Monday, Jun. 30, 1958
Kudos
Bard College Cyrus Eaton, industrialist LL.D. Henry M. Wriston, president emeritus, Brown University LL.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author LL.D.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Walter L. ("Red") Barber, Sports broadcaster L.H.D.
Citation: "You, sir, have planted talents in a broadcasting booth and reaped them for mankind."
Northwestern University Barnaby Conrad Keeney, president, Brown University LL.D. Lee Alvin DuBridge, president, California Institute of Technology LL.D.
Princeton University Maurice Pate, executive director, U.N. Children's Fund Doctor of Philanthropy
Citation: "Samaritan to the suffering, inveterate foe to all famine . . . he has mightily worked, carrying the benison of milk and bread to . . . the world's undernourished children."
John Nash Douglas Bush, English professor, Harvard Litt.D.
Citation: "Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed."
Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, 1957 co-winners of the Nobel prize in physics Sc.D.
Citation: "Castor and Pollux of theoretical physics."
Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, collaborator of Drs. Lee and Yang Sc.D.
Citation: "As Helen of Troy, renowned sister of Castor and Pollux, proved the unwisdom of underestimating the powers of woman, so Dr. Wu . . . has richly earned the right to be called the foremost female experimental physicist . . ."
William Clyde Friday, president, University of North Carolina. . .LL.D.
Citation: "A true Southerner by birth . . . a veritable triumvir among the Tarheels . . ."
Springfield College Bonnie Prudden, physical fitness instructor. . . .Master of Humanics
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