Friday, Jun. 21, 1968
KUDOS
Round 2
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Jacqueline Grennan, D.H.L., president of Webster College. A symbol of forward-looking Catholicism, she is a builder of bridges: between Church and Academy, between precedent and experiment, between idea and reality.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Bob Hope, D.F.A., comedian. Through you we have learned to laugh at every form of pomposity and pretense, but most of all at ourselves.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles)
Jules Stein, LL.D., board chairman, MCA, Inc.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Santa Cruz)
Alfred Hitchcock, D.F.A., director.
Ravi Shankar, D.F.A., sitarist. It has been your great achievement to open, virtually singlehanded, the door between two great cultures.
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Edward William Brooke, LL.D., U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.
CONCORD COLLEGE (W. Va.)
The Rt. Rev. Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion.
FINCH COLLEGE
Patricia Ryan Nixon, LL.D., wife of Richard Nixon. She stood out from the empty-headed, overdressed little sorority girls of that era like a good piece of literature on a shelf of cheap paperbacks.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Walter E. Washington, LL.D., mayor of Washington, D.C. As a walking mayor, going to the streets where the action is, he has shown deep concern for the difficult and stubborn problems of the city's people.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, LL.D., the Shahanshah of Iran. A 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land.
Pedro G. Beltran, LL.D., publisher of La Prensa, Lima, Peru.
Joan MirO, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this age.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Hugh Lawson Shearer, LL.D., Prime Minister of Jamaica.
KNOX COLLEGE
Merriman Smith, LL.D., newsman.
MANHATTAN COLLEGE
Helen Hayes, D.F.A., actress.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
James Reston, D.LET., executive editor of the New York Times. The most influential columnist on the most influential newspaper in America . . . has stimulated and irritated Presidents, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and other officials . . . his influence extends to every thinking person.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Benjamin Mays, LL.D., president emeritus of Morehouse College, Atlanta.
You have brought a radiant hope and a larger dream to thousands of young people.
MONMOUTH COLLEGE (III.)
Koji Kobayashi, LL.D., president of Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
OBERLIN COLLEGE
The Rev. Yasuzo Shimizu, D.D., president of Obirin* College, Tokyo.
Llewellyn S. Thompson Jr., LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Quiet American, whose knowledge, patience, diligence and discipline have helped proud and powerful nations live peacefully together in an ever-troubled world.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, D.D., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Thomas P. F. Hoving, D.H., director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harold Howe II, LL.D., U.S. Commissioner of Education. A fighter and an innovator.
Marianne Craig Moore, D.LET., poet. An aristocratic lady with a high sense of comedy and a fine taste in hats.
ST. ANSELM'S COLLEGE (N.H.)
Maximos V Hakim, LL.D., Melchite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East.
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
John King Fairbank, LL.D., director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Carl B. Stokes, LL.D., mayor of Cleveland.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Leonard Bernstein, D.F.A., conductor and composer. You are, in your astonishing versatility, a Renaissance man who lives in harmony with the promise and richness of his own times.
YALE UNIVERSITY
Anna Freud, SC.D., psychoanalyst.
Robert Lowell, D.LET., poet. In your plays and poems, you teach us that we are all actors in a single drama, where it is as urgent to be heroic as it is easy to be absurd.
* Named after Oberlin, from which Shimizu got a divinity degree in 1926. He is the founder of the Japanese college.
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