Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
PAPAL DELEGATE
TO AID DEDICATION
Georgetown Plans Program
at New Medical Dental
Building.

Most Rev. Pietro F'umaSoni- Biondi,
the apostolic delegate to the United
States. and Right Rev. John M. Nc
Namara, auxiliary bishop of the Balti-
more diocese, will take leading roles
in the events of next Sunday during
the 130th commencement week at
Georgetown University.
Sunday will be a significant day to
all local and visiting alumni, for the
new million dollar medical dental
school building is to be dedicated dur
ing the afternoon with much ceremony
The apostolic delegate will bless the
new structures corner stone, while at
the baccalaureate mass at 10 o'clock in
the morning. the auxiliary bishop of
Baltimore will deliver the sermon to
the graduates.
With commencement week opening
Saturday night and continuing until
the final graduation exercises on the
following Monday, at which. Assistant
Dean Hugh j. Fegan of the Law School
will be the speaker, preparations are
about completed for the three-day
town of the new medical-dental build
ing. which will be ready for occupancy
in the Fall. is of additional significance
in view of the development of both
these schools.
Deans to Speak.
DIR. John A. Foote, dean of the Medi-
cal School, and DR.. William N. Cogan,
dean of dentistry, will be the principal
speakers at the exercises. Occupancy
of the new building this Fall is ex-
pected to double the student enrolment
of the two departments.
The exercises will be followed by the
reception to the alumni and graduating
classes that evening, at which President
w. Coleman Nevis and the deans OF
Georgetown will be the hosts. Alumni
class meetings will be held during the
day and in the evening, they will as
Semble in the quadrangle for their ira
ditional exercises.
The Baccalaureate mass at 10 o'clock
in the morning will be attended by the
seniors in caps ard gowns and members
of the faculty, Bishop Mcnamara, who
is to deliver the sermon, is graduate
of Loyola College of Baltimore and is
well known in Washington. He was
conSecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Balti-
more i'll 1898.
Plans for the senior class night at
the college. Saturday evening. have not
yet been completed. Under the direc-
ton of Rev. Fay Murphy, S. j., mem
beers of the Mask and Bauble Club are
rehe arising a one-act play Regular
Order" written by the retiring presi-
dent of the yard, Richard K. Charles
worth. The selection Of the cast has
not yet been made.
GIee Club Rehearsing.
Other plans in addition to the
CCEonguroton address by James p
Quinn. jr.. include salutatory by Paul
McDonough and a class prophecy by
William Powell. The Glee Club, under
Henry Deane Benson, is rehearsing
some of the favorite songs from pre-
vious programs rendered during the
year for alumni gatherings during
commencement week.
Georgetown will graduate about the
same number of seniors as last year.
The college class of approximately LOG
will be about the largest in the uni
versity. The address to the graduates
will be delivered by DR.. Hugh j. Fegan,
assistant dean of the School of Law and
one of GeorgetoWn'S most active alum
nj.
Announcement was made by DR..
Nevis that the custom Of presenting
diplomas in person to each graduate
at the commencement. exercises is to
be discontinued this June. Only the
seniors of the graduate department of
the university are to be handed their
diplomas.
A number of reasons enter into the
change of custom which has been tradi-
tional at Georgetown. The most i'm
portant reason is the large number of
graduates and the necessity of shorten
ing the length of the exercises. George
town has chung to the custom longer
than most universities of its size, and
on June 10 the dean of each depart
ment will merely read the list of stu
dents he is presenting for graduation.
Final examinations have put an end
to most outside events for the student
body, the most important during the
past week having been the election of
yard officers by the college student body.
William d Mooney of Cleveland, Ohio,
defeated Frank Wenzler for the posi-
ton of president of the yard during the
next academic year. This is the highest
honor that can be paid student at the
Hilltop.
Goes to California.
John Hedges Golf. who is candidate
for the degree of doctor of philosophy
in foreign service from Georgetown. has
just been appointed head of the depart
ment of foreign trade at the Armstrong
College OF Business Administration.
Berkeley, Calf. He will succeed in that