Georgetown and the Hemisphere
Howard W. Gunlocke Rare Book and Special Collections Room
December 1, 1994
December 31, 1994
"Old South" the original Georgetown College building (begun in 1788, completed in 1791)
Student accounts of the first foreign students
Nicholas and Jean Jacques Fevrier entered the college April 17, 1792 from the French West Indies. Note that the bill was paid in part by a barrel of Muscarado sugar, and a supply of coffee. The first Hispanic student, Francisco Ignacio DiAyala entered November 15, 1793.
Fragments of the Spanish edition of the 1798 Prospectus
It was also printed in French and English.
Rev. William Louis DuBourg, S.S., third President of Georgetown University
DuBourg was born in Sainte-Domingue but came to Georgetown from France from which he fled five days before a Jacobin raiding party murdered four of his seminarian instructors. Note that not all our Presidents have been Jesuits.
Dr. Bailey K. Ashford, Georgetown M.D. 1896
Dr. Ashford is credited with eradicating hook worm from Puerto Rico.
Ambassador Diego Asencio, SFS '53.
Some may remember Ambassador Asencio's "grace under fire" when held hostage for 61 days in Colombia.
The inauguration of the Pan-American Students Association at Georgetown in 1923
A portion of the Diplomatic Corps
A significant portion of the Latin-American diplomatic corps attended the inauguration of Georgetown's Latin-American Students Association, including the representatives of Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Panama, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Costa Rica.
Dean Peter Krogh with UN Ambassadors Madeleine Albright, Donald McHenry, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, all Georgetown Professors
President Alfredo F. Cristiani, of El Salvador, from the 1968 Georgetown Yearbook
Tomás Herrán (C 1863)
As the representative of Colombia, Herrán negotiated the Hay-Herrán Treaty.
Feliz Cipriano Zegarra, C 1864
Zegarra served as Peruvian Ambassador to the United States.
Dr. Guillermo Sherwell and School of Foreign Service students at Bolivar's tomb, Caracas
Now that's a field trip.
Dr. William Manger, Georgetown LLB 1921, PhD 1926
Manger served as Assistant Secretary General of the Pan American Union and the Organization of American States, as well as Professor of History at Georgetown. He is shown here ( right) with Fernando Lobo, Ambassador of Brazil to the Organization of American States, after the Ambassador presented him with Brazil's " Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul".
Georgetown at Dawn
Llewellyn, Robert
