Durham, June 10—Standing with heads uncovered, students, alumni and friends of Duke University watched the American flag lowered for the last time during the college year here today at sundown. It was the official close of the first commencement of Duke University and the 73rd of Trinity College, now a part of a great educational institution, with Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, special guest and speaker, and William Preston Few, president of Duke, standing at stiff attention, the flag was presented to the university by the class of 1925. President Few, according to long established customs, pledged to keep the flag solely for the use of the outgoing class.
Honorary degrees were conferred by the university upon the following:
Gilbert Theodore Rowe, ’95, Nashville, Tenn., editor and author, doctor of literature;
Dr. Harry Maurice North, ’99, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Rocky Mount, doctor of divinity, and
Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, Charlotte, doctor of science. In conferring the honor upon Dr. Rankin, who was the state health officer from 1909 to 1925, President Few stated that Dr. Rankin is “now entering upon an even greater service through connection with the James B. Duke medical foundation; through application of scientific knowledge and high devotion to the causes of his native state, becoming the savior of the health of thousands of people.”
Students graduating with honors were:
Summa Cum Laude
Julian Parks Boyd, Charlotte, and William R. Brown, Nashville, Tenn.
Magna Cum Laude
William S. Barnes, Furman A. Bridgers, Velma Deyton, J.J. Farriss, Lucy Flemming Glasson, Idalene B. Gulledge, Richard Hardaway, Signey Maxwell Kale, Lawrence Mumford, Ida C. Munyan, Annie Murnick, Bessie A. Rooker, Bessie Jaunita Southerland, Ella H. Whitted, and James A. Wiggins Jr.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 11, 1925
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