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May 27, 1924
Yorkville Enquirer
York, York County, South Carolina
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Winthrop College's commencement exercises on June 1-3 include sermons by Rev. Lingle and Rev. Jones, campus tours, class day, daisy chain, and graduating ceremonies addressed by Governor Thomas G. McLeod. 275 candidates listed for master's, bachelor's degrees, and certificates.
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FINALS AT WINTHROP
Commencement Exercises During Next Week.
MANY CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
Usual Interesting Exercises Open to Friends, Patrons and the General Public--Many to Finish.
Winthrop College will hold its commencement exercises on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June 1, 2 and 3, respectively, beginning with a sermon before the Young Women's Christian Association which will be preached by the Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D. D., of Richmond, Va.
Sunday evening the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. N. Ashby Jones, D. D., pastor of the Ponce de Leon Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga.
Visitors and friends of the college will make the annual round of the campus, in which places of interest will be visited on Monday, June 2, and at 6 o'clock in the evening the annual class day exercises will be held, after which the literary societies will hold a joint celebration.
Beginning with an alumnae breakfast in Johnson hall at 9 o'clock the program for Tuesday includes the daisy chain procession in the evening and the graduating exercises at 8 o'clock. Governor Thomas G. McLeod will deliver the baccalaureate address.
The governor, who was for a number of years a member of the board of trustees of the college, is now by virtue of his office an ex-officio member of the board.
A total of 275 candidates for degrees are included in the class, 3 for the master's degree, 173 for the bachelor's degree and 99 candidates for certificates for completion of the two year shorter education or business administration courses.
Following are the candidates for the master's degree:
Misses Marie Bessinger, Olar; Eleanor LeBorde Hennies, Columbia; Ely Surasky, Aiken.
Candidates for the bachelor's degree are, the following:
Misses Kathleen Abernathy, Fort Lawn; Lois Adair, Clinton; Sadie Belle Adams, Lancaster; Lois E. Allgood, Liberty; Catherine Hill Arant Manning; Norvelle Atkinson, Columbia; Geraldine Austin, Greenwood.
Misses Beverly Bailes, Anderson; Rosa Bailey, Dillon; Ellen Meek Beard, Cornelius, N. C.; Josie Lee Beard, Cornelius, N. C., Ruth Hazel Berry, Elloree; Florence Strobel Bethea, Marion; Mary Ellen Biven, McColl; Ersie Blackmon, Kershaw.
Maisie Bookhardt, Elloree; Thelma Boles, North; Lois Bowman, Orangeburg; Helen Boykin, Boykin; Margaret O. Brice, Winnsboro; Aubrey Mae Brown, Yorkville; Margaret Brown, Rock Hill; Anne Peyr Brunson, Florence; Ammie Buchanan, Darlington; Mary Libbie Byers, Langley.
Misses Alice W. Cain, St. Matthews; Nelle Caldwell, Dillon; Susan Calhoun, Greenwood; Edith Pratt Carroll, Bennettsville; Margaret Carswell, Aiken; Dorothy Clark, Heath Springs; Cornelia Clinkscales, Abbeville; Lucile Cogswell, Charleston; Erma Coleman, Columbia; Katherine Clonts, Prosperity; Vera Cunningham, Bishopville.
Misses Irene D. Dick, Sumter; Dorothy Dickson, Seneca; Mary Byers Douglas, Winnsboro; Jessie Mae Dunlap, Rock Hill; Louise E. Eaddy, Johnsonville; Anna Edgerton, Aiken; Josephine T. Edwards, Darlington; Irene Eison, Union; William I. Ellerbe, Darlington; Mary A. Elliott, Greenwood; Birdie May Etheredge, Wagener; Virginia Mary Evans, Pendleton; Madge Ezell, Spartanburg.
Misses Annice Farmer, Anderson; Ollie Farr, Chapin; Anna Fishburn Bishopville; Floy Fisher, Woodruff; Mary N. Fletcher, McColl.
