Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
Georgetown to Graduate 5O7
First Time in Night Setting
Ten Local Students Distinguished in
List of Those to Receive Degrees This
Euening-Ne,o Yorker to Speak.


135th annual commencement exer-
cises tonight at o'clock in the color
full setting of the Hilltop campus
when DR. Coleman Nevils. s. j.. presi-
dent, will confer academic degrees
upon 5o7 seniors in all departments
and schools. Raymond H. Reiss, New
York alumnus of the class of 1919
and a regent of the university. will
deliver the address to the graduating
class.
It is departure from the tradi-
tional custom of Georgetown to con-
duct its commencement program In
the evening. Graduates and men,
bers of the faculty will be seated on
the wide esplanade Of the White
Gravenor Building, constructed espe-
cially for commencement occasions.
Special flood lighting has been in
stalled and the several thousands ex-
pected to attend the exercises will
be accommodated on that part Of the
campus which was formerly the old
foot ball field. In the event of rain,
be held in Constitution Hall.
Only two honorary degrees of doc
tor of laws will be conferred by the
university. The recipients are men
who have distinguished themselves in
the medical profession both in war
and peace time. They are Maj. Edgar
Erskine Hume. Army Medical Corps.
who is now librarian of the Army
Medical Library. and DR.. Raymond p.
Hume, New York surgeon. who or
ganized the surgical STATS of all
Army hospitals In the United States
and the A. E. F. during the war.
Mai. Hume has academic and hon.
orary degrees from Is universities and
has been decorated for medical and
scientific services by 30 or more
foreign governments and the United
States.
One a Presidents Son.
Among the graduates is the son
of President Sacasa Of Nicaragua.
Carlos F. Sacasa, who is receiving a
doctor Of medicine degree. His
mother recently arrived here to at
tend his graduation.
The commencement program cul-
inmates three days of activities. fea-
tured last night by the awarding OF
academic medals, prizes and scholar
ships to over a score of honor stu
dents, including 10 from Washington
and its vicinity DIR. Edmund A.
Walsh, s. j., vice president of George
town and regent Of the Foreign Serv-
ice School, presided and addressed
the student body.
Prominent among the Washington
students we're three who led scholas-
tically in their respective departments
and the others all received high aca-
demic honors. Hugh H. Hussey. IT.,
being the first student to graduate
from the School Of Medicine magma
cum laude in its entire existence OF
80 years. He also was awarded last
night the Kober Medal for excellency
in hygiene, the only award Of the
medical school. Aaron Goldman,
Central High School graduate, was
the honor student of the School Of
Foreign Service, completing q AVE-
year course in four years and receiv-
ing also two awards. One was the
Delta Sigma Pi Gold Scholarship Key
awarded him as the student who at
tanned the highest scholarship through
out the entire course at the school.
His other award was the Jean Labat
Gold Medal for distinction in the
study Of the French language and
culture.
In the School of Law, Walter H. Z.
Jaeger of Washington was the honor
man In the graduate course. For this
he received the Thomas Bradbury
Chetwood Medal. Another Washing
ton student, Aloysius Philip Kane,
graduate Of the college, was given
honorable mention as the next best
student in graduate studies. Mr..
Kane also received a $40 faculty prize
for the best thesis submitted in the
graduate course. 1t happened that
Mr. Jaeger was awarded honorable
mention in this same contest.
Another Distinguished.
Another law student who particu-
larry distinguished himself was Francis
Carroll Nash of Rochester. N. Y. who
obtained the Francis E. Lucey Medal
for maintaining the highest general
average in studies during the entire
course in the undergraduate depart
ment. He also received the $40 facul-
ty prize for the highest average in
studies for the year in senior morn
ing classes.
A Washington student In the Col
lege Of Arts and Sciences, Jerome J.
Downey. is one of the few who gradu-
ate cum laude. He was awarded the |
Brennan Gold Medal for the highest |
rating In oral examinations on selected |
subjects from Doyle's Defense Of the |
Catholic Church" and Chetwood's |
God and Creation" Mr.. Downey |
also was the winner of one of the two |
free scholarships offered by the col
lege as a result ot.jthe Bellarmine