The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-02-20
|FalIon Students
On Honor Roll
Scholastic Standing of
Students at State
University

! Ihe following scholastic standing
of university students for. the past
semester Is of more than passing in
terest to the patrons of the state uni
yersity as Fallon is we'll represented
In the honors. The Nevada State
Journal has the following summary
of the awards:
Twenty-six Nevada students, half
of them from Reno, are named
among the 81 men and women who
have been placed on the honor roll
OF the University of Nevada in rec
ognition of exceptional scholarship,
according to the September-Januarv
scholastic report issued by Vice Presi
dent Maxwell Adams.
Fallon Is represented with four
students and Elko. with two, while
Sparks, Austin, Carson City, Virginia
City, Tonopah, Wells and Hot Creek
have one each.
Women as group proved to be
far better students than the men,
receiving an average of 2312 against
the mems 2.sS0. The rule held true
In the averages of all women's or
ganizations, Manzanita hall, women's
dormitory, having lead of 6 over
Lincoln hall, mems dormitory, while
the lowest sorority average was high
Ell than the highest fraternity aver
age. The general average for both
men and women students is 1851.
Scholarship is graded by a system
of marking in which l represents
100 per cent and is scaled down to
5, complete failure. A passing
grade is put at S.5. An average of
25 is considered fair grade.
Eastern Man Highest
Despite the flood of feminine gen.
eral honors, the name of Edgar
Burch of Massachusetts, a student
in the college of agriculture, leads
the list. He attained an average of
l.12 in 16 hours of college work.
The next five highest are all wo-
men. Alice Norcross, Reno; Eunice
Rush, a graduate student of San
Diego, Calf; Dorothy Whitney, of
Fallon; Florence Billinghurst of
Reno, and Louise Grubnau of Sparks.
Three members of one Reno fam
lily, children of John Semenza, 141
Vine street, are all listed on the
honor roll. Nevada Semenza, SEN
ior, is in eighth place; Lawrence. a
freshman, in seventh, and Rena. a
N sophomore, thirty-third.
Foreign Students Named
Another feature of the honor roll
is that, for the first time. it contains
the names of two foreign students.
They are Edward Min of Korea and
Gregory Chekalin of Russia
Basil Crowley of Oakland, Calf.
war veteran receiving vocational
training through the United States
war veteran bureau, is thitieth on
the list.
Excellent records were also made
by Cruz Venstrom of Fallon and Mar
ion Clawson of Elko. Venstrom, car
rying 20 hours of university work.
stands seventh on the list, while
Calwson with 221s hours, is fif-
teenth.
George Duborg, football player
who was graduated last semester. is
twelfth on the list with an average
of LAO.
Pi Beta Phi sorority retained its
lead among the sororities with an
average for its members OF 1888.
Kappa Lambda fraternity took the
lead from Alpha Tau Omega, last
semesters high fraternity, with an
average of 2.669.
The complete honor roll. approx
mately five per cent of the total en-
rollment of the university. with the
grades, is as follows:
Edgar Burch, Massachusetts,. 1.12:
Alice Noreross. Reno. LA; Eunice
Rush, San Diego, LA; Dorothy
Whitney, Fallon, 1.16: Florence BILL
J linghurst. Reno, 1.20; Louise Grub
nnu. Sparks. 1.23; Cruz venstrom.
Fallon. 1.30; Nevada Semenza. Reno.
1873; Sidney Robinson, Reno, 1.34;
Richard Hardin. Hollister. Cal, 1.39:
Leota Maestretti, Austin. 1.39:
George Duborg. Reno. 1:40; Mar
garet Hill, Reno, lao.
Elizabeth Barndt, Hot Creek, lao:
Marion Clawson, Elko. 1.41: Gil
herta Turner, Sattley. Calf. 1.4I;
Lawrence Semenza, Reno. 1.46:
Grace Muran. Reno. LAG: Eleanor
Curieux, Elko, 1.47; Lawton Kline,
Reno. Las; Edgar Boardman, Reno,
so. Ruth Olmstead Wells 4 Sa.