Kudos: KUDOS
Round 1
One clue to the values a university holds highest is the men it chooses to honor. At hundreds of commencements thus far this spring, doctorates have been bestowed upon a widely diverse collection of notable people. Among them :
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
General Harold Keith Johnson, LL.D., U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In the councils of his country, his is the clear, steady voice of deep-rooted patriotism.
AQUINAS COLLEGE (Mich.)
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous), D.LET.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Roy Wilkins, L.H.D., executive director of N.A.A.C.P.
CHATHAM COLLEGE
Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as the corn in stature, and in her thinking as wide as the plain. Into the maelstrom of Morningside Heights steps the strong and kind Miss Peterson . . . wise and understanding friend of students.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Charles E. Bohlen, LL.D., diplomat.
David Dubinsky, LL.D., labor leader.
Isidor Isaac Rabi, SC.D., Nobel Prize physicist.
Jacques Lipchitz, L.H.D., sculptor.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
William Styron, D.LET., novelist.
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
Fess Parker, D.LET., star of Daniel Boone television series.
FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE (N.H.)
George A. Plimpton, L.H.D., author (Paper Lion) and editor of the Paris Review. Don Quixote of the world of sports.
HAMILTON COLLEGE
John Updike, D.LET., author. His roots, though set in far years, feed upon the peculiar agonies of the present.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
Pat O'Brien, D.LET., actor.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
John W. Gardner, LL.D., former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Your inspiration brought talented men and women to a weary bureaucracy.
Henri de Lubac, L.H.D., French Jesuit theologian and peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council.
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Feodor Lynen, SC.D., Nobel Prize biochemist. An inspiring teacher, who, by his intellectual curiosity and example, has influenced and stimulated generations of students.
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
Bayard Rustin, LL.D., civil rights leader.
He has been on a never ending Freedom Ride in pursuit of meaningful progress for the poor and oppressed.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
William J. Brennan Jr., LL.D., Supreme Court Justice.
William Benton, LL.D., board chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Walter W. ("Red") Smith, LL.D., sports columnist. A stylist in English prose, whose sharp eye has unsettled many a phony.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Walter Cronkite, L.H.D., television newsman.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Frank Learoyd Boyden, D.H., headmaster of Deerfield Academy for 66 years. As a discerning teacher and enthusiastic sportsman, he led his own students to full participation in that ancient ideal, mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a sound body].
William Samuel Paley, LL.D., board chairman of CBS.
P.M.C. COLLEGES (Pa.)
Jacob Blaustein, LL.D. former U.N. delegate, co-founder of the American Oil Co. Rare blend of statesman, industrialist and humanitarian.
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