The Ordway new era., 1908-05-29
GRADUATED At
MINING SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
AT GOLDEN.
ADDRESS AND GIFTS
DEGREES GRANTED TO LARGE
GRADUATING CLASS AND
PRIZES AWARDED.

Dcnver.-Thc thirty.fOurth annual
commencement Of The Colorado School
OF Mines WIS held Friday afternoon at
Golden. The hall was well filled long
before : O'Clock, special cars having
brought large crowd from Denver,
including Gov. and Mrs H. \. Buchtel
ludE" and Mrs. w. H. Maxwell, Judge
and Mrs. John Campbell, Judge and
Mrs. O. +. LoFcvrc aud many other
prominent citizens
a class of fifty stalwart mining en-
gln"crs received their diplomas.
Thomas +. Walsh, who has made his
millions in Colorado mines, gave the
school $1,000. and also delivered one
OF the finest addresses 1t has ever been
tn" privilege of Mines graduating
class to hear
Mr.. WalSn's gift was in the nature
of most gratifying surprise. 1t is
divided into two funds of $1,000 each.
Mr.. Walsh is much Interested in the
development of the rare mineral ele-
mcnts of the state. particularly uran-
lum, Vanadium and tungsten, and the
money Is to be used tor this purpose.
The second $1,000 was given in the
name of Mrs. Walsh and their dauGh-
ter. Evelyn. The money was placed
at the disposal Of President Anderson
to be used rs Il loan fund from which
students who desire to prosecute their
mining studies and do not have the
means TO do so ma" receive assist
anCe.
The degree OF +. NJ. Mining cnGi-
nccrl was conferred upon William
Rcucl Chcdscy, Charles Alexander
l.angrall. Albert Warren Brinker.
Charles DenIson Root. Martin Hamii-
ton Kilgour. Carroll Burt Island. Karl
Gregory Link. William Val Decamp,
Jesse Taylor Boyd. Clarence Harold
Murch, Burr Jones French. Gary f.
Block, Irwin Percy Jones. Herman
Charles ZulCh, Thomas Samuel Harri-
son. Henry Lewis jacques. Milton AL
fred Pray, Williams Ashby Jones. Jr..
Lawrence Charles Page. Seymour +.
Cline, Benjamin Wallis Knowles,
Charles Leroy Brown. Howard Doug
las WhitehUuse. Charles Frances
Adams Reno, Morrison Harris, Robert
Montgomery Wheeler. Arthur Whit
comb Buel. William Ward Blackburn.
Leon Paul Hin, Malcolm Mcnelaus
Stuart and Alfred Chester Ellsworth.
The degree of +. Met. lmctallurgical
cnginecr) was conferred upon Forrest
Sloan Dunlevy. Byron Morgan John
son, Willis Wright Evans. Ira Jay
Dilts. Maynard james Trott, Harold
Hutchinson Goe, Sidney Wills
French. Carl Eugene Lesher. Fredcr-
lex +. Frick. Arthur John WeiniG.
Robert Baxter Elder. Russell Ritchcy
Bryan and Hal Greenwood Knight.
Degrees OF Z. NJ. and L. Met. were
conferred upon Samuel Craig Sandus-
Ky, Herbert Austin Everest and Jas.
Bennett Lowell.
William Samuel Medell was given
the degree of bachelor of science. Me
dell took his degree as of the class of
1895.
Prizes for superior work were
awarded as follows:
Pocket transit and aneroid baro-
meter, TO William Reuel Chedsey ana
Charles Alexander Langrall.
Fifty dollars to Herbert Austin Ever
est for thesis. "Tunneling Machinery
Fifty dollars to Herman Charles
Zulch and Thomas Samuel Harrison for
thesis. Court Maps and Models"
Fifty dollars to Harold Hutchinson
Goe and Sidney Willis French for the
sis. "The Concentration OF tungsten
Ores"
Hundred dollars to William Ashby
Jones. Jr., and Lawrence Charles Page
for thesis. "a Report on the Old Town
Mine, Idaho Springs
Stoiber prize Of 500 to Carl Eugene
Lesher for thesis, THE Electrothermic
Reduction of Zinc" and $3.50 to Fred
erick F. Frick, Arthur John Meinig
and James Bennett Lowell for thesis,
Cooper Converting
The governors prize of $50 for gen.
eral scholarship. character and school
LOYALTY was divided into two parts OF
s25 each and was awarded by Governor
Buchtel himself to Robert e. Elder and
BENJAMIN w. Knowles. The Governor
said he had offered the same prize in
six other institutions of learning In the
state and hoped that future governors
,yo,,Id continue giving these prizes.