Evening star., 1923-12-23
G. i. ENDOWMENT
CARRIED TO WEST
Rev. FIR. NeviIs to Make Tour
of Pacific States to
Boost Fund.

VIII convey georgetown appeal 10
its alumni on a. swing through the
west that will take him to the Pacific
coast.
Father Nevils has just returned to
Washington after organizing the
Georgetown alumni in the Pitts
burgh. Buffalo and West Virginia
districts, where he reports encour-
aging progress toward the univer-
sity's $5.000.000 goal.t
His far western trip will take him
to score of cities where George
town alumni are well represented and
then he will double up on his tracks
to check up on the organization CEN
ters. completing a trip of some 10000
miles in a little over two months.
With st. Louis as his first destina-
tton. Father Nevils Will address a
meeting of the alumni the night of
De ember %. John S. I-eahy. chair
man of the alumni association. has
reported that St. Louis is preparing
to lend substantial assistance to the
campaign Tor a greater George
will proceed to Kansas City for a
drive" which will be
handled by Redmond s. Brennan.
Maj. William II. Hobson. L. S. A,
former commandant at Georgetown
in charge of the r. o. T. c., who is
now stationed at Fort Leavenworth,
will assume charge of the Kansas
TO Visit Denver.
Denver alumni have invited Father r
Nevils to visit that city January 4, s
and 6, and have planned a banquet
which will be attended by many for
mer Georgetown men throughout the
state. Joseph S. Little, a college
graduate of last year. 'is chairman of
the Denver committee.
From Colorado Father Nevils' trip
takes him into Nevada. where he
will be the guest of former Gov.
Emmet Boyle in Reno. He will ad-
dress an alumni meeting in Salt
Lake City.
The principal drive on the Pacific
coast will be conducted in San
Francisco, where Georgetown has
one of it's strongest alumni associa-
tions. Father 'Nevils has three weeks
of hard work mapped out for him
there. With the aid of the radio. he
will speak to alumni meetings and
broadcast Georgetown's appeal in
several states.
In Oregon and Washington the
alumni are active and Father Nevils
in these states. He will concentrate
Seattle and Spokane. From the coast
he will swing into Montana. stopping
at Butte and Helena, and then start
eastward to Omaha.
BY February "a he viii reach the
where the alumni In Mil
waukee and st. Paul already are or
ganized. Father Nevils will make his
in Chicago for two
weeks. visiting Detroit and possibly
Cleveland in the meanwhile, and then
go back to st. Louis to follow up the
fruits of the initial campaign.
Results Are Good.
The Georgetown campaign is meet
ing with good results throughout the
busy most of the fall and winter.
interest is being mani
tested by trade and banking corpora
tions in the Foreign Service School.
United States Steel Corporation and
one of the regents of Georgetown
is actively in charge of
the New York headquarters.
Classes will be resumed at the col
Iege January Z: and at the profes-
sional schools January 3. With the
exception of the boarders at the COL
Iege, practically the entire student
body Of the university is remainin &
In Washington during the holidays.
Carl E. Cordes. president of the
fourth year class of the Georgetown
nounced the appointment of Brian J.
Ducey as class historian.
Marian Pisarek. a student of the
Service School. has with
drawn from school to take charge of
an export and import business be.
tween Poland and the United States,
with headquarters in New York city.
Senior Enrique Coronado. brother of
the first secretary of the Colombian
legation in Washington, gave talk
to the foreign service students dur
ing last week on Colombia as a mar
60 ny al
Of the Pan American Union also pre-
sented a film on the banana indus
try and the general scenery of Colom-
bia.
L. s. Attache Speaks.
Another address at the Foreign
Service School was given by Com
mercial Attache Charles L. Herring
Of the American embassy in Berlin
on conditions as he found them in
Germany. Mr.. Herring is a former
lecturer of the Georgetown school.
leaving it in 1920 to become CONNER
cial attache in Berlin, where he or
ganiZed the American commercial
service after its disruption due to the
war. For a long time he was the
this government in Germany, and to
his efforts is due in large measure
our present trade with Germany.
Consul Addison Z. Southard, pro-
fessor of consular practice at the
Foreign Service School, has just re-
turned from the Pacific foreign trade
where he represented the
State Department. Mr.. Southard said
that many of the delegates were in
in the school and that it's
reputation is we'll established on the
Pacific coast.
Just before Georgetown College re-
cessed Thursday for the Christmas
holidays Rev. William S. Talon, S. J.,
the dean, bestowed testimonials upon
fifty eight students, including four
teen from the District of Columbia,
for general excellence in their stu
dies during the past month.
The District boys were Leo v.
Fahy. Thomas Ferry. Albert L.
Maserick and Paul L. Mudd of the
Junior l class; Rotherwell H. Brown
Of sophomore A. B. II: Samuel Des-
soff, John T. Hazel, William NJ. Hsff-
sophomore pre-medical class; James
S. Ruby of freshman, A. B. II, and
n. Z. Blechman, Preston King, Harry
Saidman and Cyrus H. Smithdeal of
freshman pre-legal.
The highest honors went to Charles
Ginocchio Of the freshman. A. B. I.
class, who received testimonial in
every branch of study.
The December number Of the
Georgetown Journal, recently off the
Columbus memorial volume published
in late years, contained eighteen con-
tributions of verse, short stories and
essays, besides the regular depart
ments.
William J. Hughes has just pre-
sented to the library copy of the
by the United States Catholic So
by the United States Catholic So
ciety. 1t was through Mr.. Hughes
influence that the law books Of the
late Justice Miller of the limited
States Supreme Court were donated
to the law library by Mr.. Rufus s.
Day.
RESIGNS FROM BUREAU.