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SAINT MARY’S
HISTORICAL
MARKER
FINAL ISSUE
Belles
GOOD-BY,
SCHOOL
OF SAINT MARY’S
' V, No. 16
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
May 15, 1942
College and 38 High Art, Home Ec, and
School Diplomas Given Library Exhibits
Seniors and Sophomores Plan
Future. Some to Attend
College, Others to Work or Rest
, In Saint Mary’s Centennial year,
°^ty-four seniors will receive diplo-
nias. From the High School Depart-
^ent thirty-eight will graduate. This
year
fiv
s senior class is the smallest in
years. In 1937-38 there were
„‘ty-two graduates; in 1938-39, fifty-
1939-40, fifty-eight; 1940-41,
^1^-seven.
Irom the senior class, Carolina
nil p - - ’ - -
feaint
Bernhardt, Betty Bronson,
- •, oCliA«-/Jl V/lilOOj V_yCll v/i.AJlc*.
o'h draw the largest number of
jj^mt Mary’s girls. Allie Bell,
^ebe Castleman, Carol Cobh, Olivi
^anston, Cecelia Dicks, Ida Quin-
On ’. H-ay Roper, Eleanor Shelton,
ivia Anne Smith, and Betty Wal-
will all be there.
, seniors, Martha Ann Battle,
Dunn, Jean Fulton, Mildred
Charlotte Mahan, and Betty
^la Eandolph-
Lyon and Jonny Norman
> ^.attend Duke. Nancy Peete and
Taylor will be at Duke school
,:^ursing.
n Woman’s College will have
r, ace Butler, Anna Fluck, and Mary
Upshaw.
ivili r Uarnard and Minkie Clarke
hi u University of Ken-
Vpv ^ary-Gene Kelly at the Uni-
the^^T? Texas; Dolores Mullett at
Lo
J^^lj Carolyn West at Salem; Pat
Toll ^^^Liam and Mary; and
LTv at Converse.
^onh' U4a Dunn Harris, and
Redwood will be taking husi-
IV'r^ .^^'^^ses. Peggy Beale, Mary
Fjl^^at Holland, Jean Motter, and
file TT • ±.»uiuics j-vi-uiieu,
P , diversity of Arkansas; Ruth
at Hollins; Carolyn Cauble
libb^ Ulilegar will relax at home.
?at
Fr
an^j ^ ^Uin Jones, Bunny Stribling,
\vb„i Thuston have not decided
they will do.
the High School Depart-
^etsvBassett, Jane K. Bell,
Clark n Meredith Boaze, Jane
tig Cheshire, Louise Gower, Bet-
lU^hey Thomas, and
at 'Finslow will all be hack here
n ®^int Mary’s.
Clarkson, Nancy Correll,
havo*^? McRae, and Nancy Upshaw
on Duke.
Lillj^^hla Jones, Lee Stevens, and
Fgg West will be at Sweet Briar,
Ilolh and Libba Thorne at
have Rose Osborne,
and Shepherd, Betsey .Tohn West,
Bartn, ' ^iKimerman. Virginia
at Elouise Cuthbert will be
koinn. Baldwin. Esther Bair is
V ^inn»,° Connecticut College for
Flisg Tu’ ,®tsy Casteen to Salem,
arshall to Agnes Scott, Rita
(See P. 4)
CENTENNIAL AND COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMS
WILL DRAW UNUSUALLY LARGE ATTENDANCE
Art and Home Economics De
partments to Exhibit Work of
Students. Library to Show Col
lections of Books
Miss Hochenedel announces that
the art exhibit will be open from
Saturday to Tuesday, but Monday
will be the big day.
The art certificate students’ work
will be arranged in the Art Studio
by the students themselves. The
girls receiving art certificates are
Lib Adkins. Ellis Barnard, Marion
McLeod, Dolores Mullett, Bunny
Stribling, and Mrs. N'aylor, in fine
arts, and Polly Lindsay and Eliza
beth Ann Jones in commercial art.
Work of the other art students
will be shown in the lower hall and
along the stairs.
Miss Hochenedel says, “Come to
see it. Stay and mull over the paint
ings as long as you care to.”
HOME EC EXHIBIT
The Home Economics Department
will present its annual exhibit in
Miss Morrison’s classroom at stated
hours throughout commencement
week. The exhibit will include work
by all home economics students. The
dresses made and modeled for Vogue
and Boylan-Pearce are to be shown
and miniature dresses which the girls
made for e-xaminations will also be
on exhibit.
SMEDES EXHIBIT
All visitors, alumn®, faculty mem
bers, and students are cordially in
vited to see the Centennial Exhibit
in the Study Hall in Smedes, which
will be open from 7 :15 p.m. Satur
day, May 16, through Tuesday, May
Im
probably the oldest item in the
exhibit is an English Prayer Book
dated 1758, owned and used by Ann
Beach, the grandmother of Mrs. Ai-
dert Smedes. In it she carefully
marked out all the parts pertaining
especially to England, substituting
what would apply to the United
States. An oil painting of Dr. Al-
dert Smedes’ mother; the sermon
case used by Dr. Smedes, containing
a sermon in his handwriting, a e
May 1, 1836; and a Chinese lacquer
writing desk which belonged to Dr.
