Evening star., 1939-05-28
Early Land
Donated by
Farmer
University Plans
New Gymnasium
And Hall

Wilmer brought fame to George
towns archaeological department,
which he headed for 10 years. He
severed his faculty ties reluctantly
when the great Wilmer Institute
was founded at Johns Hopkins. His
devotion to Georgetown always re-
NAMED steadfast. This was shown
especially when he was having his
portrait painted for the Wilmer In.
stltute. The artist suggested that
he wear his academic robes and sug-
gested the use of a particular one
because of it's striking color, but DR..
Wilmer refused to wear any other
than his blue and gray robe. In
1881 Georgetown awarded him it,
Founders Day honors.
Pupil of Pasteur.
DR.. Ernest Laplace Of Philadel.
phia, who came to the college from
New Orleans, was a pupil of the
great Pasteur in France and his
fame in medicine brought him many
honors. DR.. William Gerry Morgan,
a former dean and professor at the
Medical School, became president
OF the American Medical Association.
Nor does Georgetown forget DR..
John A. Foot, '06, who was % years
on the faculty and dean at the time
OF his death in 1881. A serious stu
dent of medicine always, he served
the school devotedly.
The Rev. Francis A. Tondorf, s.
j., the noted seismologist, served
many years on the medical faculty.
He made the name of Georgetowns
reports of earthquakes known
throughout the world.
DR.. Thomas Parran, IL, now Sur
geon General of the Public Health
Service, is another Georgetown
medico risen to top ranks. One
must mention also DR.. George Tully
Vaughan, emeritus professor of sur
gerry and colleague of DR.. Kober,
whose 40 or more years on the fac
ulty have endeared him to ALL He
is taking part in the extension course
which the Rev. David V. McCauley,
S. j., dean of the school, has pre-
pared for sesquicentennial week.
Another old timer, DR.. William N.
Cogan, dean emeritus of the Dental
School. is always on the lookout for
friends. In 1902 he was head Of a
dental college in Washington which
Georgetown absorbed. AS a younger
man in the Navy he helped organize
its dental department. Brig. Gen.
Leigh c. Fairbank, U. S. A., who
graduated from the school in 1912,
is now the head of the newly Or
ganized dental division of the Army
Maj. Gen. Malin Craig who is just
retiring as chief of staff of the
Army, also was Georgetown STU
dent.
Foreign Service School.
just as with the close OF the
Civil War, Georgetown made a ges-
ture toward marking the new epoch
following the World War. This took
the form of creating a new depart
ment, the School of Foreign Service,
in 1919. To the man who was its
founder, the Rev Edmund S. Walsh,
S. j., its regent and chairman of
the Sesquicentennial Committee, the
school owes a debt of everlasting
gratitude.
The Rev. John B. Creeden, S. j.,
then president, was quick to grasp
the pioneering idea of education
suggested by Father Walsh AS far
back as about 1909, the officials of
Georgetown had been impressed
with the idea that there Is no nee
essary antagonism between culture
and commercialism" At the opening
Of the school. Father Creeden de-
clared an agent of an American con-
Germ in foreign country would be
unable to direct or control trade
activities unless such a representa-
tive knew the susceptibilities of the
people. their viewpoint and was able
to adopt their methods.
1t was natural that once the way
was clear the Foreign Service School
was followed by similar courses and
schools in other great universities
That the Georgetown school mas
done much to pioneer the good
neighbor policy" cannot be denied.
Father Walsh delights in telling
Of his anxiety while waiting In his
office for the first student candidate
to enter the door The young man
was named Harry Sandager He was
accepted and graduated He is better
known now as Representative San.
(See GEORGETOWN, Page C-60