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The Oglethorpe Women ' s Board ONE of the most remarkable gatherings, even in this city of remark- able gatherings, was the assembling of approximately two hundred of the representative women of the city of Atlanta at the home of Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, November 25, 1916, to organize a Women ' s Board for Oglethorpe University. The purpose of the Board is to aid the University in every wise and efficient way. Already more than three hundred of the finest workers and most representative women of the city have joined the organization. Their activities are directed toward the support and development of Oglethorpe in every phase of its growth and activities. Each of the ladies is assigned to the committee on which she feels best able to serve. These committees cover the various departments of the University. Officers and chairmen of the various committees have been unanimously chosen as follows: ill Mrs. TH0R ' WELL Jacobs President Mrs. Lee Ashcraft First Vice-President Mrs. J. B. Campbell Second Vice-President Mrs. Arnold Broyles Third Vice-President Mrs. Hugh Richardson Fourth Vice-President Mrs. Cora Steele Libby Fifth Vice-President Mrs. I. R. Carlisle Secretary Mrs. E. D. Crane Treasurer Mrs. John K. Ottley Chairman of Executive Board Mrs. Harry Hebmance Chairman of Campus Committee Mrs. Haynes McFadden Chairman of Press Committee Mrs. Lee Ashcraft Chairman of Entertainment Committee Mrs. Jas. T. Williams Chairman of Hospital Committee Mrs. Norman Sharp Co-Chairman of Hospital Committee Mrs. N. B. Browne and Miss Rebecca Nesbit Representatives of the Westminster Presbyterian Church Mbs. Hugh Bancker and Mrs. W. F. Buchanan Representatives of the Central Presbyterian Church Mrs. J. B. Brooks Representative of the Inman Park Presbyterian Church J lRS. Charles Whitehead Representative of the West End Presbyterian Church Mrs. Katherine H. Connerat Representative of the Baptist Church Mrs. C. R. Haskins Representative of the Congregational Church Mrs. Harry Schlesinger Representative of the Jeivish Church Mrs. E. L. Chalenor Chairman of Library Committee Mrs. De Los Hill Chairman of Music Committee Mrs. J. Dillard Jacobs, Mrs. Thomas Brumby, Jr., Mrs. E. F. Pitman, Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mrs. Mamie Adams, Mrs. T. R. Sawtell, Mrs. Morris Brandon, Mrs. E. Rivers, Mrs. J. Cheston King, Mrs. H. M. Nicholes and Mrs. George Pratt Advisory Board Mrs. E. Phillips, Mrs. Frank Runyan and Mrs. W. T. Elder Representatives of the First Presbyte- rian Church Mrs. J. Russell Porter, Mrs. Ernest KoNTz and Mrs. W. M. Camp Representatives of the North Avenue Presbyterian Church
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Oglethorpe ' s First Commencement Announcements OGLETHORPE ' S first commencement was marked by a series of sen- sational events and announcements. At the banquet preceding the announcement proper, and again during that ceremony, Dr. Jacobs reported that the University for the first time was out of debt, that it had received gifts and pledges amounting to one million and fifty thousand dol- lars, and that the year just passed had witnessed four large gifts to the col- lege, fifty thousand dollars for a stadium from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hermance, a gift from Dr. Cheston King of a library of English books worth about twenty thousand dollars, a gift from Mrs. Lee Ashcraft of band instruments worth one thousand dollars, and a gift of about twelve hundred dollars from the Oglethorpe Women ' s Board. The new stadium, which will stand near Peachtree Road, south of the present college buildings, will be the finest in this part of the world, and comparable with any elsewhere. The Cheston King Library of English will be the first real research library to be established south of Washington. There are other research libraries, but they are incomplete, and their efficiency lies in the realm of future hopes. Oglethorpe ' s is now a reality. This library was the property of one of the most distinguished German students of English, the late Dr. Victor of Mar- burg, in Germany. The band instruments given by Mrs. Ashcraft are silver plated, and up to the Oglethorpe standard, which is to say they are the best that can be procured. The money raised by the Women ' s Board will be used for several pur- poses, library, campus and student orchestra. Another gift of a year ago is beginning to show its fruits in the splendid blue-grey granite walls of Lupton Hall, the second of the permanent univer- sity buildings, now about half finished. THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY One of the most beautiful ceremonies that ever marked the end of a col- lege year was incorporated into the church service at the Baptist Tabernacle on the morning of Sunday, June sixth, when the official commencement of Oglethorpe took place. The first degree of all was conferred not upon a student, but upon a valiant knight, upon a gentleman whose father was a trustee of the old Ogle- thorpe of ante-bellum days, and whose uncle was there, a professor. The gentleman was Woodrow Wilson, whose gracious letter of acknowledgment was read with appropriate remarks by Mr. Edgar Watkins, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Oglethorpe. Next came the conferring of the academic degrees. In the days of chiv- alry the young knight, after a period of fasting, bathed, took the sacrament. gMACRA
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