Kudos

Allen University Branch Rickey, major league baseball executive L.H.D.

Bates College Sylvia Porter, syndicated financial columnist Litt.D.

Beloit College Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, actors L.H.D.

Boston University The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister, author, Montgomery, Ala. D.D.

Citation: "'Leader of the new Negro,' whose approach to controversial problems has been with determination but without anger, whose role in this nation has become a world symbol."

Brown University Olin J. Stephens II and Roderick Stephens Jr., naval architects, famed designers of the America's Cup winner Columbia M.A.

Catholic University of America John H. Lawrence, physician, medical physicist, University of California, Berkeley Sc.D. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Roman Catholic Pro-Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office LL.D.

Clark University Wernher von Braun, spaceman Sc.D. Citation: "Truly a modern Columbus. Space is his realm, the freeing of man from the chains of gravity which bind him to this planet . . ."

Coe College Louis B. Wright, historian, director Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. L.H.D. Meredith Willson, Broadway composer (Music Man) Mus.D.

Columbia University Alfred A. Knopf, publisher L.H.D.

C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. Under Secretary of State LL.D. Citation: "In a troubled time, you provide the priceless quality of quiet, distinguished leadership."

John D. Rockefeller III, chairman, Rockefeller Foundation LL.D. Citation: ''Your modesty cannot conceal from a grateful people the significance of your labor." William P. Rogers. U.S. Attorney General LL.D.

DePauw University Major General David M. Shoup, inspector general, U.S.M.C. . . . LL.D.

Dickinson College James R. Shepley, chief of Time Inc.'s U.S.-Canadian News Service Litt.D.

George Washington University Allen Dulles, director, Central Intelligence Agency LL.D. Melville B. Grosvenor, editor. National Geographic (see PRESS) LL.D.

Hamilton College George V. Allen, director, U.S. Information Agency LL.D.

Howard University Tom Mboya, Kenya legislator and African leader LL.D.

Citation: "Your father worked from sun to sun in the vast fields of sisal . . . Your education has been hard won, in the early years conducted under a tree with sand as your slate. While in school away from home you have at times walked in one day the 72 miles for a visit with your parents . . . Unceasingly you have labored [for] the common people . . ." Henry J. Cadbury, chairman, American Friends Service Committee L.H.D.

Lafayette College Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat, Maine LL.D. Governor Mark Hatfield, Republican, Oregon LL.D.

Oberlin College Howard Taubman. music critic. New York Times Mus.D.

Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D. Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, philanthropist, nurse, founder with her husband of Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital L.H.D.

University of Alaska Edward Teller, physicist Sc.D. George Lehleitner, New Orleans businessman, promoter of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii LL.D.

University of Colorado Arleigh Burke, chief of U.S. Naval Operations Sc.D.

University of Rochester John Cowles, publisher, Minneapolis Star & Tribune LL.D.

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