Evening star., 1939-06-04
GaI|audet Lauded
For Progressive
Teaching Methods
DR.. MeGroth Is Speaker
At Commencement
Exercises

Gallaudet College, at its 18th COM
mencement yesterday, was COM
mended by DR.. Earl James McGrath,
specialist in higher education for
the American Council on Education,
for its progressiveness in keeping
abreast of social changes and de-
veloping new vocational opportuni-
ties for the deaf.
Degrees in course were presented
10 26 students and 10 honorary de-
grees were awarded at special after
noon exercises at Chapel Hall.
Pointing out that Gallaudet is the
oldest institution of its kind in the
United States, DR.. McGrath termed
1t the mother institution" in its
field in the Nation.
Graduates of Gallaudet, he said,
have long been leaders in training
the deaf in all sections of the United
States.
History Is Traced.
DR.. McGrath briefly traced the
quarter century of the institutions
history and contrasted the vast diff
ferences in vocational talents de-
manded of graduates in the early
years and those of today.
Technical demands of today are
much greater than they have ever
been, DR.. McGrath continued, but
expanded and more practical edu-
cation of the deaf have amply quail
fed them for modern life. Never
before, he said, have graduates been
so challenged; never before have
their opportunities for service and
accomplishment been so great.
Representatives from some 80 ed
ucational institutions joined in the
academic parade that opened the
ceremonies. The Rev. Ulysses G.. B.
Pierce of All Souls Unitarian
Church delivered the invocation
and benediction. Orations were
made by Catherine Anne Marshall,
jeff D. Tharp and Valentine Albert
Becker, graduating students.
Participants in the academic pa
rade included several members of
Congress, Federal officials and noted
educators.
Honorary Degrees Given.
Those present to receive honorary
degrees in person were Josephine
Timberlake of Washington, master
of arts: Kreigh B. Ayers of Akron,
Ohio, master of science; John w.
Michaels of Mountainberg, Ark,
doctor of divinity; Tom l.. Anderson
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, doctor of
pedagogy, and Stacy Rufus Guild
of Baltimore, doctor of humane let
ters.
Award of honorary degrees was
announced for the following:
Selwyn OXley of London, England,
master of arts; the late Arthur D.
Bryant of Washington, doctor of
divinity; Joao Brazil Silvado of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, doctor of peda-
gogy; Frank Milton briggs of Og-
den, Utah, doctor of humane letters,
and Giulio Ferreri of Milan, Italy,
doctor of humane letters.
Degrees in course were presented
by President Percival Hall as fol-
lows:
Bachelor of arts-Raymond TIL
roe Atwood, Give Donald Breed
love, Robert Emmett Brown, Ray
mond Conrad Hoehn. Marian Eliza
beth Magee, Catherine Anne Mar
shall, Alden c. Ravs, Henry l..
Stack, jeff D. Tharp and Verna L.
Thompson
Bachelor of science-Ola Mary
BenOit, Rhoda S. Clark. Fred E.
Cobb, Rosie Fong, Lillian Hahn,
Myroslawa Mazur, Anthony John
Nogosek and Rodney Wilson Walker
Master of arts normal class
Valentine Albert Becker, Elizabeth
Mary Cutler, William Liner Fair,
Alice Jane Hougham, Lucille Marie
Neesam, Charles Greenbury Raw
lings, Blair Hanna Smith and James
English Sullivan.