Misses Mildred Galphin, Holly Hill; Genevieve P. Garris, Colleton; Wilma Garrison, Catawba; Alberta L. Garvin Wagener; Lorene Gault, Johnsville; Ruth Givens, Springfield; Harriet P. Godfrey, Cheraw; N. Page Godfrey Cheraw; Louise Goforth, Rock Hill, Ellen M. Grimes, Elko.
Misses Marie Halford, Ridgeland; Mildred S. Hames, Jonesville; Ruth L. Harmon, Spartanburg; Marie Harvey, Pinopolis; Pauline Harvin, Pinewood; Ethel Hatchett, Inman; Helen Heiss Clio; Mary C. Henry, Chester; Marjie H. Hill, Mount Holly; Hattie Mae Horton, Clinton; Mary Frances Howie, Darlington; Bess M. Hughes, Rock Hill; Myra L. Hunter, Prosperity; Nell Hunter, Greenville.
Misses Octavia Jeter, Santuc; Myrtle Johnson, Aiken; M. Elizabeth Johnson Elko; Annie Kate Jordon, Richburg.
Misses Nora Kinder, Kingstree; Sara Kirby, Greenwood; Lucile Kirkpatrick, Lowndesville.
Misses Jo Langford, Prosperity; Ellie Miller, Lanham, Columbia; Sadie M. Lawton, Greenville; Helen Lightsey, Fairfax; Violet Ruth Lowry, Ninety Six; Frances Lupo, Columbia.
Misses Frances McElhaney, St. George; Doris E. McCollum, Sumter; Willie Carr McDonald, Westminster; Mary Alice McDowell, Yorkville; Sara McHugh, Clemson College; Bettie M. McLure, Chester; Miriam McNair, Hartsville; Annie Lee Martin, Swansea; Jessie L. Matthews, Clemson College; Laura Melette, Sumter; Mary B. Miller, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Miriam S. Miller, Rock Hill; Margaret Lee Motz, Lincolnton.
Misses Mary Celestia Parler, Edgefield; Bernice Parson, Pickens; Elzie Clyde Pate, Bishopville; Lois Pearman, Honea Path; Winiona Pettit, Spartanburg; Jean S. Phillips, Rock Hill; Mattie Pickett, Clemson College; Margaret Pittman, Carlisle; Lily Mae Plexico, Kline; Fannie Poston, Cheraw.
beth Alice Reaves, Florence; Elizabeth Reid, Richburg; Ethel Revill, Sumter; Phoebe Richards, Liberty Hill; Gladys Richardson, Anderson; Marie Roof, Columbia; Lois E. Rudisill, Rock Hill.
Gladys O. Sanders, Barnwell; Sarah Margaret Scott, Jonesville; Elizabeth Senn, Laurens; Ola May Shillinglaw, King's Creek; Ruth Shirley, Honea Path; Louise Singleton, Westminster; Kathleen Smith, Union; Lessie G. Smith, Union; Ruby Smith, Easley; Margaret B. Speaks, Greenville; Agnes R. Stevenson, Charleston; Eunice Stogner, Hartsville; Mary Alice Suber, Newberry; Virginia Swink, Woodruff.
Misses Grace Harper Taylor, Greenwood; Theodora Taylor, Adams Run; Annette Thomas, Anderson; Louise Thomas, Rock Hill; Pauline Thomas, Beaufort; Bessie Thompson, Williston; Julia Thompson, Lumberton; Bertha R. Turner, Winnsboro.
Misses Mary Ruth Walden, Spartanburg; Ella B. Wallace, Columbia; Garon Watford, Lamar; Flora Watson, Latta; Gladys Watson, Columbia; Anice Webb, Saluda; Josephine Weinberg, Beaufort; Nellie Peck White, Rock Hill; Virginia White, Gastonia; Nell Wickliffe, West Union; Mary Wilkes, Cope; Beatrice Williams, Columbia; Laura Gilbert Williams, Lancaster; Myra Williams, Antreville; Birdie G. Wilson, Kingstree; Margaret Workman, Rock Hill; Annie Nell Wyatt, Easley.
Following are those who have completed the course leading to a bachelor's degree:
Misses Ruth Flowers, Andrews; Carrie E. Moseley, Salters Depot; Martha Speer, Laurens.
