Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-24
BANQUET PLANNED
FOR REV. (. A. WALSH
Georgetown U. to Honor Former
Regent of School of For
eign Service.
OFFICIALS TO BE SPEAKERS
Walsh, Gallivan and Wright to At.
tend Affair March 4.

Georgetown University will give a
testimonial banquet the evening Of
March at the City Club in honor
of Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., for
mer regent of the School of Foreign
Service, who recently returned from
soviet Russia where he was director
of the papal relief mission.
About ESQ guests will he present.
including the faculties of the uni
versity and Il number of public Off
Gals.
All graduates Of the Foreign Service
School. which Father Walsh was in
strumental In founding. are being
rounded up" so that the banquet
will be in the nature of "a reunion.
Rev. John b. Creeden, S. J., president
of Georgetown University. is honor
airy chairman of the committee IN
charge: DIR. William +. Notz. dean
of the Foreign Service School. is chair
man. and Thomas +. Dolan, jr.. =
graduate of the school and now
senior at the law school. is secretary.
Included among the speakers are
Senator David /. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts. Representative James a.
Gallivan of Massachusetts and w. l..
Wright. third assistant Secretary Of
State. George O'Connor will sing
some Of the songs that have made
Kim famous, and at the conclusion OF
the program, Father Walsh will be
called upon to relate some of his eX-
rerienceS in Russia.
As a result OF a competitive contest
during the past week the teams to
participate in the fourth prize debate
Of the Georgetown Law School Fri
day. March {. were selected as fol-
lows; Senior society,", George L.
Eeechwood. Francis J. Fitzgerald
and Don. c. O'Regan, alternate; junior
society, Martin O'Donoghue. Irving |
Goldstein and J. Mckenzie, alternate.
DR.. James Brown Scott. professor
OF international laG at the Foreign
Service School, who is In Havana,
was the guest OF honor at Il luncheon
recently given by the Cuban secretary
OF state. Senior Cespedes. Among the
distinguished guests invited in honor
of DIR. Scott We're the Belgian ambas-
sador. Baron Emile de Cartier de
dor. Maj. Cen. Enoch II. Crowder:
Antonio :. dc Bustamante. the ~el!
known Cuban international lawyer.
Secretary Betancourt. Assistant Sec
rotary OF State Patterson and Intro
Queer OF Ministers Campo.
pr. Scott was IL Havana for the
purpose of arranging meeting. in
the near future, OF the American In
Stitute of international Law. of which
he IS president.
Richard p. Butrick. = graduate OF
the Foreign Service School who has
recently been transferred TO the post
OF vice consul at Guayaquil. Ecuador.
is in Washington for a few days and
visited the school. He will return
TO his post tomorrow.
The Department Of Commerce has
issued a fiftypage booklet on the
Agricultural. Industrial and Com
mereial Resources of Ireland by
Fred A. Christoph. a graduate OF the
Foreign Service School, who is at
present an assistant in the foreign
trade convention course at the school.
The January issue of the Manufac-
turcr contains an interesting article
ny Emmett A. Chapman, a student az
the Foreign Service School on stand
ardization in Industrial Countries.
William +. Taylor. student at the
Foreign Service School, left last week
to take A position as export man
ager of the paint and varuish depart
ment of the Du Pont company. His
headquarters will be in Philadelphia
Another student has just been APP
pointed special agent at the Chicago
Office of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce. He Will fill a
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
town student, who has been APP
pointed export manager for a firm in
South Bend, Ind.
Through the kindness Of Frank r.
Eldridge. chief of the far eastern
division, Department of Commerce.
arrangements were made for a lee
ture at the Foreign Service School
given last week by CASTOR Gtruad,
commercial attache for French Indo-
China to the United States. Mr..
Giruad had some remarkable films of
1ndo China, showing the resources
and possibilities of the French colony.
Roy H. Flamnl, a graduate of the
Foreign Service School, was one of
the delegates to the recent regional
meeting of the chambers OF commerce
Of eleven of the western states at San
Francisco. the first meeting of its
kind. Mr.. Flamm. who helped or
ganize the Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity
while at Georgetown, Is now manager
of the industrial bureau of the Sacra-
mento (Calif) Chamber Of Commerce.
Marquette University has opened d
campaign to embrace all of the Jesuit
colleges of the country in Alpha Sig
ma Tau, an honorary society which
was founded at Marquette in 1915.
While no official action has been
taken regarding the adoption OF
top is expected to fall into line
shortly.
The society recognizes scholarship.
loyalty and service, differing thus
from Phi Beta Kappa and other hon
orary societies, which recognize
st udents arc admitted from each col
lege or university every year. The
members are selected by the deans OF
the various schools. Chapters of the
society have been formed at st. Louis
University and at Creighton College.
Rev. John E. Creeden. S. j., Of
Georgetown University and Hugh J.
Fegan, assistant dean of the Law
School, were the honor guests of the
first year evening class smoker al
the City Club. William Mcclure
acted as POSTMASTER.
The senior law class is planning to
hold the best scholastic dance of the
year Thursday at the New Willard
Hotel. John A. McArdle of Massa-
chusetts. representing the morning
section, and Joseph c. Davis of Ten
nessee, representing the evening Sec
ton. are the chairmen in charge Of
the general arrangements.
AT the regular meeting of the Lit
erary Society last Monday evening
at the college, Mr.. Mulligan, 8. j., the
faculty adviser. formally opened the
semester with the suggestion that
the society should work for definite
goal. Each speaker should give his
talk a niche in the literary world"
said Mr.. Mulligan. I'VE need Juve-
nal or Swift; we need them more to-
day than ever before"
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