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Commencement days are here again, bringing with them the winners of honorary degrees. Herewith the notable and the newsworthy, together with their degree and, in some cases, the citation.

ALMA COLLEGE

Hans J. Morgenthau, LL.D., political scientist. Because you have so ably demonstrated the social responsibilities of scholars and teachers to participate in public debate.

CLARKE COLLEGE

Maureen Hayes Mansfield, LL.D., wife of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. She has supported and encouraged her husband with such competence that he regards her as "chiefly responsible for the political success of the Mans fields."

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Ludwig Erhard, LL.D., Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Man of full dedication, honest realism, wise moderation and quiet conciliation, staunch and good friend of America. Alva Reimer Myrdal, L.H.D. Swedish educator, sociologist, public official and wife of Economist Gunnar Myrdal.

HANOVER COLLEGE

Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D. Statesman, scholar, and orator without peer.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, LL.D. We cannot sleep for pondering the dream to which you have awakened us. You dream of a just, a free, a humane society.

IOWA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, LL.D., one of three living descendants of Abraham Lincoln.

KENYON COLLEGE

Giinter Grass, Litt. D. German novelist, playwright, poet, sculptor, graphic artist, drummer and chef. You have persistently and uncompromisingly sought to probe beneath the perplexing surface of German life.

The Rt. Rev. John E. Mines, D.D., presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America.

MACALESTER COLLEGE

Hubert H. Humphrey, LL.D., former Macalester political science instructor who once kept his class in session, at student request, for eight hours.

MESSIAH COLLEGE Dwight D. Eisenhower, IL.D. *

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

John V. Lindsay, LL.D., New York Congressman. You have exhibited an equipoise of intelligence, independence and courage ordinarily associated with figures whose distinguished tenure in public service has been an extended one. Both your eyes are never at once from home; while one keeps house, the other roves abroad for intelligence.

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

The Very Rev. Father Roland G. de Vaux, LL.D., director of Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise, Jerusalem.

SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE (Pa.) Augustin Cardinal Bea, J.D., head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.

SAINT NORBERT COLLEGE The late C. Leo De Orsey, LL.D., tax attorney. Even a partial list of his clients is testimony to his success: Charles Wilson, General Omar Bradley, Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey, George Preston Marshall, General Curtis LeMay, Ted Williams, Max Factor.

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Stanley Marcus, L.H.D., president of Nei man-Marcus Stores. Merchant prince in the best tradition of the term.

WESTERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Constance Baker Motley, LL.D., associate counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. and president of the Borough of Manhattan. The chief courtroom tactician of the entire civil rights movement.

XAVIER UNIVERSITY (Ohio) James J. P. McShane, LL.D., Chief U.S.

Marshal, who dropped out of school after the eighth grade, and went on to enforce the judgments of federal courts in integration crises at the Universities of Mississippi and Alabama. When the dignity and humanity of a whole na tion hung in the balance, Marshal Mc Shane acted with calm courage and surpassing judgment.

* His 56th.

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