Education: Kudos: Jun. 19, 1964

AMHERST COLLEGE

·W. Willard Wirtz, U.S. Secretary of Labor—LL.D.

BATES COLLEGE

·Perry T. Rathbone, director, Boston Museum of Fine Arts—D.F.A.

·Minoru Yamasaki, architect—D.F.A.

·William Zorach, sculptor, and Marguerite Zorach, his wife, painter and tapestry-maker—D.F.A.

BETHANY COLLEGE

·Edith Green, Oregon Congresswoman —Pub. Affairs D. The right to change her mind is a right that every man has long granted to every woman. Her right to change the minds of men is equally ancient but less frequently acknowledged.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

·Richard James Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston—L.H.D. Impatient as Teresa of Avila, yet descended from Philip Neri, saint of holy laughter, he would have men dissolve dissension in the cenacle of the human heart.

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY

·Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president emeritus, Union Theological Seminary—D.D.

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

·Edwin H. Land, chairman of the board, president, and director of research, Polaroid Corp.—Sc.D.

COLBY COLLEGE

·Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art—D.F.A.

·Rosalyn Tureck, concert pianist and harpsichordist—D.Mus. Recognized as "the greatest scholar and interpreter of Bach in the world today."

D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE

·Taylor Caldwell, bestselling novelist (Grandmother and the Priests)—Litt.D.

DICKINSON COLLEGE

·C. D. Jackson, senior vice president, Time Inc.—LL.D.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

·Marian Anderson, contralto—L.H.D,

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

·Dwight D. Eisenhower—D.P.S.

HAMILTON COLLEGE

·Francis Keppel, U.S. Commissioner of Education—L.H.D.

·Peggy Wood, actress—L.H.D. Currently at work in a filmed version of The Sound of Music, you are destined to become a superior mother superior-

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

·Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity—LL.D.

·Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice President (1945-46, 1958-62) of Colombia, onetime O.A.S. secretary-general—LL.D. The vision of Bolivar finds contemporary expression in the life of this able son of the New World.

·John F. Collins, Mayor of Boston—LL.D. His leadership has given the hub a new spin.

·Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of the German Federal Republic—LL.D.

·John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court—LL.D. A judge's judge.

·Roger Sessions, American composer—D.Mus.

·Robert C. Weaver, administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency—LL.D.

HOLY CROSS

·John Coleman Bennett,-president of Union Theological Seminary—LL.D.

·Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the U.S.—D.C.L.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

·General David M. Shoup, recently retired commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps—LL.D.

JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA

·Martin Luther King Jr., crusader for Negro rights—LL.D.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

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