Following are candidates for certificates in the two year course:
Misses Julia Bailey, Andrews; Thelma Barbare, Taylors; Rosa Bates, Aiken; Mary Moore Bennett, Lancaster; Nelle Blakely, Laurens; Ruth Blanding, Sumter; Elizabeth Brogdon, Sumter; Helen Brown, Orangeburg; Eugenia Brunson, Cleora; Pauline Bush, Inman.
Misses Eunice Cain, Sharon; Mary Lee Carroll, Summerville; Cecelia Chalmers, Abbeville; Marie Collins, Clinton; Louise Craven, Bennettsville; Ina Mae Crockett, Riverside; Genevieve Crow, Rock Hill; Corine Culbreath, Johnston; Annie M. Culler, Orangeburg.
Misses Eva Duncan, Trenton; Catherine DuRant, Alcolu.
Misses Margaret Edmunds, Sumter; Hazel Elliott, Greenville; Elizabeth Evans, Cheraw.
Misses Elizabeth Farmer, Charleston; Christine Felder, St. George; Rebecca Fitzhugh, Rome, Ga.; Thelma Flowers, Camden; Lois Forrester, Greer; Zada Fowler, Orangeburg; Roberta Funk, St. Stephens.
Misses Helen Gault, Jonesville; Theo Gause, Columbia; Margaret Gettys, Yorkville; Betty Gillespie, Bennettsville.
Misses Lillie Mae Hall, Walhalla; Alpha Louise Harmon, Bowling Green; Hattie Mae Harrison, Brunson; Montez Henderson, Easley; Rita Heriot, Oswego; Marjorie Holley, Aiken; Aileen Hough, Chester; Isabel Howe, Aiken.
Misses Alice Inman, Yorkville; Lillian Inman, Lockhart.
Misses Corinne Jones, Fort Lawn; Maggie Jones, Westminster.
Misses Sarah Ida Keith, Pickens; Beaufort Kelley, Bishopville; Lucille M. King, Georgetown.
Misses Frances Ligon, Anderson; Curtiss Luther, Greenville; Jimmie Lybrand, Samaria.
Misses Mamie McCullum, Sumter; Lucille McCowan, Anderson; Mary McCraw, Orangeburg; Elsie McGarity, Arcadia; Gertrude McGarity, Arcadia; Rebekah McFie, Winnsboro; Kathleen Mahaffey, Williamston; Harriet Marshall, Columbia; Marie Marshall, Anderson; Lily Mood Martin, Summerton.
Misses Mary Louise Nettles, Florence; Helen B. Nolen, Bamberg.
Misses Fannie Patrick, Savannah, Ga.; Belle Polikoff, Aiken; Reola Pursley, Rock Hill.
Misses Eulla Ruth Sanders, Rock Hill; Emma Sanford, Darlington; Roselie Shuford, Georgetown; Connie Shull, Wagener; Helen Sigman, Savannah, Ga.; Katherine Sistare, Lancaster; Louise Isabe Smith, Charlotte; Robert Anna Strain, Savannah, Ga.; Marianne Sudgen, Savannah, Ga.; Myra Swindell, Brunson.
Misses Dorothy Taylor, Summerville; Eva Taylor, Laurens; Florence Taylor, Florence; Grace McCuen Taylor, Laurens; Eunice Teal, Westminster; Sophia Thompson, Rock Hill; Harriet Trowbridge, Anderson; Toxie Turner, Sumter; Lucile Tuten, Ulmers.
Misses Annie Wall, Chester; Frances M. Ward, Waverly Mills; Margaret Watts, Cheraw; Maysie Webb, Saluda; Juanita Weeks, Orangeburg; Ruby West, Chester; Beulah Womack, Society Hill.
Miss Virginia Zeigler, Allendale.
Misses Elinor Ravanel, Clemson College; Sara Ready, Johnston; Alene Reames, Johnston; Ann Reaves, Alcolu; Margaret O. Reaves, Alcolu; Mary Alice Reeves, Florence; Eliza Reaves, Alcolu.
Commencement Exercises During Next Week.
MANY CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
Usual Interesting Exercises Open to Friends, Patrons and the General Public--Many to Finish.
