Evening star., 1935-06-09

btrayer College Will suspend all class
sessions Tuesday.
A delegation from the college will
install the Beta Chapter of Phi Gam
ma Alpha, national accounting fra
ternity, at Banks College in Pililadel-
phia Saturday. Percy E. Sackett, ma
tional president Of the fraternity and
registrar at Strayer, will head the
group. He will be assisted by Dean
E. G. Purvis, national secretary
treasurer; John Coughlin, president
of the Alpha Chapter at Strayer's,
and c. Vaughan Darby and T. w.
Wsuchope of the Strayer faculty.
Final examinations in the evening
sessions Of the accounting department
were held last week. but according to
Dean Purvis, the finals for the day
sessions will not be held until the week
of July 8.
King Guest Of W. C. L.
THE thirty-seventh annual COM
mencement Of Washington College
Of Law will be held next Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock in D. A. r. Me-
mortal Continental Hall. Senator
William H. King will deliver the ad-
dress TO the graduating class.
Following the address Of Senator
King. Dean Grace Hays Riley will pre-
sent the diplomas to the SIS candidates
for the degree of Bachelor of Laws and
to the four candidates for the degree
OF Master Of Patent Law. DR.. Edwin
c. Dutton. president Of the board Of
trustees. will present diplomas to the
six candidates for the degree of Master
Of Laws. Prizes and scholarships for
outstanding excellence in scholastic
work will be awarded by John z.
Laskey Of the board of trustees.
The baccalaureate sermon will he
delivered tonight at 8 o'clock at All
Saints Episcopal Church by Rev
Henry Teller Cooke. pastor.
A rehearsal for commencement will
be held tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock.
Robert c. Tracy, '13, secretary to the
United States Board of Tax Appeals,
is chairman Of the Reception Com
mittee and master of ceremonies.
Other members of the Reception Com
mittee are the officers OF the Junior
class: Duke H. Blackwelder. presi-
dent: Johnabelle P Beaton, vice presI-
dent; Marie r. Murray, secretary;
Augustus D. Vanech. treasurer; John
A. Clark, sergeant at arms, and Will
liam j. Armstrong. E. Nina Brown
and Ellis S. Stone. Executive Commit
tee. Ushers will be Florence M. Brill,
Eleanor L. Meyer. Kathryn Lawlor,
Mary Sabra Hunt, Alice G. Hirsch,
May Conley. Edith M Kloeber, Helen
L. Kosaveach, John V. Hughes, Will
liam T. Lowry, Charles H. Burton,
Harold r. Sanderson. Henry Wood, Sd:
Donald F. Blake. John j. Moriarty and
Clarence E. Horton.
DIR. Gray Leaves This Week.
DR. JOSEPH M. NJ. GRAY. chan
- cellor OF American University, will
leave this week for Nebraska Wesleyan
University where he will deliver a
series Of addresses as visiting lecturer.
In addition to the baccalaureate ad-
dress to graduates Of American Uni
versity. DR.. Gray delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon this year at
Shepherd State Teachers College,
Shepherdstown, w. Va, and the
commencement addresses at Union
College. Barbourville. KY; Morgan
College at Baltimore. and National
Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md.
w. Yule Fisher OF the class Of 1882,
has been elected the first president
of the new District of Columbia
Chapter of the American University
Alumni Association. Other officers
elected we're Lois Spencer, vice presi-
dent: Mrs Ruth Rinkle Spaeth, secre-
tary, and John Williams. treasurer.
Mrs. J. Linn Harris Of Lock Haven,
Pa. has presented the university with
saddle bags used by her father, the
late Rev. John Beaver Polsgrove,
who served for IA years as field agent
for American University.
DR.. Coleman o. Parsons. instructor
in English. has been awarded a one
year International Research Fellow
ship to the Henry z. Huntingdon
Library in San Marino, Calf, In
order to complete study on George
Colman.