Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — COMMENCEMENT AT ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

COMMENCEMENT AT ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE

Commencement and Silver Jubilee at St. Joseph’s College on 19th, 20th and 21st. Co-jointly with the 21st annual commencement of St. Joseph’s College the institution will have quite an elaborate program in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its existence.

The regular, graduation examinations are taking place this week and the final examinations for all the students will begin on Tuesday of next week and last until Monday mo'ming, June 19th. Monday evening, June 19, the Columbian Literary Society will again present Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the last performance of that play having been exceedingly successful. Tuesday morning, June 20th, at 9 o’clock, a Solemn Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated in the college chapel. The sermon will be preached by The Most Rev. Henry Moeller, D. D., Archbishop of Cincinnati. In the afternoon of the same day at 3 o’clock, the new concert hall gymnasium building will be dedicated. This ceremony will be followed by a band Concert on the college, grounds. At 7 o’clock in the evening a banquet will be spread in the college dining rooms for the alumni. This will be followed ’by a program given under the auspices of the gymnasti£ club. . The exercises will close Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock with the baccalaureate address by Hon. Nicholas Gonner, editor of the Dubuque News. Thereafter the awarding of diplomas and merits. No less than 300 visitors are expected for the occasion. Many of the students of the early days of the institution‘will be present and the banquet especially promises to be something they will all remember. Not a few of the alumni have been very successful in their chosen careers and many of them are good speakers. The members of the graduating class are: From the classical department, Theodore Fettig, of Elwood, Ind.; John Cherry, of Springfield, Ohio; Francis Martin, of Canton, Ohio; Lionel Pire, Green Bay, Wis.; Mathias Schmit, Bastenburg, Luxemboug; Roman Schwietertnan, Montezuma, Ohio; Cornelius <Smith, Huntington, Ind. From the Commercial department, Peter Andres, Earl Park, Ind.; IsadOre Benoit, Manteno, Ill.; Lawrence Jacobs, Kenosha, Wis. Arthur Lauer, Ottoville, Ohio, Carl Gordon, Washington, Ind. Charles Overton, who was recently compelled to undergo an operation for appendicitis at the St. Eliazbeth’s hospital, Lafayette, was a member of the commercial class. The college authorities consider themselves very fortunate in securing the archbishop of Cincinnati and Mr. Nicholas Gonner as the speakers for the occasion. The Most Rev. Henry Moeller, for rpany years the secretary to the late Archbishop Elder, of the same see. Later he was consecrated bishop of Columbus and* when Archbishop Elder died was promoted to the Archbishopric. The church province of Cincinnati over which ho presides includes the dioceses jf Cleveland, Columbus, Covington, Detroit, Ft. Wayne, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville and Toledo, with a Catholic population over 2) 000,000 persons. The headquarters of the Society of the Precious Blood, which supports St. Joseph’s College, are in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Mr. Gonner is probably one of the most energetic publicists among the laity of the Catholic church today. He has done much for em migrant farmers and for charities and corrections, and has a wide experience in combating the errors of radical socialism.