Evening star., 1942-06-07
McNuH Chief Speaker
As GaIIaSdef Awards
Degrees 10 Graduates
Honorary Recognition
Is Given Four at
18th Commencement

More than 300 persons read from
the fingers of an interpreter yester-
day message from Federal
Security Administrator McNutt,
who called on every educated man
of today to distinguish between
knowledge of methods and the mas
terry of the problem at hand" as a
means of preventing return of the
'laissez faire" conditions of the
l920's.
His talk was made at the 18th
annual commencement exercises of
Gallaudet College, only college for
the deaf in the world, during which
48 degrees, four of them honorary,
were presented.
At pm, the bell III the tower
of the college chapel rang four
times, and people in the auditorium
below and those who loitered out
side on the campus told each
other with their fingers that it
was time for the program to start.
Soon the line of capped and gowned
graduates and faculty members ap-
peared from the main building of
the college and marched slowly
toward the chapel.
Best Defense Workers.
Inside, after invocation by the
Rev. Robin Gould of Francis As
bury Methodist Church, an grafton
by Richard Kennedy of Indiana was
read and interpreted. Mr.. Ken
nedy said deaf people were perhaps
better fitted than any one else for
defense work because of their
nimble fingers, trained through
years of practice.
The valedictory was delivered by
Miss Laura Knight of Minnesota,
selected as the outstanding woman
senior of the year. Degrees were
conferred on the candidates by
Percival Hall, president of the COL
lege; Irving S. Fusfeld, dean; Harley
D. Drake, Percival Hall, jr, and
Sam B. Craig, professors.
Honorary degrees we're conferred
on James A. Weaver, instructor in
the New Jersey School for the Deaf,
master of pedagogy; Truman l..
Ingle, superintendent of the Mis-
souri, School for the Deaf, master
of arts; Thomas Carlow Forester
superintendent of the Rochester
School for the Deaf, and Arthur l..
Roberts, grand president of the
National Fraternal Society of the
Deaf, doctors of humane letters.
The Thomas S. Mari award for
the outstanding senior was pre-
sented to Miss Knight, and the Olof
Hanson service award, for similar
distinction, to Ben M. Schowe, jr.,
of Ohio. Other awards included
the Charles r. Ely prize in chem
istry, presented to Byron Baer of
the District; the Charles R. Ely
prize for general excellence, to Ma
rie Seebach of Minnesota; the O.
w. L. S. scholarship awards, to
Ruth Benoit of Kansas, Charlie
Todd of Florida, Susie Koehn OF
Kansas and Marie Seebach of Min
nesota, and the Kappa Gamma
scholarship award to Francis Hull
man of South Dakota.
Urged to Study Facts.
Mr.. McNutt told the graduates
that democracy must be re-won
every day of our lives" and that
"democracy's vital need today is to
look behind the labels" to study
facts which change the world fun
damentally for some people. He
explained that he referred to those
who thought they had satisfac-
torily labeled the world once and
for all in the complacent financial
frenzy" Of the 1920s.
I'VE know that the world did not
read it's labels these last 20 years"
he said. "Why is it that men, reared
in the most thorough and efficient
educational system a free nation
has ever seen, could so misjudge the
meaning of totalitarian tyranny"
Those who received degrees fol-
low:
Bachelor of Arts.
Arbuckle Phyllis N. CLANCY, Leonard E.
Baker, F. Leon knight, Laura E.
Bowen William j. Rafferty,. Lester D.
Chester John S. Schowe, Ben M. II.
Clements. Edward E. Stevens, William E.
G%lCy, LtOndIO SIOltS JUG GNeicIt
Bachelor of Science.
Ammons Jewel Manahan, Hazel M.
Baer, Byron S. Ohlson Theodore r.
Brown. Mae Joy Sampson, Robert e:
Erickson, Ruth L. Schneider. Frederick
Kennedy, Richard w. Seebach. Lydia Marie
Lankenau, Robert o. Stiarwalt, GAYLORD
Long, Pauline z. Strickland; Norma Il.
Lone, Vinona K. WarshawSky, L. B.
Ludovico. Carmen L.
Master Of Arts.
GolIaday, 10y E. McKellar, Margaret
Master of Arts in Normal Department.
Ambrosen, Lloyd A. Natest, Arcot N.