Evening star., 1940-06-02
Catholic University
To Graduate Glass
OF 500 June Z
Exercises to Begin
With BuccuIuureute
Mass Next Sunday

The 51st commencement exercises
OF Catholic University will begin
next Sunday and continue through
Wednesday, June II, when degrees
will be conferred on about 900 grad
yates, the Most Rev. Joseph M. Cor
rigan, Bishop of Bilta and rector of
the university, announced yesterday.
Baccalaureate mass will be cele-
brated in the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception on the uni
versity campus next Sunday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock by the Right
Rev. Edward B. Jordan, associate
professor of education and dean of
Catholic Sisters College. The SER
mon will be preached by the Rev.
William j. Lallou. associate pro-
fessor Of sacred liturgy. An aca-
demic procession will precede the
mass, the faculty in cap and gown
forming at Caldwell Hall and the
seniors forming at Mcmahon Hall.
The alumni and the seniors will
hold their annual ball game and
field day in the university stadium
at 2 O'Clock next Sunday. The
alumnae will give tea in the foyer
of the Mullen Library from 4 until
6 pm. for the women who will re-
ceive degrees. The senior classes of
the college of arts and sciences and
the school of engineering and archi-
lecture will hold their annual ban
euet at the Kennedy-Warren at 8
O'Clock that evening.
Seniors Plan Tea Dance.
The seniors will hold their annual
tea dance in the foyer of Mullen
Library June 10 from 4 to 6 o'clock
with members of their families and
friends as special guests.
Gibbons Hall Chapel will be the
scene of the senior class mass June
ii at $50 am. The Rev. DR.. George
B. Stratemeier, o. p, chaplain of
the university, will give the farewell
talk on the last occasion when the
seniors gather in the college chapel.
Glass day exercises for the senior
lay students will be held in Nc
Mahon Hall auditorium June H..
Bishop Corrigan will preside and
Andrew P. Maloney, president of the
New Jersey Chapter of the Alumni
Association, will speak to the grad
yates.
The deans of the college of arts
and sciences and the school of en-
gineering and architecture will read
the lists of honors in their schools
for the 1939-40 academic year at
these exercises. The Engineers
Club plaque given annually to the
outstanding senior in the school of
engineering and architecture, the
silver medal presented annually to
the outstanding architectural stu
dent by the American Institute of
Architects, sum of money from an
anonymous donor for the outstand-
ing senior in the college of arts and
sciences and the Knights of Co.
lumbus fellowships for the 1940-4l
academic year also will be an
nounced.
Bishop COrrigan to Receive.
Cornelius L. Maloney, jr., 40,
will deliver the valedictory at the
class day exercises. Bishop Cor
rigan will receive the graduates,
their families and friends at the
rectors annual reception immedi-
ately following class day activities.
The Washington Chapter of the
Alumni Association will entertain
the graduates at a smoker that eve
ming at the Washington Hotel.
Degrees will be conferred on ap-
proximately 600 candidates in the
university gymnasium June II at
1920 o'clock. The Most Rev Michael
J. Curley. Archbishop of Baltimore
and Washington, will preside and
Franklin Dunham, educational di-
rector of the National Broadcasting
Co.. will deliver the commencement
address.
Bishop Corrigan will give the bac-
ealaureate sermon at the College OF
Mount st. Vincent. New York City
this morning and the baccalaureate
address at Chestnut Hill College
Chestnut Hill, Pa, this evening. On
Tuesday, June 4, he will deliver the
commencement address at st. Johns
University in Brooklyn, N. Y.