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News of Colored Folk Annual Commencement Brilliant Affair
The twenty fourth annual commencement of Bluefield Institute was held in Mahood Hall on June 3 1925. Twenty eight graduates from the secondary department nine from the normal courses and three from the junior college received certificates. The program featured an address by Prof N B Allen Urban League executive secretary and a school chorus with notable music.
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Bluefield Institute
Mahood Hall
N. B. Allen
Urban League
Columbus
Ohio
Allen
Joshua
Moussorgsky
Coleridge-Taylor
Oh, Southland
J. Rosamond Johnson
Girls’ Glee Club
Miss Warren
Walton
Georgie Mae Abbott
Clayton Viola Barbour
Mary Viola Bethel
Clair de Cousins
Marget Estella Dodson
Athene Wilberton
James Alexander Fuqua
Stella Giles
Flossie Marie Jackson
Gladys Jackson
Charles George Johnson
William Emanuel Kirlew
Matilda Moss
Gwendolyn
Lillian Purcell
Almeata
Elizabeth Ridley
James Albert
E. W. Barrier
Association
Sims
McDowell
Mercer County
Gilbert H. Jones
Wilberforce University
Jones
Barrer