Evening star., 1937-06-09
c. v. j. .TOPRESENT.
DEGREES TONIGHT.
S. S. KitteI|e, Ross Pope,
Saul Hoffman to Get 3
of Major Awards.

Final ceremonies in the George
washington University commencement
program will be held in Constitution
Hall at o'clock tonight, when DR..
Cloyd H. Marvin, president of the uni
versity, delivers his charge to the
graduates and presents degrees.
Class night exercises were held in
the university yard last night. at which
time 81 prizes and awards were pre-
sented by DR.. Marvin.
Ross Pope, son of Senator and Mrs.
James P. Pope of Idaho, received the
Joshua Evans, Sd, award. conferred
for the first time this year This
award is a memorial to the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, ir., of
Washington. who last year himself
was recipient of one of the highest of
the university's awards, the Morgan
Richardson Goddard prize The Evans
award is to be made annually 70 that
man in the graduating class "Who
has demonstrated signal ability in the
social and political sciences, and who
has given promise of the interpreta-
ton Of this ability in good citizenship
among his fellows"
S. S. KittelIc Get Prize.
Sumner S. Kittelle, 1929 California
street, received the Larner prize which
goes to the member of the graduating
class of the Law School with the
highest average grade in the entire
law course.
The Ordronaux prize, conferred upon
the medical graduate with the highest
scholastic standing, was won by Saul
Hoffman, 5OO4 First street.
Edmund Lewis Browning, ir, POOL
Sixteenth street, received me Morgan
Richardson Goddard award for the
highest average in the fields of eco
nomics, business administration, for
e1gn commerce and public accounting.
The Delta Tau Delta and Pi Beta
Phi awards. to the man and the wom-
An graduate, respectively, who have
done the most constructive work in
gren, Muskegon, Mich. and Margaret
Graves, Kensington, Nd
0. D. X. Taps 10 Leaders.
Ten campus leaders were tapped for
membership in Omicron Delta Kappa,
honorary student activities fraternity,
including Jack Brown, George Croft,
Sidney Gross. Joseph Goldman. Ray
Howard, Robert Howell, Charles Kiefer,
Winfield Rankin, Edward Stevlingson,
Robert Williams and Hal Kiesel.
Afford Heckel, president of the senior
council, presided at the exercises.
The complete list of awards follows
Alpha Chi Sigma freshman awards
IN chemistry-Charles Henry Grogan,
Gustavo Belaval and Hyman Benja-
min Kaitz. Alpha Chi Sigma senior
award in neutrality-suspicious. Law
French-Virginia Dooley Reeve Alpha
Delta Theta award in chemistry
Anna Snively Riley Alpha Kappa Psi
award in commerCe-Norman Brown
Mumaw. American Institute OF Chem
lists award in chemistry-Ernest Joy
Umberger.
Other Awards.
Beta Phi Alpha award in zoology
Mary Jean Yocum. Byrne r. Burns
award in chemistry-Richard Castle
man Evans. Chi Omega award in
social sciences-Margaret Elizabeth
Graves. Colonial Danes award in his
tory-John Beverley Riggs. E. K. Cut
ter award in English-Davis Philoon
Harding. Daughters of the American
Revolution award in American history
Theodore Rosenberg. Isaac Davis
awards in public speaking
Frederick Kiefer CfrsD. Austin Gerard
Roe (second), Edward Crawford Kemp
er third).
William Thornwall Davis award in
opthalmology-John Philip Clum
Oelphia award to junior woman stu
dent for scholarship and student activi-