In our June 13, 2012 post we presented the New Orleans School of Domestic Science which opened October 15, 1917 with 200 women and 500 girls attending the first year. Exercises for the first graduating class were held at the Pythian Temple in New Orleans on March 15, 1918.
The graduation address was, believe it or not, “Efficiency is Patriotism.” We must remember that these ladies were graduating after the onset of World War I and their school’s company benefactor was the Gas Light Company in partnership with the city of New Orleans which had an obvious effect on development of the graduation address.
Pages 3 and 4 of the graduation announcement list all of the women who graduated in eleven classes. These include
CLASS 1 CLASS 2
Mary Carson Delsie Behn
Mary Carter Leona Duplessis
Henrietta Dufochard Alverda Dejoie
Mary Franklin Orleaf Hall
Maude Frank Mattie James
Lauretta Griggs Eola Minor
Mary Hathaway Viola Mitchell
Annie Henley Louise Morris
Priscilla Hart Sophia Nelson
Hattie Hurley Ella Orlage
Olenthia Landix Georgiana Peterson
Juanita Miller Mary Stanley
Bythella Monroe Mary Shields
Mary Nance Maria Spotts
Mary Posey Anaice Slacomb
Sara Sanders Lillian Thorp
Alhonsine Vincent Mary Turner
Lillian Wittenberg Edna Vallere
Emma White
Ruth Wilson
View the pictures to see who graduated in classes 3 through 11. My maternal grandmother, Beulah Helen Igy, graduated in Class 6.
L.A.G.
Source: Original document.
