Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-18
BANKING STUDENTS
AWARDED HONORS
Prizes and Certificates Given
for Scholarship Success.
at Institute.


Prizes totaling $450 were awarded at
the open meeting Of washington Chap
ter, American Institute of Banking, held
at the Willard Hotel last evening. The
donors of these prizes were:
District of Columbia Clearing House
Association, Charles j. Bell Trust Fund,
Robert W Fleming, president, Riggs Ma
tional Bank; John Poole, president,
Federal American National Bank 81
Trust Co.; T. j. Roberts, assistant
cashier, Riggs National Bank; James A.
soper, vice president, Lincoln National
Bank and T. Hunton Leith, assistant
cashier, Security Savings q Commercial
Bank; w. w. Spaid member of firm of
w. B. Hibbs & Co.; George w. White,
president, National Metropolitan Bank;
Edward J. McQuade, president, Liberty
National Bank, and Avon NJ Nevius,
vice president, Riggs National Bank.
Aubrey O. Dooley, chapter president,
presided, while Edward j.. McQuade,
president Of the District Bankers AS
ISOLATION; H. H.. Mckee, chairman of
the washington Clearing House Asso-
citation, and Raymond B. Dickey, dean
of the institute faculty, made brief
talks, and DR.. George Farnhanl, in
structor in public speaking, gave a most
interesting inspirational address.
Scholarship HOnors Awarded.
The washington Clearing House prize
of $50 was awarded to Daniel j. ,Tyrrell,
Washington Loan g. Trust Co., first;
Carl F. Hermann of the same bank,
second, while John p. Brock of the
Franklin National and Clement H.
Brooke, jr., National Bank of WASH
ton, tied for third place. The awards
were made for proficiency in banking
fundamentals
The Charles j. Bell Trust Fund $50
prize In commercial law was divided
among six young bankers, all obtaining
a grade of 100 per cent IN the course.
They were @. Norman Cobb, Vienna
Trust Co.; j. Kenneth Collins, Riggs
National; Ralph j.. Collins Liberty Ma
tional; Alice H. Harris. American Sc
curitv 81 Trust; Raymond l.. Weber,
National Savings & Trust, and John F.
Guthridge, Decentralization.
The Robert v. Fleming $50 prize in
negotiable instruments went to G. Nor
man Cobb, Vienna Trust, and Pauline
CARRIER, East washington Savings Bank,
who tied for first honors; with Edward
N. Williams, American Security & Trust
Co., taking third place and William B.
Flaherty, Riggs National, getting .spe-
cial mention.
The John Poole $50 prize in eco
Monies was won by Mary L. Chadwick,
Washington Loan & Trust Co., with
Florence L. Gardner, National Metro
politan, second, and Arnold d. KEEP
hnger, Union Trust Co., third.
Standard Banking Awards.
The $50 prize given by I. j. Roberts,
James A. Soper and T. Hunton Leith in
standard banking went to Charles j.
Mcdowell, United States Savings Bank:
Grant D. Simmonds, Columbia National.
and Frank q. Rodger, Riggs National.
The w. w: Spaid $50 prize offered
for the best work in the course in in
vestrnentS was presented to F. Randolph
Clayton Mount Vernon Savings Bank;
Albert E. Fisher, Riggs National, and
Charles v. Gibson, J.. s. w. Seligman
& Co.
The George W. White $50 prize in
Analysing financial statements was
given to George F. Lingeback Ameri-
can Security a. Trust; with Edward F.
Titus, w. B. Hibbs & Co., second, and
James E. Lnnsford and Charles M.
Schwab, both. Of the Security Savings
81 Commercial, tied for third place.
The $50 prize offered by Avon NJ.
MENUS for the highest rank in trust
functions was awarded to Albert E.
Fisher, Riggs National, first; Dalton A.
Cook, Federal American, second, and
Jack H. Wild, Washington Loan g Trust,
third.
The $50 prize offered by e. u Nc
Quade for the highest rank In the
course In credits was divided among
Willard @. Barker, Morris Plan Bank,
FIRST Julian o. Vardin, Northeast Saw
ings Bank. second, and Jesse r. Stein,
Peoples State Bank Of Cherrydale,
third
In cases where there were no ties
the first prize in all courses was SIS,
the second SIS and the third SO.
Lauds Banking Education.
The American Institute Of Banking
deserves to be better known because of
the high quality of its work and num-
Der OF students enrolled, DIR. Farnl1aIn
told the junior bankers He added:
Il understand that this institute was
founded by bankers for bankers that
they might improve themselves for
their work. The banker is a public
servant whose responsibility is to other
people and to other community inter-.
ests as well as to himself and to his
own bank The A. I. q. attempts to
prepare young men and women to play
this more important role of careful and
conscientious executive on the one hand
and wise and responsive servant OF So
cieties on the other. h
my plan tonight is to ask you five
simple and apparent foolish Questions,
the answers to which bring us to the
heart Of this matter of self-improve-
ment and real success. The questions
are: Who are your Where do you
live?' What time is it?' What are you
doing?' and Who is sitting next TO
you?'
For instance, you can answer the
first question by giving your FIRST, or
last name. But who you are involves
far more than that. To be moral is to
be self-conscious, to know what you are
about. to be fully and completely awake,
to identify ycur real self among all the
conflicting selves. Tho whole purpose
of living is to wake up in your body,
mind and self to the glorious revelation
of who you are.
Likewise, where do you live is not
SO much a local question as it is an
eternal question. We most aSsuredly do
not live in our heads or in our bodies,
but rather in the wider, unbounded air
Of Lying universe. To be successful
in our humblest work demands that We
see ourself and know oursef as the free
creature whose possibilities cannot be
measured by the limits of our job" the
speaker concluded.
Aside from the above awards Of
prizes, certificates were presented to
more than 60 students completing insti-
tute courses during the last semester.
The list of these graduates already has
appeared in The Star.
INTEREST RATES.