Kudos: Round 2

Arrayed in their red-white-and-blue caps and gowns, the 117 graduating students of Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y., were waiting politely for inspiring words from their main speaker, World Magazine Editor Norman Cousins. Cousins, however, was nowhere to be found, so Trustee Chairman and ex-NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad announced that he himself would read a homily delivered by Eisenhower back in 1950. As for Cousins, he had confused his dates and gone out golfing. "I have been invited to make about 100 commencement talks in the past 30 years, and this is the first unmitigated disaster of this sort," the abashed editor said later. As a consolation of sorts, he promised to mail each graduate a copy of his twelve-minute speech. In it, he reminded them, among other things, that "even the best of men are flawed."

Elsewhere on the commencement scene:

ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

Geraldine Fitzgerald, D.F.A., actress.

CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN COLLEGE

Tom Landry, L.H.D., football coach.

DRURY COLLEGE

Bob Hope, D.H.S., comedian.

HAMILTON COLLEGE

Ada Louise Huxtable, Litt.D., architecture critic.

William H. Masters, Sc.D., sex researcher. [He] helped to liberate this important human concern from ignorance, superstition and sensational pseudoscience.

HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES

Andrew Heiskell, LL.D., chairman of the board of Time Inc.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., L.H.D., author.

JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

Don Shula, L.H.D., football coach.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Earl Warren, LL.D., retired U.S. Chief Justice.

KENYON COLLEGE

Shirley A. Chisholm, L.H.D., Congresswoman. The champion of all whose rights are threatened by the established prejudices and traditions of the past.

LAKE FOREST COLLEGE

David Halberstam, LL.D., author. Richard Widmark, D.F.A., actor.

MUNDELEIN COLLEGE

Benny Goodman, L.H.D., musician. A tiny reed, a long black stick, a steady stream of manmade wind, and loads of God-given musical talent.

RIPON COLLEGE

Zoe Caldwell, D.F.A., actress. Maria Tallchief, D.F.A., ballerina.

ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE

Henry Luce III, L.H.D., vice president of Time Inc.

ST. PETER'S COLLEGE

Bill Bradley, L.H.D., basketball star.

SMITH COLLEGE

Helen Frankenthaler, D.F.A., artist. Pauline Kael, Litt.D., movie critic. Louise Nevelson, D.F.A., sculptor.

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE

Roy Wilkins, L.H.D., civil rights leader.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Noam Chomsky, L.H.D., linguist. Shirley (Mrs. W.E.B.) DuBois, L.H.D., author.

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

Andrew Lytle, Litt.D., author. Rachel L. Mellon, Sc.D., horticulturist. Since Eden, men and women have been tending gardens. It is a time-honored profession, a notable vocation.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

James Reston, LL.D., columnist.

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