Graduation Retype
1958 INDIAN SPRINGS GRADS:
Birmingham Post-Herald- Wednesday, May 21, 1958 (retyped)
31 To Get Diplomas
At Indian Springs School School days will be over, temporarily, for 31 boys from Indian Springs School who will receive diplomas May 30.
On graduation day these boys, representing four states, will walk across the green near the school's library to hear D. Henry King Stanford, president of Birmingham-Southern, deliver a commencement address.
But they won't stop there, for every one of them plans to attend college.
This is more or less traditional at Indian Springs School because every past graduate of this institute of learning has entered college or made definite plans to do so.
And, as in the past, this graduating class contains some outstanding scholars.
A leader in the group of scholarship winners is Robert Arthur Sherman of Anniston, who was an "honorary" National Merit Scholar but has chosen to accept a General Motors Corporation National Scholarship to Harvard University.
Joining Sherman at Harvard will be John Melva Heacock Jr., who won a Harvard College Scholarship.
Karl Arthur Ray of Greensboro, N.C., will enter Duke University on a General Motors Corporation College Scholarship.
Jerome Alec Pieh, son of an Indian Springs School faculty member will enter Duke, too, on a scholarship.
Frank Charles Jones and Charles Jordan McDavid, both of Birmingham, will enter Sewanee and Emory Universities, respectively, on scholarships.
William Allen Williams Jr. of Annapolis, MD, will enter Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a scholarship awarded by the armed services.
Six members of the graduating class plan to attend college in Alabama.
Birmingham-Southern is the choice of Richard Holbrook Baldwin, Christian Norman Ramsey Jr., Eston Harmon Stead Jr. and Elias Calvin Watson III, all of Birmingham.
George Thomas Lane, Jr. and Clifford Morris Spencer, Jr. plan to attend the University.
Atlanta's Emory University will claim the largest number of Indian Springs graduates going to any one institution; these young men plan to attend Emory: Arthur Phril Bagby III, Charles Jordan McDavid Jr., and Joseph Hardie Meade Jr., of Birmingham and Robert Marion Clecker Jr. of Childersburg and William Wallace Lewis Jr. of Leeds.
Duke University is the choice of Jerome Alec Pieh, Karl Arthur Ray and Thomas Oscar Wright; Pieh is from Indian Springs Community; Wright, Birmingham; Ray, Greensboro, N.C.
Arthur Fulkerson Toole III of Talladega and Robert LeRoy Phillips Jr. of Rockingham, N.C., plan to enroll in Davidson College.
Virginia's collegiate institutions will get five students.
Washington and Lee will get three Birmingham boys: Thomas Towey Donald, John Worrell Poynor and Ormond Somerville Jr.
Birmingham's Joseph Harrison Pigford Jr. and Ragland's William Elbert Leatherwood Jr. will attend the University of Virginia.
Charles Morris Hohenberg Jr. of Selma will enroll in Princeton University.
Hendrik Adams Browne will attend the University of Florida in his home town.
Dan Wayne Davis of Leeds will enroll in Tennessee's Maryville College while his class mate Frank Charles Jones will go to Tennessee's The University of the South.
Three seniors have not yet made final choices of colleges to attend: Lewis Denson Elliott Jr. of Montevallo and Charles Seaborn Gamble and Thomas Griffin Lamkin both of Birmingham.