Doctor of Commercial Science

Nationally preeminent in your field throughout your professional career; diligent seeker for the principles essential to a newly developing technique of state control over matters of public concern. As a student of your subject you have ever been industrious and thorough; as an administrator, always sturdy, strong and fair. Among those with whom you have come in contact you have always won admiring respect.

This public action here today not only meets the desire of the Trustees of Dartmouth College on occasion of your fiftieth anniversary of graduation but is taken in response to the insistent petitions of the group of leaders in your professional field who have held in high appreciation the enduring influence of your public service.