Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
C. i. CAMP PERIOD
ENDS NEXT WEEK
Two Contingents of Students
Will Complete Course
of Training.

Two contingents of Georgetown
University students who have beer
attending the r. o. T. c. camps a
Carlisle Barracks. Pa, and CANT
Meade, Md. since June II, will com
plets their training periods mex
week.
Lieut.. Col. Augustus F. Dannemil
Ter, u. S. A, commander Of the
Georgetown unit. has been in attend
ance at Camp Meade since the open
ing of the Summer training camp and
is highly pleased with the competitive
showing of the Georgetown Infantry
cadets. Capt. Stewart D. Hervey, one
Of his assistants. also has been de-
tailed at Camp Meade.
The Georgetown group at Carlisle
Barracks comprises about 40 students
from the School of Medicine. who will
qualify as first lieutenants in the
Army Medical Reserve Corps at the
end of their next academic year. The
Infantry contingent from the college
numbers % junior cadets and 2
seniors. These will form the nucleus
OF the cadet officers in next years In.
fantry battalion at the Hilltop.
Interest Increasing.
Since its designation as a "distin-
guished' unit, interest in the r. o.
T. c.. has increased greatly among
Georgetown students. and Col. Dame
miller Is looking forward to an un-
usually large battalion next Fall.
Capt. Hervey and Capt. William B..
Lowrey, who completed their four-year
detail at Georgetown last month, have
been reassigned to Georgetown for an
other year. This will keep the train.
ing staff intact, for Col. Dannemiller
has two more years to serve before
being transferred to other duties. The
two Georgetown seniors at Camp
Meade, james Slavin and John
O'Brien. who did not have an oppor-
tunity to attend the camp last year.
will receive commissions as second
lieutenants in the Reserves when they
complete their training this week.
William 8. Tarver. Washington stu
dent at the college, who was lieuten.
ant colonel in command Of the 1nfan.
try battalion, has given up thought
OF military career to join the STAN
of The Evening Star. During his four
years at Georgetown he made an out
standing record not only in the r. o.
T.. C. but also in his studies, having
been one Of the honor men in the June
gradua ting class. He was awarded
the prize for being the cadet who did
moro than any other member OF the
Infantry unit to advance the interests
of the r. o. T. c. during his four
years at Georgetown. Tarver expects
to enter the Law School this Fall.
In view of the unusual interest be-
ing taken in r. o. T. G. affairs at the
Hilltop, the selection OF the cadet
commander of the corps is subject to
much speculation. The race, it ap.
pears, has narrowed down to John T.
McKeon and j. P. Cummiskey, jr..
both of Detroit, Mich, and William c.
O'Neill Of Brooklyn. N. Y. They were
conceded to be among the best trained
of the cadet officers during the past
year. McKeon already has a reserve
the Army, having previously attended
the regular training camp.
Father Lyons Returns.
Rev. Charles w. Lyons, S. J.. presi.
dent of Georgetown University, who
returned here last week from an edu-
cational conference in New York, will
remain in Washington, it was expect.
ed. until August /. By that time the
list of faculty transfers probably Will
be received. Rev. Francis A. Tondorf,
8. j., director of the seismic observa-
tory, is taking his retreat at the
Georgetown Preparatory School at
Garrett Park, Md, and will return in
about a week.
Announcement was made at the
Ecuadorian legation last week that
DR.. Francisco Banda, who received
his Phi. D. in foreign service at
Georgetown in June, 1925. has been
appointed consul general OF Ecuador
at New Orleans. DIR. Banda left
Washington Thursday for his new
post.
Formerly an attache Of the legation,
DR.. Banda went to Ecuador last Octo.
Der as assistant to the Kanmerer
Financial Commission. composed prin-
cipally Of Americans, who reorganized
the finances Of that country and sta
bilized it's currency. AS a recognition
Of his good work the Chamber Of Com.
merce at Quito appointed him as its
delegate to the third Pan-American
Commercial Congress, which met IN
Washington last May. DR.. Banda pre-
scented a report at the congress on the
work of the financial commission
which attracted wide interest.
While at Georgetown, DR.. Banda OBJ
tanned from the School OF Foreign
Service the granting Of a scholarship
for each one of the Latin American
republics. and as a result there are at
present quite a number of these stu.
dents at the school from South Ameri-
can countries. In 1923, after he had
received master OF foreign service
degree at Georgetown, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
awarded DIR. Banda a fellowship for
the study of international law.