Newspaper Page Text
“BLUE LIST”
BRILLIANT
GEORGIA FEMALE SEMINARY
AND
Conservatory of Music,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
SESSION 1897-96.
Literary Department
List of Pupils Distinguished by Reason of Excellent Scholarship.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Honor—Misses Ida Lee Chandler and Rosa Averitt.
Second Honor—Miss Mary Young-.
Third Honor—Miss Helen Johnston.
Fourth Honor—Miss Mamie Simmons.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Misses Lee Brown, Helen Brown, Delia Hood, Minnie Kimsey, Ninnie Miller,
Susie McMichael, Mamie Moore, Pellie Steyens, Fannie Stephens, Ethel Skin
ner, Eva Ware, Janie Williams.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Misses Bessie Bagby, Ola Evans, Lizzie Lumpkin, Lucile Townsend, Bertha
Kimsey, Nellie Wood.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Misses Katie Clark, Georgia Dixon, Mamie Hopps, Mary Merritt, Louis
Tising-er.
INTERMEDIATE CLASS.
Misses Mary Brightman, Ruth Burt, Fannie Dunlap, Cora Hill.
Honor Roll Conservatory Department.
PUPILS OF PROF. WALLACE.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Honor—Miss Pearl Moore, Dublin, Texas; Miss Bennie Thompson,
Thomaston, Ga.
•Second Honor—Miss Deasie L. Harris, W T interville, Ga.
Misses Rosa Averitt, Clara Perkins, Leila Smith.
Note.—Miss Rosa Averitt has completed full course in Harmony and has
practically completed the course in technique, but because of sickness was pre
vented from giving her recital, which is necessary to graduation.
JUNIOR CLASS.
1. —Misses Anna L. Booker, Milledgeville, Ga.; Ola Evans, Halcyondale, Ga.
2. —Misses Willie Smart, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Eva Ware, Cordele, Ga.
3. —Misses Maude Yarbrough, Hendersonville, N.C.; Lillie Bell, Gainesville.
Note.—Misses Anna Miller. Bessie and Mamie Haynes have taken a special
course as per catalogue; hence their names do not appear with regular pupils.
VIOLIN.—1. Misses Lucile Townsend, Montgomery, Ala.; Maude Yar
brough, Hendersonville, N. C. 2. Effie Shewmake, Gainesville, Ga. 3. Anna
Booker, ^Milledgeville, Ga.; Deasie L. Harris, Winterville, Ga.
Misses Susie Brantley, Bobbie Howell, Etta Hynds, Gertrude McLeod, Em-
Matthews, Anna Miller.
PUPILS OF MRS. VAN HOOSE.
PIANO.—First Division. 1. Lizzie' Boone, 2. Annie Burt, 3. Claudia
Brannan. Second Division—1. Nellie Hall, Mattie Hudson, Eva Hudson, Annie
Holland. 2. Ruby Moody, Belle Hunter.
HARMONY:—First "Division, * 1. Lottie Moon, Minnie Van Horn, Lizzie
Boone. 2. Mamie Hopps, Ruby Moody. Second Division. 1. Mattie Hudson,
Eva Hudson. 2. Anna Booker, Ola Evans, Annie Holland, Ruby Moody, Lillie
Bell,
SCALE CONTEST.—First Division. 1, Lizzie Hbbfi©-, Afcnie Burt, Corrie
Smith. 2. Una Webb, Minnie Van Horn. Second Division. 1. Lily Johnson,
Mattie Hudson, Eva Hudson, Annie B. Wood, Ruth Cannon, Ruby Moody,
Mamie Hopps.
2. Donie Adams, Belle Hunter.
PUPILS OF MRS. CHILD,
PIANO.
Junior Class—1. Mary D. Campbell, Fannie Perry, Ethel Skinner, Janie
Williams. 2. Lillie Folinar, Lottie Moon.
Sophomore Class—1. Carrie Moore, Maude Reed, Lucile Townsend. 2, Liz
zie Lumpkin. 3. Ophelia Heggiu. Maude Crawford, Myrtice Crawford.
I reshman Class—1. Fannie Dunlap.
PUPILS OF MISS LYNCH.
CORNET.
