Friday, Jun. 21, 1963
Round 2
Adelphi College
Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr., director of collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York City . . . D.F.A.
James J. Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City . . . D.F.A.
William Schuman, president, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. . D.F.A.
Alfred University
The Rev. Gustave Weigel, S.J., professor of ecclesiology, Woodstock College . . . H.L.D.
His mastery in the discipline of his choice has earned for him a high place among the church's men of vision who in our time are bringing to flower a creative conversation between Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians.
Amory Houghton Jr., president, Corning Glass Works . . . LL.D.
American University
John F. Kennedy, President of the U.S. . . . C.L.D.
An author of renown and an ardent advocate of the improvement of American education.
The Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. . . . C.L.D.
Amherst College
Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court . . . LL.D.
Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. . . .Litt.D.
Anderson College
Charles Monroe Schulz, comic strip cartoonist, creator of "Peanuts". . . L.H.D.
Into a jungle of impossible heroes, sick jokes, violence and crime sometimes known as the "funnies," he has brought the delightful humor of children.
Bethany College
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Nobel and Pulitzer prizewinning author. . .H.L.D.
Miss Buck has made it possible for the ordinary sort of simple, average American to place himself, with equal facility, inside the lives and minds of a Chinese peasant and a nuclear physicist.
Brandeis University
Martha Graham, dancer . . . .H.L.D.
Her craggy, angular inventions mirror the liquid inner life of the American spirit.
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Harold Edgar Clurman, stage director and drama critic . . . D.F.A.
Case Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center . . . Sc.D.
Dr. Marcel Roche, director of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations and authority on tropical medicine . . . Sc.D.
Fairfield University
Sir Alexander Bustamante, Prime Minister of Jamaica . . . LL.D.
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Robert Whittle Dowling, theatrical producer, city planner and the president of City Investing Co., New York City . . . D.F.A.
Fannie Hurst, novelist . . . Litt.D.
Fordham University
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., director of the Peace Corps . . . LL.D.
Sister Mary Benigna, O.P., teacher of the blind (and herself blind from birth) . . . H.L.D.
Georgetown University
Arthur K. Watson, president, IBM World Trade Corp . . . LL.D.
Hamilton College
Sarah Gibson Blanding, president of Vassar College . . . H.L.D.
"To the separateness of events, the disciplined mind alone can provide the cohesiveness which will make life intelligible." The words are yours; so, too, is the accomplishment.
Howard Stix Cullman, honorary chairman of the Port of New York Authority . . . LL.D.
Bustling captain of a dozen enterprises, ever-soaring angel of Broadway . . . you have been, as the Bard said, "a hit, a very palpable hit."
Harvard University
Willy Brandt, Lord Mayor of Berlin . . . LL.D.
In word and deed the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom.
William Clyde DeVane, retiring dean of Yale College . . .LL.D.
Humanist, scholar and dean, for a quarter-century he has worked to ensure that Yale men shall be educated.
George Frost Kennan, author and diplomat, presently U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia . . . LL.D.
Sir Maurice Bowra, president of the British Academy . . . Litt.D.
A scholar vigorous and witty, a lover of poetry in all ages, who has imaginatively reinterpreted the Greek experience for our time.
Karl von Frisch, zoologist . . . Sc.D.
This kindly, lucid scientist has called us all to look again where bees dance and spiders spin.
Kalamazoo College
Howard Russell Moody, senior minister of Greenwich Village's Judson Memorial Church . . . D.D.
On sultry nights when a gang rumble threatens in Washington Square, Howard Moody is not to be found as a clinical observer behind the protecting windows of his study, but on the street in search of ways to prevent brutal collision.
McKendree College
Herbert Hoover, former President of the U.S. (in absentia) . . . H.L.D.
Mills College
Virginia Foisie Rusk (Mrs. Dean Rusk). . . H.L.D.
Maker of a gracious home and gracious hostess to every nation; creator of good will by willing the good of all people.
Oberlin College
John Minor Wisdom, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, New Orleans . . . LL.D.
Occidental College
Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist . . . Mus.D.
Regis College
Eunice Kennedy Shriver LL.D.
Temple University
Louis Finkelstein, chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City . . . LL.D.
University of Dayton
The Most Reverend John J. Wright, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh . . . D.H.
University of Miami
Arthur Fiedler, conductor, Boston Pops Concerts . . . Mus.D.
University of Notre Dame
Honorable Lester Bowles Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada and 1957 winner of Nobel Peace Prize. . . . LL.D.
Williams College
Orville Prescott, book reviewer, New York Times . . . Litt.D.
Given a five-dollar gold piece by your grandmother at an early age for having learned to read . . . you have brought your taste to bear on the works of hundreds of novelists.
Yale University
Lauris Norstad, general, U.S. Air Force (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe . . . LL.D.
A career which exemplifies the highest traditions of the soldier-statesman.
John Robinson Pierce, director of research in communications principles, Bell Telephone Laboratories, originator of Telstar . . . Sc.D.
Through your efforts a new star now rides in the sky, relaying the words, music and images of one continent to the people of another.
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