Livingstone College To
Bishop William A. Stewart And Dr.
Hornejiflart Principals In Finals
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Conrniencenent
SALISBURY'
The 73rd Commencement of
Livingstone College will begin
with events scheduled from Fri
day, May 27, to Tuesday, May
31.' The cliiel -features of the
graduaton season will be the
baccalaureate service scheduled
for 3 p.m., Sunday, May 29,
and the Commencement Exer
cises to be held at 2:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, May 31.
Bishop William Andrew Ste
wart, Presiding Prelate of the
Eleventh Episcopal District of
the AME Zion Church, Wash
ington, D. C., will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon. ''
Bishop Stewart, a native of
Alabama, was elected bishop
in 1952. At the time of hla
election lie was pastor of Union
Wesley AME Zion Church,
Washington, D. 0. He received
his A.B. degree from Living
stone College and attended the
Hood Theological Seminary.
Bishop Stewart is a trustee of
Lomax Hannon College as well
us Liyingstone College and
serves as president of the Board
of Evangelism and the Board of
Appeal of the AME Zion Chur
ch. Prior to becoming bishop,
the Rev. Mr. Stewart pastored
at Statesville, and Montgomery,
Alabama.
The commencement address
will be delivered by Dr. Hor-
nell Hart, Professor of Soci
ology, Duke University, Dur
ham.
Dr. Hart, a native of Minne
sota, received his A.B. degree
from Oberlin College, the M.A.
degree from the University
Wisconsin, and the PbJ2. de-.
gree from the State University
of Iowa.
The Cap and Gown exercises
for the Class of 1BS5 will be
held at 3 p.m., on Friday, May
27, at which tiine Profeasor
Marlowe F. Shute, Dean of the
college, will deliver the ad
dress. Dean Shute is expecting
to complete work for his doc
torate at the end of the sum
mer. The music students will
give a recital that evening at
8 o’clock.
Alumni Night, to be held at
8 p.m., on Monday, May 30,
will feature an address by W.
Nance Gilliam, an outstanding
businessman of Atlanta, Ga.,
and a member of the Class of
1928. The Classes of 1930 and
1935 are expected to hold re
unions at that time. A meeting
of the General Alumni Associ
ation will be held at 4 p.m., the
same day.
Other activities during the
commencement weekend wUl
include the final Christian En
deavor service on Sunday eve
ning, May 29, and the Fresh
man and Jimior Gold Medal
Oratorical Contest as well as
the Physical Education Depart
ment Demonstrations on Mon
day, May 30, at 10 a.m., and
7 p.m., respectively. ' »
All major events will be held
in the Cqllege Auditorium.
he is also senior partner of the
engineering firm of Alexander
and Repass, of that city.
A 1912 engineering graduate
of the University of Iowa, Gov.
Alexander has gained an inter
national reputation as an out
standing construction engineer.
Local project^ constructed by
his firm inclide the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Underpass at
Riggs Road, northeast, the $1.5
million Tidal Basin Bridge, and
the $3 million Whitehurst Free
way in Georgetown.
In 1946, the honorary degree
of Doctor of Engineering was
conferred on him by Howard.
In case of inclement weather.
Commencement Exercises will
be held at Constitution Hall,
18th and D Strfeets, northwest.
NEW YORK
Writ Hatcher, vice-president
and jiirector of Philip Morris,
Inc., presented his company’s
tenth consecutive $1,000 gift to
the United Negro College Fund
this week to Dr. J. M. Ellison,
president of Virginia Union
University, Richmond, Vo.,
which brought the total contri
buted by Philip Morris toward
the yearly operating budgets of
the Fund’s thirty-one member
colleges to $10,000 to date. The
The UNCF is currently conduc
ting its twelfth annual nation
wide appeal for $1,750,000 for
student scholarship aid, teach
ing salaries and equipment, and
other yearly operating expen-
Fifty Students
Make Honor Roll
At Hillside
H. M. Holmes, principal of
Hillside High School has re
leased the following names of
pupils who are on th« eighth
month Honor Roll:
Norman Barbee, John Bran
don, Dora Carrington, Mary
Ann Daniels, Patricia Holman,
Barbara Lyon, Carolyn Martin,
Eula Massey, Rhoda Plummer,
Marguerite Robbins, Annie Mae
Spaulding, Shirley Stewart,
Charles Tltorpe, Omelia Wal
ker, Beverly Wright, Glendora
Carrick, Joan Grubbs, Irwin
Holmes, Ann Henderson, Wal
ter Holmes, Helen Jamison, Vi
vian Jones, Robert McCauley,
Aiean O’Bryant, Joseph Pratt,
Ersell Chavis, Herbert Dark,
Levern Harper, Charles Mc
Neil, Reginald Parker, Walter
Smith, Zelma Amey, Miriam
Holmes, Carolyn Lennon, Don
nie McNeil, Jeannette Parham,
Anna Satterwhite, Betty Snipes,
Patricia Spaulding, Vtrdett'Ted-
der, Bettye Smith, Thelma Mc
Neil,' Melvin Hintog, Bennie
Booker, lUaine Bowling, Eliza
beth Jones, Wilma Price, Lula
Robinson, Betty Weaver, and
Barbara Hinton.
