A June 1917 Textile World Journal report on the graduation exercises of the New Bedford (Mass.) Textile School, including the speakers, the award of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers medal to Cheng Q. Amona, and extracts from addresses by President William E. Hatch, Speaker Channing Cox and Rufus R. Wilson on graduates' careers and wartime duty. The scan also begins with a short item on textile graduates of North Carolina State College, with a group portrait of the thirteen-member class and Director Thomas Nelson.