Evening star., 1941-06-07
Maryland U.
Grants Degree
To McNutt
Federal Security
Chief Addresses
$50 Graduates

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An honorary degree of doctor of
laws was conferred on Federal
Security Administrator Paul V. Nc
Mutt after he made the principal
address at commencement exercises
at the University of Maryland today
MIR. McNutt, who spoke on the
subject. mo Room for CloisterS, !"
was one of three recipients of honor
ary degrees bestowed by the uni
Versity as diplomas were presented
TO a class of about 750 graduates
by Dr. H. c. Byrd, president of the
university.
Howard Bruce, Baltimore flnan-
cler, was presented with an honor
ary doctorate of science, and Prof
George Eli Bennett. member of the
university faculty, was awarded
similar honor.
Previously, in Baltimore, two hon.
orary degrees were bestowed in exer-
cises there commemorating the 10th
anniversary Of the university's
school of pharmacy. Robert S. Nc
Kenney, pioneer pharmacist, was
awarded a doctor of pharmacy de-
gree, and w. S. Rudd dean of the
school of pharmacy of the Medical
College of Virginia, was presented
doctor of science degree.
H0nOrs in Agriculture.
Honorary certificates in agricul-
ture also were presented three per-
sons today by DR.. Byrd. They were
awarded Levin Otis Corcoran of
Rhodesdale, Md for his work in
the cantaloupe industry; Clay Pen
nington Whiteford of Whiteford,
Md, for activities in the general
field of agriculture. and Daniel
Ewing Wight of Frederick, Md, in
recognition of his work as a breeder
Of PeFCheron horses and Aberdeen
Angus cattle.
The argument that totalitarianism
Is inevitable and the new future, the
Federal security administrator told
the graduates, is all false"
"Totalitarianism,' he said, lis not
the future. 1t is collection of the
dregs of the past-the cruel, ig-
norant. barbaric past from which
men had thought they were forever
liberated
But, he added totalitarianism and
democracy cannot live side by side
: SiXty-eight officers in the R. o.
T. c. unit of the university were
awarded reserve commissions in the
United States Army exercises yes
terday.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, of the class of 1910, was
unable at the last minute to be
present to make the principal ad-
dress at an alumni banquet last
night.
Alumni Officers.
Alumni officers elected are DR.. A. |
A. Parker of Pocomoke City, Ind, |
president; Robert M. Watkins, CAL |
vert Hills, Md, first vice president:
Austin C. Diggs, Baltimore, second
vice president; George F. Pollock, 4
Calvert Hills, secretary treasurer,
Aend the following members of the
doard at large: c. V. Koons, 622 B
street NE; Omar CrotherS, Elkton, !
Md; Miss Agnes McNutt. Towson,
Md, and Miss May Louise Wood, |
Silver Spring, Md.
DR.. Byrd told the alumni that the |
university would start work within |.
a few weeks on a new 100000 |
armory on the College Park campus.
1t is also planned, he said, to build |
an addition to the nurses home in |
Baltimore and to construct several |
new buildings at the universitys
colored branch at Princess Anne.
OF the SO r. o. T. C. cadets who .
were awarded Reserve commissions
In the Army, 40 were ordered to ac-
tive duty. Most of them were as
signed to Fort Benning, Ga. Six
teen minors are to receive their
commissions after they reach 81.
The new Reserve Officers include
The following WashingtonianS
James Bradford Burnside, 1902
1ngomar street NV; John Douglas ,
Custer, 1859 Monroe street NV:
James Robert Finton, 424 Eleventh
street NE: Nelson Reide Jones. lib
Lloyd. GIG Fifth street NE; John |
CChesley Marzolf, 1705 Taylor street
NV.
William Edwin Mcmahon II, 424
Eleventh street NE; John Leonard
Meakln, 3943 Livingston street NV:
Michael Pennella, 2423 T street Sc;
Joseph Howard Randall. 3146 Nine
teenth street NV; Robert Du Bois
Rappleye, 67l2 Fourth street NV;
Ernest Clifford Saltzman, 3O3 New
ton street NE; Paul Otto Sieben-
elchen, 1919 Upshur street NE, and
Norman Harold Silverman, 4712
Thirty-second street NV.
More From Capital.
Samuel Cloke Streep. 2O3 Massa-
chusettS avenue NE; William Jack |
Suit, 1920 Warder street NV: Her.
man Alexander Taper, II New
York avenue NV; Gino Valenti,
2224 Perry street NE; Charles Will
son Wannan, 504 Longfellow street
NV; Thomas Eugene Watson,
1906 Tilden street NV. and John
Francis Greenip, 3009 Yost place
NE.
The nearby list included Richard
Alvin Clark, 103 Monroe street,
Alexandria. Va; Carl Albert Cline,
jrr Monrovia, Md; Lawrence How
ard Haskin, jr., 261 Park avenue,
Takoma Park, Md; Richard Carl
ton Savage Reid. LOG East Thorn
apple street, Chevy Chase, Md;
John Jerome RYAN, Rockville. |
Worthington Heaton Talcott, 6308 |
Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md, |
and Stanley Morris Walen, % Guide |
avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
James Monroe Beattie, Beltsville;
John Lynwood Crone, 3943 Thirty
second street, Mount Rainier, Md; |
Lawrence Judson Hodgins, jr., 1902 |
Yale avenue, College Park, Md:
Alden Elon linus, jr., 3744 Thirty
fifth street, Mount Rainier, Md; |
Robert Douglas Mattingly 900 JEFF
ferson avenue, Riverdale, Md.