Name/Title
ProgramEntry/Object ID
1985.002.0294Description
Program of the dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial Building at Georgetown University on October 13, 1958. Mr. and Mrs. Beitzell each had an invitation and had one parking pass. During the ceremony, then president Dwight Eisenhower was given an honorary doctor of laws and a bust of Father Walsh was unveiled. There was a symposium on the foreign service in the afternoon and an academic convocation in the evening at which academic honors for the 1958-1959 school year were awarded.
The folder is of heavy cream paper 12"h x 9"w with a blue and white braided cord in the spine and a purple ribbon threaded into the tassle. The University seal (1 /12" diameter) is in gold and blue centered left to right and 2 1/4" below the top edge. Blue script 5/8" high "Dedication of the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial building Monday, October thirteenth MCMLVIII" All other surfaces of the folder are blank. The interior pages are cream heavy paper 11 9/16"h x 8 11/16"w. There is a nice drawing of Father Walsh and a quotation from a speech he made in 1919. There follows the program for the dedication ceremony, the text in Latin and English of the President's degree, a program for the foreign service symposium, a program for the academic convocation, the Latin and English texts of three additional honorary degrees, a list of the academic honorees, a list of the committee members for the occasion, and finally the words of the university alma mater. The Beitzells' invitations and parking pass are at the centerfold. The parking pass is medium green.Collection
Edwin Warfield Beitzell CollectionLocation
Container
Edwin Beitzell Collection, Box 24Shelf
Rack 09, Shelf 3Rack
Rack 09Wall
North wallRoom
Archives 2Building
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Walsh, Edmund A.