Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-13
HONORS AWARDED
T051 ATPENNS
545 Students Receive Degrees
at Sixty-second Annual
Commencement
GIRLS FINISH FARM COURSE

State College. Pa. June 13.-The
sixty second class to be graduated from
the Pennsylvania State College. the
largest in its history. received degrees
at the commencement exercises this
morning. The class numbered 545.
with twenty six candidates for ad-
vanced degrees.
The principal commencement hohors
won't to Sherman I. Strickhouser. OF
York, and Miss Cordclia J.. Pharo. OF
bethlehem. who had led their c' ass for
four years. Stickhouser. chemist' :
was awarded the John w. White Fe!
lowship. valued at SfOO. for advanced
study at another institution. MlSs
! Pharo won the John w. White Meua,'
valued at $50. President john NJ:
Thomas delivered the commencement
address and awarded the degrees.
The five living members of the class
Of 1872 were awarded honorary certih-
Gates in ccmmemoration OF tnelr III
tieth graduation anniversary, lhSy are
T.. A. Crandall. Chicago. ILL.,; NJ; "A.
Elder. Philinsburg: r. w. Finley. New
salem: II. G. Leman. Leacock, and D.
l.. Matthews, Pittsburgh.
First Honor Students
First honors at the graduation cXer-
cises were awarded to forty five men
and six women students. whose final
average of grades was So per cent or
over. Those 80 honorcd were: -.
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Harold J. Niemsysr, ,WliItes:asTre;, John n,
Be5RIesem; sGRef; ponad X Phillips. New castle
arthur G. Pratt, Camden, n. !: tsthrOp L.
tom on" Robert +: sterner Bloomsburs: ,sher-
f. HoFf Tor
chantville. y. j.: John A. Unholtz. Harris
burg: Frank l.. Watson. Kellettvillc. Will
man. Philadelphia: Dean d. winger. Pitts
burgh: James II. Zimmerman. Shamokin
Girls Graduate In Agriculture
A feature of the exercises was the
graduation of four young women from
as many different courses in the School
of Agriculture. This is the first year
that more than one girl has COM
pleted an agricultural course. Two of
the four are from Philadelphia and
vicinity.
Miss Emily Ashton Gray. Of Phila-
delphin, who won the Sharpless Dairy
Husbandry Scholarship this year, is one
of the graduates. She has specialized
in dairy production and will be EN-
plOyed by the Inter State Dairy Coun-
Gil in Philadelphia in educational work
among the milk producers in the Quaker
City territory.
Miss Josephine Hollingsworth. Of
Ardmore, received her degree as a
horticulturist and eventually plans to
manage a fruit. and truck farm. She
has earned the distinction of not only
being an. excellent student in agricul-
tural subjects. but she is the most YER
satile girl athlete ever graduated from
Penn State.
The other agricultural girls are Miss
Virginia A. Percy. Of Prospect, who
specialized in agronomy. and Miss
Laura NJ. Philips. of Edwardsville.
Luzerne County. who graduated in
chemical agriculture.