Kudos

Beloit College

Lawrence Kimpton, Chancellor of the University of Chicago ............D.Sc.

Citation: "Bachelor of the art of good humor, master of the art of friendship, and--comparative academic rarity--doctor of philosophy in philosophy . . . manager of supposedly unmanageable atomic scientists, developer of allegedly undeveloped funds, and notably independent leader of a leading and notably independent university; you are now the principal legatee of the rich traditions of Harper and Hutchins, whom you necessarily succeed but do not necessarily follow . . ."

Catholic University of America

Mother Elizabeth Britt, R.S.C.J., founder of the first Catholic college for women in Japan ............Ed.D.

Senor Don Jose Felix de Lequerica y Erquiza, Ambassador to the U.S. from Spain ............LL.D.

Knox College

Paul Howard Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois ............LL.D.

Mills College

Agnes George de Mille, choreographer ............Litt.D.

Georgia O'Keeffe, "painter who opens to us the beauty both of flower and of skull, matriarch of American art" ............Litt.D.

Moravian College for Women (Bethlehem, Pa.)

Marian Anderson, singer ............Mus.D.

Citation: "We know that there has been a unique spirit behind your songs far different from a desire for glory and applause. For your desire to sing, as expressed in your own words, has been 'that somebody in the audience might leave feeling a little better than when he came in.' And in your life . . . this same spirit has inspired you to a greater art--the art of helping people live together in a free world . . ."

New York University

Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc............................ LL.D.

Ethel Barrymore .............. D.F.A.

Citation: "From the bassinet in her mother's dressing room in the theater, to the throne of long-reigning queen of the Drew-Barrymore dynasty, her tour of the hearts of the theater-loving public has been an uninterrupted processional of glory in crescendo . . ."

Oberlin College

Rachel Louise Carson, author of The Sea Around Us ............D.Sc.

James William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas .............. LL.D.

Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist, playwright .................... Litt.D.

Amos Niven Wilder, professor of the New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, brother of Thornton ........................ D.D.

University of Pennsylvania

William Carlos Williams ....... Litt.D.

Citation: "Poet, physician, man of letters . . . you have continued to serve your community with devotion . . . while your unflagging creative inspiration has enriched the literature of your country. You were an original creative force among the younger poets who forged a new poetry . . ."

Princeton University

Charles Habib Malik, Minister to the U.S. from Lebanon ..........Litt.D.

Augustus Noble Hand, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ..... LL.D.

Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Secretary of Defense ................. LL.D.

Frank Charles Laubach ............... Doctor of Philanthropy

Citation: "He has given his life to Christian missionary work . . . in 64 countries he has helped 15 million people learn their A B Cs in 239 languages and dialects. An evangelist of literacy. In method unique. In spirit naive. In Godliness practical. He has loved men . . . in deed and in truth."

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)

General Lucius D. Clay ........ LL.D.

Citation: "Unlike Quintilius Varus, who lost his Roman eagles when surrounded in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany, this distinguished general raised his American eagles to heaven. When ringed in Berlin by the might of Russia, and in an epic destined to live long in American annals, known as the Berlin Airlift, he dropped manna from heaven to the cause of freedom . . ."

Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Boyden, headmaster and head of the science department of Deerfield Academy. .L.H.D.

Citation: "This unique couple . . . have reared for themselves a monument of the American pioneer spirit in education. Deerfield Academy, their happy seat . . . hand in hand for half a century they have been molding . . . the lives of generations of young men, having in every boy the faith that moves mountains . . ."

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