Winthrop College will hold its commencement exercises on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June 1, 2 and 3, respectively, beginning with a sermon before the Young Women's Christian Association which will be preached by the Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D. D., of Richmond, Va.
Sunday evening the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. N. Ashby Jones, D. D., pastor of the Ponce de Leon Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga.
Visitors and friends of the college will make the annual round of the campus, in which places of interest will be visited on Monday, June 2, and at 6 o'clock in the evening the annual class day exercises will be held, after which the literary societies will hold a joint celebration.
Beginning with an alumnae breakfast in Johnson hall at 9 o'clock the program for Tuesday includes the daisy chain procession in the evening and the graduating exercises at 8 o'clock. Governor Thomas G. McLeod will deliver the baccalaureate address.
The governor, who was for a number of years a member of the board of trustees of the college, is now by virtue of his office an ex-officio member of the board.
A total of 275 candidates for degrees are included in the class, 3 for the master's degree, 173 for the bachelor's degree and 99 candidates for certificates for completion of the two year shorter education or business administration courses.
Following are the candidates for the master's degree:
Misses Marie Bessinger, Olar; Eleanor LeBorde Hennies, Columbia; Ely Surasky, Aiken.
Candidates for the bachelor's degree are, the following:
Misses Kathleen Abernathy, Fort Lawn; Lois Adair, Clinton; Sadie Belle Adams, Lancaster; Lois E. Allgood, Liberty; Catherine Hill Arant Manning; Norvelle Atkinson, Columbia; Geraldine Austin, Greenwood.
Misses Beverly Bailes, Anderson; Rosa Bailey, Dillon; Ellen Meek Beard, Cornelius, N. C.; Josie Lee Beard, Cornelius, N. C., Ruth Hazel Berry, Elloree; Florence Strobel Bethea, Marion; Mary Ellen Biven, McColl; Ersie Blackmon, Kershaw.
Maisie Bookhardt, Elloree; Thelma Boles, North; Lois Bowman, Orangeburg; Helen Boykin, Boykin; Margaret O. Brice, Winnsboro; Aubrey Mae Brown, Yorkville; Margaret Brown, Rock Hill; Anne Peyr Brunson, Florence; Ammie Buchanan, Darlington; Mary Libbie Byers, Langley.
Misses Alice W. Cain, St. Matthews; Nelle Caldwell, Dillon; Susan Calhoun, Greenwood; Edith Pratt Carroll, Bennettsville; Margaret Carswell, Aiken; Dorothy Clark, Heath Springs; Cornelia Clinkscales, Abbeville; Lucile Cogswell, Charleston; Erma Coleman, Columbia; Katherine Clonts, Prosperity; Vera Cunningham, Bishopville.
Misses Irene D. Dick, Sumter; Dorothy Dickson, Seneca; Mary Byers Douglas, Winnsboro; Jessie Mae Dunlap, Rock Hill; Louise E. Eaddy, Johnsonville; Anna Edgerton, Aiken; Josephine T. Edwards, Darlington; Irene Eison, Union; William I. Ellerbe, Darlington; Mary A. Elliott, Greenwood; Birdie May Etheredge, Wagener; Virginia Mary Evans, Pendleton; Madge Ezell, Spartanburg.
Misses Annice Farmer, Anderson; Ollie Farr, Chapin; Anna Fishburn Bishopville; Floy Fisher, Woodruff; Mary N. Fletcher, McColl.
Misses Mildred Galphin, Holly Hill; Genevieve P. Garris, Colleton; Wilma Garrison, Catawba; Alberta L. Garvin Wagener; Lorene Gault, Johnsville; Ruth Givens, Springfield; Harriet P. Godfrey, Cheraw; N. Page Godfrey Cheraw; Louise Goforth, Rock Hill, Ellen M. Grimes, Elko.
Misses Marie Halford, Ridgeland; Mildred S. Hames, Jonesville; Ruth L. Harmon, Spartanburg; Marie Harvey, Pinopolis; Pauline Harvin, Pinewood; Ethel Hatchett, Inman; Helen Heiss Clio; Mary C. Henry, Chester; Marjie H. Hill, Mount Holly; Hattie Mae Horton, Clinton; Mary Frances Howie, Darlington; Bess M. Hughes, Rock Hill; Myra L. Hunter, Prosperity; Nell Hunter, Greenville.
