Bard College Cyrus Eaton, industrialist LL.D. Henry M. Wriston, president emeritus, Brown University LL.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author LL.D.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Walter L. ("Red") Barber, Sports broadcaster L.H.D.
Citation: "You, sir, have planted talents in a broadcasting booth and reaped them for mankind."
Northwestern University Barnaby Conrad Keeney, president, Brown University LL.D. Lee Alvin DuBridge, president, California Institute of Technology LL.D.
Princeton University Maurice Pate, executive director, U.N. Children's Fund Doctor of Philanthropy
Citation: "Samaritan to the suffering, inveterate foe to all famine . . . he has mightily worked, carrying the benison of milk and bread to . ....