Education: Kudos: Jun. 21, 1968

Round 2

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Jacqueline Grennan, D.H.L., president of Webster College. A symbol of forward-looking Catholicism, she is a builder of bridges: between Church and Academy, between precedent and experiment, between idea and reality.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Bob Hope, D.F.A., comedian. Through you we have learned to laugh at every form of pomposity and pretense, but most of all at ourselves.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles)

Jules Stein, LL.D., board chairman, MCA, Inc.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Santa Cruz)

Alfred Hitchcock, D.F.A., director.

Ravi Shankar, D.F.A., sitarist. It has been your great achievement to open, virtually singlehanded, the door between two great cultures.

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Edward William Brooke, LL.D., U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.

CONCORD COLLEGE (W. Va.)

The Rt. Rev. Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion.

FINCH COLLEGE

Patricia Ryan Nixon, LL.D., wife of Richard Nixon. She stood out from the empty-headed, overdressed little sorority girls of that era like a good piece of literature on a shelf of cheap paperbacks.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Walter E. Washington, LL.D., mayor of Washington, D.C. As a walking mayor, going to the streets where the action is, he has shown deep concern for the difficult and stubborn problems of the city's people.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, LL.D., the Shahanshah of Iran. A 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land.

Pedro G. Beltrán, LL.D., publisher of La Prensa, Lima, Peru.

Joan MirÓ, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this age.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Hugh Lawson Shearer, LL.D., Prime Minister of Jamaica.

KNOX COLLEGE

Merriman Smith, LL.D., newsman.

MANHATTAN COLLEGE

Helen Hayes, D.F.A., actress.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

James Reston, D.LET., executive editor of the New York Times. The most influential columnist on the most influential newspaper in America . . . has stimulated and irritated Presidents, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and other officials . . . his influence extends to every thinking person.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Benjamin Mays, LL.D., president emeritus of Morehouse College, Atlanta.

You have brought a radiant hope and a larger dream to thousands of young people.

MONMOUTH COLLEGE (III.)

Koji Kobayashi, LL.D., president of Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

OBERLIN COLLEGE

The Rev. Yasuzo Shimizu, D.D., president of Obirin* College, Tokyo.

Llewellyn S. Thompson Jr., LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Quiet American, whose knowledge, patience, diligence and discipline have helped proud and powerful nations live peacefully together in an ever-troubled world.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, D.D., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Thomas P. F. Hoving, D.H., director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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