Introduction

The booklet honoring Mrs. Louisa Elizabeth Carothers Wiess, wife of the late William Wiess of Wiess' Bluff, Jasper county, Texas. The booklet is bound in black leather, with the image of the University's main building and its seal embossed on the cover, along with the title:

IN HONOR OF MRS. WILLIAM WIESS

frontispiece:

Mrs. William Wiess

The Victory Service

IN HONOR
OF

Mrs. William Wiess

Being Addresses
Delivered at Southwestern University
Georgetown, Texas

TUESDAY, JUNE EIGHTH
ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN

HONORABLE FRANK ANDREWS, B.A.
Distinguished Alumnus of Southwestern University

Personal friend and attorney of the Wiess family whose approbation and counsel were vital factors in the decision of the family in making their munificent bequest to the University.

Order of Exercises
Processional March by the Southwestern University Band
Musical Selections by the Southwestern University Chorus

Invocation
Bishop John Monroe Moore, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.

Southwestern University's Five-Year Program
President John William Bergin, Ph.B., D.D.

The Influence of the Gift of Mrs. Wiess
Bishop Angie Frank Smith, B.A., D.D., LL.D.

Old Southwestern in My College Days
Samuel Walter Scott, B.A., LL.D.

The Woman, Mrs. Wiess
John Hoskins Foster, M.A., M.D., Sc.D.

Southwestern in My Day
William Edmund Orgain, B.S., LL.B., LL.D.

The Exes of Old Southwestern
Ernest Lynn Kurth, B.S.

Southwestern University of the Future
Claude Carr Cody, Jr., M.A., M.D., F.A.C.S.

Prayer and Benediction
Bishop Hiram Abiff Boaz, B.S., M.A., LL.D.

THE INVOCATION
by
John Monroe Moore, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.
Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Old Southwestern

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