Kudos: 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.

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