Evening star., 1934-06-07
MEDICAL EXPERTS
H0NORED BY c. i.
Maj. Edgar E. Hume and DR..
Raymond P. Sullivan to
Get Degrees.

An Army Medical Corps officer,
Maj Edgar ErSkine Hume OF Wash
ington, whose record of scientific,
academic and military honors has
been equaled by few persons in the
service, will receive an honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws from George
town University at its l35th annual
commencement June IL.
President Coleman Nevis. S. j.,
also will confer a similar degree upon
a prominent New York surgeon, DR..
Raymond P. Sullivan, who likewise
had a distinguished record in the
medical service during the World
War. DR.. Sullivan was chief of the
division of surgery, being responsible
for organizing the surgical staffS of
all American Army hospitals in this
country and the A. E. F.
Only Two Recipients.
These two men will be the only re-
cipients of academic honors at the
commencement exercises. at which
Raymond H. Reiss of New York, a
Georgetown regent, will address
about 500 graduates. For the first
time, the program will be held at
night.
Maj. Hume is librarian of the Army
Medical Library. said to be the most
valuable medical collection in the
world. He was appointed two years
ago after serving in many important
medical positions since the war. He
is As years old and a native OF
Kentucky.
Mai. Hume has received honors
from more than 80 countries and
academic degrees and awards from
some Is American and foreign uni
versities; fellowships in seven leading
scientific societies and several special
honors for aid in earthquakes and
scourges. One of his most priced
awards is the Hoff Memorial Gold
Medal of 1917 as the honor graduate
Of the Army Medical School.
Headed List of 500.
Mai. Hume was commissioned in
the Army in 1916 from the Johns
Hopkins Hospital staff, after serving
as chief medical officer of the
American Relief Expedition after the
Italian earthquake of 1915. In his
Army entrance examination he stood
first among 300 applicants.
During the war he commanded
base hospitals with the American.
British and other forces; was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal and
the Silver Star for bravery in action
with the Italian army in the battle
Scl, he &c
wounded
His military awards include the
French Legion of Honor, the Italian,
French. Greek, CZechoSlovak, Polish
and Rumanian CroiX de Guerre; the
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
of Italy. and other decorations from
Great Britain, Belgium, Yugoslavia,
Russia, Spain, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru,
Lithuania. Colombia, Norway, Es-
thonia, Hungary, The Netherlands.
Serbia. Poland Greece. Portugal.
Montenegro and Panama. He was
the only foreigner to receive the
Italian Earthquake Medal.
Aided Catholic Hospitals.
DR.. Sullivan has been a leader in
the surgical profession for many years
and also has done much to aid
Catholic hospitals in New York and
Brooklyn. He is graduate of Man
haitian College and Columbia Uni
versity and holds the LII. D. degree
from Holy Cross College and Man
haitian. He took his postgraduate
course in medicine at the Mayo
Clinic.
He rose to the rank of lieutenant
colonel during the war and is now in
the Medical Reserves He also was
member of the medical section of
the Council of National Defense, be-
sides being head of surgery in the
Army. He was made a chevalier of
the Order of the Crown of Italy
DR.. Sullivan is a governor of the
American College Of Surgeons, the
American Medical Association, South
ern Surgical Society; president of the
Mayo Clinic Alumni and an officer in
various New York medical groups. He
is also on the staffs of half a dozen
hospitals and has written extensively
on medical subjects.
A son. Raymond P, jr., is in the
graduating class at Georgetown. and
another son, John, was graduated last
year.