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OF ST. MARY’S
Vol. XXIV, No. 14
EALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
May 26, 1961
1960 - 61 SESSION DRAWS TO A CLOSE
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The commencement program for
at St. Mary’s officially be
gins with the enactment of “Pyg-
Jpalion” by George Bernard Shaw.
St. Mary’s Dramatics Club
^>11 present this play on Friday,
May 26, at 8:15 p.m., in the col-
*®ge auditorium.
Tlie morning of May 27 will be
devoted to the Sophomore Class
Exercises. This event will be-
at 10:30 a.m. All classes are
invited, but the Freshmen are es-
Pecialfy urged to attend, for the
planned program will offer a few
surprises for them. At 4:00 p.m.
I'de Senior Class Day Exercises
J'nl start. Likewise, the Seniors
'ave planned a very interesting and
^musing program.
Sunday, May 28, at 7:50 a.m.,
early morning communion in the
e lapel will be administered for the
time during the 1960-61 school
year. At 11:00, during the regular
worship hour, the Baccalaureate
Sermon will be preached by the
Right Reverend Thomas H. Wright,
D. D., Bishop of East Carolina.
His daughter Hannah Wright is
one of the graduating seniors.
From 4:30-6:00 p.m. the Presi
dent will honor the graduating stu
dents and their parents with a tea
in his home.
The traditional step-singing will
take place at the front of Smedes
Hall promptly at 6:00 Sunday
ni>^ht. At this time, each of the four
classes will sing songs with special
dedication.
On Monday, May 29, at 10:30
a.m. the long awaited graduation
exercises will be held in the audi
torium Addressing the graduating
classes, will be the R^lit Rever
end :\I. George Henry, D. D., Bisn-
op of Western North Carolina.
Counselors For 1961'62
Thirty-eight juniors have been
elected as counselors for 1961-62.
^use appointments were made by
ornelia Hines, jiresident of Stu-
Government, and Courtenay
vj^uweii, ciiairman oi man wouu-
^ ■ The following girls will serve
senior counselors next year:
?T°®oinary Adair, Tricia Armstrong,
ancy Vance Ashmore, .lackie
n^ublitz, ,lody Blackwell, Sarah
^{'oadhurst, .Jane Brooks, Nanne
lalgren, Daphne Connelly, V in-
j 00 Conner, Brooke Davila, Lock-
-frt Follin, Nancy Conger, Cinda
voiim, Nancy Conger, mmua
Mantliam, Nancy Heath, Cornelia
iiies, Burnley Kinney, Mary Lar-
Y.O, Sally Leach, Courtenay Mc-
Beacon Takes Four
New Members
The principal purposes of the
Beacon are “to promote among the
S school girls a better school
Sit, more cooperation, and par-
tiiation in extra-curricu ar ac
tivities ” On the basis of these
- four new members were in
ducted on Tuesday, May 16- They
are Sally Stevens, sophomore. Bet
tTcayie Sanford, freshman; Jean
AVinborne, freshman; and Mar
rueHte^IcKee, a freshman. These
IS are all outstanding members
nf their respective classes, and they
SLerve hearty congratulations for
this honor.
]>°Well, .Jane McKenzie, Vicki IMc-
®nzie, Julie Martin, IMaudie
more, Betsy Nichols, Ann Nie-
> ®yer, Erwin Parrott, Bee Pitt,
Shand, Ginny Simmons, hlar-
Smith, Lucy Southall, Dee
lyi Evelyn Topping, Julie
ote, Frances Wiebel. The
.W.^selors for the day students
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annuals to be
distributed
Vvprvone is anxiously awaiting
mS 27, Class Day, for the^an-
j'effr-*’® Eenny Ives and Joanna nuals to be gu ™
J'^^wlrdedTecrets all year long,
is an honor for these students foniorrow announce-
nient. K^e } elected the
to f ;^uSanding seniors and the
most oot; and g
senior ==dperlati ^
nual P^°“is ^ j jg annual
’worked both long and
hard to hake it “tl« It'®*
coach ever.”
tip^^*' They will assume their du-
gj * .several days before the be-
'j.) Oiiig of school next September,
if,"’ill he resiionsible for keep-
iff^ o^fior on their halls and for be-
if^ around all the time, so that,
1 ^nyone has a iiroblem, they will
' ^"ailable.
Congratulations counselors!
Bishop Henry
Speakers for graduation 1961 will
be the Rt. Rev. M. George Hen
ry, D. D., of the Diocese of AVest-
ern North Carolina and the Rt.
Rev. Thomas H AATight, D. D., of
the Diocese of East Carolina. Both
Bishops are well acquainted with
St. Alary’s. Each has a daughter
who will be graduating, but, in
cidentally, the mothers, grand
mothers, and sisters of both at
tended St. Alary’s.
Bishop Henry, who will give the
Commencement Address, graduat
ed from Chapel Hill with his B. S.
in chemistry. He was teaching
chemistry at the University while
working on his Alasters’ when he
decided to go into the ministry.
Bishop AATight, who was at that
time chaplain at U.N.C., took him
to see Bishop Penick about the
priesthood. Bishop Henry graduat
ed from Virginia Theological Sem
inary and had his first parish in
Tarboro, North Carolina, where
the Rt. Revu Gray Temple, now
Bishop of South Carolina, was his
assistant. In 1943 the Henrys mov
ed to Charlotte where the Bishop
started Christ Episcopal Church.
In 1948 he was elected Bishop and
was consecrated in Trinity Church
in Asheville. The following year
Bishop Henry preached the Bac
calaureate Sermon for graduation
at St. Alary’s. And in 1953 Eliza
beth Harding—Betsy—the fourth
of the little Henrys was born. Anna
Cay also has two brothers: Alatt,
who is thirteen and Kenneth, who
is a freshman at the University of
the South, Sewanee.
Bishop Henry’s last talk at St.
Alary’s was at chapel in October
of last year when the Board of
Trustees was meeting. This Octo
ber, Bishop AATight talked to us
while the Board met. At that time
he had recently returned from Jap
an and the Far East where, as
Chairman of the Overseas Com-
Uiittee of the National Council of
the Episcopal Church, he had been
touring the mission field. Bishop
Wright is also Treasurer of the
National Council.
Bishop AATight went to college at
Sewanee and then to Virginia Sem
inary. Early in his career he was
Chaplain at Chapel Hill, Virginia
Alilitary Institute, and at Wash
ington and Lee. He was also in
San Antonio, Texas, for a time and
in San Francisco, where he was
Dean of the Cathedral. This year
Bishop Wright was the speaker at
the Alumnae Luncheon Alay 6. An
interesting anecdote came out in
the Association President’s intro
duction of Bishop Wright. It
seems that Airs. Smith (the form
er Alargaret Darst) introduced
Airs. AVright to the Bishop at her
home in AVilmington. Mrs. Smith
was the daughter of the late Bishop
Darst of AAblmington. The AVrights,
all six of them, now live in that
very house. In addition to Hannah,
there are three boys: John, who
is ten, Jim, a junior at Virginia
Episcopal School; and Tom, who is
at Princeton this year, but who
will be leaving June 6 to study in
France on a Carnegie Scholarship.