Evening star., 1933-06-10
|24 GET DEGREES
FROM HOWARD j.
Graduates Urged, to "VieW
With Increasing Pride Their
Diverse Heritage"

| conferred 254 degrees and AWARDED "a
! commissions in the Reserve Corps of
| the Army at its sixty-fourth annual
| commencement in the university sta
dium
During the exercises, Edwin r. En-
| bree. president of the Julius Rosenwald
Fund, urged the graduates to view
with increasing pride" their diverse
heritage-"the culture Of the East and
Of the West"
The West, DR.. Embree declared, has
contributed mechanical advance which
constitute "a means toward fuller liv-
ing" The use of the highly developed
tools, he said, "have transformed the
world to the end that any real lack of
food, clothing and shelter. and the
necessities of life, result from no lack
of abundance, but because of repudla-
ton of the control Of nature which
science and mechanics have given u.s.
Cites Philosophy of East.
The East, he continued, developed
philosophy of life which, despite the
drudging lab,r that results from lack
of scientifically developed tools. entails
IAN astonishing amount of enjoyment
and expression day by day" He said
that in his travels through the Orient,
the South Seas and in Africa. he found
that even the humblest peasants have
creation than the average worker in
Europe or North America"
Reminding the graduates of Howard
University. the outstanding institution
of higher learning for colored people,
Of their ancestry, DR.. Embree urged
them to have increasing pride in their
heritage and to acquaint themselves
with the special glories CT Africa and
the East, capitalizirg their differences
from the strictly Western pattern
Honorary Degrees Conferred.
The honorary degree of doctor of
rison Willard of New York. In pre-
senting the hcnor to Mr. Willard. DR..
Mordecai w. Johnson, president of
Howard, paid tribute to his advocacy of
just and helpful treatment to men and
women whatever their race. Mr.. Viii
lard is grandson of William Lloyd
Garrison, "one of the first, ablest and
noblest of those who detested slavery
and to whose efforts in behalf Of the
colored race as free men and women
this institution is dedicated"
Music was provided by the Howard
University Orchestra under direction of
Louis Vaughn Jones, and by the Musi-
cal Arts Society. The invocation was
offered by Rev. Edward o. Clark Of
the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, and
the benediction was pronounced by
Rev William o. Darlington of the
John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church.
Degrees were conferred as follows:
College of Liberal Arts.
Bachelor of arts, Magma Cum Laude
Ruth Ernestine Washington: bach
elor of arts, Cum Laude-Bostic j.
Franklin, Geneva Howard and Alethia
T. Smith
Bachelor of arts-Alfred Percival
Brent, Percy B. Brinkley. George o.
Butler, William Edward Cheyney, Frank
Greene Davis, Samuel Stanhope Dod-
sebe Silas Fletcher, Elizabeth Estelle
Fry, Sylvester Raymond Hall, Mae Iris
Davis Hopkins. Charles c. Jacobs, Mil
ton Longfellow Lashley, Hattie Chris
tine Lawrence, Joseph Lawson, India
King Lee, Leslie Dallas McClennon,
Mabel Amelia Madden, Frank Curle
Montero, William F. Moorhead, George
Cranston Morris, Josephine Golden
Mortcn. Ellsworth James Parker, Eliza
Mae Petten, Walter Harrison Payton,
jr.; Eugene Robertson, Leandre Valen-
tine Roberts, Silas Franklin Shelton,
ir.; Bruce N. Smith, Mauretta Ver-
onica Smith, Howard Alphonse Spriggs,
Manuel Terrell, Samuel Wilbert Tucker,
Walter Eugene Wiley, Dwight Hills
Wilson, Allan LeVaughn Woolridge and
Violet Audrey Wright.
Bachelor of science, Cum Laude-
Marie Louise Moss.
Bachelor of Science-Raymond HeZe-
kiah Baker, Donald Golden Brandon,
Alma Janice Brent, Herman r. Coote
Ruth Norris Edwards, John v. Gold
ing. Arthur A. Gray, John r. Hall, jr.:
Benoit c. Isaac. Cleopatra F. Warren
Kee, Peter Carlisle Kelly, jr; Benson
Doyle Mitchell, Eulalie Marguerite
Mitchell, Matthew Mitchell, George P
Schanck, william Bert Settle, Walter
J. Leopold Simpson.
Bachelor Of science in commerce
Magma Cum Laude-Rietta May Hines
Bachelor of science in commerce
John Cattell Claytor Josephine Caro-
lvne Davis, Francis Irving Green. Virgil
H. Lucas, Richard Washington Vaughn
College Of Education.
Bachelor of arts in education, summa
cum laude-Charles Sumner Lotion;
bachelor Of arts in education, magma
cum laude, Valerie Ethelyn Parks;
bachelor of arts in education. cum
laude-Aileen N. Diggs, James Edward
nard Hamilton Nelson, Mary Lorraine
Robbins. Hattie Lee Upshaw.
Bachelor of arts in education-Ros-
ina B. Lacy Adams, Alonzo James
Alden. Louise Cornish Albert, Louise
Paulette Alexander Daisy Beatrice Al
len, Daniel James Bailey, Edgar r.
Beanum. Vivian Kern Blackburn, Mar
tha Rowena Began. Mary Virginia
Brawner, Maude Evelyn Brown, Bea-
trice Bowen Butcher, Nellie Louise
Butcher, Clara Tarqueenia Chase, Mel
ka Alexander Chase, Zelmera Church,
Make Casalene Cooper, Lillyan Edwina
Crichlow. Gladys Duncan Cunningham
Raymond Ambrose Diggs, Emily Nc
Call Dyson, Helen Rebecca Eagles
Grace Louise Evans. Marion Elizabeth
Ferebee. Una Jackson Fletcher. Edith
Mary Flynn Edna Georgia Gather,
Dorothy Evelyn Greene, Evelyn Golden
Hammond. George Iisman Handy
Aileen Priscilla Harris, John Henry
Harris, Maude Lomax Harris, Margaret
Elizabeth Headen, Helena Bickford
Holland, Robert N. Hough, Clyde Evans
Howard, Dorothy Audrey Howard Ev-
elyn l.. Hunton, Gladys Beryl Isaacs
Anna M. jackson. Thelnla Lucille jar
mon. Kate Andrus jenkins. Clarence
Oonnelly Johnson. Ellen PEBBLES john
son, James r. johnson. ir.; Elsie Cabell
Jones, Evelyn Virginia Jones, Julia
Esther Jones, Ernestine Lamb. Frank
Pepper Laney, jr Gladys Evelyn Maui
din, Etelka McGaha, John Walter Nc
Koy, Ruth E. Moses, Edwin Constan-
tine Myers. Rosa Stokes Netherland.
COrdell Lee Norman, Evelyn Frances
Overton. Phyllis Ann Parker. Adela
Gertrude Parks. Virginia Straine Pc
ters, Thelma Gertrude Preyer. Royal
Wendell Puryear, Esther Elouise Rob-
insOn. Florence Mary Shocklyn, Hultt
l.. Scott Miriam Hannah Shields. Bea
trice May Simms. Anita II. Smith, Le-
ona Dodson Smith. Frances v. Taylor,
| Geraldine Thomas, Matte Jonathan
Thurston. Florence Downing Trower,