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Vol. Ill, No. 17
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
May 27, 1940
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT’S
ANNUAL CONCERT WILL
BE PRESENTED TONIGHT
SENIORS GRADUATE FROM ALMA MATER
IN AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE TOMORROW
Parents, friends attend voice, piano recitals ' FINAL EXERCISES IN AUDITORIUM AND CHAPEL
eniors Bid Their Last Farewell
Te Students and Visitors
Before Receiving Diplomas
Tomorrow
Music Students and Glee Club
Combine to Offer Biggest and
Best Recital of the School
Year
The
1 — ninety-eighth annual class
V,. ^ Saint Mary’s was held this
^oming in the grove beyond the
^ itorium. Seniors marched down
to the
grove carrying the traditional
, “ fervj vt; carrying tne i
chain made by the j
by M ®^®^®tses opened with a prayer
nr. Kloman and a welcome by
;ter, class president,
readings of the class
juniors.
ivir. Jiloman and a v
Trotter, class
followed readings c
history
j,. - by Helen Kendrick, class
win j Douthat, last
and .t®®tament by Norma Large
Pj. -T^nise Coleman, and the class
Tow n ^ by Julia Booker and Joyce
noiirf after that the an-
been the whole school has
Trw’ aw'aiting all year.
announced that Jhe—'
1,-. otage Coach is dedicafed to
Elizabeth Bason. The dedica-
Was received
with great ap-
tion
Worm^’ Miss Bason is a hard-
Mary’g^ ^nd beloved part of Saint
close of the exercises this
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^oin according to cus
as
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presented the daisy chain to the
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day itself.
aa jv.~, class, a custom that is
® * a part of Saint Mary’s as
The annual concert of the Music
Department will be heard on Mon-
day evening, May 27, at eight o clock
in the Saint Mary’s school audito
rium. Miss Ruth Holmes Scott, di
rector of the Glee Club, will he as
sisted by Miss Mary Ruth Haig,
accompanist, Mr. Herbert Bird, vio
linist, and Miss Miriam S. Jones,
flutist. The students taking part in
the concert and the Glee Club have
been working for a long time on the
program. The program is varied
and should prove to he very interest
ing. The following is a list of the
people in the concert: Mildred
Cleveland, Betty Jane Feuchten-
berger, Cordelia Day J ones, Dorothy
Bunn, Annie Hyman Bunn, Page
Marshall, Janice Fitzgerald, Nancy
Poe, Ann Seeley, and Betty Hilker,
each of whom will play or sin^
The members of the Glee Club
are: First Sopranos, Martha Fran
ces Armstrong, Martha Blythe,
Annie Hyman Bunn, Dorothy Bunn;
Elvira Cheatham, Bertha Cochran,
Jinnette Hood, Cordelia Jones, Sarah
liance, Mary O’Keeffe, Nancy Poe,
Virginia Trotter, Elizabeth Wilson,
(Continued on page 3)
^®i*chant of Venice Production Proves
One of Best Given on Saint Mary^s Stage
PORTIA, AND BASSANIO ARE DISTINCTIVELY
^JND convincingly portrayed in best PRODUCTION
OP YEAR
*be oo,.?°™®™cement exercises of
Wejg 1 session of Saint Mary’s
^balcpcf^'^^ ^^*b the presentation of
Merchant of Venice
ClM) ^embers of the Dramatic
Eloj-gj.p'^d^r the direction of Miss
Dp ^ Davis.
critics feel that The
^'ierchnZV . *®cl that The
bility of y Venice offers the possi-
Datic Fni extremely dra-
^herarv is one of the flnest
6fa. J Products of the Elizabethan
’ fo been the ambition of
Jnanv A
T?'® of actresses to play the
L *"tia a ®barming and sagacious
®iinself niany an actor has made
role^*^°'^* Shylock’s memor-
Mary’s production
1 ^®etivp^ n lighting were extremely
beantif.,1 bough simple, and the
costumes lent color to the
eff
Gravatt Begins Grad
uation Exercises With
Baccalaureate Sermon
Bishop of Diocese of Upper South
Carolina Urges Students to
Get the Best From Life
The Right Reverend John Gravatt,
Bishop of the Diocese of Upper
South Carolina, delivered the Bacca
laureate Sermon to the 1940 gradu
ating class of Saint Mary’s on Sun
day, May 26, in the Saint Mary’s
ChajTel. His text was,^^ If thou
wouldst enter into a life.”
