Evening star., 1937-05-31
0'MAH0NEY TALKS
AT U.EXERC|SES
Wyoming Senator Will Give
Address at Commencement
of 500 on June Is.

OF 5UU on June 10.
Senator Joseph c. OMahoney of
Wyoming will deliver the commence
ment address at the forty-eighth COM
mencement exercises of Catholic Uni
Versity Wednesday, June Is, it was
announced by the Right Rev. Joseph
M. Corrigan, rector of the university.
Presiding at the cermonies will be
the Most Rev. Michael j. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore and chan
cellor of the university. He will pre-
sent diplomas to more than 500
graduates in arts and sciences, engi-
neering and architecture, education,
nursing, social work. law, canon law
and the sacred sciences.
Commencement activities will begin
with an alumni communion breakfast
next Sunday. Mass will be celebrated
in the National Shrine of the I'm
maculate Conception on the campus
followed by breakfast in the dining
hall.
Other Events Scheduled.
The baccalaureate mass will be Gel
ebrated in the National Shrine Sun
day, June l3. at 1920 am, by the
Right Rev. Patrick J. Mccormick,
vice rector. The Rev. DR.. Frank P.
Cassidy, dean of men, will preach. A
tea for the woman graduates will be
held in the Mullen Library that after
noon, under the auspices of the Wash
tngton Chapter of the alumnae asso-
citation. The senior banquet will be
held that evening at the Kennedy
Warren Hotel.
The senior class mass will be cele-
brated by Father Cassidy, in Gibbons
Hall Chapel Tuesday, June Is, $50
am and the Rev. DR.. George B.
Stratemeier, o. P, chaplain of the
university, will give the farewell.
Alumnae of the School of Nursing
will hold luncheon in the university
dining hall at pm. and the alumni
association will hold a smoker in the
evening.
On graduation day, John Pearson
Stanley of the class of 1887 will de-
liver the valedictory address After
the exercises the seniors and their
families will be guests at the uni
Versity at buffet luncheon in the
dining hall and in the evening the
alumni will hold a dinner dance at
the Shoreham terrace.
Fehlner Given Plaque.
The Rev. Maynard Geiger. o. F.. NJ.
OF the Franciscan province of Santa
Barbara, Calf, a graduate student
In the department of history, will re-
ceive his doctors degree at commence
ment. He has just published his dis
sertation entitled The Franciscan
Conquest of Florida"
Leo F. Fehlner of Dolgeville, N. Y,
has been awarded the silver plaque
given annually to the outstanding
senior in the School of Engineering
and Architecture by the Engineers
Club, composed of alumni of the
school. Fehlner will have the de-
gree Of bachelor of mechanical engi-
neering conferred on him at COM
mencement.
So close was the competition that
four high-ranking students were re-
qulred to compete in an oratorical
contest before the members and guests
at the annual dinner of the Engineers
Club held in the university dining
hall. The vice rector of the university,
Msgr. Patrick J. Mccormick and men,
bers of the faculty voted on their
standing. This vote. plus the aca-
demlc record for the preceding 80
years at the university gave Fehlner
the lead over Charles D. johnson of
723 K street northeast, Henry C.
Rexach Of 1924 Chaplin street and
Raymond L. Baker of 34l8 Reservoir
road, all of this city.
Scott Is Elected.
Campus leaders for the 1878 aca-
demlc year, chosen by the under
graduate students In the College of
Arts and Sciences and the School of
Engineering and Architecture, were
announced today.
Joseph w. Scott of 3844 Calvert
street was elected president of the
senior class of 1888 of the College
OF Arts and Sciences and Edward K.
Glodeyk of 1925 Upshur street was
elected president of the senior class
OF 1898 of the School of Engineering
and Architecture
William Manion of Bethel, Conn.
was elected president of the Junior
class, 1889, and Lewis H. Lanman of
SIT Decatur street was elected presi-
dent of the junior class, 1885, of the
School of Engineering and Architec-
ture. The freshmen, l940 elected for
their second year leadership Carmen
P1rro, Solvay, N. Y, of the College
OF Arts and Sciences as president,
and John J. McKenna, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, OF the School of Engineering
and Architecture.
Salvatore j. Greco, Nesquehoning,
Pa, was elected president of the
Utopian Club for the coming academic
year. Richard Witty of SLIP Thirty
eighth street was elected president of
the Senators Club, an organization
Of day students from Washington and
vicinity. Ferdinand C. Rogers of
Jersey City, N. j., was elected presi-
dent Of the Harlequins Dramatic So
ciety of the university,