Evening star., 1938-06-05
716 GRADUATED
AT MARYLAND i.
Dr.. GroSvenor, F. B. Noyes
and C. H. Locher Awarded
Honorary Doctorates.
BY . stan Correspondent of The Star.

By stan Correspondent of The Star
COLLEGE PARK, Md, June A.
DR.. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president OF
the National Geographic Society," in
delivering the adress to the graduating z
class of the University of Maryland
today charged those receiving di-
plomas to carry on the noble tradi-
tions set by Maryland men since pre-
Revolutionary days.
THE diploma" he said, represents
a noble heritage. 1t enrolls you in a
devoted band of Maryland men and
women-practical and courageous,
sincere and tolerant"
DR.. H. C. Byrd, president of the
university, presented diplomas to TIC
graduates, conferred honorary degrees
Of doctor of letters on DR.. Grosvenor
and Frank B. Noyes, president of The
Evening Star Newspaper Co., and
former president of the Associated
Press, and an honorary degree of
doctor of engineering on Charles
Hunter Locher, consultant engineer
for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Three Get Certificates.
Honorary certificates in agriculture
were given by DIR. T, B. Symons, dean
of the Agricultural College, to Simond
Long Downey. George Ignatius Gardi-
ner and Ralph Olin Dulany, all of
Maryland. for outstanding work in
agriculture.
DR.. Grosvenor, introduced by DR.
Byrd, unfolded the history of Mary
landers who laid the corner stone
of the Federal Union" and recalled to
the graduates, faculty, parents and
friends who packed the Ritche Col
iseum that Maryland, though giving
unsparingly of men and substance to
the Continental armies, refused to
sign the Articles of Confederation un-
less assured that the unsettled Western
lands would be used to form new States
and not to enrich enormously any in
dividual State"
For long time, he told the audi
ence, little Maryland raised her voice
alone, but gradually the other States
were convinced of the fairness and
wisdom Of her stand and finally all
ceded their territorial claims to the
Nation"
Honor Awards Given.
Thus. he said, quoting Prof. John
q Fiske of Harvard University, "it was
Maryland that, by leading the way
toward the creation of a national do
main, laid the corner stone of the
Federal Union"
Honor awards were given to the fol-
lowing:
Gold medal for general excellence.
George Philip Hager; the William
Simon memorial prize for proficiency
in practical chemistry, Kenneth Eldred
Hamlin, jr.; the l.. S. Williams prac-
tical pharmacy prize, Walter Chris
tan Gakenhelmer; the Conrad L.
Wich botany and pharmacognosy
prize, Henry Paul Zetlin. Mr.. Hamlin.
Mr.. Gakenheimer and Robert Edward
Thompson were awarded certificates
OF honor in the School of Pharmacy.
Honors in the School of Law went
to the following graduates elected TO
the Order of Golf: Sylvan Adler Gar
funkel Edward D. Higinbothom, Alvin
katzenstein Richard Harvey Love.
Bernard Stern Meyer and Jesse Jaw
Rubin. The alumni prize for the best
argument in the honor case in prac-
.tice court went to John Herbert Bar
rett. jr., and George o. Blome prizes
went to Mr.. Barrett, Mr.. Katzenstein.
Mr.. Meyer and Walter Rothchild.
Lyon Wins Medal.
The university gold medal for
scholarship in the School of Dentistry
was awarded to Eugene Davisson Lyon
and certificates of honor were given
TO Sidney E. Liberman, Carl Elliott
Bailey, Floyd Warren Neal, Jack Men
efee Messner and George Carl Kraus.
Stanley Edward Bradley was award
ed the university gold medal for
honors IN the School Of Medicine and
certlfcates Of honor went to Aaron
Feder, Sidney Harris, Morton Hirsch
Lipsltz, Emanuel Sprei and Theodore
Engler Woodward The DR.. A. Brad
ley Gather Memorial prize of $25 for
the best work in genito-urinarv SIR
gerry during the senior year went to
William Lehman Guyton.
Jerome Kotleroff received the Sam
peI M. Shoemaker Memorial prize of
$50 for the best essay on Milk in
Relation to Public Health" written
by senior student.
Other Prizes.
Five prizes were awarded to students
IN the School of Nursing. The Janet
Hale Memorial Scholarship, given by
the University of Maryland Nurses
Alumnae Association, to pursue a
course in administration, supervisory
or public health work at Teachers
college, Columbia University, went to
ingrid Elizabeth Selkamaa, who had
the highest average in scholarship.
Alice Virginia Garrison, who had
the second highest average in scholar
ship, received the Elizabeth Collins
Lee prize, and Gwendolyn Haugh won
the Mrs. John L. Whitehurst prize for
the highest average in executive abil.
lty, and also the Edwin and Leander
M. Zimmerman prize for practical
nursing and for displaying the greatest
sympathy for patients.
The University of Maryland Nurses
Alumnae Association pin and member
ship in the association, awarded for
practical nursing and executive abil-
1ty, went to Sara Jane Mays.
The graduates follow (asterisk
means awarded teachers diploma:
GRADUATE SCHOOL.
Doctor of Philosophy
ADAMS John r.. jr. McCann Lewis p
Hart William j. McVey Warren C
heler. Hugh A. Miles. Ivan E.
iHesse. Claron O. Painter Elizabeth T.
horne. William A. Shirk. Harold G.