Education: Kudos: Round 3

BROOKLYN COLLEGE

James ("Eubie") Blake, L.H.D., ragtime composer.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Sarah Caldwell, D.F.A., director of the Boston Opera Company. You have said, "If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."

COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO

Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent.

DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Spiro Agnew, Litt.D., Vice President. He is recognized as the...

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