PROMINENT PARTICIPATION in the 87th Annual Colnmencement Exercises at Belmont
Abbey College on Tuesday, June 1, are pictured above: left to right upper: Gen. Mark W.
Clark will deliver the address to the graduates; the Most Rev. Ernest Unterkoefler, D.D.,
Bishop of Charleston, will deliver the baccalaureate address; lower: Gilbert Shaw of Char
lotte, Charles Gray of Gastonia and the Rt. Rev. Edward Gilbert of Goldsboro, will receive
honorary degrees.
Gerald Downey, Jr.
Youth Going
To Annapolis
CHARLOTTE—Gerald J. Down
ey Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
J. Downey Sr. will attend the Na
val Academy at Annapolis next
year.
Jerry received his appointment
through North Carolina Congress
man Charles Raper Jonas.
Jerry was active in athletics at
Catholic High School, football and
golf, but he has no definite plans
for the future. He was also the
president of the Math and Science
Club, Vice President of his home
room, and secertary of the Civics
club. He chose the Naval Academy
over the Citadel and Virginia
Military Institute.
Jerry will report to the Acade
my on June 30, at 10 A.M. and
after graduation he will serve five
years as an ensign in the Navy.
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Belmont Abbey to Hold
Commencement on June I
BELMONT — Among the 96 can
didates for degrees at the 87th an
nual commencement exercises at
Belmont Abbey College on Tues
day evening, June 1, are 50 from
North Carolina, and of the num
ber 18 are Catholic men and wom
en.
One of the highlights of the
graduation convocation will be the
conferring of the honorary degree
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) on the
Rt. Rev. Edward T. Gilbert, dioc
esan superintendent of schools and
pastor of St. Bernadette’s Church
in Goldsboro.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, retiring
president of The Citadel and re
nowned Army commander-in-chief
and American commissioner in
Germany, and later the hero of
the Korean War, will deliver the
commencement address at the aca
demic convocation.
THE CALENDAR of exercises
begins with the senior class party
at the Gastonia Country Club on
Sunday evening. May 30. The grad
uation ceremonies have been sim
plified for convenience of parents
and streamlined for concentration
and timing, and will take place on
June 1.
On Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. the aca
demic procession of graduates and
faculty and guests in colorful
academic robes will form and pro
ceed to the Abbey Cathedral for
Mass of thanksgiving. The Most
Rev. Ernest L. Unterkoefler, Bish
op of Charleston, S. C., will delver
the baccalaureate sermon.
The religious exercises will be
followed by a buffet supper for
the graduates, their parents, and
the faculty at 5:30 p.m. At 7:15
the academic procession will again
form and the graduates will be
granted their academic hoods on
the front lawn, and, after the
flag lowering ceremony, the pro
cession will go to the Haid Gym
nasium for the convocation.
BESIDES GENERAL Clark and
Monsignor Gilbert, two other prom
inent North Carolinians will re
ceive honorary degrees, Charles D.
Gray, Sr. of Gastonia, and Gilbert
S. Shaw of Charlotte.
The following Catholic young
men and women from North Caro
lina will receive their bachelor de
grees:
Gerard F. Booker, Roger and
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Sacred Heart Plans
Graduation Exercises
BELMONT — On May 29 at 11
a.m. His Excellency Most Rev. Vin
cent S. Waters, Bishop of Raleigh,
will say Mass for the graduates of
Sacred Heart College and Sacred
Heart Academy in the Cardinal
Gibbons Memorial Chapel at Sa
cred Heart.
At this time the Bishop will ad
dress the graduates. Luncheon will
follow for graduates and families.
On May 29 from 4 to 6 the
alumnae, with Mrs. Martha Ann
Nolen in charge, will preside at a
tea for the graduates and their
families and friends in the McAul
ey Hall lounge.
On May 29 at 8 p.m. there will
be an honors convocation in the
Alumnae Gymnasium. Jack Smith
of Charlotte will address the grad
uates. Sister M. Christine will give
honor cards; Sister M. Celestine
will present activity awards for
the year. Sister M. Stephen will
present the award of most out
standing student of the year.
Miss Carol Berry of Richmond,
Va., will deliver the valedictory
and Mrs. Gwendolyn Rankin of
Lowell will give the salutatory.
Right Rev. Walter Coggins, O.S.
B., Abbot of Belmont Abbey Col
lege, will preside at the 72nd com
mencement exercise which will be
held at Sacred Heart College and
Sacred Heart Academy in Belmont
on May 30 at 3 p.m. in the Alum
nae Gymnasium. Sister M. Stephen,
president of Sacred Heart College,
will confer degrees upon 50 Grad
uates.
Theodore Bremekamp, Sister Ann
Joseph Carey, R.S.M., Sister M.
Paulette Foley, M.SB.T., Sister
Maria Goretti Weldon R.S.M.,
Arthur Prosses, and Douglas Wet
more of Belmont.
George T. Balog, William R.
Bernish Jr., Charles W. Darr, III,
Frank M. Dowgwilla, Joe Fitzsim
mons, and John J. Schramm Jr., of
Charlotte;
Miss Eunice Faries of Cramer
ton; Mrs. Carolyn Loftis of Gas
tonia; S. Kermit Heim of Matthews;
Thomas P. Schlunz of Erevard; and
Jerome R. Vincent of Swannanoa.
R. Dave Hall of Belmont,
tional figure in the textile iu
try, will deliver the graduation
dress.
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R. Dave Hall
Charlotte High
Sets Exercise
CHARLOTTE — Graduation (
Charlotte Catholic High Scho
Seniors will take place June 2.
Commencement exercises wi
begin at 8 p.m. with a Pontific
Mass. The Most Rev. Vincent ,i
Waters, D.D., will be officiatin,
Father D. Edward Sullivan and F
ther Francis J. Tait will be chai
lains to His Excellency. Holy Coi
munion will be distributed durii
this Mass.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael
Begley will deliver the commenc
ment sermon after the Mass. Cho
master will be Father J. P. Bryoi
with Mrs. Craig Gaffney as the at
companist. Mrs. Francis Treacy o
Scaleybark Road is in charge c
the reception after the exercise
Valedictorian is Walter C. Wesj
III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter (
West of Willow Oak Road. Saluti
torian is William Means, son i
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Means i
Dilworth Road.
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