Friday, Jun. 10, 1966
Kudos
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY Mr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, D. Lit.,
book publishers. James A. Linen, LL.D., president of Time
Inc.
AMHERST COLLEGE
Robert Strange McNamara, LL.D., U.S. Secretary of Defense. It is restorative to have a scholar at the Pentagon, a man who knows that force is coercion and that freedom is captivating.
BELOIT COLLEGE
Margaret Webster, D.H., Shakespearean scholar. Your leadership in bringing outstanding theater to our nation's college campuses has been an inspiration to students and teachers.
BETHANY COLLEGE (Kans.) Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, D.F.A., chairman of the executive committee, Radio Corporation of America. Because of your sense of balance in man's eternal struggle with beauty and reality.
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT Josef Albers, L.H.D., op artist and educator. You have helped us to think with our eyes.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Rev. John Courtney Murray, D.S.T., Jesuit theologian. Determined fighter for freedom in the observance, practice, and witness of religion, scorner of ambiguist and dogmatist alike, priest, professor, eminent theologian, author and editor.
RaymoM Aron, D. Let., French author and university professor. You carry on and exemplify the venerable French tradition of the intellectual man of action.
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY General John D. Ryan, LL.D., commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
HANOVER COLLEGE
George V. Allen, LL.D., director of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State.
HURON COLLEGE (S.Dak.) Hubert H. Humphrey, D.C.L., president, Humphrey Drug Store, Huron, S. Dak. An articulate champion and fighter for the cause of expressing the rights of the common man.
Muriel Humphrey, D.F.A., straight-A Huron High School student who dropped out of Huron College to help Hubert get through the University of Minnesota. As wife of the Vice President of the United States she has fulfilled the role with modesty, graciousness and dignity.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
Dr. John C. Bennett, D.D., president of Union Theological Seminary. The Biblical viewpoint places you in the mainstream of 20th century activity and, as oft it has, commands even the reluctant to shoulder the robe and risk of the prophet.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN John Kenneth Galbraith, LL.D., economist. To the delight of his friends and the confusion of his enemies, he makes his presence felt in realms of practical thought and decision.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., LL.D., director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. A future historian will probably write that the Peace Corps was the one creative idea of the twentieth century.
MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE (Ga.) Ivan Allen Jr., LL.D., mayor of Atlanta (one of the few Southern political leaders ever to be honored by a Negro school).
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Weaver, LL.D., U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
An articulator of the concept of the large urban university providing the impetus for the regeneration of the blighted city.
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Juanita Kidd Stout, L.H.D., first Negro woman in the U.S. to be elected a judge, Philadelphia County Court. Our educational mission is ultimately thwarted unless a meaningful political involvement such as yours becomes more commonplace.
MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE (Calif.) Dorothy Buffum Chandler, D.H., Los Angeles civic leader. Her great success in making real the concern of a lifetime which culminated in the incomparable music center.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE (Ala.) Helen Hayes, L.H.D., actress.
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY Renata Tebaldi, D.F.A., Metropolitan Opera soprano.
Lawrence F. O'Brien, LL.D., Postmaster General of the U.S. The postman always rings twice. It is no exaggeration to credit the success of two presidential campaigns largely to your organizational genius.
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