Kudos

Boston University

Ralph Johnson Bunche . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "World famous political scientist, anthropologist and educator; keen scholar . . . loyal representative of this nation as principal director, department of trusteeship, the United Nations . . . People are his chief concern, and nations are his classroom . . ."

Clark University (Worcester. Mass.)

Paul J. Tillich, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Union Theological Seminary . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Citation: "A native son of the land of the Reformation, and a 20th century example of what he calls the 'Protestant principle' . . . The product of a Lutheran parsonage, he has served his fellow men on the battlefield, in the pulpit, and in the lecture halls . . . He is at one with the skeptical, the lonely, the empty-hearted contemporary man, and yet he speaks out of the assurance of faith . . ."

Columbia University

John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Oveta Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare . . . LL.D.

Gerty Theresa Cori. Nobel prizewinning biological chemist at Washington University . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D.

Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission . LL.D.

General James A. Van Fleet, former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "A soldier; commander of young Americans and their battlemates . . . In cruel and baffling conflict; achieving success through the punitive power of the concert of nations; earlier staving off Communist aggression as head of a military mission to Greece; now, through the American-Korean Foundation, helping to heal the wounds of battle . . . an enlightened and steadfast man of arms . . ."

Barbara Ward Jackson, political commentator, author of Policy for the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Citation: "Distinguished woman of today's Britain and tomorrow's; schooled with wise foresight, as a career unfolded, in France, in Germany, and at Oxford . . . As a governor of Sadler's Wells and the Old Vic, earning the thanks of her countrymen in another distinctive field; wife of a diplomat, herself an envoy extraordinary . . ."

Georgetown University

David A. Pine, judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . L.L.D.

Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. . . . . . LL.D.

Hamilton College (Clinton, N. Y.)

Edward R. Murrow, CBS radio-TV commentator . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Citation: ''You have . . . been the eyes and the ears of millions, bringing to them objectively, unswervingly, facts as you find them . . . You have put great faith in the intelligence of the American public --and rightly so. But more, you have imbued others with your passion for facts, for truth . . ."

Howard University

Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel for N.A.A.C.P. . . . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "You have crowned your career by leading a group of able lawyers in eliciting from the Supreme Court of the United States a direct, unequivocal, sweeping and unanimous decision to remove the stigma and blight of segregation on account of race and color from American public education . . ."

Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa)

Don Ameche, actor . . . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "A man imbued with the ideals of his Christian faith, deeply interested in Christian higher education, and prominent as an exemplar of Catholic principles in public and family life . . ."

MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Ill.) Earl Warren . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Citation: "Mr. Chief Justice . . . statesmanly leader of political affairs . . . careful analyst and adjudicator of legal principles, and world citizen with human concern for the common welfare of man . . ."

Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)

General John E. Hull, U.S.A., commander of U.S. forces in the Far East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "Now commanding the forces of the U.S. and of the United Nations in a crucial area of strategic concern in the free world's effort to halt the spread of Communism, keeper of the alert watchfulness and bearer of the prayerful hopes of free men."

University of Notre Dame

Harold S. Vance, president of Studebaker Corp. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard history professor . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D.

Citation: "Scholar and writer . . . a man broad and humanistic in his learning and his teaching . . . Without doubt, the greatest achievement arising out of [his] interest is his current project, a monumental history of United States naval operations, World War II ... [We] express the wish that he continue to enjoy . . . 'long stretches of pure delight such as only seamen can know, the moments of high, proud exaltation that only a discoverer can experience.' "

Washington Coll. (Chestertown, Md.) Dwight D. Eisenhower . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "More completely perhaps than any other living person he has attained Milton's idea of an educated man: one who possesses the ability 'to perform justly and skillfully all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war' . . ."

College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio)

Arthur Sherwood Flemming, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, since 1948, president of Ohio Wesleyan University . . . . . . L.H.D.

Yale University

Louis Booker Wright, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library of Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Willem Adolf Visser't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . L.D.D.

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, U.S.N. (ret), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Edward Teller, chief architect of the H-bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D.

Citation: "Eminent authority on theoretical physics . . . One of the first to appreciate the potentialities of nuclear fission and fusion, you have given much of yourself to the development of the atomic energy project for peaceful pursuits as well as national defense."

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