1. Ethel Skinner, Mamie Hopps.
Note.—In order for a pupil to appear on the Honor Roll she must have been
a pupil of the Seminary for the entire year, not leaving the institution until
after commencement exercises.
DEPARTMENT OF VOICE.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Honor—Miss Lillie Folmar. Montgomery, Ala,
JUNIOR CLASS.
1, Belle Blood worth, Mary D. Campbell. 2. May me Haynes, Sallie M.
Cook. 3. Helen Brown, Alma Boring. 4. Anna L. Miller, Willie Smart.
DEPARTMENT OF ELOCUTION.
First Honor—Lillian Jackson, Eufaula, Ala.
Second Houor—Mittie Porter, Columbus, Ga.
1. Anna Lizzie Miller, Cora Reed. 2. Mayme Haynes, Laura Trulock. 3.
Ethel Lively.
ART DEPARTMENT.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Honor—Clyde Reynolds, Union Springs, Ala.; Annie B. Wood, Colum
bia, Ala.
Second Honor—Laura Trulock, Pine Bluff. Ark.; Mittie Payne, Shellman.Ga.
JUNIOR CLASS.
1. Mary Rice, Mary Merritt.
SELF-GOVERNED PUPILS.
Misses Rosa Averitt, Donie Adams, Bonnie Bridger, Annie Lou Booker, An
nie Lou Bolton, Helen Brown, Lee Brown, Belle Bloodworth, Willie Bolding,
Alma Boring, Bessie Bagley, Ida Lee Chandler, LolaCobb, Gussie Carson, Mit
tie Carson, Eula Cooper, Sallie May Cook,RuthCallcnvay Belle Cordray, Juliet
Carlton, Ethel Carlton, Kate Clarke, May DelaPerriere, Edna Dennard,Daisy
DeWeese, Nellie DeWeese, Georgia Dixon, Ola Evans, Celeste Faver, Jessie
Frazer, May, Frazier, Lula Flewellen, Lillie Folmar, Eoline Gilmore, Lillian
Henderson, Mamie Hopps, Daisy Lou Harris, Delia Hood, Nellie Hall, Belle
Hunter, Clara Hill, Elise Holmes, Lillian Ivey, Bell Johnson, Helen Johnston,
Lillie Johnson, Lilliau Jackson, Minnie Kimsey, Bertha Kimsey,Lizzie Lump
kin, Lottie Moon, Annie Lizzie Miller, Ninnie Miller, Sadie McConnell, Pearl
Moore, Mamie Moore,Maude Moore, Carrie Moore, Susie McMichael,Ruby Moody,
Lula McCully, Mary Merritt, Winnie Nuna, Clara Perkins, Eddie Perkins.
Mildred Payne, Luna Palmour, Cora Reed, Maude Reed, Clyde Reynolds, Mary
Rice, Eva Ruffin, Pellie Stevens, Mamie Simmons, Ethel Skinner, Willie Smart,
Leila Townsend, Lucile Townsend* Laura Trulock, Minnie Laurie VanHorn,
Annie Beall Wood, Nellie Wood, Janie Williams Blancne Williams, Eva Ware,
Eva Wolfe, Mary Wynn, Eoline West, Mary Young, Maude Yarbrough.
HONOR PUPILS.
Misses Ruth Burt, Mary Brightman, Cora Hill, Robbie Howell, Charlcie
Metteaur, Neta McGee, Kate Shepherd, Louis Tisinger, Una Webb.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Claudia Brannon, May Bell, Ouida Colbert, Annie McCoy, Gail McAfee,
Nettie Nunn, Mary Ella Perry, Clara Parker, Mabel Smith,Maude Smith, James
Merritt.
Eighteenth Annual Commencement of the Georgia Female Seminary
and Conservatory of Music.
•‘The Princess’
of
1 as Played by Pupils of Department! BACCALAUREATE ADDRbSS OF PROF, PEARCE..
Elocution and pelsarte« I Irofessor Pearce began his remarks
The “Princess’” as played by the pupils of the department of Elocution and
Delsarte at the auditorium Saturday evening was very much enjoyed. The
costumes were handsome, having been made especially for the occasion, and the
young ladies acted their parts gracefully and artistically. A large audience
was present and from the beginning to the ending of the entertainment closest
attention was given. The splendid rendition of “The Princess” reflected credit
upon Miss Cochrane, who has ehargeof-thedepabtnient ofy Elocution and Del
sarte. >'" *- • ■*-,
The program was as follows:
THE PRINCESS T6nnyson.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
PRINCESS IDA Miss Reed.
