Concord State College grants AB degrees at commencement
Fifteen graduates received Bachelor of Arts degrees at Concord State College with Dr. John W. Withers of New York University delivering the address. A large normal senior class and a small group earning short course certificates also graduated in a ceremony highlighting teaching as community leadership.
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Concord State College
John W. Withers
New York University
Department of Education
Dr. Withers
Withers
Athens High School
George West Dihl
Swaunsie Marguriete Grimm
Dorothy Mildred Humphreys
Marion Kathryn Swope
Gladys Brammer
Edgar Mankin Crouch
John Wirtz
Bessie May Anderson
Gladys Idelly Wirtz
Flossie Belcher
Pearis Watson Massie
Allie Shields Lester
Robert Keith Thompson
Vernon Russell Weaver
Esther Riffe
Ralph David Thompson
Bethel Hardy
Jane Lilly
Carry Powers
Bernard Thompson
Robert Ransom Hopkins
Bertha Hopkins
Mamie Keaton
Rev. Coffee
First Christian Church of Athens
Dorothy Humphreys
Marion Swope
George West Diehl
W. S. Gautier
Diehl
J. W. Cole
C. ¢. Rossey
Robert Vermillion
Princeton
F. C. Cook
Northfork
E. Gwinn
Meadow Creek
Abraham
Abe) Lilly
Charleston
Cook
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
W. C. Cook
Welch
George M. Ford
A. A. Lilly
John Withers
College of Education
C. C. Rossey
Concord
Alumni Banquet Draws 170 Concord State Alumni
One hundred seventy alumni attended Concord State College’s annual Alumni Banquet held in the college auditorium Thursday night. Caterers were the Virginian Hotel of Princeton. At the speakers table sat former school president George M. Ford and other officials from the State Board of Education.
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Sampson
C. C. Rossey
Concord State College
Edna Perkins
Stuart J. Higginbotham
G. @. Archer
Bettie Lively Holroyd
Alumni Association
The
Virginian Hotel
Princeton
George M. Ford
State Board of
Educa
No trace found of dead man's kin in Cliff Yard case
Relatives of a young man missing after a Norfolk Western track incident near Cliff Yard have not been found. Undertaker P. D. Bratton said the coat tag bore the name G. W. Lawton, and described the deceased as about five eight, 145 pounds, with dark hair and eyes, a brown hat, gray coat, and a healed foot injury. Information on identity or relatives is sought.
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Norfolk and Western
Cliff Yard
Montcalm Undertaking
P. D. Bratton
Montcalm
Bratton
G. W. Lawton
Hopkins Tailoring
Aveav
Baltimore
Charred Body of Massaroni Found After Mine Rescue
The body of Amelia Massaroni, one of three rescuers killed entombed by a McComas slide, was found around 6 am in a hollow center of debris. Two foreign rescuers are missing. officials expect they perished in a second slide as a steam shovel continues clearing rock, ash, and water.
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Amelia Massaroni
McComas
Massaroni
Massaron
American Coal Company
City cracks down on street storage of building materials
City Manager Ridley told Police Chief Dillon to enforce a ban on piling and storing building materials on public streets. He noted abuse in business districts with no off street space and allowed street storage only where no other option exists. While Williams Street shows narrow conditions, officials urge use of available lots first.
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Dillon
Ridley
Williams Street
Omeone
West Virginia Democrat Mrs. Donald Clark Thanks Voters
Mrs. Donald Clark of Huntington, Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, thanks Democratic voters and West Virginia press for support in the primary. She pledges to honor the trust as party standard bearer and extends best wishes to all voters and newspapers in the Mountain State.
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Donald Clark
Huntington
West Virginia
West
Three Japanese Ships Reported Heading East to United States
A statement by E. E. Burnett, immigration director, says three large Japanese ships are speeding east with most Japanese aboard and headed for the United States via Honolulu port. A separate item notes a gas price cut of half a cent at Watertown depot, from eighteen cents to seventeen and a half cents per gallon, effective next week.
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Athens
Chautauqua Drama Board
Chautauqua
United States
Honolulu
E. E. Burnett
Watertown
Printer Thomas B. Garner Dies in Williamson
Thomas B. Garner, a longtime printer and newspaper man in Southern West Virginia, died at his Williamson home at an advanced age. A native of North Carolina, he came to Bluefield in 1894 to work for the Telegraph and later published the Southern West Virginian and the Bluefield Leader. He owned and edited the Williamson Daily News and the Independent Herald at Pineville before selling out. Survived by his wife, a daughter, and three sons Gordon Garner of Matoaka, Helen Woods, and Jace Garner.
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Thomas
Garner
West Virginia
Williamson
Miner
North Ca
Bluefield
Telegraph
Williemeen
West
Southern
Willson Daily News
Independent Herald
Pineville
Wyoming County
Folke Gordon Garner
Matoaka
Helen Woods
Messrs
Huth
Jace Garner
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Blanche Straley
William MacNeill Buckley
Marlinton
Virgil Hardy
Julius Caesar McCoy
G. D. McCeill
A. B
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Frankhauser
Gatherum
L. von Court
W. Swope
Delta Sigma
Lindermann
Ramona Holroyd
Virginia Karnes
Nannie Nowlin
Sage
R. R. Sage
Kathryn Hume
Betty Hume
Martha Terry
Betty Cubbedge
Home, Sweet Home
Concord Personals
W. L. Hume
Rome
James Hume
Martha Carey
Josephine Worthington
Douthat
Drill
Virginia Douthat
L. C. Cowden
Gallipolis
Ohio
R. W. Cubbedge
Wayne Cubbedge
Harold Riffe
Virginia
Ostermoor
Boggs & Goodall
Norfolk and Western Tracks
Undertaker
Thos. B. Garner
DER
New York
H. Weinberg
Princeton Ave
W. Va
Georgettes
Colonial Theatre
Schlossberg
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