Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
SCHOOL OF MINES
GRADUATING CLASS OF FORTY
ONE AT GOLDEN.
LIST OF THE GRADUATES
Thirty-four of the Number dave Al
ready Secured Positions-Several
Valuable Prizes Awarded.

ready Secured Positions-Severa
Valuable Prizes Awarded.
Denver.-E Everything seemed to aid
in making the commencement exer-
cises of the Colorado School of Mines
at Golden Friday the most enjoyable
yet held. This was the thirty-second
affair of the kind and closes one of the
most successful years of the school.
Members OF the class of 1906 saw won
| derful changes in the institution DUR
ing their four years, the most impor-
tant of which occurred within the last
year. Two handsome new buildings
were erected upon the campus, and
the equipment of the various plants
nearly doubled. The course of study
together with mining and metallurgl-
cal trips to important mining and mill
ing centers, made the student life
| somewhat more strenuous than form
erly, but the graduates go out into the
world all the better prepared for its
battles by reason of the severe test
to which they have been put in college.
Judge James H. Richards of Boise,
Idaho, delivered the principal address,
his subject being How to Succeed"
The A. B. Frenzel prizes, which are
regular thing at the end Of every
school year, were awarded as follows:
Sophomore Class-Twenty-one dol
lars for the highest standing in crys-
tallography and mineralogy, R. G.
Bowman.
Junior Class-Twenty-five dollars for
highest standing in general geology
and lithology, A. G. Wolf.
Senior Glass s-Twenty-five dollars
for highest standing in economic geol-
ogy, G. @. Schlereth.
The SIS prize for the best senior
thesis on uranium was awarded to w.
S. Knell, X. E. Neugebauer and c. @.
Schlereth.
Max W. Ball and A. J. Koerner re-
ceived the Mining Reporter prize of
$50 cash for the best thesis on the
quartzite ore of Coal creek, Jefferson
| county.
At the close Of the ceremonies Presl-
dent Mrs. Anderson rendered recep-
ton, which was brilliant affair, to a
large number of the guests the board
of trustees and the faculty of the
school, Last night the junior prom,
| which is the swellest function of the
| Golden society year, in Stratton hall.
The electric line doubled its service
| through the greater part OF the day
in order to accommodate the crowds.
The forty-one young men upon
whom Mr.. Anderson conferred the de-
gree of E. NJ. engineer of mines) are:
John earned Gordon, Jr.. George
Clinton Ripley, William Henry Fini-
gan, William Henry Freeland, Jr.. Rol-
land Stinson Trott, Ernest Edgar
| Thum, AlbertYancy Waddey, Hugh r.
| Van Wagenen, Harold Wallace Aldrich,
]. Marvin Kleff, Max Waite Ball. Al
bert John Koerner, Thomas l.. Chap
man, H. Edward Nyberg, John Ira
Gardner, Tiffany Eugene Stephenson,
George Alexander Parks, john Briscoe
Brown, Archibald L. Levy, James Har-
| bison Hensley, Jr., Walter ID. Abel,
Franklin Luther Barker. Charles w.
Harkison, Seely Benedict Patterson,
| Jr., William j. Gilbert, Arthur X. Gill
bert, George Henry Heitz, Jr., Newton
Waldemare Pilger, Rush Tabor Sill,
Morton E. Frank, James L. Libby,
Maynard Coney Allen, julius Curtis
Ingersoll, Charles Norman Bell, Rene
Louis Burnel. William Greer Dow,
Wayne S. Kell, Karl Endress Neuge-
bauer, C. Quincy Schlereth, Charles
yelling Badgley, Jr., Tracy Bartholo-
NEW.
A dozen of the graduates were not
present to receive their diplomas. but
| they will be forwarded. Two finished
their work early in the term and at
once stepped into lucrative positions
Others made engagements while on
the senior class trip through the West
recently, were released by the school
authorities from further work, and at
once entered upon the actual battles of
life. AS an indication of the esteem in
which graduates of the Colorado
| School of Mines are held by leading
men in the mining industry, thirty-four
| of the forty-one of this years class
have already secured good positions.