Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17


festivities and commencement Monday
morning, June /, at 10 o'clock.
A large audience witnessed the per-
Torrance last Friday night of Shake
speare's Romeo and Juliet" in the
gymnasium on the campus, the annual
dramatic tradition of the American
University Dramatic Club. Helen Tucker
and James Elmer Swan were in the title
roles.
Ruth Edwards sof Maplewood, NJ j..
has been elected president of Alpha Chi
Sorority. Other officers named for the
! ensuing year are: Vice president, Hazel
Jacobs: secretary. Lois Spencer; treas
urer, Betty Brundage, and social chair
! man, Anne King.
w. Yule Fisher has been elected presi-
dent of Alpha Theta Phi Fraternity.
Other officers for the year are: Brooke
Bright, vice president; Harry Moffett
treasurer, and Arthur Smith, secretary
Girls who have distinguished them
selves in athletics at the college this
year will receive recognition next Thurs
! day night at the annual banquet Of the
"A Club"
In addition to Robert Marcus, editor
Of next years year book, the Aucola
the editorial staff will include Anne
King, associate editor; Lois Spencer, as
sistant editor; Edward Tate. picture
editor; Max Schaul and Dan Smith,
mems athletics; Elizabeth Brundage,
women's athletics; Mary Daub, literary
editor; Alice Louise Ford, assistant
| literary editor; Elizabeth Towne, in
charge of organiza tons; Virginia Peder-
son. art: Beatrice Adams, Prutia Pierce
and Adolphus Worley snapshots;
Sarah Motley, Lorena Murray and Viz
GINA Sherier, tipping.
II cd - Edw;o Dnao the
staff of the American Eagle has been
named to include the following: Rob-
ert Marcus Dan Smith, Anne King, Ed
ward Tate, Betty Brundage, Betty
Towne, Sara Motley, Theodore Lyle,
Edwin Powers and Clara Tate.
The Women's Glee Club. under direc-
ton of DR. Walter F. Shenton, present.
ed its annual concert last night at Hurst
Hall, The girls quartet-Doris Willis,
Dorothy Seaton, Mary Cline and Helen
Tucker-presented several numbers,
| readings and Anna Mary Sanford, vio-
| unist, was heard in solos. Mrs. Shenton
was accompaniSt.
Nationals Sixty third Register Out.
THE sixty-third annual register Of
l. National University's Law School
was issued last week, marking the
beginning of this institutions sixty
| third year of continued educa tional life
| in the National Capital and forecasting
the opening of the universitys Summer
sessions June Is.
| AS outlined in the register i've ele-
mentary subjects and FIVE advanced
subjects will be taught during the H.
! week Summer term. These are, ele-
mentary, quasi contracts cases, torts
cases, elementary law, marriage and di-
vorce and property laws; advanced,
constitutional law, review course, sales,
conflict OF laws and legal ethics. The
Summer term will conclude August 20
with only one intervening holiday, In
dependence day, July 4.
Meanwhile plans for the closing of
the current Spring quarter are being
made Final examinations in the Law
School will begin May 20 to continue
one week. Commencement, with the
award of degrees earned during the past
scholastic year, will be held June 10.
Plans for these important exercises now
are being made.
Herschel s. Smith, holder Of the de-
| grees of bachelor and master of laws
! frcm its law school, will leave WASH
! ington soon on a l5-month tour OF
Australia 70 afpvcstigste pension claims
Of Americans In that country. The
INVESTIGATION Il to be made 1nr the