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Seniors Gain Foreign Study Scholarships

Sheldon Prize Goes To Graduating Men

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Eight foreign study fellowships and a prize were awarded to graduating Seniors yesterday as University Hall continued its annual barrage of scholarships. Dean Bender announced the selections after the Corporation voted its approval.

Harian Philip Hanson '46 of Madison, Wisconsin and Kirkland House gained the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship. Hanson earned a summa cum laude in Germanie Languages and Literatures this spring.

Sheldon Awards to Three

Yesterday's vote of the Corporation sent the three Frederick Sheldon Prize Traveling Fellowships to David Dudley Bidwell '48 of Weston, and Lowell House, Richard Lee Ingraham '45 of Packanack Lake, New Jersey, and Richard Henry Milburn '48 of Newark, New Jersey, and Adams House. All three men were recipients of summa degrees in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, Mathematics, and Physics respectively.

The Frank Knox Fellowship for study in the British Commonwealth went to Joseph Dee Everingham '49, of Clear-water, Florida, and Kirkland House, while the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French university was gained by John Marshall Alcorn '45 of Pontiac, Illinois, and Eliot House. Both men are in History and Literature.

De Jersey Studentship

Two further awards for study at Cambridge University, England were announced. The Lionel De Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske 3rd Scholarship at Trinity College, both given in memory of men killed in World War I, were presented to Justin Edgerton Gale of Andover and Kirkland House, and Richard Paradise of Quincy and Eliot House. Gale is the present number five oar on the varsity crew.

Another crewman, Richard Stockton Emmet, Jr. '46 of Glen Head, Long Island and Winthrop House received the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize. Emmet is magna cum laude in History.

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