Evening star., 1926-05-23
HOOVER TO RECEIVE
DEGREE FROM c. i.
Cabinet Officer Also Will
Make Commencement
Address June 8.

Georgetown University will confer
the honorary degree of doctor OF laws
upon Secretary of Commerce Hoover
at its one hundred and thirty-seventh
annual commencement. Tuesday. June
s, 1t was announced Yesterday through
the office of the rector of the univer-
SitN. Rev. Charles w. Lyons $. j.
Secretary Hoover also will make the
commencement address to the grad
uating class of approximately 500
seniors in the five departments Of the
university.
Georgetowns chief reason to honor
Secretary Hoover is due to his world
wide efforts on behalf Of humanity,
and is recognition particularly to
relief work in Russia. in which the
university has taken a great deal OF
interest At the same time the uni
VerSity desires to recognize his pro-
motion of the foreign trade OF the
United States, a matter which greatly
concerns the School Of Foreign Serv-
ice, whose graduates are scattered in
- countries. Secretary Hoover has
shown much interest in the six years
growth of this institution and has
been helpful in number Of ways.
Others May BE HOnOred.
II is customary for Georgetown to
award only :: few honorary degrees at
its cOmmencements and it is under
stood that this honor will be con-
ferred on several distinguished alumni
and friends Of the institution this
year.
Class exercises at the law school
will be held Monday evening. June I.
with the following participants: John
W. Guider, Valedictorian: Eugene +.
Reilley. prophecy; James +. Rellley,
historian, and Joseph 7. Kelly. bache-
lor's Grafton. William f. Furey, pres
ident of the senior morning section.
will preside. while Lewis Fl. DAILY,
senior of the evening section, is help
ing arrange the exercises.
President Lyons and George f.
Hamilton, dean of the Law School.
the guests Of honor, will make d few
remarks.
With the approach of Memorial day.
the senior law class is arranging
memorial exercises in honor Of the
Georgetown service men who died dur
ing the World War tablet was
placed to their memory in the law
library by the clas Of 1921 and will be
decorated on this occasion. Lieut.. Ed
gar Allen Poe. United States Marine
Corps. a senior. is chairman Of the
committee. Father Lyons will deliver
the invocation, while Col. James S.
Easily Smith Of the faculty Will make
the principal address. William T. FitZ.
gerald and Welton p. Mouton. repre-
senting the morning and evening sec
tions of the class. respectively, will
speak on behalf Of the student body.
\ committee Of IL exservice men.
BEADED by Representative William P.
Connery of Massachusetts. a law stu.
dent. will serve as a guard of honor.
Mr. Connery will place a wreath of
leaves. contributed by the student
body under the tablet. The 90 names
that appear on the roll will be read
then by the secretary Of the class.
Richard A. Mahar. and a Marine
buglar will sound Taps"
White Portrait Being Painted.
one of the most important events
at the university just prior TO com
mencement will be the unveiling of
the portrait of the late Chief Justice
White Of the United States Supreme
Court, which will be presented to the
Law School by the senior class. The
exercises have been set for June 2,
Hugh J. Fegan. assistant dean. an.
nounced Michael r. ODonoghue will
make the presentation address. The
portrait is being painted by Richard
& Meryman. head of the school Of
portrait painting of the Corcoran Art
Gallery.
Dean Hamilton has returned to
Washington after an extended visit
TO Europe with members OF his family.
Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity OF the
Foreign Service School. held its
Spring banquet May Is at the
Ebbitt Hotel. a number or former
members Of the fraternity being pres
ont. Lieut.. Jean J. Labat. head Of
the French department Of the univer
StV was tOaStmaSter. The principal
addresses were made by the assistant
dean. Thomas H. Healy: the retiring
headmaster. Harry Coughlin; the new
headmaster, Douglas Cook, and Mar
cellus Cremer. graduate OF the For
egn Service School, who recently re-
turned from Brazil, where he was
serving AS IL trade commissioner for
the Government. Another prominent
aluminus was Connie r. Heron, who
returned recently from Guatemala
The fraternity now has members in
various parts Of the world.
a number Of members Of the For
eign Service faculty attended the re-
cent Philadelphia convention Of the
American Academy Of Political and
Social Science. The president and di.
rector of the academy is DIR. l.: s.
who is Georgetown faculty member.
Rev Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.. regent
of the school gave>a talk on Russian
conditions. while other addresses were
made by DR.. James Brown Scott and
Dr. John II. Latane.
Each Are HOnOred.
DR.. Scott and DR. Rowe each has
been signally honored by the Govern
ment of Panama, having been invited.
as guests of the nation. as delegates
to the centennial celebration Of the
first pan-American conference. held in
Panama under the direction Of Simon
Bolivar in 1926. DIR. Scott has taken
a very active part in pan-American
affairs during the 40 years and is at
present chairman of the committee on
codification of international law,
which will report to the next pam
American conference in 1928.
Sultan NJ. Amerie, a recent graduate
of the school, has been appointed man.
ager of a New York exporting Arm
engaged in the Persian trade. He at
tended the foreign service classes on
appointment by the Government of
Persia to the Persian scholarship
founded at the school.
John B. Faust of Denmark. S. c.:
Carlos c. Hall of Flagstaff. Ariz.; and
ii. E,rick Trammell of this city have
passed the foreign service entrance ex-
amnations given by the State Depart
ment.