The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 116

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116 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Evans, 43, is also her daughter, who taught at Beth-
lehem some years ago. She has now two little
daughters attending Mount Zion day-school and a
son ready to begin in fall. Her brother, 16, Lionel
Sabourin, wants to be a minister, too, some day.
His cousin, 26, Annabel Brown, will enter Luther
Preparatory School in September in the Junior
grade to become a Lutheran teacher. 23. Herbert
Crowley. 24. Oliver Dalcour. 25. John Joseph.
28. Doris Thompson, sister to Dorothy Wilson, has
a husband who has served Mount Zion several years
excellently as treasurer. Three Mount Zion teachers
present: 35. Carrie Taylor, teaching second and
third grades (her sister Maud is attending Greens-
boro) ; 36. Elsie Gilbert, teaching primary grades;
42. J. Andrew Seraile, principal of the school and
able organist of the congregation.
Thompson, mother of our treasurer. 34. Ada Bar-
sock. 32. Ellen Hosbond, standing next to the pas-
tor, Oscar W.Luecke. Cornelius Taylor, 38, and
Justin Drayton, 39, are brothers. 40. Harrison Ed-
wards, sexton of church and janitor of school.

These communicants answered the reunion roll-
,call by reciting their confirmation verse and with
few exceptions attended Communion with the newly
confirmed. The attendance at this service was over
200. Those outside the picture were children and
visitors. Holy Communion was celebrated twice on
this Sunday, 33 attending at 10 a.m. and 21 at
8 P.M. O. W. L.

Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

Commencement week began at Immanuel Lu-
theran College, Greensboro, N. C., on Sunday eve-
ning, May 25, when the Rev. John Alston, of
Atlanta, Ga., delivered the annual sermon in Grace-
Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. Pastor Alston
spoke to the graduating classes on “Personal Respon-
sibility,” basing his sermon on the words: ‘“What-
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;
for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest,” Eccl.
9,10. He urged the students to go out into the
world, and make a life rather than a living by faith-
ful service of their God and their fellow-men in
home, state, school, and church. He addressed the
largest congregation which thus far has assembled
in the new church. ;

Final examinations were held on Monday. and

_ Tuesday, May 26 and 27.

The Alumni Association resolved to continue its

31. Evelyn.

campaign for $1,500. The money is to be used for
the library.

On Friday morning a Home Economics: Exhibit
was given in the girls’ dormitory.

The twenty-sixth annual commencement exer-
cises were held in the chapel on Friday afternoon,
May 30. Twenty-six students received their di-
plomas. Four of the graduates completed the re-
quired three years of theological studies offered in
the seminary. Their names and the fields to which
they have been assigned follow: Albert Dominick,
Atmore, Ala.; Harvey J. Lehman, Selma, Ala.; De
Witt P. Robinson, Kings Landing, Ala.; Luther
Robinson, New Orleans. They will receive regular
charges after they have done a year’s satisfactory
work in the field under the supervision of a pastor.

Two students, Elizabeth Jarrette, of Winston-
Salem, and Wilma Steepleton, of Kannapolis, com-
pleted the prescribed course for Lutheran day-
school teachers. ~

Twenty students grdduated from the Academic
Department. They are: Maude Berkely, New Or-
leans, La.; Dorothy Brown, Greensboro; Marie
Clapp, Greensboro; Roland da Lomba, Ringgold,
Va.; Harry Demouy, Alexandria, La.; Geneva
Evans, Southern Pines, N. C.; Eunice Faucette,
Burlington, N. C.; Maggie Graeber, Kannapolis,
N. C.; Lillian Jackson, Greensboro; Henry Lut-
terlough, New Brunswick, N. J.; Albert Marsh,
Greensboro; Lena McMillan, Greensboro; Lucius
Means, Spartanburg, S.C.; Raymond Neely, Bar-
ber, N. C.; Anderson Nicholson, Greensboro; John
Paylor, Greensboro; Sophie Shelton, Spartanburg,
S.C.; Brice Thompson, Spartanburg, S.C.; Ro-
benia Thompson, Sanford, N. C.; George Williston,
Fayetteville, N.C.

Motto of the class: “We finish to begin.”

Medals from the Alumni Association, from
Immanuel Conference, and from the institution in
recognition of superior scholarship were awarded
to the following : —

Name Class Avcrage
Albert Dominick Seminary 89%
Lucius Means Senior 92%
Roland da Lomba Senior 92%
Willie Hill (boy) Junior 88%
Harry Haysbert Sophomore 89%
Evelyn Jennings Freshman 86%

Clemons Sabourin, a member—of the Junior
Class, won the medal offered annually by Immanuel
Conference to the student having the highest scho-
lastic average. His average of 97% was by several
points the highest thus far attained by a student in

this institution.