Kudos

University of Chicago

Hans A. Bethe, professor of physics at Cornell University, who first explained the nuclear source of the sun's energy

D.Sc.

Kemp Malone. professor of English literature at Johns Hopkins University.

L.H.D.

Dartmouth College

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs

LL.D.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the U.S

LL.D.

University of Detroit

Conrad Hilton, hotelman

LL.D.

Citation: "Son of the spacious American Southwest, whose breadth of vision, adventurous spirit, and free-reined energy have electrified the business world with all the thrill of a western romance . . ."

Martin Patrick Durkin,

Secretary of Labor

LL.D.

Citation: "Son of the industrial Midwest, who began to practice the gospel of brotherly love in the crowded playgrounds of a vast metropolis, who carried it on to the busy marts of trade and to the worker's bench ... A born leader of men, Martin Durkin understood his fellow men and he loved them . . ."

Harvard University

Winthrop W. Aldrich,

U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's LL.D.

Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc.

LL.D.

Charles H. Malik, Lebanon's Ambassador to the U.S

LL.D.

William G. Saltonstall, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy

LL.D.

Detlev W. Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins University

D.Sc.

Robert H. Kent, ballistics engineer

D.Sc.

Citation: "He measures explosive forces in a world of violence and predicts where modern arrows shot into the air shall come to earth."

John Phillips Marquand, novelist

Litt.D.

Citation: "Skilled novelist of manners, an ironist who inspires laughter with a sting, he has made an imaginary character a byword on countless lips."

Iowa State College

Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture

D.Agr.

New York University

William Jansen, superintendent of schools, New York City

LL.D.

John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany

LL.D.

Jan Herman van Roijen, The Netherlands Ambassador to the U.S.

LL.D.

Mother Eleanor Mary O'Byrne, president of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart

L.H.D.

Citation: "Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights . . ."

University of Pennsylvania

Van Wyck Brooks, critic and historian

Litt.D.

Milton S. Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State College

LL.D.

Citation: "Selfless but self-reliant. Thorough but brilliant. Always ready to serve if others may benefit . . ."

Princeton University

Grayson L. Kirk, president of Columbia University

LL.D.

Joshua Lockwood Logan, playwright and producer

M.A.

Citation: "Imaginative, resourceful, vehement, volcanic. A doctor to the drama, he cuts out whole scenes, resets parts, injects vitality, and makes things move. He pushed Pinza about, put Mary Martin in a shower, kept Ethel Merman tough, and who but Logan could bring it about that 'Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love'? A disciple of the classic dramatists, he makes his audience see and feel what human nature is . . ."

Smith College

Rachel Carson, author (The Sea Around Us)

Litt.D.

Citation: "Learned in the laws and responsive to the beauties of the waters around us, understanding in the ways and minds of men, through her books she has shared her erudition and her perceptions and has opened a new world to all who read."

Mary Pillsbury Lord, U.S. representative on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

LL.D.

Ellen Zinsser McCloy, wife of the former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany

LL.D.

Citation: "In a time and a country where people desperately needed hope and encouragement, she demonstrated how great can be the influence of a woman who has zeal, courage, understanding friendliness, and the ability to draw out all that is best in others . . ."

University of Southern California

Louise Treadwell Tracy, founder of the John Tracy Clinic, wife of Actor Spencer Tracy

L.H.D.

Citation: "When her first-born child was discovered to be deaf, she began her lifelong work of finding for her own son, and then of sharing with other parents, the most effective methods of teaching the deaf child . . ."

Wilberforce University

William C. Handy, composer (St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Blues)

Mus.D.

Citation: "Great American composer, lyricist, researcher, music editor, music publisher, trumpeter, modern bard and rhapsodist, creative genius and father of a distinct and novel contribution to American culture."

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