Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-12
HONOR FOR D. c.
STUDENTSAT c. ".
Miss Julia Lee Denning and
Robert Harmon Leaders
in Activities.


Chase parkway and Robert Harmon of
2611 Adams Mill road have been ad-
judged the man and woman students
who contributed most constructively in
the furtherance and upbuilding of stu
dent activities at George washington
University in the current school year.
Miss Denning, who is president of the
senior class. and Harmon were awarded
the Pi Beta Phi and Delta Tau Delta
prizes, respectively, at class night eX-
ercises held last evening at Corcoran
Hall, TIC Twenty-f1rst street. The
awards were presented by DR.. Cloyd
Heck Marvin, president of the univer-
sity. About so other students We're
recipients of various awards for merit
A gold medal signifying the highest
average grade in the entire course for
the degree of bachelor of laws was won
by Charles Vail Laughlin, and Vincent
c. Gould was awarded the OrdronauX
prize for accomplishing the highest
scholastic standing in the medical
school.
d. C. Prize Winners Named.
Winners of university scholarships
awarded each year to pupils in Wash
ington high schools were announced as
follows: Business High School, May
Margaret Linskey; Central High School,
Beatrice Tabinsky; Eastern High School,
Helen Marjorie Swick: Mckinley High
School, Arthur Storey; Western High
School, Grace Hall.
About 500 students from all schools
of the university will be awarded de-
grees at exercises this evening in the
Washington Auditorium Forty-tWo
seniors viii be graduated with honors
in the 106th commencement. eight of
whom have won the merit with high
distinction Thirty-four students will
be graduated with distinction"
Dr. Meta Glass. president Of Sweet
Briar College, will be the commence
ment orator, and Rev. James L. Nc
Lain, pastor of the Union Methodist
Episcopal Church. will deliver the in
vocation
The class of 1929 last evening partici-
pated in formalities marking the close
of college careers. The Valedictory adj
dress was delivered by Louise Du Bose,
who had the honor of maintaining the
highest scholarship average in her class
William Lawrence Krebbs, who stood
second in scholastic excellence, delivered
the salutatory address.
Hartman Dorsey Of the senior class
of Columbian College, delivered the
mantle Grafton and passed the senior
class mantle to Betsy Booth, vice presi-
dent of this years junior class.
Many Students Rewarded.
Among the numerous prizes awarded
were the Davis prizes in public speak
ing, which we're won by Hartman
Dorsey, Charles T. Shaner and Paul H.
Keogh. Eleven graduates of the law
School were elected to membership in
the Order of the Golf. honorary law
fraternity. They were Charles ".
% Dl,aJy1r
Nelson, Sidney James, Irving B.
Yochelson, James H. Doyle, Ralph B.
Hudson. Albert Hubschman, Feliz Cole,
Nathaniel Levin and Charles Whiting.
Other prizes awarded we're: Gardner
c. Hubbard prize in history, Mildred
Green; DietZgen prizes in machine
drawing, william o. Lewis and Elmer
James Baxter; GODDARD medal for ex-
cellence in French, Louise DuBose;
Alexander Wilbourne Weddell prize
awarded for the best essay on inter-
national peace, Nasim M. Soosa; hon.
orable mention, Jacob Rosenthal; God
dard medal and prize for excellence in
commerce, r. Campbell Starr; God
dard medal in pharmacy, Howard j..
May; James MacBride Sterrett, jr.,
prize in physics, Hugh K Clark: DietZ-
gen prize in architectural drawing,
Archie P. Burgess; Muth prize in
mechanical drawing. Jacob A. Varela;
D. A. r. prize in American history,
Elizabeth B. Drewry; Phi Alpha Soror-
ity prize in zoology, Sara Abeles;
Thomas F. Walsh prize in history,
Margaret H. STREET.; Colonial Danes
prize In American Colonial history,
Sherman E. Johnson; Genevieve Chat
terton McCutchins prize in archeol-
ogy, Eleanor Folsom and Mary Hamil-
ton Brinkley: Alpha Delta Pi prize in
French, Judith G. Wood; Livingston
prize in machine design, Earl M.
Hunter, Sigma Kappa prize in chem
istry. Malcolm Taylor; Alpha Delta
Theta prize in chemistry, Grace L.
Kraft; Delta zeta prize in botany,
Janice Burroughs; Gamma Beta Pi
prize in botany, Malcolm Taylor; Chi
Omega prize in social sciences, Eliza
beth Drewry; Alpha Chi Sigma senior
medal in chemistry, Elizabeth Hewston;
John B. Larner gold medal in law,
Charles " Laughlin; Samuel Herrick
prize in law Marian B. Phelps; Ellis
worth prize in law, Arturo Y. Casanova
Ordroneaux prize in medicine, Vincent
G.. Gould; honorable mention, Blanche
Tabor; prize in military science, George
Henry McLain; Lewes D. and Myrtle H
Wilson prize in obstetrics, Alice Heyl
Kiessling; Osler prize in medicine, VIM
cent G. Gould.