THOMAS WILLIAM PROCTOR

Today the College expresses in formal and public way its affection and regard for you as a gentleman and a scholar which cumulatively have been yours for more than half a century. Prominent in the undergraduate life of your time, among your fellows and early contemporaries, as a member of the community to whom responsibilities could be intrusted with assurance that they would be met, the promise of those days has since continuously been fulfilled in the larger communities wherewith you have identified yourself and to whose concerns you have addressed yourself in public and in private life. High in repute among your professional associates, as indicated by elections to the respective presidencies of bar associations of city and state; beloved among your personal friends; widely respected for your qualities as a citizen; representative of the ideals of culture in your tastes and in your affiliations; today the College reiterates its claim to you as one of its very own and confers upon you its honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.