Friday, Jun. 18, 1965
Round II
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE Edward Brooke, LL.D., Massachusetts Attorney General. Your popularity and accomplishments have overcome all racial barriers.
AMHERST COLLEGE
John Rock, SC.D., gynecologist. Distinguished by your efforts to increase fertility in the lonely barren couples. Distinguished by your efforts to control fertility of the teeming masses.
BETHANY COLLEGE (W. Va.) Robert W. Sarnoff, P.S.D., chairman of the board of NBC. You have provided the world's most distinguished baby sitter in millions of homes.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
W. A. Visser 't Hooft, D.D., general secretary of the World Council of Churches.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Michael J. Murphy, LL.D., former police commissioner, City of New York.
Walter F. Kerr, Litt.D., critic, and Playwright Jean Kerr, Litt.D., his wife. The man who reviews most of American drama, and the woman who writes the rest of it.
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE
Robert Russell Bennett, L.H.D., composer and conductor. He has been known to produce as many as eighty pages of orchestration in a single day.
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie, L.H.D., artistic director of the Minnesota Theater Company at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. Technical autocracy is a threat against which his theater has offered a bright promise that the ennobling power of mature, professional theater may prove a boon for men everywhere in the trying decades ahead.
Andrew Newell Wyeth, L.H.D., painter. We have admired his personal confrontation with nature.
Agnes George de Mille, L.H.D., dancer and choreographer. Her work has brought the American stage toward a firm and final merger of ballet with book and music.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Dean Rusk, LL.D., Secretary of State. He takes a worthy place in that great succession of eminent Americans which began with Thomas Jefferson.
HAMILTON COLLEGE
Henry D. Smyth, SC.D., physicist and member of Atomic Energy Commission from 1949 to 1954. It is to your unending credit that the domestic climate did not prevent you from being the sole commissioner to cast his vote in approval of the then-disputed loyalty of a fellow physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Eugene Carson Blake, D.D., Stated Clerk of The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Richard Rodgers, D. MUS., composer. The sparkling, incomparable quality of your countless songs has made singers, hummers and whistlers of us all.
MONMOUTH COLLEGE (N.J.) Bob Hope, L.H.D., comedian.
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Robert Wagner, LL.D., Mayor of New York.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY William McChesney Martin Jr., LL.D., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
OHIO UNIVERSITY
Yousuf Karsh, L.H.D., portrait photographer. A sensitive discoverer of the imperceptible self, you capture in a moment that which endures through time.
SA'NT JOSEPH COLLEGE (Conn.) Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, L.H.D. A devoted wife, a dedicated mother, a woman whose influence has permeated every phase of our national life.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Mrs. Welthy Honsinger Fisher, L.H.D. , author and teacher. Friend of Gandhi.
Tagore and Nehru, you shared their keen concern for the needy millions in the villages of India. At the age of 72, fired by the conviction that education holds the key to the problem of mass poverty, you founded Literacy Village in Lucknow to leach the teachers who now spread reading skills and new knowledge throughout the country.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY Nicholas Katzenbach, LL.D., U.S. Attorney General. In your person and in your career the idealistic and the practical are matched. Moral courage and physical courage go hand-in-hand with you also.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Marian Anderson, L.H.D., concert singer.* She became a powerful symbol for our era and helped to speed the emergence of a social transformation long overdue.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Richard Tucker, D.F.A., Metropolitan Opera tenor.
McGeorge Bundy, LL.D., Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He shows us the undramatic courage of good sense and the high integrity required of the clearheaded. Unconcerned with labels and slogans, and undaunted by simplistic cries from the sidelines, his is the steady, clear voice of deep-rooted patriotism.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH William W. Scranton, LL.D., Governor of Pennsylvania.
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., LL.D., Peace Corps director and director, Office of Economic Opportunity.
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Frederick Henry Boland, Litt.D., first permanent representative of Ireland to the United Nations, now chancellor of Dublin University. As president of the General Assembly, his gavel had to cope with a famous Russian shoe; and as a member of the Security Council, his wisdom was tested by a frightening crisis in Cuba.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Barbara Ward, LL.D., author (The West at Bay, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations).
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., L.H.D., father of the civil rights leader.
WILSON COLLEGE Mrs. Patsy T. Mink, L.H.D., U.S. Representative from Hawaii.
Helena Rubinstein, LL.D., the late beauty consultant and businesswoman.
*Her 34th.
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