Evening star., 1937-06-06
20 SENIORS CITED
At GEORGET0WNU. j.
I Wo D. c. Graduates Among
Those Who Receive
Medals, Prizes.

136th annual commencement, as the
deans of arts and sciences, law,
medicine, dentistry and foreign serv-
Ace awarded some SO medals and cash
prizes on the basis of scholastic su-
periority.
The outdoor scene was staged in
the historic college quadrangle. The
porch Of old North Hall, from which
later, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of
France, addressed the student body,
served as the rostrlm. When the
Tropaia exercises were concluded,
John c. Donnelly, senior class presi-
dent. who a few minutes before had
received the three college awards for
oratory and debating, delivered the
seniors farewell address to college
years spent on the bank of the Po-
tomac.
For his part in the Cohonguroton
grafton. the senior president appeared
in Indian costume, for there is
legend that the name Cohonguroton
was given the Potomac River by its
red skin neighbors of three centuries
ago. Translated, it means the River
of Swans. From this, seniors at
Georgetown years ago used the Indian
name for their own college swan song.
Dawson, Brennan Honored.
Rev. John E Grattan, S. j., dean
of arts and sciences, also presented
the Brennan Medal to Joseph M.
Dawson of the District of Columbia
for the best essay and oral eXamtna-
ton on selected topics of religion.
Peter j. Brennan of Winnetka, Ill,
president of the Students Council,
likewise received the Ryan Medal for
the highest average in senior philos-
ophy.
The three medals awarded to Dom
nelly for the outstanding record Of
the year included the coveted Mer-
rick Debating Medal for winning the
annual contest held by the l04year-
old Philodemic Society, Oldest debat-
ing club in any American college.
Next came the Hamilton Medal for
the best extempore debate, founded
by Dean George E. Hamilton of the
School Of Law. Donnellys third
prize was the Garvan Medal for VIM
ming the oratorical contest.
Other District students who fig
ured most prominently in the awards
were Capt. Joseph Vincent De Paul
Dillon, U. S. A. senior at the Law
School, and William G. Waldo of the
Foreign Service School. Capt. Dill
Ion. who won other honors also, was
awarded Law Regents Medal as the
senior who attained the highest gen
eral average during his entire course.
DR.. Cannon to Get Degree.
DR.. Coleman Nevis, S. j., former
president of the university, was on
hand to see the gold medal he founded
as prize for the highest record in the
courses in foreign relations of the
United States awarded to Mr.. Waldo.
With eyes askance at the weather
report which predicts possible thunder
showers" today, the seniors will get
ready for the final commencement
exercises at AIS pm. on the college
lawn. At 10 IN. they will march into
Dahlgren Chapel, headed by faculty
members, for the baccalaureate mass.
Rev. Thomas G. Hagerty, S. j., class
OF 1925, will preach the sermon to the
graduates. He is assistant pastor of
st. Clare's Church in Rosedale, Long
Island.
The president of Fordham Univer-
sity, DR.. Robert I. Cannon, S. j., a
brother of DR.. James A. Cannon.
Washington surgeon and Georgetown
alumnus, will deliver the commence
ment address. He will be the only
recipient Of an honorary degree, that
OF doctor Of literature
Change in Exercises if II Rains.
DR.. Cannon graduated from George
town in 1913, soon after entering the
Jesuit order.
He has distinguished himself as
scholar, having received a master of
arts degree from Cambridge Univer-
sity, England, and pursued studies at
Oxford, the SOTbonne and the Uni
versities of Perugia and Louvain. Last
June he was appointed president of
Fordham at the expiration of the
term OF Dr. Aloysius j, Hogan, S. j.,
who was then made dean of the
Graduate School at Georgetown.
Dr.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., who is
presiding, due to the illness of Very
Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., presi-
dent. announced a change in the
commencement program in the event
Of inclement weather this afternoon
There would be in that event two
separate exercises in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall, Seventeenth and D
streets. The first. at As pm, would
be for the Graduate School, College
and School of Law at which honors
would be conferred on the commence
ment speaker. The second would be
at $50 pm. for the medical, dental
and foreign service seniors. DR..
Cannon would speak there also.
Other Prizes Awarded.
Other prizes were awarded as fol-
lows:
College of Arts and Sciences:
Mallory Medal for best essay on
constitutional government, Hal Ryer-
son Of Canoga Park, Calf.
Pulaski Medal for best essay on
Catholicism in Poland, Leon j. Mich
alowski, law, '39 general competi-
tion).
School Of Law.
Graduate School-Chetwood Medal
for excellence in graduate study. Don
aid Jacob Sherbondy of Dawson, Pa.
Honorable mention, Ralph Francis
koebel, District of Columbia.
Forty-dollar faculty prize for best
thesis in graduate course, Francis
Otto Willenbucher, U. S. NJ, of West
wood, N. j. Honorable mention, Sid
ney Sherman of Boston.
Forty-dollar faculty prize for best
average in work of graduate course.
John William Ahern of Texarkana,
Ark. Honorable mention, James
Curry Bernhardt, District of Colum-
bia.
Rev. Frances E. Lucey Medal for