Evening star., 1935-06-06
685 GRADUATED
IN RITES At c. v.
J. Edgar Hoover and Prof.
w. A. Wilbur Among Those
Receiving Honors.

With academic pomp and Solemnity,
George Washington University grad
uated 685 students last night in its
Hath annual commencement, which
filled to capacity spacious Constitution
Hall.
Outstanding in the impressive cere-
mony was the honor done three men
two of them illuStriouS alumni and
the other an educator who has given
most of his life to the university S
service
On William Allen Wilbur, professor
of English and provost of the univer-
sity, who has completed 40 years at
George Washington, was conferred
the status of professor emeritus by
President Cloyd Heck Marvin, amid
the prolonged acclaim of the audience.
Prof. Wilbur delivered the commence
ment address.
Hoover Gets Degree.
In recognition of his work as direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau of 1nvestl-
CATION, ]. Edgar Hoover received the
honorary degree of doctor of laws.
The honorary degree OF doctor OF
humane letters was given to Rev
David Ransom Covell. Episcopal
clergyman. who has won recognition
for his field missionary work. Rev
Mr.. Covell formerly was rector of old
Trinity Church here and now Is sta
toned in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Each of the recipients of honorary
degrees was presented by a trustee
Mr.. Hoover by Dr. Charles Riborg
Mann and Mr.. Covell by Mrs. Jessie
FAINT Evans.
The procession of faculty and grad
yates presented a colorful picture as
1t filed into the large hall, with the
vivid academic colors enlivening the
somber blackneSs of cap and gown
When the exercises were done, Presi-
dent Marvin delivered his charge to
the graduates. He said:
Members of the graduating class
of 1885: As l remand you TO service
and commend today to you, l would
have you make a part OF your lives
five words-thoughtfulne perseVer-
ance, courage. charity, faith. Through
these concepts is to DO found reality
In them is your endowment. May the
Lord God of Hosts bless you"
Quietness Key to Success.
Prof. Wilbur spoke of quietneSS as
the key to academic success.
More work in education should be
done within the portals of quietness,
he said.
He told the graduates that in his
40 years of teaching he had received
more than he had given.
The heart is the prime factor in
teaching because the heart is the
prime factor in life" he declared.
The exercises began with the pro-
cession into the hall. announcement
of the convocation by Elmer KaySer,
marshal of the university, and invoca-
ton by Rev. DR.. Frederic w. Perkins,
pastor of the Universalist National
Memorial Church. Presentation OF
DR.. Wilbur and the commencement
address followed Then came the
comforting of certificates and degrees
with the head of each college, school
or division presenting his candidates
to DR.. Marvin, who presented each his
diploma or certificate.
The Star Spangied Banner" bene-
diction and the recesSional brought
the ceremony to close.
Seven Get Phi. d. Degree.
Seven degrees of doctor of phil
osophy were conferred. The recipients
and their thesis were John Andrew
Aman, The Principles of Federal
Quarantine Administration Arthur
Edward Burns. The Economic Sig
nificance of Relief; Helen Marie
Over, Some Studies of the Physio-
logical Significance of HomocyStine"
Walter Herbert Gaumnitz, The Gen.
trail Rural School District; a Salts
factory Unit Of School Adminlstra
ton; Newell Emanuel Good, THE
Flour Beetles of the Genus Tri-
bolium";; Robert Harris Sifferd, "The
Synthesis of Carnosine and Some
Studies on Its Physiological Be-
havior," and Everett Elmer Wehr, "A
Monograph of the Fflarioidea and
Dracunculoidea CNematoda) of Birds. ="
William Albert Earl Wright was
made a doctor of education for his
studies and thesis, "A Personal Study
of the Faculties of the Pennsylvania
State Teachers College"
The other graduates were:
Junior College.
rtifcates-Richard Sumner Al
bee. Kent Duvall Algire, Dewitt c,
Allen. jr.: Horton Sumner Allen. jr.;;
Daniel Johannas Andersen. Anna
Thurman Baker, Julia Ford Banks,
Guy M. Bayes. Robert William Beatty,
Richard Olof Been, Allen Bennett,
Norman Bernheimer, Judith Vance
Birge, Katherine Elizabeth Black,
Ruth Theresa Blond. William Elton
Bohall, George Ray Boyd, jr.; Dor
othy May Buck, E. ZabriSkie Buck,
Dorothy Frances Burch, Edmund
Cody Burnett, jr.; Ellen Consuelo
Capo-Rodriquez, Charlotte Esther
Carliner, Jane Caskey, Raymond
Franklin Chinn, Wilbur Stanley
Clabaugh, Alan B. Clark. Margaret
Heck Clark, Ernest Taylor Coleman,
Edward Raymond Coombes, Alice
Elsbeth Corridor, William Benjamin
Covey, Albert George Crosetto, Will
liam Aglionby Daniel. jr.; Eleanor
Nourse Darby. Mary Margaret Davis
Helen Marjorie Dengler, Joseph H
Dali, Paul FREDERICK Dickens, jr.;
Jane Sedgwick Duvall. AL Dworsky
Lucy Beale Eastman, Edith Rita Ed
wards, Guy Erwin. jr.; Helen Louise
Fischer. Lucy Frank, Joseph Mar
shall Friedman, Sam Futrovsky
Margaret Cecilia Gauvreau, Anne Gel
fand, Julia Elizabeth Gemmill, Har-
old Gerber, Frank Eugene Gibson, jr.;
Augustus R. Glasgow, jr.; Joseph
Bernard Goldman, Jennie Millicent
Gordon, Margaret Elizabeth Graves
Besse Mccullough Greene, Theda
Hagenah, Harry Irving Hais, Robert
Barrow Hankins, Davis Philoon Hard
ing, Mildred Haves, Julius Jay Hol-
lander, Charles Randolph Hughes, jr.
Philip S. Trey, Dorothy Steinle Jaeger
Henry Louis Jameson, jr.; Darrell
Simmons Johnson, Selmer Roy John
son, Julius Kaufman, John Tryone
Kelly, Lorraine LeBon King, Morris
Edward Krucoff, Gustav Otto Kruger
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