Evening star., 1940-06-04
1000 kiddies
Parade Today
|At Flag Rites
Color Ceremony
To Attract Large
Crowd to Annapolis
BY the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 4.-The
Naval Academy prepared to greet
one Of its largest crowds of the year
today for the traditional presenta-
ton of colors ceremony and full
dress parade of 1000 midshipmen.
One Of the bright spots on the
June Week program, the color cere-
mony, was scheduled for pm,
when attractive Barbara Engh, 10,
of 1rvington, N. Y, presents the ma
tional and regimental flags to the Sec
ond company. The company won the
honor by scoring high in regimental
drills.
Miss Engh, sophomore at Sweet
Briar (Va) College, was chosen
color girl" by Midshipman William
c. Croft Of Aikan, S. c., the second
company commander.
Photographers Get Pre-View.
A pre-view performance of the
color presentation was given yester-
day for the benefit of cameramen.
Miss Engh, in long flowing yellow
marquisette dress and yellow picture
hat, carried a mixed bouquet of tea
roses and blue cornflowers. At the
end Of the rehearsal she acknowl-
edged cheers of the midshipmen.
Secretary of the Navy Edison, who
arrived last night to attend the Sec
ond class traditional ring dance,
was expected to remain for the color
ceremony.
Some 400 second-class members
and their escorts. Academy officials
and others attended the ring dance
in Memorial Hall.
Glass rings, suspended from blue
ribbons, were tied to the girls wrists
Near a huge reproduction of the
class of 1s4l. the girls dipped their
rings into three basins containing
waters from the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans and Caribbean Sea.
The couples then went down a
receiving line greeting Academy
officials and Secretary Edison. At
1890 pm. lights were dimmed and
the girls placed the rings on their
fingers.
Another dance was held in Mac
Donough Hall, attended by 600 third
classmen and their escorts.
40 "Star" Graduates.
Names of l72 midshipmen Of the
four classes at the Naval Academy
who completed their 1910 courses
with distinction were announced
yesterday by Rear Admiral Wilson
Brown, Academy superintendent.
The graduating class had 40 star"
members; the second class, %: the
third class, 81. and the fourth
class, 72.
Those senior classmen who COM
pleted their last year with honor"
were:
William David Baker, Sheridan.
Wyo.; Leonard Flourney Bassett,
Pine Bluff, Ark, Anthony Christian
Denies, jr., Lebanon. N. H.: Ira
Kinter Blough, jr., Clarks Summit,
Pa: Roman Leo Brookes. Woods
field, Ohio; Clifford Bundy, Sioux
Falls. S. OAK: William Mann Butler.
Downey, Calf; John Dawson Chase.
Denver, Colo: Albert Harrison
Clancy, jr., Albuquerque. N. Mex:
James Charles Cochran, Natchez,
Miss; Talbot Ferdinand Collins.
Hoopeston, ILL.,: William Crosswell
Croft, Aiken, S. c.
d. C. Man on List.
Joseph Paul D'Arezzo, Los An
geles, Calf; Arthur John Ella,
Seattle, Wash: Ralph Irwin Ger
ber, Menlo Park. Calf; Alexander
Scott Goodfellow, jr., Seattle,
Wash; Frank Joseph Graziano,
Jersey City, N. j.; Thomas Carlton
Gurley, Glens Falls, N. Y; Benja-
min Campbell Hall, Macon, Ca;
John Ingolf Harry, Mahnomen,
Mimi; Theodore Hechler, New
York City; Jack Jones Hinman,
Iowa City, Iowa; William Hiram
House, Bisbee. Ariz; Royal Knight
Joslin, Washington. D. c.; Fred
Ferguson Mallory, Thomaston, Ga;
Edwin Malloy, jr., Cheraw, S. c.:
Louis Harkey Mayo, Prestonsburg,
KY; Joseph Parker Murray, Chi
cago, ILL.,; Edward Muhlenfeld, Bal
timore, Md; Lyle Bernard Ramsey,
Abilene, Tex; John Francis Refo,
Norfolk, Va; William Daniel Rose
borough, jr., Dallas, Tex; Louis
Nelson Saunders, jr.. Minneapolis,
Mimi; Raymond John Schneider,
Cleveland, Ohio; Harvey Bryant
Seim, Bridgeport, Conn; Paul
Vance Thompson. San Francisco,
Calf; Joseph Robert Treanor, New
York, N. Y; Herman John Trum,
Kansas City, Mo-; Erwin Frederic
Wann, jr., Fairbanks, Alaska, and
Robert Reynolds Wooding, Phila-
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