Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
MAI. A. c. G|LLEM
. COMES TO U. OF M.
To Be New Head of Military
Department-Many From
D. c. on Honor List.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, March g.
Maj. Alvan Gillem, jr, of the General
STAFF Corps has been named to succeed
Maj. Robert s. Lyle as professor of
military science and tactics at the Uni
versity of Maryland. Maj. GilIem will
take up his new assignment in August
as Maj. Lyle will have served the limit
OF four years at the university at the
close Of the school year.
Maj. Gillem, who is a son of Col
Alvan C. Gillem, retired, now is on duty
at the Third Corps Area headquarters
in Baltimore. He was commissioned
as a second lieutenant of Infantry in
1911 and has gradually risen to his
present rank.
Maj. Gillem saw service on the Mexi-
can border during the uprising there in
1918, previously was in the Philippines,
and during the World War served with
the 9th Infantry in Siberia. He was
graduated from the Army War College
in 1926, and has been with Third Corps
Area headquarters since that time.
Capt. E. L. UpSen, Lieut.. Edward H.
Bowes and Lieut.. Robert N. Young,
other officers Of the military staff, all
have q year or more at the university
Thirty three of the 81 honor students
at the University of Maryland for the
first semester Of the 1929-30 terms were
from the District of Columbia, WASH
ingtonians providing a much greater
percentage for their enrolment than
any other section.
OF the 81 students, out of an under
graduate enrolment of 1896, who had
a B average or better, IS Of the others
were from the State of Maryland and
8 from scattering places.
Carroll James of Frederick, Nd, q
senior in the College of Engineering,
and Miss Ruth o. Erickson of River
dale, Nd, were the only students to
have perfect averages. Taking the
heavy schedule of 81 subject hours
weekly, James had 81 AS. Miss Erick-
son had all AS for her 1S subject hours,
John r. Beall, a sophomore in the
College of Engineering, was the leading
washington student. He had II AS and
3 BIS for his 20 weekly credit hours.
A complete list Of the honor students
follows:
College Of Arts and Sciences.
District of Columbia-Herbert Cooper,
John w. RiSle, Melvin 4. Rooms, Mary
e. Rooms, Ruth c. Lawless, Myra E.
Lewis, Kathleen Nester, Genevieve G.
Wright, Minna label, Ruth @. Hays,
George Openshaw, Margaret Brewer.
observation-disclosures @. Davis, Frost
burg; Harry M. Duvall, Cheverly; Elena
Hannigan, College Park; Virginia Woo
den, Margaret T. Herring, Mary L. May
and Charles G. Spicknan, Hyattsville;
Elmer S. Jones and Elizabeth Jones,
Olney; Doris Lanahan, Laurel; William
L. Lucas, Baltimore; Clarence w. Lung,
Smithsburg; Lucille C.. Lusby, Prince
Frederick; Barbara Schilling, Cumber-
land; Gethine williams. Takoma Park;
Norman j. Wilson, Sparrows Point:
John A. Yourtree, Brownsville; Helen
Gingall, Berwyn.
other places-James T. Kingsbury.
Edward G. Mullen, Jules Cooper, Mary
L. Riggs and Samuel Fishkin, New
Jersey; Norma n. Person, New York;
Claire Schley. Sheperdston, w. Va;
Claude H. Smith, Manassas, Va; Eliza
beth B. Minis, Luray, Va.
College Of Engineering.
District of Columbia-John r. Beall,
Thomas Bishoff, John M. Coughlin,
Howard A. Hine, John p. Huesoach,
Samuel Letwin, Foster Lipphard, Gregg
II. mcclure. Joseph Miller, John H.
Milton, George T. PhippS, Robert F.
Quinn, Eugene j. Roberts, James N.
wallace, Ralph w. Watt.
Maryland-John r. M. Burger, Ha-
gerstown; Charles r. Dodson, Takoma
park; william H. Fifer, Galesville; Ed.
win M. Cue, Germantown; Carroll s..
James, Frederick; Harry A. Jarvis, Ber-
lin; John J. Velten, Baltimore; Chaun-
cey A. Ahalt, Middletown; Calvin
Cooper, Salisbury.
College Of Education.
District Of Columbia-Roberta Har-
rison, Wilhelmina Knoll, Barbara v.
Daiker, Florence e. Peter.
Observation-Disclosures Karr, Bethesda !
Eleanor Baumel, Royal oak; Dorothy l..
Lederer, Riverside; Thurman A. Nelson,
Cambridge; Curry A. Nourse, Dawson
Vile; Grace Gutenberg and Florence
Spicknall, HyattSville; Elsie Z. Ryon,
waldorf Phoebe Steffey, Williamsport;
Louise Townsend, Girdletree; Margaret
Leighton, Mountain Lake Park.
College of Home Economics.
District of Columbia-Rosalie Good
hardt, Felisa jenkins, Lillian /. Lunen-
berg, Eloyse Sargent.
Maryland-Isabel Bewick, Cumber-
land; Isabel Dynes, Chevy Chase; Doro-
thea FRESHMAN, Baltimore; Winnifred
Gahan, Berwyn: Grace Maxwell, Luke
Miriam Lloyd, Chevy Chase; Gladys M.
Oberlin, Silver Spring; Martha Ross
Temple, Hyattsville; Evelyn M. Webster,
Randallstown.
College Of Agriculture.
Maryland-Arthur M. Ahalt, Middle
town; Ralph l.. England Rising Sun:
Ruth o. Erickson Riverdale: Howard
w. Geary, Baltimore; Guy w. Gienger,
Hancock; William M. Hanna, White
hall; Max A. Smith, Myersville; James
w. Stevenson, Pocomoke City.
p0nI ROOM ACT PASSED.