The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1906-06-02
SCHOOL of MINES
GRADUATING CLASS OF FORTY
ONE AT GOLDEN.
LIST OF THE GRADUATES
Thrty-four of the Number Have Al
ready Secured Positions-Seseral
Valuable Prizes Awarded.

Denver.-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 NEST 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 metallurgi-
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 it's
battles by reason of the severe test
to which they have been put in college.
Judge James II. Richards of Boise,
Idaho, delivered the principal address.
his subject being How to Succeed"
The A. B. Frenzel prizes. which are a
regular thing at the end Of every
school year, were awarded as follows:
Sophomore Class-Twenty-one dol
tallography and mineralogy, R. G.
Bowman.
Junior Class-Twenty-five dollars for
highest standing in general geology
and lthology, A. G. Wolf.
Senior Glass -Twenty-hve dollars
for highest standing in economic geol-
ogy, c. @. Schlereth.
The SIS prize for the best senior
thesis on uranium was awarded to w.
S. Knell. X. E. Neugebauer and c. Q.
Schlereth
Max w. Ball and A. ]. 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 Presi-
dent Mrs. Anderson rendered recep-
ton, which was a 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 SWEETEST 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., Roll
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. II. Edward Nyberg, John Ira
Gardner, Tiffany Eugene Stephenson,
George Alexander Parks, John Briscoe
Brown, Archibald l.. Levy, James Har-
bison Hensley, Jr., Walter d. Abel.
Franklin Luther Barker, Charles w.
HarlIison, Seely Benedict Patterson,
Jr., William ]. Gilbert, Arthur X. Gill
bert, George Henry Heitz, Jr., Newton
Waldemare Pilger, Rush Tabor Sill.
Norton E. Frank, James L. Libby,
Maynard Coney Allen, julius Curtis
Ingersoll, Charles Norman Bell, Rene
Louis Burned, 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.