Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-25
GET THEIR DIPLOMAS
Young Surgeons Graduated
From Naval School.
NEARLY FIFTY IN CLASS
Brilliant Scene at the Old 0bserva-
tory Building.
TALK BY SECRETARY MEYER
Presents Sheepskins to New Doctors
Along With Some Wholesome
Advice Concerning Duties.

Nearly Two score AMBITIOUS young 0OC
tors this morning broke out Of the Nava
Medical School and into the naval serv'
ice. 1t was getaway day at the institu'
ton in the old Naval Observatory build
ing at the foot of oath street. Thirty
eight of the embryo surgeons general
representing nearly half the statcs in thu
Union, had finished their training course
at the school and were ready for launch
Ing on the more or less troubulous sea OF
the service.
1t was a day to test the friendship Of
their friends and relatives. Three-Quar.
tiers OF a gale was about the estimate OF
the wind about the old building overlook
ing the river. and those who Travelled
down to witness the graduating exercises
Of the young doctors were literally blown
into the front door. Once inside there was
an atmosphere of more physical calm, but
OF repressed excitement. Naval doctors
in all stages of Development. all with fui
dress uniforms on. scurried htther and
which was really an ordeal The only
calm and apparently untroubed souls
were the enlisted men of the Medic.
Corps. who were stationed all about tho
lower floor to direct the visitors to the
auditorium In the west wing Of the build
Ing.
Here the room had been decorated with
flags SO that the walls were hidden and
the chairs OF the lecture hall were dis
posed for the accommodation OF the spec
tators. Out In the hallway the Marine
Band, under the leadership OF Lieut..
Saptelnann. discoursed music. the strains
of Offenbach and DonaZetti, with a sottu
voce suggestion that there would be "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
List Of the Grauates.
Bishop Harding delivered the invoca-
ton and after the medical graduates had
been marshaled they were presented with
their diplomas by the Secretary Of the
Navy, George Won l.. Meyer. Those re-
ceiving diplomas were David Gordon
Allen. Georgia; Ernest William Brown.
Connecticut: William Chambers. Penn
sylvania. Glenmore Ford Clark, Ken
lucky: Alfred Lee Clifton. Delaware
George Franklin Cottle, New York
George Blaine Grow. Missouri; Roy Cuth-
bertson. Michigan; Pedro Alcantara de
Figanierre Maryland; Arthur Howard
Dodge. Rhode Island: Harry Albert Gilt
Columbia: Reginald Buchanan Henry,
New York: Lucius Warren Johnson
Pennsylvania; VIM. NJ. Kerr. New York
Harry Hamilton Lane, New York: Egg
Oert gray MdCkenzle, new Jersey, VIII
liam Leake Mann. jr., Texas; Ralph
Walker Mcdowell. Pennsylvania: Hew
Bernard McMurdo Oregon; Charles Leo
Moran. Massachusetts; Donald Holdings
worth Noble. Pennsylvania Joseph Roy
al Phelps. Massachusetts,; John Beverly
Pollard. Virginia. George Albert Riker.
New York; Lawrence Maurice Schmidt,
Illinois: George Wanzer Shepard Ohio
Lloyd Parker Shipper. Maryland; John
A. Broadus Sinclair, Virginia: Chandler
White Smith; PENNSYLVANIA; Arthur Camp
Stanley, Wisconsin,; Charles Fague
Sterne. District of Columbia: Dallas Gil
christ Sutton. District of Columbia
George Carroll Thomas Pennsylvania
Alfred Joseph Toulon, Pennsylvania
Harry Williams Biddle Turner. Califcr-
sylvania; George Byron Wshdtmore, New
York; John George Ziegler, Pennsylvania
After the diplomas were presented Sec
rotary Meyer addressed the graduates. The
Secretary reviewed the history Of the
school and pointed out its advantage to
the service as supplementing the regu-
lar course of civilian medical schools
from which the students at the naval in
stituton had graduated before entering
the service. and called especial attention
rotary advised that surgeons see to II
that enlisted men be instructed SO that
they can take necessary precautions to
protect themselves from disease common
part es follows:
The origin OF the Naval Medical School
was an interesting and noteworthy STEP
I'm the evolution Of the medical depart
ment of the navy toward higher stand
ards, in keeping with the spirit OF scien-
tific medical progress which has been sc
marked during the past ten years. II
NAV he said to have had its inception in
the realization that the career of a naval
surgeon involves much of a peculiar ma
ture, and requires a more perfect general
rounding out than Is obtainable In the
various medical schools Of the country.
Fleet Surgeon Ninan Pinkney, presum-
ably from his observations during the
civil war was among those to suggest
the adyisability OF the Naval Medical
School: but in his day it failed of accom-
plishment. Surgeon General Tryon en-
tertained the same idea and put it into
successful operation on small scale as
the department Of instruction" at the
United States naval laboratory, Brooklyn.
y y. i'm 1873, from which time it con-
tinued until the outbreak of the Spanish
American war That crisis terminated
the operation and eventually the exist
ence OF the school at that place. and the
educational provision Was not begun
again until the present surgeon general
was appointed in 1902.
Surgeon General Rixey's Work.
At this time. nearly ten years after the
first effort TO find some lodgment and
start a course OF instruction. considered
50 absolutely necessary to qualify the
Young graduate from civil life. Surgeon
caneraI Rixey took M the work II re.