Evening star., 1933-04-02
Schools and Colleges
Events of Interesting Student and Faculty
Activities IN Washington $ Leading
Educational Institutions.
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| ballots have been issued by the
Executive Committee of the Gener.
al Alumni Association for the
nomination of alumni trustees of the
George Washington University. Alumni
Of the university are represented on the
board by six trustees nominated from
among their own number. Two alumni
trustees are elected each year for three
year terms.
The six alumni whose names appear
on the 1888 nominating ballot are:
Senator Bennett Champ Clark. IL. B.,
1914, from Missouri; George Edgar
Fleming, LII. B., 1859, LII. M, 1890, vice
president and assistant trust oflcer,
Union Trust Co., and an alumni trustee
since 1882; Adolf A Hoehling, IL. B.,
1889, Ill. NJ, 1890, LII. D., 1882, vice
president and general counsel, National
Metropolitan Bank, and formerly asso-
ciate justice Of the Supreme Court OF
the District Of Columbia; j. Edgar
Hoover, LII. B.. 1916, LII. NJ. 1917,
director of the United States Bureau OF
Investigation; Luther Halsey Reichei-
derfer, M. D., 1889, LII. D., 1882, presi..
dent of the Board OF Commissioners OF
the District of Columbia, and Paul
Edgar Shorb, LII. B.. 1920, member of
the law firm of Covington, Burling &
Rublee.
A final ballot, carrying the names OF
the four nominees who receive the
highest number Of votes on the NOM
mating ballot. will be issued on May /.
President Cloyd Heck Marvin LETT
washington on Tuesday for LARAMIE,
Wyo.. to meet with the board of trustees
of the University Of Wyoming to discuss
a recent survey of that institution made
by a committee appointed by the Car
negic Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, of which he is chairman.
The other members of the Survey Com
mittee are DR.. Samuel Paul Capen,
president of the University OF Buffalo,
and Dr. Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie
Foundation.
Signal recognition came last week to
one of the members OF the university
faculty with the announcement OF the
award to DR.. Lowell Joseph Ragatz,
associate professor of history. of Gug-
genheim fellowship for the year 1933-34.
DR.. Ragatz will spend the year in Eu-
rope completing research into economic
and social conditions of the French
Caribbean colonies during the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries.
Two graduates OF the university were
mentioned this week for public ofdce.
Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, IL. B.,
1908, is being urged for the post Of
Ambassador to Italy, and Eta Taggart,
Washington attorney and a member of
the law class Of 1921, Is receiving the
Endorsement of various civic and pro-
fessional groups for the post Of Juvenile
Court Judge.
At the meeting of Columbian Women,
to be held Tuesday at o'clock in fel-
lowship hall of the Western Presby-
terian Church, President Marvin will
show his deep-sea motion pictures.
These pictures are the first natural
color motion pictures Of life under the
sea ever secured. They were taken two
Summers ago on an expedition which
DR.. Marvin made to the West Indies in
company with DR.. Paul BartSch, head
of the zoology department of the uni
versity and curator of mollusks of the
National Museum. They were given
their first public showing at the annual
meeting Of the American Neurological
Union last June.