Evening star., 1934-06-03
|CALVERT HERITAGE.
j|S R|TCH|E THEME.
Governor Speaks at Mary
land University Gradua-
ton Exercises.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.

| BY staff Correspondent OF The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, June q
Civil and religious liberties. as estab-
lished by the Calvert colonists are
the priceless heritage" which Mary
landers have enjoyed for three GEN.
turies and should seek to preserve for
posterity, Gov. Ritchie told the gradu-
ating class of the University Of Mary
land this afternoon.
| In a commencement address keyed
to the tercentenary theme, the Cover
nor declared Lord Baltimore earned
| for Maryland the name Cradle OF
Civic and Religious Liberty" by giving
| the people ''an advancement in
democratic government over anything
known before"
More than 5000 persons jammed
the huge Ritchie Coliseum to see the
| TOO graduates receive their diplomas
and witness the awarding of two
honorary degrees.
DR.. Raymond A. Pearson, president
Of the university. who conferred the
degrees, diplomas. military commits
sions and certificates Of merit, de-
plored the failure of mankind to de-
velop morally as rapidly as it has
scientifically.
Basic MoIders Undermined.
In recent years. he said, there has
actually been a backward swing be-
cause the basic molders Of character
a generation ago, the home, the
church and the school, have been
undermined by certain types" of
radio programs and movies.
He called upon the graduates to
take the lead in teaching the import
ance of spiritual values. first by ex-
ample and then, as the opportunity
arises, by precept in the home, the
church and the school.
DR.. Edward Starr Judd Of the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Mimi, one of the
outstanding surgeons in America, was
given the honorary degree Of doctor
Of sciences. The honorary degree Of
doctor Of letters was awarded Dr.
Joseph L. Wheeler. librarian of the
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore.
Certificates Of merit in agriculture
were presented to William H. Cum
ningham OF Washington County,
Henry c. Whiteford of Hartford Coun-
ty and Joseph S. Merritt Of Baltimore
Georgetown Head Opens Exercises.
| President Coleman Nevis Of George
town University opened the exercises
with an invocation. Rev. John j.
Bunting OF Crisfield pronounced the
benediction. The university orchestra
furnished music during the program.
J. Enos Ray. chairman of the
Maryland Democratic State Central
Committee, who graduated In 1892,
was elected president of the alumni
association at a dinner meeting after
the graduation exercises.
DR.. T. B. Symons of the class Of
1902, now director of the university's
extension service, was chosen vice
president, with George F. Pollock as
Secretary-treasurer.
Frank S. Hoffecher, Maj. o. H.
Saunders, Miss Minnie Hill and Miss
josephine Blandford were elected to
the alumni board.
The association voted to join the
1884 graduating class in purchasing
memorial flag pole to be erected on
the campus.
The list Of graduates follows:
College Of Agriculture-B. S.
Maryland-Edward Wilson Aud. jr.;
Spencer Bliss Chase, John Evans
Clark. Garnet Edward Davis, Vernon
Thomas Doyle, Charolette Rebecca
Ensor, Benjamin H. Evans, Lloyd
Randolph Eyler. Bernard Francis
Havlick, John Kenneth Hutchins,
Beatrice Young Jarrett, Arthur Lohr-
mann, Gerald Robert Pielke, Ralph
Walker Ruble, Edward William Reed,
Josiah Shepard, Robert Glenn Snyder.
Elmer Eugene Thomas. jr.; Rufus
Henry Vincent, Richard Osmond
White.
District of Columbia-Erwin Petty
Beardsley. Frank Edward Blood, Paul
Joseph Bush, John Cotton, Ralph
Donald Reed. Francis Patterson Wells
and Richard Osmond White.
New Jersey-Walter Hill Lappen, jr.
Virginia-Cornelius Barrett Shear
Degrees conferred since last COM
mencement: Bachelor of science
William Henry Dunbar, New York.
Honorable mention: First honors-
Garnet Edward Davis, Ralph Walker
Ruble and Francis Patterson Wells.
! Second honors-Paul Joseph Bush,
, Robert Glenn Snyder and Cornelius
Barrett Shear.
Arts and SciencesB. S.
| Maryland-John Robert Adams, jr:;
Charles Peter Asimakes, Hayward
Russell Baker. Clara Barenburg, Alma
Blandford, Joseph Adrian Butt, D.
Delmas Caples, Stuart Gray Cough
Ian, Richard Henry Dement,, jr.;;
Elizabeth Virginia Ehle. Emanuel
Simon Ellison. William Appler Horne,
Frank L. Howard, Wayne Dale Irwin,
Edgar Robert Kent, Charles Edward
Lewis, Rhoda Lewton, Louis Littman.
William Broughton Long. jr.; Frank
Vincent Mauieri, Kathryn Margaret
MatZen. Donald Arthur Murray, Law
renee Joseph Powers. Leo Rosenberg,
Isabella S. Sept, Abraham Shapiro,
Samuel Leonard Sibler, Lois M. Stein
wedel, Julius M. Waghelstein.
District of Columbia-Donald White
head Chapel, Myra Elizabeth Lewis,
Clifton Eugene Swift and Llewellyn
Hopkins Welsh.
nnecticut-Leonard Warren Le-
vine and Sydney Cuwalsky.
New Jersey-Milton G. Abarbanel
Otto George Matheke, jr., and Bern
hardt Joseph Statman.
New York-Milton J. Meyer. Man.
ME Stapen and Henry Wolf Weiss.
Pennsylvania - Stanley Kazin1ier
Skrzpkowski.
Arts and Sciences-B. A.
| Maryland-Helen Mary Bradley,
Stuart johnson Burbage, Margaret
Murray Burdette, Elizabeth Strobe
Cain, Harry D. G. Carroll, Annie Re
becca Coffey, Stewart Albert Collins,
Harry Edgar Dyer, jr.; Mary Tennes-
see Franklin, Loring Earl Gingell,
Dorothy Griffith, Herbert David Ham,
burger, Mary Virginia Hoffman, Jane
Maynard Hoist, Charlotte Warfield
Hood, Emily E. Klingel, Doughlas
Roscoe Knox, John Harold McWil-
liams, Mary Elizabeth Mills, Harold
Edward Naughton, Frederick Albert
Nordenholz, Nathan Pashen, Thomas
Harry Penn, jr.; William Bernard