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BROOKLYN LIFE At chool and College Edited by JOHN B. O'BRIEN, Amherst '05 medal for class excellence and the blue ribbon of honor. Miss Mullen received the award for excellence in athletics. The Rt. Rev.

Mgr. Patrick J. Cherry of Brooklyn is one of the donors of the medals. WELLES LEY held its annual Spring Field Day on May 22nd. The events included a faculty-student baseball game, tennis, lacrosse, track and archery contest.

Class and individual caps were awarded. Miss Elizabeth Knight of Forest Hills, L. captained the tennis team and arranged the tennis program. SB ftliSifiteili THE REV. WILLIAM N.

MacNEIL of Garden City has been elected president of the Alumni Association of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, pii Ipfftf piFTY-SIX KING'S CROWNS, fifteen of gold and lorty-one of silver, were awarded at Columbia University this past week to students who have won distinction in non-athletic activities. Of these awards, fourteen, or exactly one-fourth, went to Brooklyn and Long Island men. Gold crowns, were awarded to Bryan Lawrence of 163 North Carll Avenue, Babylon, business manager of the Jester, the undergraduate humorous publication, and to Milton Katims of 1140 East Seventh Street, member of the college orchestra. The only man to win two crowns was Julius R. Von Sternberg, of 209 Rutland Road, who won silver crowns for the Glee Club and Varsity Show.

Joseph P. Smyth, of Bellport, received a silver crown for the Glee Club, and Theodore Lidz of 40 Linsmore Road, Lawrence, one for his work on the Columbia Spectator, the University newspaper. Silver crowns to members of the chess team were awarded to Edward G. Baker of 129 Jay Street, Frecport, and Orrin H. Clark of 76 Elm Avenue, Flushing.

Edmond J. Runge of 151 Eighty-first Street won one as a member of the staff of the Jester. Milton H. Pearson, of 48 Richmond Street, received a gold crown for his splendid work in connection with the 1929 Varsity Show, while silver crowns for the same award were given to William F. Miiller, of 174 Dean Street George P.

Odom of 443 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica; William E. Pascale of 97-10 Northern Boulevard, Corona, and Carl R. Risley of 25 Stratford Road. RADCL1FFE COLLEGE is celebrating its fiftieth birthday this week-end. The ceremonies began on May 30th and continue through June 2nd.

Representatives from two hundred colleges and universities took part in the academic procession which preceded the anniversary exercises yesterday morning. Today is being observed as Alumnae Day. It opened with a "Fiftieth Anniversary Birthday Party." Following at noon is a series of class luncheons, after which comes a dramatic performance, "The Radcliffe Revue," in the Arlington Theatre. Mrs. William F.

Eastman of 96 Columbia Heights is putting on the production. The day will end with the alumnae dinner, to be held in the Statler ballroom, at which Miss Helen Keller, whose home is at Forest Hills, will be one of the speakers. DANIEL ELLIOTT WALZER of Brooklyn, graduate last June of Poly Prep Country Day" Schoor, recently won distinction in two widely different fields at Princeton where he is a member of the Freshman claSs. He tied for first place in the annual Walter E. Hope contest for the reading of English poetry and a prize of fifty dollars.

Mr. Hope the donor, is president of the Prince; ton Club of New York and a former Brooklyn resident, having lived for many years on Cumberland Street. The other honor was the winning of the handball championship of the university. The Brooklyn youth is now out for Freshman tennis. At Poly Prep he was manager of the basketball team, a member of the tennis team, winner of the handball tournament and graduated cum laude.

'yWO BROOKLYN GIRLS are among the forty members of the Mount Holyoke College Junior Choir for 1929-30. They are Miss Marjorie Smeltzer, 1112 Dean Street, second soprano and Miss Dorothy Hammond, 110Q Ocean Avenue, alto. MISS SHIRLEY HERRIMAN Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph F.

Herriman of 1075 Bushwick Parkway and Bayport, L. I. Miss Herriman is a Junior at Miss Wheelock's School in Boston and is a graduate of Adelohi Academy. She will act as sponsor ior Company at the Commencement exercises at Staunton Military Academy, June 2nd to 5th. AT THE SHORE ROAD ACADEMY letters tit general athletic proficiency have been Miss Barbara Leavitt, Miss Jane Gissel, Miss Elizabeth Higgins, Miss Mabel Carter and Miss Judith Smith.

Basketball chevrons have been bestowed upon MissiDof-othy Jordan, Miss Betty Edwards, Miss Betty Block, Miss Dorothy Stewart, Miss Sylvia Triebitz and Miss Ruth Farrington. ROBERT D. STIEHLER of Hicksville, L. has been awarded a four-year scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, valued at $1,000 each year. Only one such scholarship is available to each State.

He is now in his Junior year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is enrolled in the Bachelor of Science course. At Johns Hopkins he will study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. THE TEN LIVING MEMBERS of the class of fifteen that was graduated in 1884 from New York University celebrated their forty-fifth anniversary on the evening of May 24th, as guests of honor at a dinner given by a classmate, the Rev. Henry E. Cobb, pastor of the West End Collegiate Church.

