Evening star., 1942-06-06
Fahy Will Address
6. u. Law Graduates
AT Exercises Today
Degree to Be Conferred
On Solicitor General;
Prizes Awarded Seniors

Of law will close its 72d year with
commencement exercises at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon in CASTOR Hall
on the university campus, when
Solicitor General Charles Fahy will
address the graduating class of rs
seniors.
An honorary doctor of laws de-
gree will be conferred on the solici-
tor general, who was admitted to
the District of Columbia bar in 1914
after his graduation from George
town Law School. The Very Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., president
of the university. will preside at the
comforting of degrees and Dean
George E. Hamilton will present the
candidates.
Next Monday the law school opens
its new accelerated program with
summer sessions.
Prizes Awarded.
Prizes for scholastic achievements
and curriculum activities were
awarded at class exercises last night
to more than 80 students. A part
ing gift from the class was a set of
books for the library, which was ac-
cepted by Dean Hamilton from Al
fred c. Proulx, jr.. president of the
afternoon section.
The outstanding award in the un-
dergraduate school was made to
Charles L. Decker of OskalooSa,
Kans, a graduate of the United
States Military Academy, for main
tanning the highest general average
in classes for the four years of the
law course. The award was a medal
founded in honor of the Rev. Francis
E. Lucey, S. j., regent of the school
Honorable mention was received by
Timothy P. Ansberry of the District,
graduate of Georgetown College.
Mr. Decker also received a $40
faculty prize for the best average for
the year in the morning section of
the senior class. He likewise won a
$50 prize offered by Dean Hamilton
for the best paper on legal ethics.
Second prizes of S25 were awarded
in this, ex aequo, TO Joseph L. Ward
of Portsmouth, Va, and William B.
Mcdonnell of Davenport, Iowa.
Other Prizes Presented.
Other prizes in undergraduate
class standing were awarded as fol-
lows: $40 for the second highest
average in the morning senior sec
ton to Mr.. Ansberry of the Dis
trict, $40 for the highest average
in the afternoon section to James
A. McKenna of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
second prize of $40 in the same
section to Arthur A. Dickerman of
Greenbelt, Md.
Robert Littel Pierce of the Dis
trict received the outstanding
medal in the graduate school for
excellence in the master course.
Honorable mention was given to
Bernard I. Nordlinger of the Dis
trict. Also in the graduate school,
Robert D. LHeureuX of Manchester,
N. H, was awarded a prize by
Assistant Dean Hugh j. Fegan for
the best work in English legal
history.
Two faculty prizes of S25 each
we're awarded to Joseph A. Jen-
kins of Salt Lake City and James
A. McKenna, jr., of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, as members of the winning
side Of the final law club debate.
Awards of SIS each were made to
the following winners of prelim-
mary debates: Thomas Paul Daily,
jr., of Pasadena, Calf; William L.
Burke of Terre Haute, Ind; Harry
L. Kuchins of st. Louis, Mo-; Rob-
ert P. OReilly of Arlington, Va;
Robert M. Schumo of Hamburg,
Pa; Milton A. Nixon of Portland,
Me-: William j. Barnhard of Hy-
attsville, Md, and Mr.. McKenna.
Three of the winners, MessrS.
Burke, OReilly and Schumo, were
Law Journal Keys Awarded.
Law Journal keys were awarded
also to Charles E. Thompson and
Mr.. McKenna, associate editors,
and to the following assistant edi-
tors: Robert Day Scott, William
Blum, jr.; Ensign David Arthur
Wilson, jr.; William B. Mcdonnell,
John Richard Wall and Joseph
L. Ward.
A $1o0 prize in the Nathan
Burkan memorial competition was
won by James P. P. Healy, jr., Of
Seattle, Wash.
At the annual class day exer-
cises in the evening, Mr.. McKenna
gave the bachelors grafton and the
valedictory was given by Ensign
Wilson. Other participants were
George j. Kilroy and c. Walter
Harris, class histories, and Patrick
o. Hayes and William Blum, jr.,
class prophecies.
The president of the university
and regent of the law school made
the scholastic awards