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Show t y$&A )w . 1 4m$wm m 1 t Mfe..1 mill IMmfaiL ' Ml : : mwmi III If III ; MT?S HELEN LAVELL. This is the Montana young lady who carried off the honors at the - Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C, last week, sharing with t 1 Miss Helen Heinz of Denver. Colo.,-the great distinc tion of heading the I " list of graduates. The other graduates were: Edith Marmion, Mary . 1 O'Brien, Anne Booker, Josephine Walsh, Mary Graham, Florence Turtle, -f 9 y Agnes Roihadka, Annie Shanahan. Harriet Mannen, Valerie Etheride 1 Moran, Viola Palms. 1 The commencement exercises were held in the main building of the famous old convent and were largely attended. Miss Lavell's mother. Mrs. Geoffrey Lavell of Butte, Mont., her uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. A. J H. Tarbet of Salt Lake, Mrs. Heinz of Denver (herself a graduate of this convent). Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Clark of Spokane and others, attend- ing. Archbishop Martinelli. Papal Delegate, presented the premiums, 4-and 4-and Mgr. Conaty, Rector of the Catholic University, delivered an ad- dress to the young ladies. The pupils, he said, had been subject to rigid discipline while in The 4" convent. They had, no doubt, tiiought that discipline unnecessarily " hard. Rut it- wa a a nr.ih;n,. .i . , . .. , ... . 1 .......... n. wiuii'aicu lu me iria.1 ana exactitude or the world outside the convent. There were occasional lapses of the rules in school; outside there were no such vacations. But the graduates from Georgetown Convent went to life's duties with unusual advantages. They had the advantage of a thorough, cultured and scholastic train- ing. They had also the advantage of a sincere religious instruction. Next week we will publish a picture of Miss Heinz. |