Evening star., 1941-03-24
Two District Scholars
Receive Guggenheim
Fellowship Awards
DR.. Lewis u. Hunke
And DR.. Hutchinson
Among IS Recipients

DR. Lewis Ulysses HanKe, director
of .he Hispanic Foundation, Library
of Congress, and DR. Edward Prince
Hutchinson, demographer with the
library, have been awarded John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial fell
loWohipS, it was announced today.
DR.. Hanke will pursue studies Of
the Spanish discovery, exploration
and administration of America and
DR.. Hutchinson will conduct re-
search into the sOcio-economic sig
nificance Of population
The foundation awarded fellow
ships tc 65 American and Canadian
scholars and artists with grants
totaling $4,000 Since its estab-
liShment 16 years ago the founda-
ton has granted 1,0l7 felloWShips
with stipends totaling about S2,5y..-
600. Each is usually $500 a year.
Former Senator and Mrs. Simon
Guggenheim established the founda-
ton as memorial to a son.
L. of California Leads
The University of California. with
six Of its faculty receiving awards,
led the 81 educational institutions
represented. Carrying out its plan
for exchanges of scholars and
artists with other American re-
publics, the foundation appointed
IA fellows to Latin American studies.
DR.. Cornelius Becker Philip, medi-
cal entomologist in the United States
pnh1Ip Inalfh Cratinnal
the Rocky Mountain Laboratory,
Hamilton, Mont, were among those
named to study in Mexico and
South America He will prepare a
book on ticks and their relation to
animal and human disease.
A scientist who is conducting high
ly important research for the Ma
tional Defense Research Commit
tee was among those receiving a fell
lowship. He was Dr. Aristid V.
Crosse, member Of the group work.
ing in the Columbia University phy-
sizes laboratory on secret processes
for utilization of a close rela tive Of
the element uranium. known as
U-235, as a source of power.
Seap0Wer STUDIES.
Studies on seapoWer will be con-
Quoted under felloWships granted to
Prof. Gerald S. Graham of Queens 5
University, Kingston, Ontario. and
DR.. Arthur j. Marder of Dorches-
ter, Mass.
DR.. Hanke, author of two books
and many articles on Latin Amer
lean history, was born in Oregon
City January 2, 1905. Northwestern
University awarded him a bachelor
of science degree in 1924 and a mas
ter OF arts the following year In
1881 he received master of arts de-
gree from Harvard University and
received his doctor of philosophy de-
gree there in 1886.
DR.. Hanke was an instructor in
history at the University of Hawaii
1926-27 and an assistant professor
of history at the American UnIver-
sitv in Beirut, Syria. in l929-3O He
held an Amherst University Memo
rial fellowship in 1885 and the
Archibald Cary Coolidge fellowship
at Harvard in 1884
From 1884 to 1886. he was an in
structor in history in Harvard and
for the next two years worked with
a fellowship on social science re-
search. He returned to his post as
history instructor during the next
year and left that to take his pres
ent post at the Library of Congress
DR.. Hutchinson is "a years old
and native of Auburn, Me. He
took his bachelor of arts degree at
Bowooin College in 1927 and his
doctor of philosophy as Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology six
years later.
He was an assistant in the public
health, medical and dental school
of Tufts College, 1929. and in the
vital statistics school of the public
health department of Harvard,
1929-30 During the following two
years he was an Instructor in the
department Of sociology at Harvard
and from 1882 to 1885 held fellow
| ship in social science research there.
He was an instructor and tutor in
sociology at Harvard in 1889 and
last year went to the Library Of
Congress with fellowship on
population problems.