Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
MEDAL FOUNDED
/ IN C. u. COURSE
Student With Best Record in
Seminar Branch win Re-
ceiVe Gold Award.

A gold medal has been founded at
the Georgetown University School Of
Foreign Service, it was announced yes
terday, and will be awarded to the
student making the highest record in
the seminar course on Outstanding
Problems in Inter American Relations.
known as the Miguel Cruchaga
Medal, it is being offered this year by
Senior Benjamin Cohen, q member of
the Georgetown faculty. now on leave
of absc>lce. The medal originally was
founded by DR.. Cruchaga, former
Chilean Ambassador to the United
States, who took a personal interest In
the work of the school in promoting
understanding Of inter-Americsn prob
lems. Senior Cohen is continuing the
medal in honor of his friend.
Senior Cohen is a graduate OF the
Foreign Service School and was sec
rotary to the Chilean embassy during
the time DR.. Cruchaga was AmbaSSa-
dor He is now secretary to DR.. CRU
chaga in the latter'S capacity as inter-
national umpire Of the commissions
between Mexico and Spain and Mexico
and Germany. Recently he was grant,
ed temporary leave from the George
town faculty to attend to the work Of
the two commissions in Mexico.
Former Ambassador Cruchaga Is now
making arrangements for the eStab-
lishment of a foreign service school in
his own country. patterned after the
Georgetown school. He intends to en-
dow it.
DR.. Rowe in Charge Of Course.
The seminar course on inter-Ameri-
can relations is given by DR.. L. 8.
Rowe. director general Of the Pan
American Union, who Is one OF the
best known authorities on inter Ameri-
can relations. His assistant in the
ate of Georgetown and chief OF the
finance department of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union.
DIR. Rowe will award the medal to
the student in his course who makes
the best all-around achievement dur
ing the year. The course is open to
advanced students of the school.
ticularly glad to have the course rec
ognized In the form of the Cruchaga
Medal because of the increasing i'm
portance of Latin American relations
The donor of the medal is very popular
with GEORGETOWN students. and during
his own student days was winner OF the
gold medal on foreign relations Of the
United States. Senior Cohen Is well
known in Washington, particularly as
ut international conferences held here.
DR.. Herbert F. Wright, professor Of
political science at the Georgetown
school, has been appointed editor OF
the American delegation to the Naval
Conference which will meet in London
the middle Of January. DR.. Wright Is
no stranger to the tasks imposed upon
him by the State Department. For
two years he was editor Of publications
of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace at q time when the
Conference on the Limitation of Arnia-
ment was meeting in Washington. Sew
eral of the endowment's publications
were issued for use in connection with
that conference.
Served As Arbitration Editor.
Last December DIR. Wright was ap-
pointed editor of the International
Conference of American States on Con-
Citation and Arbitration, and in that
capacity supervised the printing of the
treaties signed on January 5, in Span
ish, English, Portuguese and French,
within So hours. For this achievement,
which Is thought to be without paral-
lei. he received q letter of eommenda-
ton from former Secretary of State
Kellogg. Since June, DR.. Wright has
been engaged in various editorial work
for the department and IS specialist
in historical research Tor the State De-
partment.
Glasses will resume at Georgetown
College on January for the undergrad
yates, and the following day for SEN
iors. BY that time 1t is expected a
successor to Louis Little will have hsen
signed UP, the college authorities hav-
ing been In negotiations with . num-
Der Of coaches.
President w. Coleman Nevis, 8. j.,
announced during the past week that
Q Georgetown Circle OF the Christ Child
Society had been formed In connection
with the new maternity department Of
the GEORGETOWN University Hospital.
About IS young married women, friends
of the hospital, are serving in the
newly organized circle, and part Of
their duties will be to see that every
newborn infant at the hospital is
given some special attention. The unit
will work in cooperation with the
board of lady managers In hospital af-
fairs generally.
Dr. Nevils presided at the meeting
and introduced Mrs. Florence Roach,
representing the headquarters of the
Christ Child Society. Mrs. Roach ex-
planned the purposes of the society to
the young women and the good that
could be accomplished by them at
Georgetown Hospital.