Monday, April 19, 2021

Buie's Creek Academy Commencement Set May 7-12, 1921

Raleigh Lawyer to Make Address. . . Buie’s Creek Academy Announces Its Annual Commencement Program

Buie’s Creek, April 15—Buie's Creek Academy holds its 34th commencement May 7, 8, 11 and 12. The Commencement sermon will be preached May 8 by Rev. J.S. Snyder, Fayetteville, and the commencement address will be delivered on the 12th by Hon. Robert N. Simms, Raleigh.

This is the closing of one of the best years of work here, the enrollment being more than 660, representing six states, 65 counties, Cuba and China.

There are about 67 in the graduating class, R.E. Williford, Cumberland County, president, and Miss Lorena Tripp, Chatham county, secretary.

Rev. T.C. Brietion, returned missionary from China, has been delivering a seris of sermons and addresses here, which have been greatly enjoyed.

President W.L. Poteat, Wake Forest College, speaks here next Sunday at 11 o’clock, it being the regular preaching service.

On Saturday night the Wake Forest Glee Club will be in Lillington and Rev. T.D. Collins, the Alumni representative of Wake Forest College, will fill the pulpit at the Baptist church in Dunn.

From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, April 19, 1921. Buie’s Creek Academy is now Campbell University. The only photo I could find of the old academy is one of the music building, taken in 1898, from magazine.campbell.edu.

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