There is a difference between life
and existence, he began; we use the
word life loosely. For instance, we
speak of a germ being alive. Soine
And life an existence, and are reach
ing out for something better, thus
civilization advances as people reach
out for a goal. There is a distinc
tion made between real life and an
aimless existence, he reiterated, say
ing that Jesus drew this distinction
w&n He died that we might have
life and have it more abundantly.
“In the story of the Rich Young
Ruler, the young man had wealth,
friends, and an education, but came
to Jesus eagerly to find out how to
find and obtain the supreme goal.
He was not satisfied; he knew some
thing was lacking. The gift of eter
nal life is something which we must
trrow." We are here on earth to
atmosphere of the Elizabethan era.
The efiieient work of the stage crew
under the management of Carol^
Reed facilitated the movement of the
play by preventing any annoying de
lays between scenes.
The role of Portia was beautifully
interpreted and delicately handled
by Mary Swan Dodson, who gave
herself freely to the nioods^ of her
character. The effective delivery ot
her lines was enhanced by the beau
tiful quality of her speaking voice.
In recognition of her outstanding
work in former Dramatic Club pro
ductions, the role of Shylock was
assigned to Joyce Powell. Members
of the audience who are well quali
fied to judge the performance say
that it is perhaps one of the ftnest
ever on the Saint Mary’s stage V ith
(Continued on page 3)
Bishop Penick Will Present Di
plomas to Fifty-Eight Seniors,
Largest Graduating Class
glUW. . _
make man, not money. First the
master said, “If we would enter into
a life keep the commandments. . . .
We need a unifying purpose, some
thing in which all the phrases of our
life will find their place. Psycholo
gists tell us the first requisite for
living is a great purpose.”
“Secondly, Jesus gave an answer
to the Young Euler, ‘Go sell and
give yourself and all thou hast, and
follow me.’ ”
“When Jesus was facing the cross,
what were the elements in his
attitude ?” Bishop Gravatt asked,
and then explained : “He held firmly
to the fatherhood of God all through
His life, even in His darkest mo
ments. His belief in the fatherhood
of God was His life’s blood. If we
could meet life this way, holding the
hand of God, it would mean inex
pressibly much. Our privilege is to
go through life believing in God.”
To illustrate. Bishop Gravatt told
of a father who said to his son, who
was going away to college, “Always
(Continued on page 4)
The graduation exercises on Tues
day, May 28, will be the most im
pressive ceremony of the school year.
It will begin at 11 ;00 o’clock in the
auditorium with the Baccalaureate
Address by Dr. Hornell Hart of the
Sociology Department at Duke Uni
versity. Mr. Kloman will introduce
the speaker, and following his talk
the Sophomore Class will receive
their diplomas. The special awards,
valedictorian, salutatorian, Senior
English Comprehensive Examina
tion award, and other competitive
prizes will be presented during this
exercise along with the certificates
which are given , to those girls com
pleting the required amount of work
in the Business, Expression, Music,
and Art Departments. At the close
of this exercise Seniors, wearing
grey caps and gowns, will file out
from the center section, the remain
ing students, wearing white dresses,
from either side, the Faculty and
Trustees from where they have been
seated on the stage, and all will move
in a processional line to the Chapel.
It will be here that Bishop Penick,
after Prayers, will award the diplo
mas to the seniors. Again the under
graduates will file out and assemble
in a double line across the space in
front of Smedes Hall where the
Chief Marshal, Anna Wood, will
drop the traditional handkerchief
marking the close of another year at
Saint Mary’s. ^
There are fifty-eight girls in the
Senior Graduating Class this year,
and twenty-six in the High School
Class. The following is a list of
the Sophomores who will receive
their diplomas in the Auditorium
Tuesday morning:
Session 1939-40
Adkins, Elizabeth Hyman,
Richmond, Virginia.
Arrington, Margaret Sutherland,
Greenville, S. C.
Boykin, Laura Parley,
Wilson, N. C.
Carter, Anne Hollingsworth,
Walnut Cove, N. C.
Casey, Bettie Jane,
Charlotte, N. C.
Chase, Martha Shelton,
Raleigh, N. C.
Cleveland, Mildred Lewis,
Spartanburg, S. C.
Dana, Anne Simons,
Columbia, S. C.
Davis, Mary, Wilmington, N. C.
Gant, Catharine Ravenel,
Burlington, N. C.
(Continued on page 4)