KUDOS

Round 1

One clue to the values a university holds highest is the men it chooses to honor. At hundreds of commencements thus far this spring, doctorates have been bestowed upon a widely diverse collection of notable people. Among them :

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

General Harold Keith Johnson, LL.D., U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In the councils of his country, his is the clear, steady voice of deep-rooted patriotism.

AQUINAS COLLEGE (Mich.)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous), D.LET.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Roy Wilkins, L.H.D., executive director of N.A.A.C.P.

CHATHAM COLLEGE

Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as the corn in stature, and in her thinking as wide as the plain. Into the maelstrom of Morningside Heights steps the strong and kind Miss Peterson . . . wise and understanding friend of students.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Charles E. Bohlen, LL.D., diplomat.

David Dubinsky, LL.D., labor leader.

Isidor Isaac Rabi, SC.D., Nobel Prize physicist.

Jacques Lipchitz, L.H.D., sculptor.

DUKE UNIVERSITY

William Styron, D.LET., novelist.

EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

Fess Parker, D.LET., star of Daniel Boone television series.

FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE (N.H.)

George A. Plimpton, L.H.D., author (Paper Lion) and editor of the Paris Review. Don Quixote of the world of sports.

HAMILTON COLLEGE

John Updike, D.LET., author. His roots, though set in far years, feed upon the peculiar agonies of the present.

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

Pat O'Brien, D.LET., actor.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

John W. Gardner, LL.D., former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Your inspiration brought talented men and women to a weary bureaucracy.

Henri de Lubac, L.H.D., French Jesuit theologian and peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council.

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Feodor Lynen, SC.D., Nobel Prize biochemist. An inspiring teacher, who, by his intellectual curiosity and example, has influenced and stimulated generations of students.

NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Bayard Rustin, LL.D., civil rights leader.

He has been on a never ending Freedom Ride in pursuit of meaningful progress for the poor and oppressed.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

William J. Brennan Jr., LL.D., Supreme Court Justice.

William Benton, LL.D., board chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Walter W. ("Red") Smith, LL.D., sports columnist. A stylist in English prose, whose sharp eye has unsettled many a phony.

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Walter Cronkite, L.H.D., television newsman.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Frank Learoyd Boyden, D.H., headmaster of Deerfield Academy for 66 years. As a discerning teacher and enthusiastic sportsman, he led his own students to full participation in that ancient ideal, mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a sound body].

William Samuel Paley, LL.D., board chairman of CBS.

P.M.C. COLLEGES (Pa.)

Jacob Blaustein, LL.D. former U.N. delegate, co-founder of the American Oil Co. Rare blend of statesman, industrialist and humanitarian.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Harlan Cleveland, D.LET., U.S. Ambassador to NATO.

UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND (Ore.)

Maria Goeppert Mayer, SC.D., 1963 Nobel prizewinner for physics. Feminine delicacy may have prompted her interest in the "lighter nuclei."

Harding L. Lawrence, LL.D., president of Braniff Airways. A man who has made American skies colorful as well as friendly.

ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LL.D., urbanologist.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

John Wayne, D.F.A., actor. He is the Western Hero, the reincarnation of all the men who brought strength and stability to an expanding nation.

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

Eugene Ormandy, D.MUS., conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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