Education: Round 2

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ALLIANCE COLLEGE

John A. Gronouski. the U.S. Postmaster General—H.L.D.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Dirk Uipko Stikker, soon-to-retire Secretary-General of NATO—LL.D.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Kingman Brewster Jr., recently inaugurated president of Yale University—LL.D. The gift of leadership fits you easily and equips you admirably as presiding officer of one of our country's distinguished centers of higher learning.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY Thomas S. Power, General, U.S. Air Force, Commander in Chief of SAC—LL.D. The leader of those patriotic Americans who are proud that peace is their profession.

Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League—LL.D. He has made his career a quiet battle so that all men, regardless of color or belief, may enjoy the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution of the United States.

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., director of the Peace Corps and director-designate of President Johnson's "war on poverty" program—LL.D. Humanitarian—We salute you simply — with a single word.

EMMANUEL COLLEGE

Edward Moore Kennedy,* U.S. Senator from Massachusetts—L.H.D. Earnest and diligent disciple of the teachings of true wisdom; eager and tireless in his many journeyings to open the pathways of friendship among nations.

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Chester R. Huntley, TV commentator

—Litt.D.

David Brinkley, TV commentator—Litt.D.

GEORGIAN COURT COLLEGE Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator from Maine—LL.D.

HAVERFORD COLLEGE

Clark Kerr, president of the University of California—LL.D.

MOUNT MARY COLLEGE Harper Lee, novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird)—L.H.D.

Edward Teller, nuclear physicist—L.H.D.

MUNDELEIN COLLEGE

Clare Boothe Luce, playwright, former Congresswoman, former Ambassador to Italy—LL.D. For her distinctive contribution as a woman in the field of international affairs.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Edward R. Murrow, former director,

U.S. Information Agency (in absentia)

—LL.D.

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S.—LL.D. Displays rare independence, courage and foresight as he steers the critical course of this nation's highest court.

OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, president, World Methodist Council, observer at the Second Vatican Council—Ecumenics D.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE Lucius Holsey Pitts, president of all-Negro Miles College, Birmingham (TIME. Nov. g)—LL.D. As one who struggled long and hard to gain an education, and who is now struggling equally hard to bring the benefits of education to those who need it most, you have indeed earned Chaucer's encomium: "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."

RIPON COLLEGE

Sir Tyrone Guthrie, artistic director of the Minnesota Theater Co. at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis—D.F.A.

ROLLINS COLLEGE

James R. Killian, Jr., corporation chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—D.H.

Raymond Cecil Gibson, professor of education, Indiana University, onetime organizer of colleges in Latin America and Asia—LL.D.

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