Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-03
TUNE WEEK HERE TO
SEE H8 GRADUATED
Annapolis VIII Revel Once More
When First Class Shelves
Their Books
TO BE BRILLIANT AFFAIR

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Naval academy vas dolcient IA scho-
iastic work during the term iuet cloaed
insurca that the number os graduates
VIII be 47s, unless somehing uncx
pected happens II Is seldom that 9
mIdshipman who reaches his final
term drops bg the waysida The class.
il larger BY ffty per cent than the
lsrgest class which has preceded II
at the Naval academy and nearly three
times as large as the normal class Of
recent Years
with slightly more than three tAou-
sand regular officers in the service
when the United States entered the
war, the commissioning Of naariy siye
hundred ensigns will mean that on
eers can be spared to carry out nee
essary steps Id the service. Fosing
officers viii Be released for post grad-
uate work at the Naval academy and
many temporary officers will be re-
turned to civil life or 10 the grades
they previously occupied in the sers-
leo.
The graduation Of this class Will
mark the restosation Of .JuEe week y
:he commencement period at the Naval
academy, t0 the briiliancy and interest
Of former years, but greatly Increased
in every way June week has been
rather sombre affair for tho last two
years. Graduation WAS 4 serious bus
ness. as the graduates were gosng ous
TO active duty With the feet under war
tine conditions. There was none Of
.hs usual social gayetiss, and the cer-
monies sull exercises Ner< reduced to
Il minimum. The restrictions placed
apan the vlssts Of the prsalIc to nava
stations prevented fhe assealblaEe 81
the usual great crowd, and altogether
hire was title og the gayety and In
Esrest OF former years.
Next June ali OF these things will be
back again. but with an Increased IN
Iterest in keeping with the larger class
ana the growth os popular attention
Ito everything connected with tho
] Naval academy For week thore
/ will be b program of drills and exer-
d. Interspersed With gay social
vents and ending with the preserta-
Itson to the graduates Of the diploma
anich neEn commissions as erlsigns
rhe twenty-five leading scholars q
/ the class By the last Official report
which Il unlikely to change greatly
during the coming term, are: Wes-
/ icy Mel. Hague. California 2, Wal.
/ demar w. Olsans. New York; 3
Eyander w. Sylvester, Louisiana y
iovd Harrison. Oregon: S. Roscoe r
Good. Ohio: 6. Llsie j. Maxson, Mich,
iran: Il, Raymond C. Ferris, Delaware,
S. Bennett Il. Falkner. washington
j d. Emmett II. FsorresteI, New Y0rk; 10
IEoratio 9. Sickel, 4th Pennsylvania
Ill, Thomas III. Robbins, Jr., Ealifor'
nia; IL, Joseph Fl Severyns, washing.
ton is, Roy T. C0wdrey, Wisconsin
ia, George Nj DuBinberrc, Pennsyi
/ vanfa; is, Moultrie Moses, Alabama
ls. HoraeiO g. Sexton. Jr.. Indiana
/ in, william Il. Cushman. Jr, 0alifor
mia lis. Laurence Il Haugen, Mime
sofa 10. Henry s. Dunbar. u.
Georgia: 20, Paul 3. Niebecker Call
IIfOrnia: q. wallace ri Dowd. Arkan
] sas: ~. Frank Rorschach. Jra =
large; 23, Harold 81 Van Buren, Mass
achusetts; ~, Roscoe n HilIenkoet
ter. Missouri: %, Clarence N Les
New Jersey.
1t may be noted with considerable
Interest thaf aIa sections Of the Uni
ted States are represented among thl
leading aeholars Of the class Nes
England, the Middle states. the South
the Middle West and the Pacific slop'
are all veil represented. II " also D
4 Interest that the leading frst homo
man. Wesley Mel Hague. ~ CalifOr
MIA, and another leading scholar, Hay
Ylond &. Ferris of Delaware. rose iron
the enlisted ranks of the service. Bot
] as scholars and in the regiinental ~
i ganixaEion they have risen to hIgl
places.
4 me class is THE last fulr class .
graduate, after course Of but thre
years. unless normal conditions ar
again disturbed In the rsgaIA
course the class would haye bee
assuated III 1890 The present thiY
class viii Be divided according i
halE graduGfi ting in i9s
! ana Aalf u 1921