Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-16
SAG GET DEGREES
AT G. v. j. RITES
Columbia U. Professor
Praises Work in Bacteriol-
| ogy Done at School Here.

fostering mother of bacteriology" DR..
Frederick Parker Gay. professor of
bacteriology at Columbia University,
declared at the local institutions COM
mencement last night that no other
medical school in this country can pre-
sent an equal professional sequence in
that science.
The exercises marked the graduation
of the largest class in the univerSity's
history. A total of 649 degrees were
presented
Citing Theobald Smith, Walter Reed
and Frederick Russell, DR.. Gay said,
they represent the birth, adolescence
and young maturity of our science
which reaches back 30-odd years and
whose life history almost exactly COIN
cides with the tenure of the chair of
bacteriology here by these three I'M
usual men"
Urges Specialization.
In his address, Dr. Gay declared that
there was necessity for specialization
in medicine The specialist, he said,
IS more than ever depended on by ply
slcianS who know that the success of
his work Is not limited by the care of
individual sufferers from disease. He
added that he believed it likely that the
final cure for cancer or tuberculosis
will be discovered by some one who is
concerned with the orderly development
OF some obscure and apparently unre-
lated branch of science as such, rather
than with the direct attainment of the
great objective
The exercises marked the comforting
of honorary degrees of doctor Of science
upon three outstanding men in the
medical profession, including DR.. Gay.
The other recipients were DR.. George
Candy Robinson and DR.. Alan Mason
Chesney. In awarding these degrees
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin. president of
the university, read formal citations.
DR.. Gay was honored as friendly
teacher, master in scholarship, of con-
summate discernment and integrity of
mind, giving to his chosen work the
incarnation of the soul of science
DR.. Robinson was cited as "humani-
tartan, effective administrator, medical
counselor, cogent champion and dis
eliminating friend, gifted to bring veri-
table reality from the ideal" and DR..
Chesney was cited physician of high
intellectual attainments, unmindful of
self. quietly and sincerely advancing the
science he represents"
The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. George L. Farnham.
Certificates and Degrees.
Certificates and degrees were awarded
as follows:
Certificates in Course.
Presentation by the dean Of the
Junior College of candidates for GER
tifcateS:
George Telfair Aldrige, Alice Regina
Anthem Helen Rose Arons, Harriet
johnson Atwell. Libby Lorraine Bern
IL Dol Dow
mend Bosch, jr.: Resale BorisoW. AL
fido Emanuel Briguglio, Bessie Buchan-
an. Richard Randolph Buckley, Anna
Margaret Burger, Jacob Ceppos. Betty
Mae Chaffetz, Rowna Chaffetz, Silas E.
Cliff. Henry William Cordova, Ada
Louise Cox, Charles L. Critchfield, Clara
Eta Critchf1eld, Joseph George DON
dero, Edward Hunter Donnel, jr.; Fred
erick Lee Downs, Raymond Francis
Duckworth, Anita BrNnet Dunlap, Syl-
via Edlavitch. Morris Epstein, Leon
Gerber, Linus Frances Gregory Govette,
Gertrude WEIGH Gray Frances Virginia
Hamill Clarence R. Hartman, Virginia
Friedlin Hawkins, Florence Hedges, Eve
lyn Blanche Hillerson, Alfred Boyd
Kinds. Alice Virginia Hughes, Helen
Hull Jones, Emma Kiethllne, Eleanore
Woodward King, Arthur D. Kriemel-
meyer, Helen NJ Lambert, Dorothy M.
Lauder, Christina Mcneil Leslie, Mar
garet Frances Luers, Leah Emily Mac
Arthur, William M. Mcintyre, Lawson
Morell Mckenzie, Caroline Lee Mcneil,
Elizabeth Middlemas, Aubrey T. Minor,
Helen Blanche Mitchell Edward Skot-
toWe Northrop, Mildred E. Omwake,
Beatrice Sylvia Oxenburg, Eunice Merle
Mozelle Painter, Catherine Margaret
Phelps, John Wilbert Poor, Margaret
jeanette Primm, Everett Eugene Rever-
comb, Antonio Gonzalez Revilla. Dor
othy Virginia Rock, Elizabeth Whiting
Rose, Mary Elizabeth Rose, Sylvia Inez
Solomon, Ruth Bertha Elise Schmidt
Elizabeth Sherier Jean Elizabeth Shull,
Victor Siegel, Dorothy Maude Smith,
William George Sorrell, Marianne Va
lerie Stamm. Frederic Charles Steven
son, Eliza Margaret Slough, Alfred John
Suraci, Frances Lorraine Thrasher,
George Tolstoi, Mary Lee Watkins, Ethel
Winifred Weltner, Gladys Louise Whit
ney. Blance Widome. Myrta Dutton wiz
liams, Sam Zola and Hilda Zwillinger.
Degrees in Course.
Presentation by the chairman Of Co.
lumbar College of candidates for de-
grees
Bachelor of arts-Nicholas Francis
Alfano, Eva Leona Alley, Eleanor Smith
Anderson, William Dudley Aud, Mar
jorie Bacon, William Howard Ball, John
Cornelius Ballard, Elizabeth Anna