LADY BLANCHE Miss Miller.
LADY PSYCHE Miss Trulock.
MELISSA (Lady Blanche’s daughter)... Miss Holmes.
PRINCE..! Miss Porter.
CYRIL, S tp • . .,, n • ) Miss Jackson.
FLORIAN, } Friends of the Prince j- Miss Haynes ..
KING GAMA Miss McLeod.
IPSE. Miss Lumpkin.
VIOLET Miss Griggs.
Scene 1—The Forest.
Scene II—Court of King Gama.
Scene III and IV—Schoolroom in University.
Scene V—Corridor in University.
Scene VI—The Forest—A Geological Expedition.
Selection Orchestra.
SECOND ANNUAL WALLACE CONCERT.
It is always pleasant to hear the compositions of Prof.Chas. J* Wallace,
and specially so when they are charmingly rendered by those pupils who have
been under his efficient instruction. Therefore “Wallace’s Concert*’ is always
eagerly anticipated at each commencement.
The program is made up entirely of original compositions of Prof. Wallace,
and the program of the second annual concert, which was held Monday evening,
was replete with the good things in his musical repertorie. A large audience
was present, and the program was thoroughly enjoyed.^
The program was as follows:
I’ART I.
1. (a) 20th Century March, (b) Hustonian Dance,
No. 1 Orchestra.
2 Piano Solo. Echoes from Niagara, 9th Grand
Polka de Concert Miss Deasie L. Harris.
3. Vocal Quartet. When the Woeful Clouds are
Rifted Misses Wheel
er and Griggs, Messrs. Van Hoose and Pearce.
4. Piano Solo, Der Spinnen Tanz No. 3
Miss Ola Evans.
5. Buena Waltzes--. Orchestra.
6. Exstacy, 18th Grand Galop de Concert (four
pianos, 16 hands)—Misses Harris, Ware, lyood,
Evans, Moore, Booker, Bessie and Mamie Haynes.
fast II,
1. Candler’s Marcii— Orchestra.
2. Quartet for strings in G major— Misses Town
send and Yarborough, Messrs. Pearce and Wallace.
* 3. Vocal Quartet, Roses in Her Hair
Misses Folmar, Griggs, Carswell and Williams.
4. Piano Solo, Der Schmetterling (Butterfly) Ca
price Miss Bennie Thompson.
5. Cornet Solo, Concert Polka, The Climax *
Miss Obelia Lynch.
6. Waltzes, Farewell to America Orchestra.
THE ANNUAL CONCERT.
Tuesday evening saw the last of the commencement exercises. The annual
concert took place and was excellent, as are always these concerts. The pro
gram was splendidly rendered and it was certainly enjoyed. Special mention
is made of the “Miserere Scene (Love, fly on rosy pinions”) by Miss Wheeler
and Mr. Ellison Van Hoose. The audience was captivated with it, and many
compliments were paid them. The second part of the program was a cantata,
which was giyen sometime ago, and repeated Tuesday evening. Each young
lady acted her part well, and the cantata proved a very pleasant feature of the
program. The program for the concert was as follows;
PART i.
Selection from Trovatore Orchestra.
2. Vocal Duet, Gypsies—Brahms
Misses Lillie Folmar and Mayme Haynes.
3. Selection Mandolin Club.
4. Piano Quartet, Joyous Musician—Schultz
Misses Moody, Wolf, Hall and Adams.
5. Vocal Solo, Summer—Chatninade
Miss Annie Griggs.
Selection Mandolin Club.
Miserere Scene, (Love, Fly on Rosy Pinions)—
Trovatore
.... Miss Wheeler and Mr. Ellison Van Hoose.
Piano Duet, Shooting Stars—Holst
Misses Johnston and Wood.
Piano Solo, 14th Rhapsodie—Liszt
Miss Bennie Thompson.
Grand March from Tanhauser— Wagner-Orchestra.
l.
6.
8.
9.
