Alabama State University Montgomery - Hornet Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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i? 1937 SUMMER QUARTER i? 1. GARRICK HARDY 7772 FOREWORD With this 1937 Summer Quarter Commencement at the State Teachers College at Montgomery, Alabama, is being initiated this idea of a Graduate: Book which is designed to serve as a memento of what is always a big occasion in the life of those persons who through their compietion of a specihed program of formal study offer the circumstances for a commencement season on the college calendar. Memories of school days and of classmates are always dear. It is hoped that in the years of the future, a reference to this Graduates Book may offer many a happy moment for those whose pictures are included in this first souvenir. The summer quarter commencement has been on the calendar of the State Teachers College at Montgomery since 1922 when the summer school was operated on a sixty-day basis for a second summer and when the first summer quarter graduates received Junior College diplomas from this division that had been initiated with the reorganization in 1920. The summer quarter commencement has grown in magnitude with the development of the summer program of the college and has been expanded through the initiation in the sum- mer of 1927 of branch summer schools at Birmingham and Mobile that have resulted in larger numbers of teachers-in-setvice moving to the point of graduation from one of the divisions of the institution. A total of 668 diplomas granted at summer quarter commence- ments in the past five years U932-1936i with the peak number being 247 in August 1936 is suggestive of the present proportions of the occasion in which a new group shares this month with the added feature of this souvenir Graduate: Book. The State Teachers College at Montgomery, Alabama, as the oldest state-supported in- stitution in the United States devoted specifically to the preparation of Negro teachers, looks back to the Spring of 1880 for the beginning of its roster of alumni. Having been started in 1874 at Marion, Alabama, as the QiLincoln Normal Universityix the institution gradu- ated groups annually for eight years at Marion i1880-18871 until the removal of the in- stitution from Marion t0 the present site in Montgomery in the summer of 1887 where the annual graduation groups were resumed in May 1890. Students graduated from a five-year normal course from 1880 until 1916, then from a four-year teacher-training high school until the first junior college class received diplomas in 1922. The first degree class graduated from the four-year college in May 1932, with the result that now the grad- uation class of each commencement includes those from the senior college, those from the junior college, and those from the senior high school. Certificates at separate exercises are awarded to those completing the junior high school and the elementary school. From 1880 through 1936, a total of 3916 diplomas have been awarded with 238 from the senior college and 1241 from the junior college. A total of 438 are being added in 1937 including the 184 graduates of the Spring Quarter and the 254 graduates of this Summer Quarter. To the graduates of the 1937 Summer Quarter, commendation is extended for the achievement of graduation which in quite a number of cases represents not only a long period of summer and extension study but as well the evidence of a wholesome determina- tion to qualify professionally for an improved calibre of service to the students enrolled in the schools of Alabama. The State Teachers College expects of this new group of alumni a conscientious professional service wherever located and a wholesome devotion to the worthy ideals of the institution. August 13, 1937. PRESIDENT H. COUNCILL TRENHOLM.

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i? THE GRADUATES BOOK i? pPONOx THE BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES Sunday, August 8, 1937 3:30 P. M. Processional God of Our Father? ...................................... Warren Invocation ........................................... Rev. A. E. Gregory, D. D. As Torrents in Summer .................................................. Elgar A Cappella Choir Scripture Reading Sittin, Down Beside 0 The Lamb ..................................... Spiritual A Cappella Choir Baccalaureate Address .................................. Rev. Howard Thurman Dean of the Chapel, Howard University, Washington, D. C. Somebodfs Knocking At Your Door ................................... Spiritual Benediction. Recessional God of Our Fathers, .................................. Warren THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISE Friday, August 13, 1937 10:00 A. M. Processional- God of Our Fathers,, .................................... Warren Invocation. uSouls Of The Righteous ............................................. Noble A Cappella Choir Commencement Address ................................ Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill President, Cheyney Training School for Teachers, Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Fierce Was The Wild Billow, ....................................... Noble A Cappella Choir Presentation of Diplomas. Conferring of Degrees. College Hymn. Benediction.