Misses Octavia Jeter, Santuc; Myrtle Johnson, Aiken; M. Elizabeth Johnson Elko; Annie Kate Jordon, Richburg.
Misses Nora Kinder, Kingstree; Sara Kirby, Greenwood; Lucile Kirkpatrick, Lowndesville.
Misses Jo Langford, Prosperity; Ellie Miller, Lanham, Columbia; Sadie M. Lawton, Greenville; Helen Lightsey, Fairfax; Violet Ruth Lowry, Ninety Six; Frances Lupo, Columbia.
Misses Frances McElhaney, St. George; Doris E. McCollum, Sumter; Willie Carr McDonald, Westminster; Mary Alice McDowell, Yorkville; Sara McHugh, Clemson College; Bettie M. McLure, Chester; Miriam McNair, Hartsville; Annie Lee Martin, Swansea; Jessie L. Matthews, Clemson College; Laura Melette, Sumter; Mary B. Miller, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Miriam S. Miller, Rock Hill; Margaret Lee Motz, Lincolnton.
Misses Mary Celestia Parler, Edgefield; Bernice Parson, Pickens; Elzie Clyde Pate, Bishopville; Lois Pearman, Honea Path; Winiona Pettit, Spartanburg; Jean S. Phillips, Rock Hill; Mattie Pickett, Clemson College; Margaret Pittman, Carlisle; Lily Mae Plexico, Kline; Fannie Poston, Cheraw.
beth Alice Reaves, Florence; Elizabeth Reid, Richburg; Ethel Revill, Sumter; Phoebe Richards, Liberty Hill; Gladys Richardson, Anderson; Marie Roof, Columbia; Lois E. Rudisill, Rock Hill.
Gladys O. Sanders, Barnwell; Sarah Margaret Scott, Jonesville; Elizabeth Senn, Laurens; Ola May Shillinglaw, King's Creek; Ruth Shirley, Honea Path; Louise Singleton, Westminster; Kathleen Smith, Union; Lessie G. Smith, Union; Ruby Smith, Easley; Margaret B. Speaks, Greenville; Agnes R. Stevenson, Charleston; Eunice Stogner, Hartsville; Mary Alice Suber, Newberry; Virginia Swink, Woodruff.
Misses Grace Harper Taylor, Greenwood; Theodora Taylor, Adams Run; Annette Thomas, Anderson; Louise Thomas, Rock Hill; Pauline Thomas, Beaufort; Bessie Thompson, Williston; Julia Thompson, Lumberton; Bertha R. Turner, Winnsboro.
Misses Mary Ruth Walden, Spartanburg; Ella B. Wallace, Columbia; Garon Watford, Lamar; Flora Watson, Latta; Gladys Watson, Columbia; Anice Webb, Saluda; Josephine Weinberg, Beaufort; Nellie Peck White, Rock Hill; Virginia White, Gastonia; Nell Wickliffe, West Union; Mary Wilkes, Cope; Beatrice Williams, Columbia; Laura Gilbert Williams, Lancaster; Myra Williams, Antreville; Birdie G. Wilson, Kingstree; Margaret Workman, Rock Hill; Annie Nell Wyatt, Easley.
Following are those who have completed the course leading to a bachelor's degree:
Misses Ruth Flowers, Andrews; Carrie E. Moseley, Salters Depot; Martha Speer, Laurens.
Following are candidates for certificates in the two year course:
Misses Julia Bailey, Andrews; Thelma Barbare, Taylors; Rosa Bates, Aiken; Mary Moore Bennett, Lancaster; Nelle Blakely, Laurens; Ruth Blanding, Sumter; Elizabeth Brogdon, Sumter; Helen Brown, Orangeburg; Eugenia Brunson, Cleora; Pauline Bush, Inman.
