bishop Tuttle School on January 10. Members
attending were: Et. Eev. George Craig Stewart, D.D.,
Bishop of Chicago; Et. Eev. Wilham Scarlett, D. .,
Bishop of Missouri; Et. Eev. E^vin ^
Bishop of North Carolina; Et. Eev. w .,
Domby, D.D., of Cleveland, Ohio; Gravid W.
Ilarri^ of Norfolk, Va.; Eev. Edmund H Oxley, D.D.,
of Cincinnati, Ohio; Eev. George "“’f^3,;!
of Newark, N. J.; Warren Kearny, .
Orleans, La., and Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley, of Wash
'Xuients^^nd staff had the
Bishop Stewart, Dr. Plaskett, an p- / Demby
chapel addresses during their chat>el
remained over Sunday to speak at the morning chape
O^the nine members present, “ef
Plaskett, D.D., of Orange, N. J., and the Yen.
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BISHOP DEMBY PAYS VISIT
Bishop Edward Thomas Demby, one of the two liv
ing Negro bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
was guest on the campus for four days, remaining
after the meeting of the Joint Commission on Negro
Work, at the insistence of President Goold, to give the
chapel address at the Sunday morning service on Janu
ary 14. He was a guest at the Anniversary Banquet
on January 13.
In a letter to President Goold, expressing “apprecia
tion for the kindness and hospitality,” he writes:
“I do not regret remaining over to be the guest
speaker—the pleasure was all mine. I am all the better
for remaining; the stay was most profitable to me in a
number of ways. I enjoyed every number of the pro
gram of the 72nd anniversary of the institution, the
basketball games, and was delighted with the tangible
e\"idences of the industrial and economic advancement
of the colored people of Ealeigh; but above all with
the character of the work that is being done, not only
in the college, but in the Bishop Tuttle Training
School, the Nurse Training School and the hospital,
as well as on the farm; all under your general super
vision. You have done and are doing a most outstand
ing piece of educational work.”
Bishop Demby was consecrated suffragan bishop of
Arkansas and the Province of the Southwest in 1918.
He served in that area and later in Tennessee. Since
his resignation last year he has made his home in
Cleveland, Ohio. He continues to serve the Church,
however, being especially interested and active in pro
moting the Church’s grooving work among college stu
dents. In recent months he has visited several Negro
colleges in various parts of the country. This was his
first extended visit to St. Augustine’s, though he has
been here before, notably when he took part in the
consecration of ]3ishop Henry Beard Delany in our
chapel just a few weeks after his own elevation.
FROM SAINT AGNES HOSPITAL
A hospital is one place that can always be counted
upon for activity and variety of interest. Nor does
that activity always mean that it is in terms of human
suffering. Saint xignes Hospital for the year of 1930
contributed its share in humanitarianism. It helped
increase the population by 188 births, of which were
three sets of twins.
One of the supervisors on the nursing staff. Miss
Katie Thompson, class of 1936, is away on a three
months’ leave of absence for study in Surgical Nursing
at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Miss Agnes Mid
dleton, Director of the iSTursing Training School, is
taking over Miss Thompson’s duties during the latter’s
absence.
In September a social service department was added
to the hospital. Its services include the gathering of
social data on the patients, group work with the chil
dren and occupational therapy with the adults. Through
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