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Notes
Labor Secretary Durkin was
given an honorary doctor of laws
degree by DePaul University in
the Chicago Opera House.
He was cited for "the distinc-
ton with which he has served
the partnership of labor. man
agement and the public for more
than 80 years"
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Ida Josephine Usilton, bio
statistician and administrator in
the United States Public Health
Service, and Rachel Carson of
Silver Spring, author of '"The
Sea Around U.s." received hon.
orary degrees at the recent COM
mencement exercises at Smith
College in Northampton, Mass.
Miss Usilton received a doctor
of science degree, and Miss Car
son a doctor of letters degree.
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Charles M. Elliott, 1907 North
Chesterbrook road, Arlington,
and Robert L. Finney, Bel Air.
Md. were graduated recently at
Waynesburg CPa) College.
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Western Reserve University in
Cleveland recently conferred
honorary degrees upon Ray M.
Gidney, Controller of the Cur
rency. and Robert L. johnson,
Director of the international In
formation Administration of the
State Department.
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Six students from the WASH
ington area were graduated re-
Gently from the Staunton Mill
tary Academy in Staunton, Va.
They are:
Theodore T. Lawshe III, $500
Sixth street NV; Stanley r.
Spund. 5412 Grove street, Chevy
Chase, Md; Fred H. Davis, jr.,
1841 Columbia road NV; Eu-
gene P. Stichman. 4420 Seven
teenth street NV; Philip G.
Rodriguez. TOSS Eastern avenue,
Takoma Park. Md, and John R.
Currey, jr., 1920 Bradley boule-
ward, Bethesda.
David S. Feldman, 1905 Wild
wood drive, Takoma Park, re-
ceived a bachelor of arts degree
recently from Marietta (Ohio)
College.
Francis j. Henderson, jr., Al
Hanover street NV, was
awarded a commission as second
lieutenant in the Army Reserve
Corps at the commencement ex-
erciseS of St. Bonaventure
IN. " University.
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Janet Marshall, 4402 Harrison
street NV, received bachelor
OF arts degree at Pennsylvania
College for Women in Pitts
burgh.
Reginald Stabler, 48O6 u street
NV, is candidate for master
of arts degree in chemistry from
Occidental College in Los An
geles.
Oberlin (Ohio) College recent
ly granted degrees to II stu
dents from the Washington area
at it's 120th commencement.
They are:
Garret G. Ackerson III, 3505
Fulton street NV; Junia Brat
ter. 5000 Thirty-ninth street
NV; Helen Virginia Clugston,
4816 Brandywine street NV.
Also Norman Castleman Craig,
6513 Barnaby street NV; David
Heath ,Kopf, 3344 Runnymede
place NV; Romulus Zachariah
Linney, 1000 Cathedral avenue
NV; Robert B. McWhorter,
4607 Connecticut avenue NV:
William S. CaSSelS. 1006 High
land drive, Silver Spring; Rich
ard F. Curtis, Bethesda; Scott
Himstead, 210 Rosemary street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Also Sharman B. Hummell,
4615 Hunt avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md; Ann T. Meyer, 400 High |
street, Chevy Chase, Md; Dom
aid B. Robertson, lag Shepard |
street. Chevy Chase, Md; Anne
M. Thalman, 9133 Jones Mill |
road, Chevy Chase, Md; Pru-
dence E. Fox. South Buchanan |
street, Arlington: Linda M. Mar
celia Jackson, 1900 North Har-
rison street. Arlington, and |
Gretchen Paffenbarger, Boyds,
Md.
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Ruth Regardie. 3547 Hartford
place NV, has been awarded a
diploma at the graduation exer-
cises of the Sinai Hospital School
Of Nursing in Baltimore.