Evening star., 1949-10-30
Anne Diffenderfer
Is Crowned at 6. W.
Homecoming Ball

Miss Anne Lenoir Diffenderfer,
1925 Bay street Sc, last night
was crowned queen OF George
Washington University's home
coming ball at the National Guard
Armory.
The 20-year-old junior, a can
didate of Sigma Chi fraternity,
won out over 81 other co-eds as
a climax to the university's home
coming week end.
Earlier in the day 400 gradu-
ates and faculty at a Homecoming
luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel
heard DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
university president, predict that
if present high enrolment con-
tinues for the second term. q
record 21,000 students will have
registered during the academic
year.
Chosen by Board.
The queen, daughter Of Mrs.
William I. Diffenderfer Of the Bay
street address. was chosen by a
board of judges composed of Mrs.
Robert E. Freer, wife of the uni
versity trustee; Cameron Burton,
president of the University Law
Alumni Association, and Jack
Morton, chairman of the home
coming committee.
She was crowned by Charles
Crichton, president of the student
council. Judging was held in the
afternoon but kept closely
guarded secret until the ball.
1t is not the first time Miss
Diffenderfer has won honors for
her beauty. She was picked as
the dream girl of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity in 1947. In the spring
of last year she was the drag
of the week" at the Naval Acad-
emy in Annapolis. This past spring
she represented the university as
princess in the apple blossom
festival at Winchester. She then
won the hearts of the Sigma Chi
boys and was picked as their
sweetheart.
Eastern High Graduate.
Miss Diffenderfer, a graduate of
Eastern High School, is a dual
major in art and mathematics, is
on the staff of the year book and
cfivo in r,ooIorr doroo oro,,ne
She is member of Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority.
Maj. Gen. Patrick j. Hurley,
former diplomat and Cabinet Off
Ger and alumnus of university
in the class of 1918, was the princi-
pal speaker at the luncheon at
which 10 faculty members were
honored for Is years service.
Gen. Hurley paid tribute to DR..
Marvin, declaring that George
Washington today is the reflection
of the character and ability of its
president" The speaker noted
that the university "even has ex-
ceeded the growth" of the city,
with expanded curricula "in keep
ing with the complexities of the
modern world and the growth of
the Republic"
DR.. Alexander Wetmore, sec
retary of the Smithsonian Insti-
tutiop and president of the
G. W. U. Alumni Association,
presented certificates to the 10
men whose service at the uni
versity entitled them to member
ship in the twenty-five Year
Club"
New Members Listed.
They were DR.. John Hugh
Lyons, clinical professor of sur
gerry at Emergency Hospital; DR..
Walter Freeman, professor Of
neurology and president of the
Washington Medical Society; DR..
John Alton Reed, assistant clin-
ical professor of medicine and
chairman of the Board of Police
and Fire Surgeons: DR.. Edward
Lewis, clinical professor of pedia-
tries; Paul William Bowman, pro-
fessor of biology; DR.. Arch Lock-
hart Riddick, clinical professor
of surgery; John Albert Tillema,
professor of political science; John
Russell Mason, librarian and Gu
rator of art at the university:
Norris I. Crandall, professor of
art, and James C.. Corliss, ad-
junct professor Of inter American
economics.
Guests included Maj. Gen. U. S.
Grant, Sd. vice president of the
university; Walter r. Tuckerman,
and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., trus-
tees; Col. Henry P. Erwin, secre-
tary of the board of trustees;
Coach "Bo" Rowland and mem
bers of the university football
team which won out over Lafay-
); cite College in Friday nights
homecoming football game.