Evening star., 1935-06-02
DR.. HALL RECEIVES
HONORARY DEGREE.
Roosevelt CongratuIates
Head of GaIlaudet as
Honor Is Bestowed.

DR.. Percival Hall, president of GAL
laudet College, received the honorary
degree of doctor of humane letters
and the congratulations of President
Roosevelt at Gallaudet commencement
exercises yesterday, which marked the
twenty fifth anniversary of his presi-
dency.
President Roosevelt conveyed his re-
grets at not being able to be present
and wrote that the honor to DR.. Hall
came in recognition OF long and
faithful service"
Dr. Hall also received the con-
gratulations of the Board of Trustees
OF the institution, its faculty, students
and alumni.
A letter of felicitation from James
College, was read by Charles Warren,
president of the local Harvard Club,
DR.. Hall is Harvard alumnus.
DR.. Ignatius Bjorlee. superintendent
of the Maryland School for the Deaf,
located at Frederick, added his voice
to the congratulations. saying DR..
Hall is known to the heads Of instruc-
ton for the deaf in every State and
is recognized by them to be a leader.
The Gallaudet president has served
the college for 40 years.
DIR. BiorIee Speaks.
The principal address to the %
graduates was delivered by DR.. Bjorlee.
Present depressed economic condi-
tions came about because we buy
things we do not need with money
we do not own" he declared. adding
the problem of correcting this Situa-
ton belongs largely to the schools.
He advanced a five-point remedy
to be effected by education-work,
earn. save give and have.
The speaker also attacked the sub
ject of character education and said
that the schools must undertake this
work, which too often has been
relegated to the home and church.
DR.. Hall announced that the family
of the late Olof Hanson. graduate OF
Gallaudet and later an Episcopal
minister to the deaf has established
a fund for an annual award, to be
known as the "Olof Hanson Service
Award" to the outstanding man stud
ent. The award will not be made
until next year.
The honorary degree OF doctor OF
letters was conferred on DR.. Edward
Mckee Goodwin, head of the School
for the Deaf. Morganton. N. c.. fol
his work there DR.. Goodwin is ill
and was unable to attend.
Honor Student ValedictOrian.
Emil S. Ladner, jr.. honor student
of the graduating class. delivered the
valedictory. Florence Bridges spoke
IN the sign language on The Last
Resting Place of Christopher Column
bus. Sevilla or Santo Domingo and
Gordon w. Clarke delivered an ad-
dress on Visual Education for the
Deaf"
Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce of the All
Souls Unitarian Church. delivered the
invocation and Rev. Edward F. Kaer-
cher. minister to the Lutheran deaf,
pronounced the benediction in the
sign language.
Degrees we're conferred by Presi-
dent Hall. assisted by Vice President
Charles Russell Ely and Profs. Isaac
Allison. Irving S. Fusfeld and Sam B.
Craig
The graduates were:
Bachelor of arts-Florence Bridges,
Alabama: Gordon W. Clarke, North
Dakota: Cecil Bruce Davis, MiSsis-
sippi: Rudolph D. Gamblin, Texas;
Marie Susan Goetter. Missouri; Philip
Hanover Pennsylvania: Robert w.
Horgen, Wisconsin; Robert F. Layne,
California: Calvin Alexander Long,
Pennsylvania; Madeline Mussman,
Pennsylvania. and Anton O'Brano-
vich, California.
Bachelor of science-Gerald Adler,
Pennsylvania; Catherine HavenS,
Pennsylvania; Leslie G. Hinnant,
North Carolina; Lola r. Holmgren,
Illinois; Lucille Jones. Alabama; Emil
S. Ladner, jr., California; Lucy Jane
Lucado, Tennessee; Earl Cameron
Norton, California, and Katherine
Viola Slocum, Nebraska.
Master of arts in courSe-Alan
Bern Crammatte, Washington, and
Geneva Rachel Florence. Texas.
Master of arts in the normal de-
partment-Kenneth w. Braly, Min
nesota; Percival Hall. jr., District of
Columbia; Helmer Myklebust, South
Dakota Sam D. Palmer. Tennessee;
Isabelle Pennington Walker. Kentucky,
and Dorothy Carrie Winemiller, Ohio.