Smedes’ daughter, Bessie are among
the loans from the Smedes descend-
*^^^Several letters antedate the found
ing of the school. One was written
b/Bishop Ives to Dr. Smedes about
1841 urging him to come to Raleigl
to open a sSiool for ^rls Another
written b^^GeorgeJ.^^»
ing*o/^he Episcopal School for
bS’-S and to Dr. Smedes’ coming to
take it over as a school for girls.
(See P. 2)
Sophomore Class Day, High School
Graduation, Certificates,, Senior
Class Day, Saturday. Tuesday,
Centennial Ceremony and Col
lege Graduation; Dean Gilder-
sleeve Will Give Commencement
Address
Saturday morning at 8:30 the
sophomores will hold their class day
exercises on the campus. Lee Stevens
will read the class roll. Shields Jones
and Mary Ann Pettigrew will pre
sent the prophecy, Sarah Zimmer
man and Sarah Clarkson will de
scribe the ideal Saint Mary’s girl,
and Betty Pott and Lillian West will
read the last will and testament.
Mrs. Cruikshank will give the high
est award and Libba Thorne, class
president, will present the class gift.
At 10:00 all girls, boarding and
day students, are expected to assem
ble in the parlor and hall to practice
for the procession to the chapel.
After this general rehearsal, the sen
iors, sophomores, and girls who are
to receive certificates will meet to
make further preparations for the
evening’s activities.
Saturday night is divided into two
parts. During part one, the faculty
and officers will be on the stage of
the auditorium in their academic
robes. The High School graduates
will receive their diplomas and the
music, art, business, and dramatic
departments will award their certifi
cates and the monogram girls and
other high honors will be announced.
The second part of the evening
will be turned over to the seniors for
their class day exercises. The Vale
dictorian and Salutatorian will give
their addresses; the class poem by
Jonny Norman and the prophecy by
Carolyn Cauble and Bunny Strib
ling will be read. Publications keys
will be awarded to the three editors
for this year and to four other out
standing members of the staff.
CENTEXXIAE CEREMONIES
TUESDAY
The centennial ceremonies will
take place Tuesday morning at 10 :30
on the campus in front of the audi
torium. Students are to assemble in
the parlor and hall for the proces
sion to the place of the ceremony.
The faculty and officers will assem
ble in the covered way outside the
library.
Delegates from twenty-three ottier
educational institutions in the South
will be present at this ceremony.
William and Mary, Carolina, Duke,
Randolph-Macon, and Sweet Briar
are only a few of the schools to be
represented. Miss Virginia Holt,
head of Chatham Hall and academic
(See P. 4)
Mrs. Denny and Bishop Penick are
Commencement Speakers. Can
tata, Sunday Afternoon. Mon
day, Alumnas Meetings and
Pageant
Holy Communion will he at ■ 8 :00
o’clock Sunday morning, and Bishop
Penick will preach the Baccalaureate
Sermon at the 11 ;00 o’clock service.
Bishop Penick is well known to all
Saint Mary’s girls. Born in Frank
fort, Kentucky, he won degrees from
Sewanee, Harvard, and the Theo
logical Seminary of Virginia. He is
an A. T. O. and a Phi Beta Kappa.
As our bishop, he is Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the school.
Sunday afternoon at 5 :30 the stu
dents will go to the Chapel for the
Cantata and Alumnre service. After
opening prayer, the list of Alumnse
dead will be read and the new Ernest
Cruikshank "window will be dedicat
ed. Mr. Russell Broughton, head of
the Music Department, began writ
ing the Cantata last summer and
completed it recently. Since he
wrote it especially for the Centen
nial and with the voices and abilities
of Saint Mary’s students in mind,
it will undoubtedly be particularly
successful.
CANTATA
The organ, piano, two soloists, a
chorus, and string quartet will par
ticipate as well as the entire choir
and glee club. Miss Ruth Holmes
Scott will accompany on the organ
and Miss Mary Ruth Haig on the
piano. Edgar and Dorothy Alden
are the violinists, Mary Eidam is
celloist, and Christian Kutschinski,
violinist. Nancy Poe and Marie
Hodges are soloists. Miss Geraldine
Cate, Pattie Ross, Pat Coder, Jean
Motter, Marie Hodges, Lib Royall,
Nancy Poe, and Jane Hurt are in
the chorus section.
The text for the Cantata comes
from the Proverbs, the Harvard
Outing Club, and writings of Carl
Sandburg. The main theme is Edu
cation ; the Prologue extols wisdom;
the main section, the Education of
Jesus; and the Epilogue offers a
morale applicable to present educa
tion at Saint Mary’s.
MONDAY, FIEED DAY AND
PAGEANT
Monday’s activities begin at 10 ;30
a.m. with a field-day on the back
campus. The seniors will demon
strate marching under the direction
of Miss Harvey, Mrs. Guess’ dance
group will demonstrate the dance,
and various girls will play many of
the sports offered by the gym depart
ment.
The alumnse, including the seniors
will meet in the chapel at 11:30 for
(See P. 3)