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 Military
Group Has
Seven New Members
SPARTANBURG, Apr. 30 --- Membership bids
to Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity of Wofford college,
were issued Monday to seven juniors of the headquarters platoon, the
advanced unit of the Wofford R. O. T. C. This announcement came from
Fred E. Gillespie, captain of the Wofford chapter of Scabbard and Blade.
Informal initiation of the pledges, known as "Heinies," will end Friday.
The seven juniors are L. D. Bauknight, Union; J. A. DuRant, Sumter;
R. O. Burgess. Spartanburg; J. A. Faust. Spartanburg; W. R. Brown, Spartanburg;
H. M. Owens, Avondale, N. C, and ?I. F. Padgett, Saluda.
[The Greenville News, Greenville, SC, 01 May 1942,,Fri,
Page 22]
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 Wofford
Will
Open Finals
This Afternoon
Spartanburg May 29 —
(AP) — Wofford college’s eighty-eighth annual commencement exercises
will be launched tomorrow afternoon with file presentation of second
lieutenants commissions in the United States army to 23 members of the
graduating class.
The annual alumni banquet will be held at the college at 7:30 o’clock
and class day exercises late in the afternoon at which Fred Gillespie
of Walhalla president of the senior class will preside.
Reunions will be held during the day by the classes of 1877 ’82 ’92
’02 ’07 T2 17 27 ’32 '37 ’39 and ’41 .
The commencement program will continue Sunday with baccalaureate sermons
by Dr Harold Lynn Hough of Drew university Madison N. J. and Dr Henry
Nelson Snyder, Wofford president.
Chancellor O C Carmichael of Vanderbilt university will be the principal
speaker at graduation exercises Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock Diplomas
will be awarded 85 seniors.
[The State Columbia, South Carolina
30 May 1942, Sat • Page 9]
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