Evening star., 1936-03-01
Schools and Colleges
Evenfs Of Interesting Student and Faculty
Activities in Wash;neton's Leading :
Educational Institutions.

AsSOSSSeVSeVS1~o
between the alumni and the college
varsity team.
Honor students at the college viii
be guests this afternoon Of the Wom.
ems Guild Of American University at
q reception and social hour at the
women's residence. DR.. Ernest 8.
Grinith, dean Of the Graduate School
Of the university. will speak on his
experiences at Oxford, England, as q
Rhodes scholar. Mrs. Harry c. Ober-
holser. president Of the guild, will
head the receiving line, In which will
also be Mrs. Wesley M. Gewehr, CHAIR
man of the Committee on Student Life,
in charge Of arrangements; Mrs. Err
nest 8. Grimth, Mrs. Joseph M. M.
Gray, Mrs. 8. B. Shankland, Mrs.
r. w. Lathrop, Mrs. L. Martin Simp-
son and Mrs. Warren Emley.
Charter Dinner at Howard.
T,HE alumni Of Howard University
l. will celebrate the 69th anniversary
Of the founding Of the institution at
the twelfth annual charter day dinner
in Sojourner Truth Hall, on the
campus at Sis pm. March 2.
Mi. Thomas B. Warrick and DR..
George Harris Richardson, members
of the 1871 graduating class, have
been invited to be guests Of honor.
DR.. Garnet G. wilkinson, an outstand-
ing educator, and q law alumnus, will
be honored guest.
DR.. Stuart Nelson Of the class Of
1918 and president of Shaw Uni
versity, will be the guest speaker.
Dinner Dance by S. u.
T'HE annual banquet and dance Of
l. Southeastern University will be
held April II at the Mayflower Hotel,
it was announced yesterday by DR..
James A. Bell, president Of the uni
versity, who is supervising arrange
ments.
A committee Of class officers has
been chosen to assist in preparing the
program of entertainment, which will
include brief speeches by class repre-
sentatives and selections by the
Southeastern male quartet.
Sigma Alpha Sigma, newly Or
ganized accountaney school fraternity,
has elected the following officers: R.
C. Beale, president: Arthur L. Weller,
vice president; Richard c. Welsh, re-
cording secretary; Lee Long, corre-
spending secretary; Ralph Bailey,
treasurer. and Newman Root, SER
geant-at-arms. Charter members in
clude Ralph Holstrum, Charles L. Al
lison, Harold w. Savage, Howard F.
Ripley, Ralph j. Bean, John M.
Owen, Tracy M. e. Houff. G. e. Davis.
Bernard Herzog, D. r. Hollingsworth
and Jerome Kline.
Student Exhibits Relic.
AN appointment certificate bearing
the signatures of President Lin
coin and his Secretary of State,
William Seward, was exhibited by
William Smith, Woodward School stu
dent. at chapel exercises in the school
last week.
The commission was issued to
Smiths great grandfather, Henry c.
Cooper, and it designated him as
justice Of the peace for the District
of Columbia. The document bore the
date of November 26,. 1864 Young
Smith is the son OF Owen Smith Of
Chevy Chase.
Robert L. McKeever, local realtor
and student OF constitutional law, told
1.-THE Story Of the Constitution" to the
American history class last week.
Six students served as honorary pail
bearers last Monday at the funeral
services for Brummit Smith, a class
mate, who had attended Woodward
School for several years. Memorial
services were held In the Woodward
Chapel. t
The pallbearers were George Duvall,
Richard Faulkner, Buck Middleton,
North Longfield, John Edwards and
George Schmedegaard.
Charles Brickley, famous Harvard
drop-kicker Of 20 years ago, gave an
address on clean living and good
sportsmanship last Thursday night.
After his talk he gave a drop-kicking
exhibition in the gym. The meeting
was under auspices of the Know Your
Son" Club.