Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
REUNION LAUNCHES
GRADUAT|ONAT GU.
Old Graduates Assemble at
/ Hilltop for 128th Com
menCement.

/ Georgetown University's 12Sth an
nual commencement week, attended
by a host of alumni from all points
g.. along the Atlantic seaboard who came
here to join also in the celebration for
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. opened
under suspicious circumstances last
night.
The opening exercises were featured
by the alumni reunion dinner and
business meeting at the Hilltop. and
by the annual dinner of the George
town Law Journal staff at the Cosmos
Club. with Associate Justice Willis
Vandevanter of the II. s.. Supreme
Court. as the principal speaker.
Frank J. Hogan OF Washington, ma
tional president of the alumni asso-
citation, acted as POSTMASTER at the re-
union in Ryan Hall. A number Of
important matters affecting co-opera-
ton between the alumni and the uni
versity were considered and there
were addresses by President Charles
w. Lyons. S. j.: Dean Robert A.
Parsons, s. j., of the college; Dean
George E. Hamilton of the Law
School; Hugh J. Fegan, assistant law
dean, and others.
Assemble for Glass Day.
Following the business meeting the
crowd assembled in the brilliantly
lighted quadrangle for the college
class day exercises, featured by music
and the Cohonguroton Grafton on be-
half of the seniors, delivered by Fran
els b. Delehanty of New York.
CARRIED in Indian costume and stand
ing before a tepee perched above the
main entrance to the quadrangle
Delehanty delivered the vaIedictory or
seniors traditional farewell to the
T0Nk- -. i
by James S. Ruby, jr.
A play with a Georgetown back.
ground was a part of the program
and was participated in by John F.
McDonough. John J. Clark, Dennis A.
Shea, Frank c. Regain and Thomas
T. Murphy. Music by the Collegians.
student orchestra, and the singing of
college songs concluded the program.
President Lyons and other members
of the faculty were guests at the din
ner of the Law Journal staff, at which
Henry L. Walker, editorin-chief.
presided. Among those present We're
Dean Hamilton, Assistant Dean Fee
gan, Prof. Charles w. Tooke, faculty
adviser to the journal staff, and Prof.
William Jennings Price. Justice Van
devanter in his talk TO the staff I'm
pressed upon them the need of ad |
herring to the highest standards in |
their profession.
Schroeder i'm Charge.
G. Baker Schroeder was chairman |
In charge of arrangements for the |
dinner. The journal staff consists of |
the following: Barron Fredericks, |
Alexander Heron. Allen j. Krouse, |
Lester Thomas Murray, Thomas P. |
Shebell, Frank w. Glenn, Victor ]. |
Colombo, Leonard j. Ganse, Joseph |
Rouse, Robert Pointer, p. J. Cava- /
naugh, Stanley J. KAPPA, Francis c. |
Brooke, Donald L. Stumpf, Floran ]. |
Boland, John T. Walsh, George j. |
Williams, Francis P. Lyman, G. Baker |
Schroeder w. Wiley Sandusky and |
Robert I. Hayes.
The bacealaureate services will be |
held at 1918 O'Clock this morning, in |
Dahlgren Chapel. At 10 o'clock the |
regents, faculties of all departments. |
seniors and alumni, in caps and
gowns, will assemble to march to the |
chapel. Rev. Robert l.. Cannon, S. J.. |
class of 1913, and now of Woodstock !
College, Nd, will deliver the bacca- |
laureate sermon.
There will be a reception to the |
seniors and their friends at 4:S0 !
o'clock this afternoon in the Healy I
Building by the president and faculty. |
Then will follow an evening band |
concert.
Senator David I. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts, will make the address to
the graduates at the 12Sth commence.
tnent exercises tomorrow afternoon at
Ais o'clock. This will conclude the
program.