10
by referring to tbe inter-relation ex
isting between rights aricTobligations,
between privileges and duties, impress
ing upon tbe members of the ciassthe
fact that their privileges as college
graduates brought with them increased
obligations and duties. The child in
the,^arly morn of his existence, ‘when
his horizon extends no farther than
the. paternal home'and his father or
mother stand in the relation of Ged,
needs to know no higher duty than
obedience to parental authority. But
after a while wheu he becomes con
scious of a broader citizenship in the
city, state, nation and finally as a citi
zen of the vast and infinite universe he
becomes also conscious of weightier
obligations, which go beyond the limits
of time and circumstance and find their
“ultima thule” only within the jasper
walls of the New Jerusalem.
Continuing the name line of thought,
he showed the young ladies how vastly
superior were their advantages over
those enjoyed by the vast majority of
their sisters—therefore the obligation
of leadership in all good movements.
Referring tp the “new woman” he
said: “I do not mean for you to join
that short-skirted, lank-limbed set of
sisters who have recently discovered
that your mothers and grand-mothers
were slaves and ground beneath the
iron heel of their oppressors, your
fathers and grand-fathers. There was
never baser nor falser charge than this.
It is a slander upon the brave men of
the past generation—my ancestors and
yours—who with their own blood
mixed the cement which holds together
the grandest national structure that
the world has known. It is a slander
upon the noble women—uncrowned
queens they were—who ministered with
loving hands to the necessities of the
When I say then that by reason, of
your advantages, ao vastly superior to
those of most of your sisters, that the
duty becomes incumbent upon y. H1 to
be ladies in* the advance- movements
which are being fostered by women I
do not mean that you shall find a new
sphere of activity, but that in that
sphere in which God lias placed von
you may lead tfre way to still Higher
achievement and still nobler end*.
The opportunities for woman, in. her
womanly sphere are boundless. She
has as yet, as it were, advanced only
to the border land and beyond are
realms for discovery and conquest more
inviting than *he golden orchards of
the Hesperides and richer far than the-
fields of the Klondyke."
In summing up the various sphero^of
activity for which woman is especially
fitted he said: “Broadly speaking there
are three great departments of activity
for which woman is especially fitted—
the educational aud religions and. what
we may call the aesthetic. Into the
former of these woman has but recent
ly entered and the prospect which the
future holds out is truly brilliant. All
that has been done for and by her edu
cationally has been done during the-
century which is cow drawing rapidly
to a close. When the century dawned
there was not m all the world a college
devoted to her necessities nor even one
which would admit her within its social
portals Today female colleges crown
five hundred hills in America and the
male institutions are almost running
over each other in their efforts first to
extend the invitation to vvoman to come
over and play in their hack-yard.
Leadership in this great sphere of ac
tivity need not necessarily take you
from the fireside to the school-room
I honor the army of noble women who
have sacrificed the joys and nnvileges
patriot fathers, binding up their ! of domestic life to devote their lives to
wounds, soothing the fevered brow and j training of the young in our schools,
by a thousand ministries of love and j Many of them are worthy to be classed
tenderness, changing what else were j
barren wastes to Edens of delight.
7 7 j 7 7 ,, ! and endures privation and trial
There may have been and doubtlees ; . ... , . . ,
.. . , , . der to spread the Gospel Oi the Son of
was a time when woman lost the place I , , ,
, , . , , , . x , 1 God. Obedient to the heavenly voices
for which she was created, that of "
| with the devoted missionary who sepa
rates himself from kindred and friends
or-
PART II.
CANTATA.
The Silyer Cloud Franz Abt.
Fairy Queen Miss Annie Griggs.
Zephyr Miss Mayme Haynes.
Ariel Miss Effie Shewmake.
Chorus, Fairies, Fays, Etc.
According to a legend, it is the custom in Fairy
land for the fairies to assemble once a year at a certain
spot for the purpose of choosing a new Queen. The
choice is not entirely a free one, as a silver cloud
descends, in the body of which is seen the counterpart
of the fairy upon which the regal honors for the forth
coming year are to devolve.
TABLEAU.
- • ..
was created, that or a
help-meet for man, when she became a
slave to his necessities or a toy to while
away an idle hour, but with the com
ing of the man of Gallilee, her emanci
pation proclamation was signed, and
wherever His kingdom has been estab
lished, there has woman assumed her
God-given place by the side of man and
they two, hand in hand, are moving
grandly onward towards the accent
plishment of their high destiny,
If our mothers have told faithfully
the story of the old South before the
war they occupied then no menial posi
tion and performed no slavish service.
