Evening star., 1939-05-21
Program Given
For Georgetown u.
SesquicentenniaI
Seven-Doy Academic
Program Is to Begin
Next Sunday

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Next Sunday
High lights in a week of academic
celebration starting next Sunday in
commemoration of the 150th ami
versary of the founding of George
town University as the first Cath
olic college in the United States
were announced yesterday by the
Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.,
university president, and the Rev.
Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., executive
chairman of the Sesquicentennial
Committee.
Opening with an outdoor pontifi-
cal mass on the college lawn in
tribute to its founder, Archbishop
John Carroll of Baltimore, the
seven-day academic program ends
with a convocation the afternoon of
June 3 at which GeorgetoWn's seth
president and rector will confer ses-
Quicentennial honors upon II men
of prominence. They represent the
church, the law, the scientific pro-
fessions, letters and business.
With Georgetown sharing the
same anniversary as the Federal
Constitution, the univerSity'S con-
tributions to American government
and life will be the theme. The
final evening $500 alumni and hon
ored guests, with Frank j. Hogan,
president of the National Alumni
Association, will dine at the May
flower Hotel.
Those to Get Honorary Degrees.
The list of those who are to re-
ceive honorary degrees. which in
cludes five graduates of the uni
versity, Is as follows:
Doctor Of Laws:
The Most Rev. John M. Nc
Namara, D. D., Washington, Auxil-
iary Bishop of Baltimore.
The Right Rev. Msgr. John L.
Sheridan, president of Mount St
Marys College, Emmitsburg, Md.
Representative William b. Bank
head Of Alabama, speaker of the
House. LL. B. '95, Georgetown.
Gov. Herbert r. O'Conor of Mary
land, mother State of Georgetown.
Associate Justice Harold M. Steph-
ems of the United States Court OF
Appeals for the District of Columbia
j. Edgar Hoover director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Depart
ment of Justice.
Joseph Scott. Los Angeles. Calf
prominent Catholic lawyer, winner
OF the Laetare Medal in 1918.
Basil Harris, New York City. vice
president, International Mercantile
Marine.
Thomas E. Murray, jr.. receiver
1nterborough Rapid Transit Co..
New York City.
Charles T. Fisher, jr., Detroit
Mich, banker (B. S., %, George
town.
Doctor Of Social Sciences:
The Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph M
Corrlgan, rector, the Catholic Uni
versity OF America, Washington.
Doctor of Science:
DR.. Irwin Abel Of Louisville, XIV,
president of the American Medica,
Association, professor of surgery
University of Louisville Medica
School.
Brig. Gen. Leigh c. Fairbank. U
s. A., assistant to the Surgeon Gen.
eral OF the Army and head of the
Dental Division. DDS. u
Georgetown.
DR.. Lyman J. Briggs, Washing
ton. director, National Bureau of
Standards.
Doctor of Letters:
The Rev. Francis o. Donnellv
8. j.. professor of English literature
Fordham University, New York CITY
Frank J. Hogan, Washington
president of the American Bar AS
soclation ILL. B. '02, LII. D. '25
Georgetown).
Master Of Arts:
John G.. Brunini, New York CITY
executive secretary, Catholic Poetry
society of America "a. B. 10
Georgetown.
Many Educators to Attend.
Ofnclal delegates of at least 500
educational institutions and learned
societies throughout the world will
attend as guests of the university
the week of academic ceremonies
together with several thousand out
of-town alumni of the university
Attorney General Frank Murphy
and Surgeon General Thomas Par
ran as we'll as several of the re-
clplents OF honorary degrees and
visiting scientists and educators will
take part in the individual pro-
grams set apart for each depart
ment at Georgetown.
AT the concluding convocation
Mr.. Scott will deliver the sesa,licen-
tennlal Grafton. Speaker Bankhead
whose brother, Senator John II
Bankhead, LII. B. '93, is one of II
Georgetown alumni who are men,
bers OF the Seventy-sixth Congress
Will make the response for the lay
men receiving degrees. Bishop Nc
Namara will respond for the church
men. Before the end of the con-
vocation Mr.. Brunini will recite the
sesquicentennial ode, written for the
occasion.
The Most Rev. Thomas A. EN-
NETT. S. j., of Kingston, Jamaica,
vicar apostolic to the West Indies,
Will celebrate the high mass on the
college lawn Sunday morning at
1890 O'Clock. The sermon eulogizing
Archbishop Carroll will be preached
by the Most Rev. Francis c. Kelley,
bishop of Tulsa and Oklahoma CITY
Bishop Emmett, known to thousands
OF Georgetown alumni, was former
ly prefect of discipline and director
OF athletics at the college, and when
the Georgetown Preparatory School
was moved to Garrett Park, Md,
In 1919, he served as headmaster
until short while before his con-
secration.
Before the mass a delegation of