Among those at the dinner was Mr. Homer L. Bartlett of 210 West Merrick Road, Freeport, L. I. GABRIEL B.

FEDDE of 454 Ninth Street has been elected vice-president of the Williams College Gutr ing Club for next season and also manager of the Winter sports team. The captain of the latter team this year was Dwight R. Little, of 615 East Eighteenth Street. The Williams Outing Club is the oldest college outing club in the country. The club has recently opened several new trails around Williamstown, one of the newest being the glacial lake trail which follows along the old shore line of Lake Bascom.

The club ijs now constructing another cabin. THE REV. HORACE H. LEAVITT of 179 Eighty-second Street, pastor of the Union Church in Bay Ridge, delivered the Commencement Address at the College of the Ozarks in Clatksvillc, Arkansas, on May 30th. MISS BARBARA M.

LEGGETT of 402 Washington Avenue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cox Leggett, has been elected chairman of the Student Government Council at the Packer Collegiate Institute for next year. Miss Winifred Ingraham has been chosen vice-chairman, and Miss Jessie Clarke, secretary. I OHN HENRY BEYER of Flushing, the only Long Island man on this year's varsity baseball team at Yale, was injured in the game with Cornell last Saturday, and may not be available for the games with Princeton and Harvard.

If so, his loss will be a severe one, as he has been playing a sterling game at second base. He was injured in sliding home in the second inning and was carried from the field on a stretcher. HAROLD BERNARD NEWMAN of 500 Bedford Avenue is to have the honor of competing for the Bond prize of one- hundred dollars, at the Amherst Commencement. Fifteen Seniors having attained the highest scholastic standing, arid known as-, the pnd Fifteen, compete in May for the Bond Four, who are thus chosen to deliver Commencement Pay orations" the, winner receiving the highest Commencement honor, that of the award of the Bond prize. BROOKLYN GIRLS carried off the highest honors at the Marymount College graduation.

Miss Anne J. Rogan of 625 St. Marks Avenue received the Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude. She was also awarded the Marquis Maloney Memorial Medal for English Literature and the Cardinal Farley Memorial Gold Medal for Apologetics. Miss Constance Cannela of 1163 Herkimer Street received the Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, and was awarded the Rev.

Thomas Donlon Gold Medal for Philosophy. Miss Rosemary Murray of 653 St. Marks Avenue received the Bachelor of Arts degree. Miss Josephine Hurley of 301 Garfield Place, Miss Mary Louise Murray of 26 Woodruff Avenue and Miss Eleanor Clarke of 176 Seeley Street, were graduated from the Marymount Finishing School. MR.

JULIAN CREIGHTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Creighton, of 1809 Avenue will sail for Europe on June 12th, to spend the summer studying at the Beaux Arts School at Fontainebleau. He is a student at the Yale School of Architecture.

Mr. and' Mrs. Creighton and their other son, Stewart, plan to go to the Adirondacks for the summer. DR. PARKE R.

KOLBE, president of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, was one of the chief speaker at the luncheon given on May 24th in honor of Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss at the Princeton Club. A LARGE NUMBER of local meajhave just been awarded their varsity letter or numerals at Rutgers for participation in varsity sports. At one time during the season Long Island students formed exactly one-half of the varsity lacrosse team, and those to receive their major letter for this sport are Thomas E. Pereyra of 50 Wellington Court, Albert E. Campion of 38 Jerome Street, Ralph D.

Fairchild of Roslyh Heights and John P. Kirkwood of 156 Fourteenth Street, Flushing. The varsity track letter was won by Stanley E. Rosen of Long Beach (formerly of Brooklyn). Kingsley Childs of 1609 Dorchester Road, as manager of the tennis team', received his letter, while an unusual honor came to EHas A.

Fischer of 2155 East Eighth Street. Being a Freshman, he was not eligible for varsity competition, but as a member of the yearling track team he established BROOKLYN GIRLS who were graduated this past week from the Academy of St. Joseph's, Brentwood, L. were Miss Mildred M. Donohue, Miss Virginia M.

Lynch, Miss Regina J. Hogan, Miss Kathleen M. Hogan, Miss Helen A. McCooey, Miss Helen A. Mullen, Miss Frances R.

McDonald, Miss Stasi K. Loughlin, Miss Alice M. O'Hare, Miss Claire L. Gunn, Miss Margaret M. Wynns and Miss Marie C.

Leary. Miss Lynch was the president of the class and also the valedictorian. Her home is in Bay Ridge at 4704 Sixth Avenue. Miss Regina J. Hogan of 1211 Avenue received the medal for history and her sister, Miss Kathleen M.

Hogan, the medal for instrumental music. Another Brooklyn girl, Miss Mildred Mary Donohue, was awarded the A MILITARY FRATERNITY, to be known as Cannon and Castle, is being formed at Yale, to which are eligible students of the college and the Sheffield Scientific School, who are enrolled in the Department of Military Science. Only those who are taking advanced courses in field artillery and engineer units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps can be elected, however. AT THE RECENT MEETING in Worcester, of the fathers of undergraduate students at Holy Cross, atttended by over 200 men from various points in the East, Mr. Francis J.

Sullivan of Brooklyn was elected president of the Fathers' Association..