Evening star., 1928-05-20
DANIELS TO SPEAK
TOA. j. GRADUATES
Former Secretary of Navy to
Give Commencement
Address June a.

The commencement address at Amer
lean University this Spring will be de-
livered by Josephus Daniels former Sec
retary of the Navy. on Monday after
noon June 4, IL was announced last night
by university officials
MIR. Daniels, who Is editor and pub
Usher OF the News and Observer of
Raleigh N. c., for years has been a
member OF the board of trustees OF
American University and 1t Is under
stood he will be here TO attend the semi
annual meeting OF the board, which
convenes prior to convocation exercises.
According to present expectations the
university will confer about go degrees
at tie graduation exercises. Convoca-
tion will be held either in the audi
torium or the out-of-doOr sylvan the
ater on the campus at 3 O'Clock. The
United States Navy Band will play.
The board of trustees will convene
Monday morning at $50 O'Clock at the
Battelle Memorial. administration build
ING ON the campus. and will join at
luncheon in the college dining hall with
the Women'S Guild. whose members
will be guests of the board. The Wom-
ems Child will meet In the wornen's
residence hall at ll:l5 o'clock,
Plans for Procession.
The academic procession, 1t Is plan
ned. will start at $50 O'Clock from
Hurst Hall, where 1t is to form, and
will march about the quadrangle, ard
to the auditorium or the sylvan theater
nearby.
Festivities OF the year end at the
university will be concluded by re-
ception at the chancellor's home on the
campus BY Chancellor and Mrs. Lucius
c.. Clark, In honor of the trustees, fac
uities. alumni. graduates and their
friends.
An elaborate array of class day ex-
ercises will precede the commencement
day exercises. and the convocation SER
mon Is scheduled for Sunday afternoon
Chancellor Lucius C.. Clark and Mrs.
Clark are expected TO return to Wash
ington this week from Kansas City.
where they have been attending the
Episcopal Church.
With examinations for the close of the
term well under way In the Graduate
School and to begin this week in the
School OF Political Sciences and the
College Of Liberal Arts. few student ac-
tivities have been planned for the COM
ing week.
Year Book 10 Appear.
A feature Of the year end Is the ap-
pearance on the campus OF the Aucola.
year book OF the college, which this
year carried throughout the idea of the
pioneer" since the Junior class which
edits and publishes the volume is the
original freshman class, which entered
when the college started its scholastic
Gated to the pioneer faculty of the
college.
The editorial and business STATS.
which have been highly praised for the
excellence OF the annual, include: Editor
in chief, Samuel C. Bilhrough; associate
editor. Helen E. Roher; editorial board.
Marion Cross. Irene Dezendorf, Sarah
Rotler. Annie Louise FLAG, Donald Bit
finger. Ethel Mounton. w. Willis Della
plain. Dorothy Buchan. Dorothy Moore.
and Elizabeth Joyce: art board, Mary
Jane Stewart, Florence Fellows, Mary
Chadwick. Gladys Macafee; snapshot
editor, Ruth Rinkel, business manager,
Roland Rice: assistant business man
ayers. Jacob Snyder, Louis Young cir
culation manager, Seeley N. Gray ana
faculty adviser, VIII Hutchins, professor
of art.
The outstanding student dramatic
event of the college year took place
Friday night with presentation by the
dramatic club of Twelfth Night" the
Shakespearean comedy under direction
of Prof. Hutchins. There was a large
attendance, and the management was
Tratified at the performance. Plans are
under way to continue the Shakes
pearean tradition with another comedy
next year.
w. L. Tayler Resigns.
william L. Tayler, instructor In politi-
cal science and faculty adviser OF the
international Relations Club, has re-
signed TO continue graduate work at
Columbia University next year. Upon
the occasion of retiring from the club
which he organized he was presented
with a gold key. emblem OF the club.
Plans are being made for Joint
picnic of Chi Psi Omega Fraternity
and Phi Delta Gamma Sorority OF
American University at Rock Greek
park. Millera Cabin. next Saturday al
ternoon Guests will be members OF
the sorority chapter from George
washington University. and the frater-
nifty chapter from Johns Hopkins Uni"
versity. The committees h> charge IN
clude Miss B. n. Enterline and William
L. Tayier, respective chairmen,