Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23
GET THEIR DIPLOMAS
Thirteen Graduated as Assist
ant Surgeons in Navy.
EXERCISES THIS MORNING
Addresses Made by Surgeon General
Stokes and DR.. Morris Advising
Young Doctors.
EXERCISES THIS MORNING

A note-just onevtouching on the pos
sibility of this country assuming an
especially hostile attitude toward some
other world power was sounded by Sur
geOn General Stokes of the navy at the
closing exercises for this years class
at the United States Medical School at
| II o'clock today Gathered before him
were the members of the class in their
dress uniforms of the navy, with many
| friends in the background picture,
which ended in the national colors.
The surgeon general pointed out that in
| the audience were two former surgeons
general of the navy-VanReypen and
X xey-and in connection with the men,
ton of their names said he wanted to
call attention to the great work which
the former did for the Naval Medical
School, the one at Brooklyn. which he
worked SO increasingly for, having been
And by that reference, he said. Il do
not mean to say that this one Will be
closed by another"
Received With Honor.
Continuing, he declared that in the
present day the splendid training which
the man gets who goes into the navy
as an assistant surgeon at once puts
him in a position where he is accepted
| by officers of the Zine as man in
every way capable of wearing the uni
| form of his country with honor.
Beekman Winthrop. assistant secretary
of ,he navy, was to have delivered the
principal address of the occasion, but was
unable to attend. Dr.. Robert Tuttle Nor
| ris, professor of surgery OF the New
| York Post Graduate School and Hospital,
who was also on the program for an ad-
L n foil tI,o mr. O..
mas by Medical Director Henry Gustav
| Boyer, U. S. N, president OF the school,,
to the following: Assistant Surgeon Dan
| iel Delehanty Stuart. jr., u. 5. NJ, or the
! District of Columbia.
Assistant Surgeon Edward Peter Hal
| ton. L. s. N, New York; Assistant Sur
| geon Arnold Leon Jacoby, u. 5. N, ILL
| nois; Assistant Surgeon William Edward
Eaton. U. s. ~, Massaehuseits: assistant
| Surgeon William Howard Halsey. u. S.
| n, Wisconsin; Assistant Surgeon James
| Gibson Omelvena, u. S. N, Arkansas;
Assistant Surgeon Jasper Victor How
| ard, L. s. N, North Carolina; Assistant
| Surgeon Lester Leslie Pratt, u. s. N,
Ohio; Assistant Surgeon John Joseph
O'Malley, L. s. N. Pennsylvania; Assist
ant Surgeon Clarence Cameron kress. L.
S. N, Missouri: Assistant Surgeon Rober,
Francis Sheehan, L. S. N, New York
Acting Assistant Surgeon Oliver Joseph
| Miller, L. s. N, Florida, and Acting AS.
sistant Surgeon Edward Elias Woodland
| L. .. N, Texas.
Opportunities for Promotion.
DIR. Morris in his address took pains Il
impress upon the graduates that the!
should not allow the fact that they ar,
assured of an income to cause them t,
sit back and be idle. They should al
ways keep in mind the fact that the Off
GERS Of the navy today are looking for
ward at all times to promote brigh
young men who by results accomplished
show themselves as capable Of perform
ing more exacting duties than they ar,
charged with at the present time.
He also referred at some length tC
the fact that now the navy surgeon
by reason of his training is in every
sense an officer.
The invocation and benediction wal
was pronounced by Chaplain George
Livingston Bayard Of the navy. The
musical program was furnished by q
large section OF the Marine Band. un.
der the direction of Lieut. Santelmann.