Monday, Jun. 17, 1957
Kudos
Amherst College
Bruce Barton, chairman of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn LL.D.
Clarence B. Randall, retired chairman of Inland Steel Co LL.D.
Boston University
Foster Furcolo, governor of Massachusetts LL.D.
Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist .L.H.D.
Brown University
Thomas J. Watson Jr., president of IBM LL.D.
McGeorge Bundy, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, Harvard University LL.D.
Citation: "Verily the lion and the lamb shall lie down with each other when a graduate of Yale presides over the faculty of Harvard."
Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State LL.D.
Marion B. Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare LL.D.
Centre College of Kentucky
Arthur Krock, longtime New York
Times pundit Litt.D.
Sherman Adams LL.D.
Citation: "The greatest tribute to our democracy is that in America we have men like Sherman Adams to whom we can turn to lead us in our public affairs, and it is also a tribute to our democratic instincts that as a people we do turn to such men."
Clarke College
Mike Mansfield, U.S. Senator from Montana LL.D.
Columbia University
Lee Alvin DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology Sc.D.
Agnes Ernest Meyer L.H.D.
Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the University of Pennsylvania. . . .LL.D.
Alfred P. Sloan Jr LL.D.
Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American National Red Cross LL.D.
Citation: "He became indeed a statesman, striving to unify men and nations in their groping for peace. Now his duties have changed, but the goal remains. He is the humanitarian; the Red Cross is his beneficent battalion; and his is the helping hand outstretched to those touched by calamity."
Prince Wan Waithayakon. president of the eleventh session of the U.N. General Assembly LL.D.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning
David Sarnoff. chairman of Radio Corporation of America LL.D.
George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College L.H.D.
Harold W. Dodds, retiring president of Princeton University LL.D.
Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S LL.D.
Grinnell College
Raymond A. Hare, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt LL.D.
MacKinlay Kantor, novelist. . . Litt.D.
Howard University
Jackie Robinson LL.D.
Citation: "It was your remarkable ability as a sportsman and your remarkable self-control as a man which has popularized and strengthened beyond measure our deepest American faith: our faith in the open door of equal opportunity for every human being."
Lake Forest College
Arthur H. Compton. Nobel Laureate in physics Sc.D.
Herbert ("Herblock") Block, cartoonist LL.D.
Clarence B. Randall LL.D.
Robert E. Wood, retired chairman of Sears, Roebuck LL.D.
Mount Holyoke College
Roswell Gray Ham, retiring president of the college Litt.D.
Frances Perkins, onetime U.S. Secretary of Labor LL.D.
Citation: "The multiple activities of your career are written into the laws of this country and into the lives of its citizens."
New York University
William Joseph Brennan Jr.. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S D.C.L.
William Henry Grimes, editor of the Wall Street' Journal D.C.S.
Alfred M. Gruenther LL.D.
Edmond Alfred Guggenheim, president of the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation L.H.D.
Helen Hayes, actress. . D.F.A.
Citation: "The range of her renditions reflects the plenitude of a private life in which triumph has been sublimated by tribulation . . . Here in this fabulous city, the scene of so many of her conquests, we would sing her praises even unto the proscenium arch of the high heavens."
Rutgers University
Robert F. Goheen, incoming president of Princeton University LL.D.
Henri M. Peyre. Sterling professor of French at Yale Litt.D.
James Reston, Washington correspondent of the New York Times. . . Litt.D.
Ozzie Nelson. TV actor L.H.D.
Smith College
Dame Ninette de Valois, director of Britain's Royal Ballet D.F.A.
Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University L.H.D.
Syracuse University
John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts LL.D.
Citation: "If there were a graduate program for training Senators, its object could only be to instill those same qualities you bring to the nation's service."
Perry Miller, professor of American
literature at Harvard L.H.D.
Bruce Catton Litt.D.
University of Massachusetts
Abraham Sacher. president of Brandeis University LL.D.
Frank L. Boyden, headmaster of Deerfield Academy . . .LL.D.
University of Rochester
Thomas E. Dewey. . . . LL.D.
West Virginia University
John L. Lewis
LL.D.
Citation: "In the critical view of informed judgment, he is the foremost labor statesman in the world.''
Williams College
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr LL.D.
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