Evening star., 1928-12-30
DRUM IS REGENT
OF GEORGETOWN
Californian Accepts Position
on Board of Local
University.


newly reorganized Board of Regents of
Georgetown University, it was announc-
ed here yesterday.
Georgetown has long TeIt the need
of a Pacific Coast representive on its
board of regents, President w. Coleman
Nevis, S. j., explained, because of the
growing activities of alumni bodies on
the West Coast and the desire to have
all sections of the country represented
on the supervisory board of the Uni
Nersity. The recent death of Judge
Clement Manley of WinstonSalem
N. c., who had been a regent at
Georgetown for many years, it was
announced, will necessitate the election
Of successor from some Southern
State.
Mr. Drum has been active in educa-
tkOnal work and through his friend
ship with James A. Farrell president
of the United States Steel Corporation,
who is also a Georgetown regent, has
taken considerable interest in the work
Of the School of Foreign Service in
preparing young men to enter foreign
trade and commerce He received his
early education in the Catholic College
Of st. Ignatius in San Francisco, from
which he was graduated in 1891.
Headed American Bankers.
He was president of the American
Bankers Association from 1920 to 1891
and after the recent merger of the
American Trust Co. in San Francisco
he was made its president. Mr.. Drum
also is director in numerous public
utility corporations on the Pacific
Coast.
After his graduation from st. Igna-
40 Ho of
Hastings College of Law. department
of the University of California, and
practiced law in California until 1909,
when he devoted himself entirely to
the field of banking During the World
War Mr.. Drum served as California
State director of war savings and also
on the capital issues committee Of the
War Finance Corporation in 1918.
He was born in Oakland, Calf, April
a6, 1872.
The late Judge Manley, whose place
on the board of regents remains to be
filled, was one of the most distin-
guished lawyers of North Carolina. He
served as judge for many years in
the State courts, and was a former
chairman Of the State Democratic COM
mittee and president of the North Caro-
lima Bar Association.
Judge Manley not only was graduated
from Georgetown College, but also from
the Georgetown Law School. He came
from an old Carolina family, his grand
father having been soldier of the
American Revolution, and his father,
Matthias Manley, judge on the State
Superior Court during the Civil War.
His death, at the age of IS years, oc-
eurred November 26 in Winston Salem.
President NevilS left the city Friday
TO attend the annual banquet of the
cleveland Alumni Association Of
Georgetown. which was held last night.
Joseph c. Breitenstein, Ii. B. IA, Is
president of this association, which
takes in Northern Ohio, and Edward
Butler is secretary. Organization of the
widely scattered alumni bodies of the
university is one of the most important
problems with which President Nevils
is interested Reports from the prin-
cipal alumni center point to year Of
unusual activity.
In Providence, on December II, the
Rhode Island Alumni Club gave testi-
monial dinner for DR.. Michael L: Null
s1aney in honor of his recent election
to the board of regents of the university.
AT that time, Dr. Mullaney was award
ed the degree of doctor of sciences by
President Nevils.
Given Silver Service.
Rev. John A. Dixon, S. j., represented
Georgetown at the dinner, President
Nevils being unable to attend. Associ-
ate Justice Charles A. Walsh Of the
State Superior Court, an alumnus of
Georgetown, presented DR.. Mullaney
with. silver service on behalf OF the
Rhode Island Club.
" The Inauguration of Edmund .. Soper
Jas president of Ohio Wesleyan Uni
tversity, which takes place February
s14-15, is of special interest to members
scf the Georgetown faculty. His father,
Rev Julius Soper, a retired missionary
sof the Methodist Episcopal Church, who
now is "a years old, and resides IN
Glendale, Calf, was a day student at
Georgetown College years ago. He lived
In Georgetown at that time.
Writing recently to Father Nevis, Mr..
Soper mentioned this link that connects
him with Georgetown, and told of his
father taking him to a Georgetown
commencement during his youth.
The recent death of Mrs. Rose G
Cronin, wife of Francis D. Cronin
secretary to Father Nevils and former
secretary to Rev. Charles w. Lyons, was
matter of genuine regret to all of his
many friends at Georgetown. Mrs
Cronin, who was Miss Rose Geishecker
of Dedham, Mass, contracted influenza
en- route home for the Christmas holi-
days and died in Boston, December 81
shortly after her arrival there. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cronin, who had been married a
little more than three months, made
their home at 3039 @ street.
Glasses to Resume This Week.
Glasses in the professional depart.
mentS will resume this week following
the close of the Christmas vacation. By
Friday all the departments except the
college will have reopened, the holi-
days at the Hilltop having been extended
to January z. Midyear examination.
will begin at the law school on January
"a and at the School Of Foreign Service
January 81. The second semester at the
former school starts February A. while
that for the Foreign Service Depart.
ment opens February /.
Hugh j. Fegan, assistant dean OF tht
law school, attended the annual meeting
OF the Association of American Law
Schools which was adjourned yesterday
ir Chicago.
Debaters at the Law School will start
preparation this week for the SeconC
prize contest which will be held thC
afternoon of January 16. The Subjec
chosen for this debate is, Resolved
That United States Marines ShoulC
Remain in Nicaragua" While the teams
have not yet been designated, thei
personnel will consist of j. Herber
Walsh, representing the Carroll Law
Club; Francis j. Sullivan of the WhitC
Law Club, Mark Wilmer of the Butle
Club and Leo M. Mcclure of the GoulC
Club
Prof. Charles W. Tooke, formerly o
the law faculty but now a lecturer a
the New York University Law School
was visitor at Georgetown during the
holidays
Rev. John H. Easy, S. j., forme
professor of jurisprudence at the ] av
School and dean Of the Georg sApwr
Graduate School from 1923 to 1925, diet
last Sunday in New York from pneu
monia. He had many friends in Wash
ington and was widely known in educa