Evening star., 1927-05-08
MARYLAND CLASS
. GETS FELLOWSHIP
Du Pont Award in Chemistry
to Be Made as Honor to
Prot. NJ. S. Kharasch.
Special plspatch to The Star.

special Dspatch to The star.
COLLEGE. PARK. Md, May e.
University Of Maryland has been
awarded a du Pont fellowship in
chemistry for the academic year %
1929. President Raymond Allen
Pearson OF the Old Line institution
has just been advised. The fellowship
carries $3.50, and 1t has been suggested
by the donor that it be awarded to
one Of the students OF Prof. NJ. 8.
<harasch in view OF his particular
interest in the work.
The fellowship was awarded 70
Maryland not only because of the high
class work II IS doing In chemistry.
but IN special recognition of Or.
Kharasch.
Or. Neil T.. Gordon, who also is
State chemist. is head Of the
chemistry department OF the uni
Versitv.
Wilfred Hearn has been chosen TO
represent arylan1University at the
annual oratorfcal contest to be held
at Westminster Md. shortly. Three
other colleges i'm the State. Western
Maryland, st. Johns and Washington,
will have contestants. 1t is an annual
affair, with gold medal going to the
victor.
Herbert Budlong and John Schueler
have been elected editor-in-chief of the
Reveile, the yearbook. and the
Diamondback. the weekly student
paper. respectively, for the 1929
term. Phil Insley viii he business
manager of the Reveille, with Edith
! crtY g
was chosen business manager of the
Diamondback The 1926-27 Reveille.
of which Dan Fahey was editor and
Reese SeWell business manager, has
| just gone to press.
Gertrude Chestnut and Ethel
| Groves, seniors i'm the college Of home
economics. have received appointments
! to a siX-month course in dietetics a
| the Fifth Avenue Hospital in New
| York. Lavinia Mankin. senior in the
\ same college, has a similar appoint
| ment to Johns Hopkins Hospital in
| Baltimore.
Robert Simmons has been elected
| president of the Y. NJ C. A.. with W.
| G. Mcneil as vice president, Henry
| Whiteford secretary and William
| Lamar treasurer. Simmons has ap-
| pointed the following committee chaiP-
men: Ralph Nestler, deputations: j. G.
Dumer, freshmen work; w. G. Nc
| Neil. religious education: t. A.
| Hughes. finance: II. X. Ward, pub
| licity: Lloyd Groshon, church rela-
| tions: William Lucas. Y. NJ. C. A. CO.
operation: Frank Witter, conferences:
Arthur Hamilton, social: Herbert
Hoops, librarian; Henry Whiteford,
editor. and William Lamar, business
manager Of handbook,
May day will be celebrated at the
university Wednesday. when the
goods at the institution will stage
their annual fete on the lawn in front
Of Gerneaux Hall at 4:10. O'Clock.
Dean Adele Stamp inaugurated Mary
land May day five years ago and now
every year the junior girls give the
senior co-eds an entertainment and
banquet and select from among their
members queen and four maids.
II. NJ Watkins, instructor in The
public speaking department, repre-
scented the university at the eastern
public speaking conference held at
Hunter College in New York. City.
The Live stock Club will hold an
all-day show at the university next
Saturday, at which a horse show will
lie the feature and final number.
There will be events from $50 o'clock
in the morning until late in the after
noon. Many prominent horsemen
and horsewomen from Maryland and
the District of Columbia are 70 take
part I'm the show.