Governor Of Virgin Islands To Be
Howard Commencement Speaker
WASHINGTON, D. C. sources and dean of the chapel
The Honorable Archie A.
Alexander, Governor of the
Virgin Islands, wiU deliver the
principal address at Howard
University’s 87th annual Com
mencement Exercises Friday,
June 3rd, at 5:30 p.m.
Commencement Exercises will
be held in the Main Quadrangle
on the upper campus in front of
Frederick Douglass Memorial
Hall.
During the exercises, degrees
wiU be awarded to some 600
students being graduated from
the University’s 10 schools and
colleges. Three honorary de
grees will also be conferred by
Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, Uni
versity president. They will go
to the Rev. A. Powell Davies,
minister of AU Souls’ Unitarian
Church, Washington, D. C
Judge William H. Hastie, of the
U. S. Court of Appeals, Third
Circuit, Philadelphia, Pa.; and
Dr. Howard Thurman, professor
of spiritual discipline and re-
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Dr. Davies will receive the
Doctor of Humane Letters de-
gr^; Judge Hastie the Doctor
of Laws degree; and Dean
Thurman the Doctor of Divinity
degree.
Gov. Alexander, who is a
member of the Board of Trus
tees at Howard, was appointed
to his present position by Presi
dent Eisenhower in 1954. A
resident of Des Moines, Iowa,
Costs Motel$400
SANTA MONICA, CALIF
In what is believed to be the
first civil rights case of its kind
to be filed in this city, a muni
cipal court judge here this week
leveled $400 damages and costs
of court against a local motel for
denying admission to four Ne
groes en route to the NAACP’s
national convention in Dallas,
Texas, last June.
The suit was brought imder a
section of the California Civil
Rights Code dealing with places
of public accommodation. The
plaintifs in the case were Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph G. Kermedy,
Miss Jane Bos^field, secretary of
tlie San Francisco NAACP
branch, and Lester P. Bailey, an
NAACP field secretary. All are
residents of San Francisco.
195 Senior Class Members Will
Received Diplomas In Hampton
Commencement Exercises
HAMPTON, Va. >
President Alonzo G. Moron of
Hampton Institute will present
diplomas and degrees to 195
members of the senior class and
two candidates for Masters’ de
grees, as part of the 85th Com
mencement program on May 29
an 30.
On Sunday, the Rev. Dr.
Chester B. Emerson of Cleve
land, Ohio, will preach the Bao 1
calaureate sermon. The Episco
pal mirUster has served the
College as a trustee since 1917.
Rev. Emerson is Dean Emeri
tus of the Trinity Cathedral in
Cleveland.
The Honorable Charles C.
Diggs, Jr., Congressman from
Michigan, and Detroit morti
cian, will be the main speaker
at the Commencement exercises
on Monday, when two outstand
ing alumni and three seniors
will receive special awards in
recognition of their superior
work. He is a graduate of the
Wayne University School of
Mortuary Science, a former
president of the Metropolitan
Funeral System Association,
and at present is president of
The House of Diggs, Inc., one
of Michigan’s largest funeral
hbmes. He served as Michigan
State Senator 1951-1954.
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The 3Mh reunion ot flamp-
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HoUeran. dean of Faculty, win
be the . main speaker at ttw ma
nual banquet, Sunday.
An art exhibit fMturing stu
dent work wiU be displayed to
the Huntington Memorial U-
brary.
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