Misses Eunice Cain, Sharon; Mary Lee Carroll, Summerville; Cecelia Chalmers, Abbeville; Marie Collins, Clinton; Louise Craven, Bennettsville; Ina Mae Crockett, Riverside; Genevieve Crow, Rock Hill; Corine Culbreath, Johnston; Annie M. Culler, Orangeburg.
Misses Eva Duncan, Trenton; Catherine DuRant, Alcolu.
Misses Margaret Edmunds, Sumter; Hazel Elliott, Greenville; Elizabeth Evans, Cheraw.
Misses Elizabeth Farmer, Charleston; Christine Felder, St. George; Rebecca Fitzhugh, Rome, Ga.; Thelma Flowers, Camden; Lois Forrester, Greer; Zada Fowler, Orangeburg; Roberta Funk, St. Stephens.
Misses Helen Gault, Jonesville; Theo Gause, Columbia; Margaret Gettys, Yorkville; Betty Gillespie, Bennettsville.
Misses Lillie Mae Hall, Walhalla; Alpha Louise Harmon, Bowling Green; Hattie Mae Harrison, Brunson; Montez Henderson, Easley; Rita Heriot, Oswego; Marjorie Holley, Aiken; Aileen Hough, Chester; Isabel Howe, Aiken.
Misses Alice Inman, Yorkville; Lillian Inman, Lockhart.
Misses Corinne Jones, Fort Lawn; Maggie Jones, Westminster.
Misses Sarah Ida Keith, Pickens; Beaufort Kelley, Bishopville; Lucille M. King, Georgetown.
Misses Frances Ligon, Anderson; Curtiss Luther, Greenville; Jimmie Lybrand, Samaria.
Misses Mamie McCullum, Sumter; Lucille McCowan, Anderson; Mary McCraw, Orangeburg; Elsie McGarity, Arcadia; Gertrude McGarity, Arcadia; Rebekah McFie, Winnsboro; Kathleen Mahaffey, Williamston; Harriet Marshall, Columbia; Marie Marshall, Anderson; Lily Mood Martin, Summerton.
Misses Mary Louise Nettles, Florence; Helen B. Nolen, Bamberg.
Misses Fannie Patrick, Savannah, Ga.; Belle Polikoff, Aiken; Reola Pursley, Rock Hill.
Misses Eulla Ruth Sanders, Rock Hill; Emma Sanford, Darlington; Roselie Shuford, Georgetown; Connie Shull, Wagener; Helen Sigman, Savannah, Ga.; Katherine Sistare, Lancaster; Louise Isabe Smith, Charlotte; Robert Anna Strain, Savannah, Ga.; Marianne Sudgen, Savannah, Ga.; Myra Swindell, Brunson.
Misses Dorothy Taylor, Summerville; Eva Taylor, Laurens; Florence Taylor, Florence; Grace McCuen Taylor, Laurens; Eunice Teal, Westminster; Sophia Thompson, Rock Hill; Harriet Trowbridge, Anderson; Toxie Turner, Sumter; Lucile Tuten, Ulmers.
Misses Annie Wall, Chester; Frances M. Ward, Waverly Mills; Margaret Watts, Cheraw; Maysie Webb, Saluda; Juanita Weeks, Orangeburg; Ruby West, Chester; Beulah Womack, Society Hill.
Miss Virginia Zeigler, Allendale.
Misses Elinor Ravanel, Clemson College; Sara Ready, Johnston; Alene Reames, Johnston; Ann Reaves, Alcolu; Margaret O. Reaves, Alcolu; Mary Alice Reeves, Florence; Eliza Reaves, Alcolu.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Winthrop College
Commencement
Graduation
Candidates
Degrees
South Carolina
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. Walter L. Lingle
Rev. N. Ashby Jones
Governor Thomas G. Mcleod
Where did it happen?
Winthrop College
Story Details
Key Persons
Rev. Walter L. Lingle
Rev. N. Ashby Jones
Governor Thomas G. Mcleod
Location
Winthrop College
Event Date
June 1, 2 And 3
Story Details
Winthrop College holds commencement exercises over three days with sermons, campus visits, class day, alumnae breakfast, daisy chain procession, and graduating exercises addressed by Governor McLeod. Lists candidates for master's (3), bachelor's (173), and two-year certificates (99).