SCHOOL CLOSING—GRADUATES.
The semi-annual Examination of the Students of this Institution commenced on this day week, and closed yesterday. The State House being at present in the hands of Mr. Nichols, the State Architect, and his numerous workmen, who are making the alterations and additions to it directed by an Act of Assembly of 1819, the Examination of Mr. Goneke's Pupils on the Piano, took place in the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening; and the Report of the Trustees on the Examination was also yesterday read there, when the honors of the Institution were conferred on the following young Ladies, who had with approbation passed thro* the course of Studies prescribed for the Institution, viz:
Miss Harriet E. Dubose, of Lincoln County, Georgia; Miss Catherine E. Clark, of Camden, South Carolina; Miss Ann E. Gholson, of Brunswick County, Virginia; Miss Sarah E. Lewis, of Brunswick County, Virginia; Miss Elvira C. Wilson, Mecklenburg County, in this State; Miss Harriet E. Davidson, Mecklenburg County, in this State. Miss Susanna F. Lemay, of Granville County, this State. Miss Martha M. Cobbs, of Raleigh.
The report being read and the ceremony of presenting the Honorary certificates and Golden Medals being over, Dr. James M. Henderson, in behalf of the Trustees, closed the whole by delivering to the Students a very appropriate address. Music was introduced by the Amateurs of of City between the different parts of the business of the day, which had a very agreeable effect.
—Raleigh Register, June 8, 1821.
SCHOOL CLOSING—GRADUATES—NOVEMBER, 1821.
Raleigh Academy.—The semi-annual Examination of the Students of this Institution commenced on Friday last and closed yesterday. The general improvement of the several classes in both Departments gave much satisfaction to the Trustees. Their Report was yesterday read in the Presbyterian Church; after which, the honors of the Institution, Certificates and Golden Medals were awarded to Miss Margaret J. N. Porter, from Mecklenburg County, and Miss Sidney G. N. Hale, from Camden County, who had finished successfully the Course assigned to Female Students.
—Raleigh Register, November 9, 1821.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
