Education: Kudos: Round 2

Boston University G. William Miller,

LL.D., chairman, Federal Reserve

Board.

Ella Fitzgerald, L.H.D., singer.

Denison University Cyrus Eaton, L.H.D., industrialist. Far-seeing financier and industrial planner; beloved guardian of higher education; world-renowned worker for trade, peace and understanding among nations.

Rensselaer Polytechnic institute I.M. Pei, D.F. A., architect.

Rutgers University Eudora Welty, Litt.D., writer. You have confirmed our instinctive knowledge that while our battles are all ultimately "losing battles," it is in them that we affirm the mixture of folly and dignity that makes us human.

Swarthmore College Margaret Kuhn, L.H.D., Gray Panthers leader. For making it possible in a still young nation to celebrate old age,

University of Massachusetts...

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