Monday, Jun. 18, 1973
Kudos: Round 3
BROOKLYN COLLEGE
James ("Eubie") Blake, L.H.D., ragtime composer.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
Sarah Caldwell, D.F.A., director of the Boston Opera Company. You have said, "If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO
Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent.
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Spiro Agnew, Litt.D., Vice President. He is recognized as the man who personifies the American spirit. The son of a Greek immigrant, he seized every opportunity this nation has to offer . . . Dr. Frances Kelsey, D.Sc., pharmacologist. Because of her courage [in keeping the drug Thalidomide off the market] countless children were born healthy rather than grossly deformed.
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE
Simon Wiesenthal, L.H.D., pursuer of Nazi war criminals.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Kenneth B. Clark, D.Sc., psychologist. Walter Cronkite, LL.D., television correspondent.
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Burton K. Wheeler, LL.D., a leading isolationist in the U.S. Senate in the 1930s.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Edward Brooke, LL.D., U.S. Senator. Beverly Sills, D.M., opera singer.
PACE COLLEGE
Betty Furness, D.C.L., New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. In this time of economic and social uncertainty, you can be sure if it's Betty Furness.
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
Dixy Lee Ray, LL.D., chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
John Kenneth Galbraith, L.H.D., economist. [A] towering iconoclast of wit and intellect.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Paul Brooks, L.H.D., director of the Sierra Club. [He] helped educate millions who would otherwise define birds as pigeons, flowers as dandelions, and wildlife as rats.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Gregor Piatigorsky, LL.D., cellist.
WHITTIER COLLEGE
W. Clement Stone, DD.L., self-made insurance magnate and major G.O.P. contributor. Starting with $100 and a dream, [he] has spent a lifetime creating material and spiritual wealth.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE
Warren E. Burger, LL.D., Chief Justice of the U.S. His incisive opinions . .. have reflected an abiding dedication to the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
WINDHAM COLLEGE
Frances Fitzgerald, Litt.D., author of Fire in the Lake.
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