Evening star., 1935-02-17
7OO ATTEND CITY
BANKERS BANQUET
Hecht and EIIery Are Guests,
With Representative Lee
Main Speaker.


Institute of Banking, including many
Government officials and leading
bankers in the East, attended the
ORGANIZATIONS thirtieth annual BAN
ouet at the Willard Hotel last night
The attendance was the largest i'll
several years.
Rudolf S. Hecht, president Of the
American Bankers Association, was
an honor guest, as was Charles F..
Ellery, national president of the bank
ing institute. Hecht spoke briefly,
bringing the greetings Of the parent
association.
Ellery announced the establishment
of a Graduate School of Banking to
be conducted at Rutgers University
and open to bank officers all over the
United States. Bankers, lawyers and
educators will make up the faculty.
The students will be institute gradu-
ates. If the plan works well at Rut-
gers, similar courses will be offered
in other colleges and a course for
woman bank officials will be added.
Lee Main Speaker.
Representative Lee Of Oklahoma was
the principal speaker. A former edu-
Gator and lecturer, he stressed the
Importance of special educational ef-
forts among junior bankers.
Walten L. Sanderson. head Of
Washington chapter, presided. Dur
ing the banquet gold watch and
chain was presented to Robert H
Lacey, cashier of the Columbia Ma
tional Bank, in appreciation of his
work as president of the chapter
last year.
Among the guests at the speakers
table were Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen. J. Thilman Hendrick. Richard
w. Hill, Jesse H. Jones, E. E. Mount
Joy. Daniel C. Roper, Frederick P. II.
Siddons, Rev. Henry j. Whiting. men,
bers of the institute faculty, officials
of the District Bankers Association
and the presidents of nearly all the
local banks.
Frank NJ. Perley was general chair
man of the Banquet Committee. He
was assisted by James c. Dulin, jr.:
T. Hunton Leith, I. j. Roberts James
A. Soper, Louise Mantz, j. Earle Nc
Geary, Constance D. Fogle, Robert
G. Whitton. G. Elmer Flather. Paul
j. Seltzer, Richard A. Norris, w. II
Laughlin, Aubrey o. Dooley and
Robert H. Lacey.
List of Guests.
The following were present:
Miss Margaret Adams, Miss Cora
z. Akehurst, MacKendall Allen, James
B. Alley, E. AlSop and Mrs. Alsop,
Earle M. Amick and Mrs. Amick, Ed
ward j. Armstrong, w. L. Ashdown
and Miss Faye Atkinson.
E. c. Baltz and Mrs. Baltz, William
G. Barker and Mrs. Barker, Mrs
Loretta Farmhouse, Miss Mildred
Barr, Miss Harriet M. Barrett, John
j. Barry, Miss Lucille Barry. Herbert
H. Bauckman, Miss Teresa BehabetZ,
Norman A. Bell, Albert j. Benjamin,
w. C. Bennett, Miss Margaret Berck-
man, G. Fred Berger, John James
Bernard, Alex. c. Biondi, L. E. Bird
Eell, Kenneth Birgfeld and Mrs. Birg-
field, Dion S. Birney and Mrs. Birney,
Paul J. Bisset. Edward M. Blaiklock
and Mrs. Blaiklock, Smith Blair, jr.,
William F. Blaydes, jr. j. E. Boothe,
Theodore B. Bogley, B. I. Boudren,
Daniel Boughton. Millard G. Bowen,
jr, Miss Kathryn Bowers, J. Frank
Bowling. Edward L. Brady, William
Bresnehan, Miss Ann F. Broaddus,
Clement H. Brooke, Kenneth F.
Brooks, F. NJ. Brotherhood and Mrs
Brotherhood, Francis C. Brown. Har-
old G. Brown, George R. Drummer,
John L. Bryant, Arthur r. Burbett,
j. Ross BurhouSe, Gregg C. Burns,
Harold w. Burnside and Mrs. Burn
side, Malcolm A. Burrows, Miss S.
Winifred Burwell, Joseph D. Buscher,
Miss Alma Butler and A. J. Byrne.
William A. Cady and Mrs. Cady,
William w. Cairncross, jr., D. j. CAL
lahan, jr., Nicholas P. Callahan, Mrs.
Grace Campbell, Lloyd S. Carey, T.
d. Carson, DR.. Floyd James Carter,
Miss Susan Carter, John H. Casey,
John M. Castell, Mrs. Virginia G. Cas-
tell, Jesse H. Cheyney, I. I. Chorpen-
ing, John M. Christie, J. Wesley Clam
pitt and Mrs. Clampitt, Miss Lavinia
Chaplain. Harry F. Clark, Paul w.
Clarke, Dr. William Earl Clark and
Mrs. Clark, Lloyd r. Coates, Miss
Martha E. Cocks, Miss Betty Coe,
Theodore Cogswell Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Cole, George Earle Cole and Mrs
Cole, E. F. Colladay and Mrs. Cola
day, Bruce S. Cotton, James E. Con-
nor, MaruS E. Conrad, Charles Cook
George r. Cooksey, Richard Copeland,
Miss Dorothy Lee Covert, Guy D.
Cowl, Edward Cox, Miss Essie Taylor
Cox, William Cox, Miss Anne P. Craw-
ford, F. j. Creamer, Miss Catherine
Crockett, Miss Katherine R. Cross,
Gerald Cush and James D. Cushman
Mr.. j. George Dagenais and Mrs.
Dagenais, Winifred Dampier, F. Al
ton Darne and Mrs. Darne, Floyd E.
Davis and Mrs. Davis. Frank E.
Davis, Craig Raeburn Deane, Sam
uel De Binder, w. j. De Jarnette and
Mrs. De Jarnette. Wilfred w. Della
mater and Mrs. Delamater, Lynn o.
De LaShmutt, Miss Naomi De Lozier,
John M. De Marco, B. Gwynn Dent,
r. Morgan D'Espard, Miss Marguerite
Detterer, Victor B. Deyber, Clark G..
Diamond and Mrs. Diamond, Ray
mond B. Dickey and Mrs. Dickey,
Wilbur c. Dieter and Mrs. Dieter,
Charles H. Doing, Aubrey o. Dooley,
Ernest Edward Dooley, James LIE Roy
Dougall, Harry L. Downey and Mrs.
Downey, Miss Leona Draeger, Mer-
rill w. brennan, C. M Duckett, r
Howard Duckett, L, H. Dudley, James
c. Dulin, jr., and Mrs. Dulin; Miss
Frances E. Dunn and Robert E. Dunn
George B. Earnshaw and Mrs
EarnShaw, j. Bernard Eek, C.. L. Eek
loft, Charles F. Ellery, Henry Ellis
1r.; John F. Ellis, Ralph Endicott
Miss Charlotte Engel. Miss Loretta
Ennis, Joshua Evans, jr., and Donald
w. Eyler.
Hans Faber, Charles S. Falcon,