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College of the Holy Cross General Alfred M. Gruenther, president, American Red Cross Sc.D.
Emerson College Joseph Nye Welch, the Army's attorney in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings Litt.D.
Citation: "You have challenged demagoguery in high places . . . exposed . . . the and subtle cherished threats to liberties our . . ." national freedom Georgetown University John Joseph Hearne, Irish Ambassador to the U.S L.H.D.
Citation: "A most upright and conscientious gentleman, one in whom, as the orator Cicero said of another, there appears the embodiment of culture, of gentle wit, of amiability and of charm." Harvard University Hans Bethe, physicist . Sc.D.
Citation: "A distinguished contributor to modern physical theory, a forthright expositor of the public implications of science." Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and teacher Mus.D.
Eleanor Touroff Glueck, research criminologist Sc.D.
Sheldon Glueck, criminologist and teacher of law Sc.D.
General Alfred M. Gruenther, president, American Red Cross LL.D.
Wallace K. Harrison, architect for U.N.
headquarters D.Arts Neil H. McElroy, Secretary of Defense LL.D.
Johns Hopkins University Dwight D. Eisenhower LL.D.
Maurice Harold Macmillan, Prime Min ister of Great Britain. . . .LL.D.
Loyola University of Los Angeles
Irene Dunne, actress, alternate U.N.
delegate LL.D.
Oberlin College Harry Scott Ashmore. Pulitzer prize-winning editor, Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette LL.D.
Citation: "Patriot of the press, courageous champion of civil rights, prophet of the new South, voice of our new republic, with liberty and justice for all." Aaron Copland, composer Mus.D.
Occidental College Clark Kerr, incoming president. University of California LL.D.
St. Lawrence University Kirk Douglas, actor. . . D.F.A.
Citation: "You had to earn your way through college as a waiter in the Men's Residence dining hall . . . Your success up to that point and since may be cred ited not only to the beckoning opportunities which the American way of life provides but also to the dynamic quality of personal development which strives for the summit of a chosen career." Stevens Institute of Technology Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, developer of the atomic sub marine Sc.D.
University of California Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany LL.D.
University of Michigan Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany D.C.L.
University of Pittsburgh Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher. New York Times LL.D.
University of Rochester
Robert Maynard Hutchins, president.
Fund for the Republic LL.D.
University of the South Roger Blough, board chairman. U.S.
Steel Co D.C.L.
Wittenberg College Eric Sevareid, broadcaster and news analyst Litt.D.
Yale University Alfred A. Knopf, publisher L.H.D.
Citation: "Lifelong concern with the liberating word . . ." Sidney Lovett, retiring chaplain of Yale University .................. D.D.
William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman, board of governors. Federal Reserve System ............... LL.D.
Lyman Spitzer Jr., astrophysicist and chairman, department of astronomy, Princeton .................. Sc.D.