Evening star., 1926-05-09
DR.. SMlDDY SPEAKS
AT DOD NOON AFFAIR
Minister From Irish Free State Ad-
dresses Graduating Class of
Catholic University.

The bod Noon Club of the Catholic
University held it's fourth annual
senior night entertainment in honor
of the members of the graduating
class last Thursday evening in the
auditorium of. Mcmahon Hall. DIR.
Timothy A. Smiddy, Irish Minister to
the United States. was the guest of
honor and the principal speaker OF
the evening, and delivered an interest
ing and enlightening discourse to the
large gathering on ''The Present Con
ditions and Prospects of the Irish
Free State
John F. Nolan of Bridgeport. Conn,
presided. other features of the pro
gram were a minuet, in which the
participants were Edward M. Curran,
Bangor. Me-; Paul E. Miller. Cleve-
land, Ohio. and Daniel Peloski, An
sonia. Conn; selections from Tam
hauser" and the Pilgrims Chorus"
by the University Orchestra: vocal Sc
a violin solo, "Berceuse," by Roland
Rutledge. Hartford, Conn.
Wednesday evening the Catholic
Glee Club rendered its annual Spring
concert at the Willard Hotel. DIR. Leo
Behrendt, director of the Glee Club.
conducted.
The final formal function on the
Catholic social calendar, the annual
senior promenade. was held last Fri
day evening in the ballroom of the
Willard Hotel. Nearly four hundred
represented by DIR. and Mrs. Hardee
Chambliss and Thomas j. MacKav-
anagh. professor of engineering. and
Mrs. MacKavanaugh. The committee
in charge was headed by Benjamin J.
Collins of Glen Falls, N. Y.
Edward NJ. Curran of Bangor, Me-,
a senior law student, won signal hon
ors for himself and for the university
Friday evening. April 80. when he was
voted the honor of representing the
District of Columbia in the semi-finals
of the National Collegiate Ora
torical Contest. The contest was held
at Corcoran Hall, George Washington
University. and the competitors were
the representatives Of local colleges
and universities. John j. Falkner, jr.,
who spoke for George Washington
University, was named alternate in
the case of Curran's inability to con-
tinue in the contest. The regional
contest, or semi-finals, will be held
Monday evening, May II. in the audi
torium of Mcmahon Hall, Catholic
University. The States of Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Della
ware and the DlSLTlcL OF COluHnDld
form one of seven regions each of
which will send one man to the Ma
tional Oratorical Contest, to be held
in Los Angeles, Calf. June %. Cur
rams victory gives him the task of
representing the District in this con-
test. Each of the seven participants
in the final contest will receive a
prize, ranging from $4,000 for the first
to $500 to the seventh. The topic
chosen by, the promoters of the con-
test is 1.-THE Constitution Of the
United States" and each participant
is free to write on any aspect of the
document he chooses.
Saturday, May 1, was campus tap
day. Seventeen members of the fresh
man class were pledged by the three
clubs on the campus. Those who sig
nified their pledgeships to the Abbey
Club were Paul Morrissey, Donald
Moore, Thomas Ford, Jules Broula-
tour, George Wheatley and Arthur
Gallagher Of the freshman class, and
Charles Daily of the sophomore class.
The bod Noon Club pledged to it's
rank Joseph Beatty, Charles Beard,
Thomas Hart, Armand DeCesare of
the freshman class, and William
Byrne of the sophomore class. In the
evening the bod Noon Club held a
reception for the new men at College
Inn.