Evening star., 1946-06-22
6. u. Alumni 10 Hold
Reunion Tonight on
Eve OF Commencement!


day greeted alumni arriving from
all sections of the country for their
largest reunion dinner in years at
7 o'clock tonight in the Mayflower
Hotel, on the eve of the Hilltops
147th annual commencement.
1t is the first reunion since Pearl
Harbor, and early today in Dahl
gren Chapel hundreds of old grads
paid tribute to the memory of de-
parted comrades, including the 1863
Georgetown alumni who died in the
armed services during World War
II. Among the more prominent
alumni whose deaths were recorded
recently were George E. Hamilton
dean emeritus of the school OF
law, and Dr.. Walter j. OConnor
college registrar.
The Rev. John J. Toohey, S. j.,
professor of philosophy, the oldest
member of the college faculty in
point of service, celebrated the
requiem mass. Visiting alumni were
headed by Thomas A. Dean, Chi
cago, national president.
Alumni Elect Today.
At 2 pm. the alumni associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting
and election of officers.
More than 1000 will attend to-
nights dinner at which the principal
speakers will be 1t. Gen. Ira C.
Eaker, deputy commander and chief
of the air staff, Army Air Forces,
and Rear Admiral William Brent
Young, chief paymaster of the Navy,
who was graduated from Georgetown
law school in 1915. The Very Rev.
Lawrence c. German, S. j., uni
versity president. and the incoming
alumni president will welcome the
old grads, many of whom have been
out of Georgetown from As to so
years.
Varsity letters will be awarded bv
the athletic department to members
OF the baseball and basket ball
teams. Because the &c" letter
was instituted as a reward before
their time, three of the alumni who
played on varsity teams in their
youth will receive belated recogni
ton tonight.
They are: Richard P. Whiteley,
a Department of Justice attorney,
who was on the 1901 baseball team;
Richard Douglass, Greensboro, N, c..
a football star of so years ago, and
Warwick Herman, Utica, N. Y, past
president of the New York State
Bar Association, who played on the
first golf team in 1901.
Prettyman to Speak.
DR.. Henry j. Crosson. Washington,
who was graduated from the medi-
cal school 56 years ago, was believed
to be the Oldest alumnus in attend
ance at the reunion. Other old
sters" include j. B. McGirr, Brook
lyn. N. Y, law 80, and four men,
bers of the 1894 law class; Guida C.
Callan, John S. Flannery, Joseph
P. Burg and Charles F. Roberts, all
of the District.
Commencement day will start at
$50 am. with 2 baccalaureate mass
in Dahlgren Chapel at which the
Rev. Herman L. Heide will preach
the sermon.
At the pm. exercises on the COL
lege lawn, Associate Justice E. Bar
rett Prettyman of the United States
Court of Appeals, a law alumnus OF
1915, will address the graduating
classes. These will represent seniors
of all departments except the medi-
cal and dental schools, which held
separate commencement exercises
in the spring.
President German will confer
honorary doctor of laws degrees
upon Justice Prettyman, the Rev.
John j. O'Connor, S. j., college
professor Of Greek since 1927, and
Col. A. J. Donahue, Stanford
Comm manufacturer. Col. Dona-
hue's four sons attended George
town, one of whom was killed in
France during the war. ,