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Citation: "Through his ingenuity we can portray ourselves in 60 seconds."
Jan Hendrik Oort, director of the Observatory of Leiden Sc.D.
Citation: "A stellar force in science who has made a neighbor of the galaxies."
Robert Burns Woodward, Harvard chemist who synthesized quinine, cholesterol, cortisone, strychnine and lysergic acid Sc.D.
Barbara Ward. British economist and political essayist Litt.D.
Citation: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith."
Bruce Catton, historian of the Civil
War Litt.D.
Erwin Panofsky, art historian: . .D.Arts Omer Carmichael . . .M.A.
Johns Hopkins University
Nathan Marsh Pusey . . .
.LL.D.
Citation: "Both as president of a liberal college and as president of the mother of American universities has never yielded to the howlings of demagogues."
Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E Sc.D.
Middlebury College
Eric Johnston LL.D.
Sherman Adams LL.D.
Citation: "As the trusted friend and assistant to the President of the United States, with great courage, intelligence, and efficiency you labor without stint to bring to fruition with dispatch the domestic and foreign policies of our national government."
Sidney Painter, historian LL.D.
Citation: "We honor you today as an eminent classical scholar, neither intimidated nor discouraged by the present glamour of the scientist . . . and as one who has come to understand and to live the meaning of the words 'and gladly teach.' "
Dr. Howard Rusk, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at N.Y.U.'s College of Medicine. .Sc.D.
Mills College
Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator "from Maine LL.D.
Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, former superintendent of public instruction in the state of Washington LL.D.
Montana State College
William Benton, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D.
Oberlin College
Chester Bowles, former ambassador to India . .LL.D.
Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist and biographer of Scarlatti Mus.D.
Southern Illinois University
Major Alexander P. de Seversky. .Sc.D.
University of California
H. Rowan Gaither Jr., chairman of the Ford Foundation LL.D.
University of Michigan
Arthur E. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General LL.D.
George Kennan. former ambassador to the Soviet Union and Pulitzer Prize historian LL.D.
Citation: "Having played a major role in world events of the last quarter century, he has devoted his genius to record them with the scholar's insight and the philosopher's wisdom."
Michigan State University
Richard M. Nixon. .
.LL.D.
Citation: "Twice elected to the vice-presidency of the U.S., you have brought to that high office a new dignity and usefulness which strengthen our political system."
University of Pennsylvania
Bernard F. Gimbel LL.D.
Associate Justice William J. Brennan
Jr LL.D.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of AEC