The chivalry and love for the lady fair
of the old time Southern cavalier have
become proverbial and the most roman
tic picture which brightens the oft-
time blotted pages of history is that
which portrays the queenly women of
the old South—queens to the manor
born. Hers was to brighten, to bless,
to love—than which heavenly minis
tries the angels themselves can know
no nobler nor higher.
But, young ladies, while it is true
that in our Southland woman never
has been a slave and needs not to array
herself in antagonistic phalanx or
bloomers, against'her arch-enemy, man.
it is true that conditions have changed
in the South and to these changed con
ditions, our women no less than our
men must learn to adapt themselves.
Our paradisiacal garden has been
brok%n and blighted by the iron shod
heel ol war and Adam must rear for
himself another habitation and by the
sweat of his brow eat his daily bread.
And shall Eve still sit her down be
neath the spreading vine and await in
idleness and ease the return of her
spouse, worn by tbe heat and burden
of the day? Nay verily, true heart
that she is, she is attending to a thous
and duties by day and yet when the
evening shadows lengthen and the tired
laborer returns from his store, his
farm or his mill, she is there with the
charm and cheer of her presence, to
bring back to his burdened heart the
paradisiacal joys of the long ago.
ADd so young ladies, i may say here,
that when I speak of changed condi
tions, I would not be understood to
assert that woman is to find the fulfill
ment of her destiny in any other sphere
than as a help-meet for man. The
same omnific voice which said, “let
there be light” and behold a thousand
suns scattered the darkness from the
bosom of the universe, till there re
mained no darkness save in the shad
ows of revolving worlds—that same
voice issued his fiat, “they twain shall
be one flesh” and so it shall be till the
thousand suns shall flicker out and the
myriad worlds shall crumble into dust.
they have forsaken the duties of home
to discharge what to them are higher
duties in a foreign field. But as the
world would justly despise the mission
ary who lightly and without sufficient
reason forsook these nearer duties for
those that were more remote, so should
that woman be contemned who lightly
and without sufficient reason disregard
ed the claims of the home—the haven
of her existence—for any claims what
soever without.
Prof. Pearce said education should
begin at home at the mothers knee,
that the early training of the child was
the stepping stone to its future worth
aud success. He said the advancement
of the child without any home training
was necessarily slow, and the teachers
task the more arduous. “And so I
say,” he continued, “the school house
and the teacher's rostrum have co ex
clusive claim upon the teacher. We
shall not attain the acme of our hope"
till every home shall become a school
and every mother a trained teacher.
In closing Professor Pearce spoke oi
the difficulties with which the young'
ladies must contend, often times alone
as far as human help is concerned.
Conscious, though, that there is a prov
idence in all our lives we may rest se-
cure. He further said: “George Eliot
in her beautiful book called Eomala.
portrays Eomala fleeing from Florence
aad her husband because her duties
there had become distasteful and it
seemed to her almost unbearable.
Meeting Savonarola on her way beyond
the city he recognized her and divin
ing her purpose and in a voice that
rang with the energy of divine inspira*
tion he cried, “Back! back! my child"
God fixes our duties for us. We may
not lightly choose them.”
And so as we send you out this morn
ing to meet the untried duties of a ne"
existence, I would impress this though 1
upon you. And when duty seems a
load and care like a cankering worm
shall eat deep into your heart and J° u
would fain fly away from monotonous
and lowly duties which may pereham- r
fall to your lot, in search of an imag
ined good elsewhere, remember these
other words of Savonarola—“Good is
not a thing of choiee:but is a river th at
flows from the foot of the Invisib\ e
Throne and flows by the path of obeui
ence. By following this path in }° u ‘
childhood and school-girl life you h a ^<-
attained unto all the real good wnic^
you have ever enjoyed and by followuu»
it to the end it will lead yon to ta
now invisible throne which will to
be revealed to you, surmounted by PP
King of Kings and circled by all tn
heavenly choir, shouting, “Holy, holy'
holy, Lord God of Hosts, Heaven an
earth are full of thy glory.” On wbic
glad day may we, one and alb with
a single one missing, join in *he g 1
refrain.