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12 THE INDEX, Saturday, June 2, 1928
COMMENCEMENT days
are not entirely for those
about to receive their degrees
and diplomas it would
seem. Programs announced by
many of the schools, colleges and
universities have a number of
events in which the "old grads"
who come back for the festivities
have a prominent part.
Alumni days and doings are not
the least of the enjoyable affairs
that the closing school days
bring forth.
Yesterday, June's first day,
brought the baccalaureate address
for the graduates of Kiskiminetas
Springs School, at Saltsburg,
in the chapel with the Rev.
Dr. Gill Robb Wilson, of Trenton,
New Jersey, as the speaker
and this morning the fortieth
annual commencement takes
place, with class day exercises
and presentation of the class
memorial at noon. At 1 o'clock
the Alumni have their annual
luncheon and this afternoon the
annual reception takes place in
the gymnasium at 2 o'clock.
This evening, at 8 o'clock,
graduates of the Department of
Music, Washington Seminary,
give their recital; tomorrow
evening, at 8 o'clock, the baccalaureate
sermon will be
preached; class day exercises
come Monday morning at 11
o'clock, with the school reception
following at 8 o'clock that evening.
Tuesday at 10:30, commencement
exercises take place.
Tomorrow also brings the baccalaureate
service for Washington
and Jefferson College men,
in the First Presbyterian
Church, Washington, at 11
o'clock. President S. S. Baker
will be the speaker, the Rev. Dr.
Maurice E. Wilson, student pastor,
is to preside, with the Rev.
Dr. William E. Slemmons, pastor
of the church, assisting.
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
class day exercises will take
place in the chapel; Tuesday the
Board of Trustees will meet in
the president's office at 11
o'clock and during the day class
reunions are to be held. Commencement
comes Wednesday
morning at 11 o'clock in the
chapel, with the Rev. Burleigh
Cruikshank making the address
and at 1 o'clock the General
Alumni Association will have its
J u n e B r i n g s C o m m e n c e m e n t Festivities
luncheon and annual meeting in
the George Washington Hotel
ball-room. Eastern Standard
time will be observed.
Duquesne College announces
June 3 as graduating day, with
solemn Pontifical Mass in St.
Paul's Cathedral, Bishop Hugh
C. Boyle officiating, and address
by the Rt. Rev. Dr. John J. Mc-
Court, Bishop of Altoona. Tuesday
a pageant will be given in
Syria Mosque at 3 in the afternoon
and 8 o'clock at night;
June 10 will bring graduating
exercises for the Preparatory
Department with religious services
in the University chapel at
9 o'clock, the Rev. P. Maher
making the address, and commencement
at 3:30 with address
by President M. A. Hehir. June
11 will be benefactor's day, with
solemn High Mass at 10 o'clock
and address by the Rev. D.
Shanahan; June 12, Alumni
Day, there will be a solemn High
Mass at 10 o'clock, with sermon
by the Rev. Dr. R. L. Hayes, a
meeting of the Alumni at 1 and
the Alumni banquet at 7 when
three Alumni will make addresses.
This is Duquesne University's
golden jubilee year.
Tomorrow will bring also the
baccalaureate service at Birmingham
School, Birmingham, at
11 o'clock with the Rev. John R.
Woodcock as the speaker; Monday
evening the commencement
recital at 8 o'clock will be followed
by an informal reception
and dance; Tuesday, Alumnae
Day, brings the seventy-fifth anniversary
poster exhibit; meetings
of Alumnae associations
at 3 o'clock; Memorial service to
Grace A. Woolcock, class of
1883, at 4 o'clock; Alumnae
parade at 5:30 and Alumnae
banquet at 6, with address by
the Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Barr.
Motion pictures of school activities
will be shown at 8:30 and at
10 o'clock there will be the Senior
candle march. Wednesday,
commencement day will begin
with the class day exercises at
10 o'clock; luncheon on the lawn
at 12:30; pageant, "The Magic
Well," at 2:30; military review
at 3:30; Senior supper at 6:30
and commencement exercises at
8 o'clock that evening. Birmingham
School celebrates this year
the seventy-fifth anniversary of
its founding.
June 5 Winchester School
holds its commencement exercises
in Calvary Protestant
Episcopal Church at 7:30; that
same day Thurston Preparatory
School has its Honor Day program,
with commencement coming
at 4 o'clock the afternoon of
June 6, in Calvary Protestant
Episcopal Church. The Rt. Rev.
David L. Ferris, D.D., Bishop
Coadjutor of Western New-
York, will make the address and
the diplomas are to be presented
by Bishop Alexander Mann, of
the Diocese of Pittsburgh. A reception
at the school, in Shady
Avenue, will follow at 5 o'clock.
June 6 also will be commencement
day at Westminster College,
New Wilmington. Two
o'clock, Eastern Standard time,
is the hour announced.
June 6 and 7 Pennsylvania
College for Women Seniors present
their class play, "Dear Brutus,"
in Assembly Hall at 8:15
o'clock; June 8 will be Alumnae
Day, with a meeting at 4 o'clock
and the annual dinner at 6:15,
both affairs taking place at the
college; Saturday evening, June
9, President Cora Helen Coolidge
will give her usual reception at
8:30, illumination of the campus
taking place at dark; Sunday
morning, June 10, the Rev. Dr.
William R. Farmer will preach
the baccalaureate sermon in the
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
at 11 o'clock and at 5:30 there
will be a Vesper Service with
President Coolidge as the speaker.
Monday morning, June 11,
will bring commencement exercises
at 11 o'clock. Dr. J. Duncan
Spaeth, of Princeton University,
will make the address.
June 7 the Ellis School will
have its commencement exercises
in the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Ascension at 4
o'clock with the rector, the Rev.
Boyd Edwards, making the address.
A reception at the school
will follow. Also dated for June
7 is Arnold School's annual field
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