Evening star., 1937-06-11
WCOLLEGE GIVES
! DIPLOMAS TO 106.
Record Class Is Graduated
at Washington-Wa|sh
Speaks at Rites.

The largest class in the history OF
the Washington College of Law was
graduated last night, as lO6 students
received degrees at exercises in Me-
mortal Continental Hall.
Dean Grace Hays Riley, who pre-
sided, presented bachelor of law de-
grees to 81 students and master of
patent law diplomas to six DR.. Edwin
c. Dutton, president of the board Of
trustees, presented master of law
degrees to nine graduate students.
Senator Walsh of Massa chusetts was
guest OF honor and principal speaker
at the ceremonies. Rev. Paul Sperry,
pastor of the Church Of the Holy City,
pronounced the invocation.
Prof. j. Edward Burroughs, IT.,
member Of the Faculty Committee on
Scholarship, presented the following
prizes:
Carpenter, Sanderson Honored,
Gold medals for the highest and
second highest standard Of scholarship
during entire three-year course, 1884
to l937-FirSt prize, Ralph T. Car
penter, second prize, Harold Raymond
Sanderson.
Graduate scholarship prize for
highest average Of credits in senior
work-Harold Raymond Sanderson.
Kappa Beta Pi Scholarship key" to
member for highest average Of credits
during the three-year course-Mary
PoindeXter Clark.
Sigma MI Phi Scholarship key"
to member for highest record during
senior year-Ralph T. Carpenter.
Sigma M Phi Vandoren Award to
member voted the most valuable in
extra curricular activities - Bernard
Moulton Acher.
Spaulding Gets Key.
Phi Delta Delta scholarship key"
to member for highest average during
entire three-year course-Edith Eliot
Spaulding.
Sigma Delta Kappa Scholarship
key to member for highest average
during entire three-year course
Ernest Everett Weaver. jr.
Bobbs Merrill Co. prize of Jones
Legal Forms for the best work in
moot court-Joseph Oliver Janousek.
Patent Alumni Association prize of
"Amdurs Patent Law and Practice" to
honor student in course leading to the
degree of master of patent law-Theo-
dore A. Seegrist.
Sigma Nu Phi Fraternity prize of
"Bouvier's Law Dictionary" to member
having highest average in the entire
work Of first and second years-Wayne
H. Smith.
Callaghan & Co. prize of "Cyclo-
pedic Law Dictionary" for highest
record in second year-Edvin Joe
Mayhall.
Miss Espey Wins Two Prizes.
washington Law Book Co. prize of
"a Panorama of the Worlds Legal
Systems for highest average in first
year-Elizabeth Marie Espey.
James J. Muir prize. donated by
Robert E. Freer of the Federal Trade
Commission, for the best paper in the
torts examination, Famous American
Jury Speeches" by Frederick c. Hicks
-Ellzabet Marie Espey. Second best
pa pei S-IldItI Z. I1OllOH anu DdVlQ
Seltzer, copies of Twelve Men in
Box" by Stanley F. Brewster.
Sigma Delta Kappa prize of Blacks
Law Dictionary for best essay on
The American Jury System" by first
year men-Joseph H Tudor.
College gold prize for first honors
at annual freshman public debate
James w. Donahue. Gold prize for
second honors-Gertrude L. Poe
Honorable mention for attaining
general average of 80 per cent or more
In the examinations covering the entire
three-year course Of study-Ralph T.
Carpenter, Harold Raymond Sander
son. Theodore Bishoff, Sarah Hannah
Halbfnger, OrVal Henry Peterson and
Henry B. CuSiCk.
Degrees in course were conferred on
the following: