Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-06
HAHNEMANN GIVES
DIPLOMAS TO II
Commencement Exercises of
Medical College at Gar.
rick Theatre

Twelve men received their degrees
In medicine at the SEVENTEEN annual
commencement of the Hahnemann Medi-
cal College in the Garrick Theatre at
noon today.
The small number Of graduates was
due to the calls to military service.
All members Of the graduating class
are enlisted In the medical reserve.
Jeannette Rankin. of Montana, a men,
Der Of Congress delivered the prn-
cipal address. The invocation was
delivered by the Rev. Floyd w. Tomkins.
rector Of Holy Trinity Church, and Prof
Ralph Kinder. of the same church,
played the organ.
Charles D. Barney. president of the
Hahnemann College and Hospital,
awarded the degrees and prizes. The
Rev. H. e. Purcell pronounced the bene-
diction.
Short addresses to the graduates. their
relatives and friends were made by
Walter E. Herring. chairman of the
college committee; DR.. Ralph Bernstein.
secretary, and DR.. William Pearson.
dean.
The list Of graduates and the hos
pital each as assigned as follows:
c. Harold Kistler. Shenandoah, Hahne.
mann Hospital; William Robertson Dun
lop. Minersville, Hahnemann Hospital:
Frank X. Merrick. Schenectady, n. Y,
Hahnemann Hospital: H.. Doyle webb.
Montgomery. Pa, Hahnemann Hospital;
Norman Roberts. Philadelphia, Whining
ton Homeopathic Hospital Ernest Fran
els Purcell Trenton, n. j., Abingdon Me-
mortal Hospital; ]. Cyril Eby. Balti-
more. Md. United states Marine Hos
pital, Baltimore John l.. Mandracchia,
New York city, Metropolitan Hospital.
New York; Charles Woodward Tuthill.'
waymart. Pa, Pittsburg Homeopathic
clyde F. Zapf. Minersville. Woman's
Homeopathic Hospital. Philadelphia.
Ralph c. Pendexter, Meriden. Conn.
and j. Leroy Roth, Swarthmore. have
rs yet not received their assignments
to hospitals.
Scholarships to men with the highest
average in each Of the classes were
awarded as follows:
The presidents scholarship-A scholar
ship for the fourth year offered by the
president of the trustees to the member
Of the third-year class attaining the
highest general average. Awarded to
Walter whistler. Honorable mention
Mashed Frederick Pettler and Wallace +.
Prugh.
The Walter f. Herring scholarship-A
scholarship for the third year offered by
Mr.. Walter +. Herring to the member OF
the second.year class attaining the
highest general average. Awarded to
Robert B. Kistler. Honorable mention
Giles o. Gardner and Edmund e. Truter.
The Pittsburgh Alumni scholarship--A
scholarship for the second year offered
by the Pittsburgh Alumni to the men,
ber of the first-year class attaining the
highest general average. Awarded 10
CaA K Becker. Honorable mention
William Morris Pierson and L. Roland
Snader.
The highest average was obtained by
C. Kistler. Second highest average was
made by Norman Roberts and third
highest by Ernest Francis Purcell.
Kistler, the president of the gradual
ing class, is a member of family which
includes forty-seven physicians by that
name throughout the State.
Prize In materia medica In the senior
class were given TO Ernest Francis
Purcell; in the junior class to Walter
W. Kistler; In the sophomore class to
Harry B. Mark and in the freshman
class to Charles F. kutteroff.
The annual alumni banquet will be
held at the Adeiphia Hotel tonight. DR..
John A. Evans, of Baltimore. Nd, the
acting president of the alumni associa-
tion, will be the toastmaster. and the
principal speaker will be Francis Lit
Teton Mcguire. prominent Philadelphia
!. attorr ey Captain Curran, medical corps
of the British navy. will also speak at
the banquet. Captain Curran was for
sixteen months In a German prison. He
will tell his experience.
Dr. Norman Roberts, a member OF
the graduating class. will also. speak.