Medal Winners at Duke University, June 10, 1925

Medal Winners at Duke. . . South Creek Man Awarded Wiley Gray Trophy—Other Duke Awards

Durham, June 9--Ernest G. Overton of South Creek, speaking on the subject "Battles for Progress in the South,” won the Wiley Gray medal for oratory, in the contest for members of the senior class at Duke University here last night. The Wiley Gray medal was established at Trinity by Robert T. Gray, Esq., of Raleigh. Other seniors who competed for the medal tonight were J.J. Farriss, High Point; D.L. Fouts, Thomasville; and J.P. Boyd, Charlotte. Judges in the contest were Dr. L.L. Hendren, Athens, Ga.; Julian Blanchard, New York City; and R.P. Reade of Durham.

The award of the Robert E. Lee prize of $100 when to Richard Travis Hardaway of Durham. This prize was established by Rev. A.W. Plyler, ’92, and Mrs. Plyler, is given annually to that member of the senior class who has distinguished himself in athletics and in scholarship and who has shown a capacity for leadership.

William Rolfe Brown of Memphis, Tenn., was awarded the Robert Spencer Bill prize of $100, established by James A. bell, ’86, of Charlotte, as a memorial to his son. This prize is annually awarded to the member of the senior class who has made outstanding achievements in scholarship and who has shown unusual force of character.

Other awards were:

--Braxton Craven essay medal, established by the late General Julian S. Carr, to Julian Parks Boyd of Charlotte;

--James H. Southgate short story prize to Jesse Spencer of Charlotte;

--Sigma Upsilon and Chi Delta Phi literary prize of $25 for the best work appearing in the Archive student magazine to Cullen B. Batch of Mt. Olive;

--R.C. Parker cup, offered by Dr. R.C. Parker of Shanghai, China, valued at $75 for the best work in first-year physics, to Glenn C. Morphew of Jefferson;

--Tombs athletic society medal for the most outstanding athlete, to E.W.H. Lagerstedt, Brockton, Mass.;

--Hesperian literary society orator’s medal, Frank Craven Jr., Durham;

--Debater’s medal, George B. Johnson, Albany, Ga.;

--Freshman Debater’s medal, Hanselle L. Hester, Winston-Salem;

--Hugh Lyon Carr medal, L.Q. Mumford, Hanrahan;

--Columbia literary society orator’s medal, William. A. Kale, Asheville;

--Debater’s medial, Julian P. Boyd, Charlotte;

--Freshman debater’s medal, Paul R. Ervin, Rutherfordton.

From page 10 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 10, 1925

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