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Trinity College Commencement, June 1-4, 1924

Trinity Commencement. . . Governor Morrison to Bring Greetings from State—Commencement Program

Trinity College, Durham, May 29—Governor Cameron Morrison, chief executive of North Carolina, will bring and deliver greetings from the State at the 72nd annual commencement of Trinity College beginning Sunday, June 1st, and ending Wednesday, June 4th. Governor Morrison’s address will follow that of Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. who is scheduled to make the annual commencement address at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 4th.

Detailed arrangements for the largest attended commencement in the history of the college have been completed. Letters from alumni and friends from this and other states have been pouring in lately announcing their intention of attending the exercises. The graduating class of 1924, composed of 117 members, is the largest the college has yet turned out, and this fact is causing the college authorities to prepare for an unusually tremendous crowd of friends, patrons, and alumni.

The annual Alumni Day, Tuesday, June 3, will be featured by the class reunions of the following classes: ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, ’04, ’09, ’14, ’19, ’21, and ’23. On this day there will be class stunts on the beautiful woodland stage near the East Duke building, and a large alumni parade in which members of the various reuniting classes will wear the dress typical of the years from 1899 on down to the present day.

The program in full follows:

Sunday, June 1st

8:30 p.m. Baccalaureate address—Dr. Edwin Mims, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.

Monday, June 2nd

10:30 a.m. Annual meeting of the Alumni Council.

3 p.m. Annual meeting of Board of Trustees.

8:30 p.m. Graduating orations and awardings of medals.

9:45 to 11:15 p.m. Reception in home of the graduating class, East Duke building.

Tuesday, June 3rd

11 a.m. Commencement sermon—The Reverend William Learoyd Speery, D.D., Harvard University.

12:30 p.m. Annual parade.

1 p.m. Alumni dinner, alumni memorial gymnasium, alumnae luncheon, Southgate Memorial building.

4 p.m. Reunion class exercises, Woodland Stage.

8:30 p.m. Alumni exercises, moving picture of college life, formal opening of the Alumni Memorial gymnasium. Address by Dr. Plato Tracy Durham, ’95, Emory University.

Wednesday, June 4th

10:45 a.m. Assembling of board of trustees, members of the faculty, the graduating class, and members of classes holding reunions, in front of Woodland Stage.

11 a.m. Graduating exercises. Commencement address—President Chas. Alexander Richmond, LL.D., Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Greetings from the State—Governor Cameron Morrison.

7:23 p.m. Lowering of the college flag by the graduating class.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, May 29, 1924

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