When the former Secretary of State,
Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, opened
the Foreign Service School, his ulti
mate intention was to provide a
period of vocational and probational
training for the young men who had
successfully passed the requisite ex
amination to enter the diplomatic
service, and who by so doing had be
come attaches of the State Depart
ment. All this the erudite former
head of the American foreign office
has accomplished, and more besides.
For he has opened social opportunities
of the most significant character in
the National Capital, and . scanning
the names of the men who completed
the course a few weeks ago and who
already have been assigned to their
first foreign duty is to see how de
lightfully social ends from all parts
of the country have become knit to
gether.
There were 13 members of this class,
which is the first to have been tried
and proven in the final test which is
applied to them by a regular board
of directors and Instructors, all hold
ing prominent posts under Secretary
Kellogg. Os these 13, David Kirk
patrick Estes Bruce, who married Miss
Ailsa Mellon, has centered much lime
light before and since his appointment
as vice consul in Rome. But the
others made the same record as Mr.
Bruce and start their careers on equal
terms. Mr. Ellis O. Briggs of Ne*v
York City, who entered the school on
its opening day, April 20, 1925, has
been appointed vice consul to Lima,
Peru. Mr. Early B. Christian of
Shrevesport, la., has gone to the
Irish Free State, and is now attached
to the consular offlot In Dublin. Mr.
