Brooklyn Standard Union
17 June  1929

Graduates

BROOKLYN BOYS LEAD IN HONORS GIVEN BY C.C.N.Y.
One Gets Highest  Award and 32 Win Coveted "Cum Laude"

   Brooklyn boys, scheduled to receive their degrees from the College of the
City of New York Wednesday, walked away with more medals, honors and citations
than graduates from any other borough. The list of honors was made public
today by Dr. Frederick B. ROBINSON of the college, and includes the names of
just seventy students from this side of the river.

   The one graduate who will be awarded his "degree" summa cum laude, which
means "with the highest honors," is Charles HODES of 1037 Hegeman avenue. In
addition, four Brooklynites graduate magna cum laude (with great honor) and
twenty eight cum laude (with honors).

Brooklynites Honored

   The full list of students from this side of the river who won honors
follows:
    Pell medal, to the student who ranked highest in all studies for the year,
silver, 
		Herbert M. NEWMAN, 1467 Carroll street.

    Cromwell medal, for proficiency in history, 
		Raymond Everett LISLE, 98 Moffatt street.

    Ward medals, for greatest proficiency in:
     Biology, Samuel KAISER, 960 Forty-third street
     Chemistry, Joseph GREENSPAN, 190 Knickerbocker avenue
     Geology, Ralph PASTOR, 245 Rutledge street
     German (certificate of equal merit), Morris RECHTER, 44 Lewis avenue
     Logic, Charles HODES, 1037 Hegeman avenue
     Logic (certificate of equal merit), Benjamin KAPLAN, 1253 Franklin avenue

     Riggs medal, for the best English prose composition, 
		Jack FRIEDMAN, 2144 Seventy-second street.

     Claflin medal, for proficiency in Latin, gold, 
		Charles HODES, 1037 Hegeman avenue.

     Napththall LIPSHITZ, 1379 Franklin avenue, won the silver medal for
proficiency in Greek.

In Mathematics

   Eight medals for excellence in pure mathematics went to Brooklynites as
follows:
   Gold medals, 
Joseph BOROWITZ, 393 Hewes street; 
Isadore GETZELS, 1026 President street; 
Sergius GOTTLIEB, 4916 Ninth avenue 
Abraham GREENFIELD, 499 Shepherd avenue.

   Silver medals, 
Nathaniel GOLDSTEIN, 714 Quincy street, 
Joseph ROSENBLOOM, 218 East Thirty-seventh street; 
Frank SCHULMAN, 196 Bay Fourteenth street 
Louis STEINBERG, 488 Sackman street.

   The Bennett prize for the best essay on some subject of American government
policy went to Louis FIELAND, 1693 Fifty-eighth street.

   General Tremain prizes for the best essays on "The Causes, Conduct and
Conclusion of the Great Civil War in the United States," second prize, 
		Raymond Everett LISLE, 98 Moffatt street.

   The James R. Steers prize or excellence in the art department went to
		Sidney SCHRIEBER, 1460 Carroll street.

For Best Essay

   The Meyer Cohn English prize for the best essay by a member of the
graduating class was won by Sidney FINKLESTEIN, 631 Crescent street.

   Benjamin KAPLAN of 1253 Franklin avenue won the Divinsky Memorial Medal for
the highest standing in public speaking throughout the college course.

   Nathan JOCHNOWITZ of 860 Lafayette avenue won the Eliza Ford Memorial prize
for the most deserving student in the field of technology.

   The Leon pins for the senior showing the highest scholarship in English and
German were won by:
		Harry A. HOROWITZ, 522 Barbey street and 
		Herman RAMRAS, 27 Macon street, respectively.

   Harry Leon MARGULES of 1354 East Nineteenth street won honorable mention in
the contest for the Henry Wollman prize for the best thesis for a degree in
the school of business and civic administration.

Second Year Honors

   Jacob WEISSBUCH of 249 Jefferson avenue won the high second year honors
while honors for the second year were won by Hyman BRANDT 
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