Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-05-29
GRADUATED At
MINING SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MihEs
At GOLDEN.
ADDRESS AND GIFTS
DEGREES GRANTED TO LARGE
GRADUATING CLASS AND
PRIZES AWARDED.

Denyer.-The ihlrty.fourth annual
commencement OF the Colorado School
OF Mines was held Friday afternoon at
Golden. The hall was well filled Ions
before 2 O'Clock. special cars having
brought large crowd from Denver.
including Gov. and Mrs. ~. A. Buchtei.
Judge and Mrs. ". II. Maxwell. Judge
and Mrs. John Campbell. Judge and
Mrs. o. +. LeFevre and many other
prominent; citizens.
A class OF fifty staiwart mining en-.
Iineers received their diplomas.
Thomas F. Walsh. who has made his
millions In Colorado mines, gave tho
school $1,000. and also delivered one
OF the finest addresses II has ever been
the privilege Of n Mines graduating
class to hear
Mr.. waish'x Gift was In the nature
OF most gratifying surprise. II 10
divided into two finds of 1000 each.
Mr.. Walsh is much Interested In tho
development Of tho rare mineral ele.
ments Of the state. particularly uran.
Ium, vanndium 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 dnugh.
ter. Evelyn. The money was placed
Mt the disposal Of President Anderson
to be used as n loan fund from which
students who desire to prosecute their
mining studies and do not have the
means to do so MAJ receive assist
ancc.
The degree Of Z. N. Ginning engi.
ncer) was conferred upon William
Rcucl Chedscy. Charles Alexander
I.angrali. Albert Warren Brinker.
Charles Dcn,son Root. Martin Hami..
ton KilHour. Carroll Burt island. Karl
Gregory Link. William Val Dccamp.
Jesse Taylor Boyd. Clarence Harold
Murch. burr. Jones French, Gary +.
Block. Irwin Percy Jones. Herman
Charles Zulch. Thomas Samuel Hnrri'
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 whitehousc. Charles Frances
Adams Reno. Morrison Harris. Robert
Montgomery Wheeler. Arthur Whit.
comb Buel. william Ward Blackburn.
Leon Paul Hill. Malcolm Menclaus
Stuart and Alfred Chester Ellsworth.
The degree Of 4. Met. tmetallursicnl
cnHinecr) was conferred upon Forrest
Sloan Dunicvy. Byron Morgan John.
son. Willis Wright Evans. Ira Jay
Dilts. Maynard James Trott. Harold
Hutchinson Goc. Sidney Willis
French. Carl Eugene Lcsher. Fredcr-
lex r. Frick. Arthur John Wcinig.
Robert Baxter Elder. Russell Ritchcy
Bryan and Hal Greenwood Knight.
Degrees OF 4. N. and T.. Met. were
conferred upon Samuel Craig Sandns'
ky. Herbert Austin Everest and Jas.
Bennett Lowell.
William Samuel Medell was given
the degree Of bachelor OF science. Me
dell took his degree rs OF the class OF
1895.
Prizes for superior work were
awarded as follows:
Pocket transit and aneroid baro.
meter, to William Reuel Chedsey and
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 800 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.
Copper Converting"
The governors prize Of $50 for gen.
eral scholarship. character and school
loyalty was divided into two parts OF
325 each and was awarded by Governor
Buchtel himself to Robert r. 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
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