Evening star., 1932-06-08
81 At GA[[AUDET
ARE GIVEN DEGREES
DR.. W. J. Cooper Lauds Work
of Man Who Leads in Ed.
ucation of Deaf.

Thirty-one students Of Gallaudet Col
lege were graduated at that institutions
sixty eighth commencement late yester-
Cay, when DR.. william John Cooper,
United States commissioner of educa-
tion, extolled DR.. Thomas Hopkins
Gallaudet, for whom the college Is
nomed, as the man who must be given
credit for everything that has been ac-
complished in the instruction Of deaf
mutes.
In his address to the graduates, which
was translated in the sign language for
the unhearing audience, DR.. Cooper re-
viewed the life of DR.. Gallaudet. Point
ing out that Gallaudet was born in
Philadelphia three months after the
Constitutional Convention, the educa-
tion commissioner traced the educator
of the mutes' benefactor through the
Hartford Grammar School and Yale
University. His first work in teaching
the deaf DR.. Cooper said, was with a
little daughter of a neighbor. Alice
Cogswell, whom he taught to say hat"
on his first visit to her home. 1t was
Alice's father the speaker recalled, who
first suggested the founding OF an in
stitution in which the deaf could be in
structed. The first school was opened
in April, 1915, with DR.. Gallaudet as its
principal.
Gives Key to Success
DR.. Cooper said:
TO his tireless zeal and earnest en-
thusiasm must be attributed everything
which has been accomplished. You who
of today go out of this college go out
into a world which is less hospitable to
college graduates than usual, but by
the same tireless energy and the same
boundless enthusiasm, you also will pre-
vail"
Orations were presented by members
of the graduating class. These students
and their orations we're: Andrew Han
tow of Michigan, Changing Ambitions"
Geneva Florence of Texas, Institution
Life-Its Influence on the Personality, u
and Alan B. Crammatte of Washington
on Journalism as a Profession for the
Deaf Man"
The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. H. Lorraine Tracy, minister to the
deaf at the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and the benediction was said by Rev:
Arthur D. Bryant, minister to the deal
at Calvary Baptist Church.
Honorary Degrees Given.
The honorary degree Of master OF
arts was conferred upon Rev. DR.. Bry-
ant. and the honorary degree OF doctor
of laws was conferred upon Vernon
Kellogg.
Degrees in course were conferred as
follows:
Bachelor of arts-Vera May Bridger,
Washington; Alan B. Crammatta. Wash
ington: Geneva Rachael Florence. Texas;
Lucian Arlie Gray, Oklahoma: William
M. Lange. jr.. New York: Raphaelena
Martino, Connecticut; Bilbo Monaghan,
Mississippi John Gregory OBrien.
Iowa; Mary Ingeborg Ross, Kansas, ana
Bovce Robert Williams. Wisconsin
Bachelor of science-John James
Berning. Michigan; Marion Bradley
South Carolina; Catherine Bronson
Alabama: Marie Louise Corettl. Ala
bama: Thelma Davies Dyer, Texas;
William j. Grinnell. Pennsylvania; An
drew Hantow. Michigan; Simon S. Katz,
Ohio: Rose Mary Stepan. Nebraska, and
Adolphus E. Yoder. Michigan.
Master Of arts-Walter j. Krug. Cali
fornia. and Mrs. Jessie B. Parks, South
Dakota.
Master Of arts in the Normal Depart
ment-Jennie L. Alexander B. M, Con-
verse College: John w. Alexander. B.
A., Woffard College; Lewis A. Backstrom
B. A.. University of Arizona; Elizaoeth
English Benson. B. A., the George wash
ington University; Jane l. Dibble. B. A,
Northwestern; James H. Galloway. b.
A. University of Rochester; Harriet N
Cough. A. B., Western College 1or
Women: John A. Cough, A. B.. Ball
state Teachers College. and Marshali
Hester, B. S.. Millsaps College.