Evening star., 1939-02-19
Foreign Service Log
New Publication
AT Georgetown
Magazine Distributed
To Students, Alumni
Of University

pearance at Georgetown University
last week when the first edition of
the Foreign Service Log. with an
initial circulation of 1000 copies,
was distributed to students and
alumni scattered throughout the
world.
Edited and managed by a COM
mittee of students under faculty
supervision. the Log is intended to
fulfill much the same mission for
the School of Foreign Service that
the Georgetown Law Journal does
for the students and alumni of the
legal department. Besides two
pages devoted tO general activities
of interest to the student body, the
new publication has departments
dealing with international affairs,
foreign trade, shipping, politics and
economics, as we'll as editorials and
book and drama reviews.
Robert Rossow, jr., of Culver, Ind.
a member of the senior class, is the
editor in chief and is assisted by a
staff made up of students from the
morning and afternoon sessions of
the school. The Log will be issued
every other Friday and in addition
to It's regular subscribers will be sent
to business concerns engaged in
foreign trade.
To Observe Anniversary.
Members of the staff include Boris
Del Monte of the District, business
manager; Andrew Yedigaroff of
New York City, assistant editor:
William McCandless of Sterling, ILL.,,
school editor; Francis x. Van Herpe
OF Peekskill, N. Y, domestic news
edltor; H. Norman Linker of New
York City, international news edi-
tor; Frank Mazzaccaro of JERSEY Ciev
N. j., executive secretary, and James
Cheney Palms of Detroit, Mich, lit
erary editor. DR.. James Waldron,
professor of English in the Foreign
Service School, is faculty advisor.
Its publication is timely for the
Foreign Service School is prepar-
ing to observe its own goth anniver-
sary next spring in connection with
the Georgetown Sesquicentennial.
lhere Is also movement under way
10 organize the first alumni asso-
cation OF the school, steps to this
END being planned at meeting
scheduled for the evening of Feb
ruary q in Castor Hall. which all
former students are invited to at
tend.
The idea of publication similar
to the Log has been in the minds of
the student council for several years.
Or. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., regent
OF the school, is sponsoring it and
was able to arrange with the Foreign
Trade Council of New York CITY a
working agreement whereby MANY
OF the bulletins of the council will
be printed in the Log. In this wav,
DR.. Walsh believes, the paper will
serve as an initial step toward or
ganlzlng an employment and place.
ment bureau in the school for the
benefit of the students.
Health Essay Contest.
A coast-to-coast interest in the
health essay contest sponsored by
Georgetown University among high
school juniors and seniors was re-
ported yesterday by DR.. John R,
Cavanagh, chairman of the univer-
sity's Public Health Forum.
AS the result of the Nationwide
radio broadcasts on "Wednesday
evenings, DR.. Cavanagh and his
committee have received hundreds
OF inquiries from eager students
concerning the two full-time college
scholarships that are being offered
for the best essays submitted.
Although the contest is only two
weeks old, inquiries have been re-
celved from cities in California and
as widely scattered points as Chi
cago. Oklahoma City, Okla; Kan
sas City, Mo-, and numerous points
in the South and East. In Wash
lngton. it was said, the students of
Holy Cross Academy and Gonzaga
High School apparently are display
ing the most interest in the con-
test.
"The response" he said, 'is very
encouraging to our efforts which
are to stimulate general interest in
the homes in questions of health
and preventive medicine" George
town College is offering a scholar
ship to the boy sending in the best
essay while Dumbarton College is
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