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INAUGURATION
OF DIR. PERKINS
Twenty-First President OF
University of Delaware to
be Inaugurated April 20
GREETING BY GOVERNOR

Governor Elbert N. Carvel will
deliver the states official greetings
TO DIR. John A. Perkins at the lat
ters formal inaugural as twenty
kirst president of the University of
Delaware, in ceremonies on the
Newark campus, Friday afternoon,
April 20.
The Inauguration will begin at
GAS pm. with an academic pro
cession of the faculty across the
campus from Wolf Hall to the
front of University Hall. In case
of inciement weather. the outdoor
program will be cancelled, and the
exercises will be held in nearby
Mitchell Hall.
DR.. w. Owen Sypherd, university
professor emeritus and former
president, will welcome the guests.
Greetings to President Perkins on
ssehalf of the student body will be
suppressed by Samuel ]. Talucci,
president of the Student Govern
ment Association. On behalf of the
aiInnnae and alumni, the speakers
win be Mrs. T. Muncy Keith of
Wilmington and Milton L. Draper
of Newark, The faculty's greetings
will be delivered by DR.. Augustus
H. Able, associate professor of
Esngiish.
DIR. Perkins will be inducted off,
cially into office by former Judge
Hugh M. Morris, president of the
board of trustees. The university's
president, who has held Office since
dast Nov. 1, will then deliver the
principal address of the ceremony.
The invocation will be spoken by
the Most Rev. Edmond ]. Fitz-
Maurice, bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Wilmington,
and the benediction will be asked
10y the Right Rev. Arthur R. Nc
Kinstry, bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Delaware.
AN informal reception at Brown
Hall, starting at 4:30 pm, will
close the Inauguration program.
The receiving line will include DR..
and Mrs. Perkins, DR. Sypherd, and
Judge Morris. DIR. John A. Munroe,
associate professor of history and
assistat to the dean of the School
of Arts & Sciences, will present
the guests.
Arrangements for the reception
are being made by Miss Irma Ay-
ers, dean of the School of Home
Economics, assisted by Mrs, Allan
p. Colburn, Mrs. Francis H. Squire,
AIRS. ]. Fenton Daugherty, and
Mrs. Ned B. Allen.
The faculty committee on ar
rangements for the inaugural con-
Sists of Provost A. p. Colburn,
Dean Ayers, Dean Carl j. Rees,
Dean f. H. Squire, and Prof Ralph
w. Jones. An advisory committee
of the trustees is headed by G.
Douglass Buck and includes Judge
Richard S. Rodney and Mrs. Albert
w. James.
The inaugural is being planned
primarily for Delaware residents,
and all citizens will be welcomed,
according to Provost Colburn. In
vitations have been sent to repre-
sentatives in the fields of educa-
tion, agriculture, and government.
If the ceremony can be held out
of-doors, all interested persons will
be able to attend, but if it is forced
Indoors, the limited capacity of
Mitchell Hall will restrict attend
ance to ticket-holders. 1t is be-
ieved probable, however, that suf-
ficient tickets will be available fol-
any interested citizens who write
to Miss Helen L. Steel, executive
secretary to the president at the
university. Maps of the campus
showing parking lots, will be sent
to all persons requesting tickets
Guides will show guests to the
parking area.
In conjunction with the inaugur
al. a Human Relations Work Con
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