Evening star., 1933-03-19
DIPLOMAT, DOCTOR
WIN G. u. H0N0RS
Dr.. Leonide Pitamic and DR..
William H. Wilmer to
Get Awards.


Leonide Pitamic Minister of Yugoslavia.
and a distinguished American medical
scientist DR.. William Holland Wilmer,
formerly Of Washington, now head OF
the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins
Hospital are to receive high academic
honors from Georgetown University
next Saturday evening at its annual
Founders day celebration.
The comforting of honors in philos-
ophy and science, respectively, on these
two men, it was believed by DR.. Cole
man Nevils, S. j., president, will be
gratifying to all Georgetown alumni,
for each has rendered conspicuous
service to the university.
Dr. Wilmer was professor OF ophthal-
mology for 10 years on the faculty of
the Georgetown School of Medicine be-
fore he gave up his residence and prac-
tice of nearly 40 years in the National
Capital. Georgetown University only
partially acknowledged its Indebtedness
to his able service and advisory CO.
operation President Nevils felt, by
making him an honorary doctor of laws
in 1919.
Lectured at School.
The Minister Of YugoSlavia, on the
other hand has been in close relations
to the School of Foreign Service dur
ing the four years he has been sta
toned in Washington. His lectures on
Motions of the State" delivered at
the school, won him wide recognition
in diplomatic and international legal
circles.
The honors of the Camillus Mazzella
Academy of Philosophy will be be-
slowed upon DR.. Pitamic. Similar
honors of the Angelo Secchi Academy
of Science will be received by DR.. Will
mer These will be conferred at a
ceremony in CASTOR Hall at $50
O'Clock. Associates of both men and
prominent alumni have been invited.
Immediately after the ceremony the
president and directors of the university
will receive in the Carroll parlor in
honor Of the Minister and DR.. and
Mrs Wilmer.
The two honorary academies are
among the six proclaimed at George
town by a decree in 1929 in commemo-
ration of Founders day. Honors in
the other four academies, all named
after prominent teachers and alumni.
were conferred on succeeding occasions.
Practiced Here Many Years.
DR.. Wilmer, who has gained inter-
national fame as an ophthalmologiSt
practiced in Washington from 1889 to
1925. when he left to head the espe-
cially endowed institute which bears
his name at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
There he has carried on his work In
ophthalmology. His services on the
Georgetown faculty. where he demon
strated great ability as teacher, be-
gan in 1906. He also was on the staff
of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat
O in a h oufO nd &c trrIS Stnn
OF the National Cathedral Foundation.
He was educated at the Episcopal
High School in Alexandria, Va, re-
ceived his medical degree from the
University of Virginia and studied at
New York Polytechnic and European
hospitals. Princeton made him doc
tor of science in 1926. An ex-presi-
dent of the American Ophthalmological
Society, DR., Wilmer belongs to many
of the leading scientific groups in the
United States and Europe.
The American Government awarded
him the Distinguished Service Medal
and France admitted him to the Legion
of Honor for medical services rendered
with the A. E. F. during the war.
Honored by Pope.
DR.. Pitamic. a Slovene. is one of the
most accomplished scholars among the
diplomats in Washington. He was edu-
Gated at the celebrated school for mobiles
in Vienna, the Teresianum, founded by
the Empress of Austria. Maria Theresa
He later obtained his philosophy degree
from the University of Vienna. Upon
the founding of university in Ljubl-
jana, the capital Of his native Slovenia,
in 1919. he became professor of inter-
national and constitutional law Later
he was made rector of the university
Two years ago Pope Plus XI honored
DR.. Pitamic by making him knight
commander of the Order of St. Gregory
the Great. This was for recovering a
precious relic stolen from a cathedral
in Yugoslavia, where it had been treas
ured for 500 years. DR.. Pitamic finally
traced 1t to this country
He was an expert at the Paris Peace
Conference, delegate in 1927 to the
League of Nations and was made a
member of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at The Hague. In 1929 he
wrote his famous work on The State"
supplementing this by his lectures at
Georgetown and has just recently pub
rished in English a treatise on The