Honorary Degrees Awarded to Eight
Four Dartmouth Graduates Among Noted Recipients
Following are the citations which Pres-ident Dickey read in conferring the honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws, Doctor ofLetters and Doctor of Humane Lettersupon eight distinguished Americans at theCollege's 177 th commencement exerciseson June 29:
WARREN R. AUSTIN U. S. Senator from VermontU. S. Delegate-Designate to the UnitedNations Security Council Burlington, Vermont
FOR FIFTEEN YEARS you as United States Senator from Vermont have represented a North Country constituency which we of the Connecticut River's east bank call neighbor and friend. During these years you have also at once served the nation and mankind's greatest cause by your steady advocacy and support of American foreign policies based on international cooperation and the development of international organizations. Yours was a vision which preceded acclaim; yours was a courage which surpassed partisan considerations; and yours was a support which continued without expectation of recognition or reward. Today you stand selected as American Delegate to the Security Council of the United Nations. If your mission on behalf of our existence is to succeed, we somehow and soon must all find within ourselves those capacities of vision, courage and support which Dartmouth with neighborly pride honors in you today by conferring upon you her highest award, the degree of Doctor of Laws.
LESLIE L. BIFFLE Secretary of the U. S. Senate Washington, D. C.
You BY THE common consent of those best qualified to know are the outstanding, non-elective servant of the legislative process of our Federal Government. For more than thirty-five years you have been associated with legislative affairs in the nation's capital and since 1933, first as Secretary to the Majority in the United States Senate and more recently as Secretary of the Senate you have rendered public service the effectiveness and fidelity of which are counted great by those of contrary as well as like political persuasion. In tribute to you and in recognition of the place of such largely unheralded service in the working of American democracy, Dartmouth confers upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws.
PAUL G. HOFFMAN Industrialist; Chairman of the Committeefor Economic Development South Bend, Indiana
ONE-TIME STUDENT and presently Trustee of the University of Chicago; firm friend of other public and private agencies of learning and service, among America's foremost industrialists you in notable measure have demonstrated high capacity for enlightened leadership both within and outside industry, in war and in peace. You have not only seen the need; you have done something about such large public causes as the promotion of automotive safety, relief for stricken China, and the development of realistic plaps and progressive policies for peacetime prosperity in a private enterprise economy. This College is happy to be able to affirm something of its purpose in the development of public-minded citizens and effective community leadership by honoring you with its degree of Doctor of Laws.
BASIL O'CONNOR '12 National Chairman, American Red Cross;President, National Foundation forInfantile Paralysis New York, New York
GRADUATE OF DARTMOUTH, Class of 1912, and of the Harvard Law School; the world's outstanding leader of organized private aid to the stricken at home and abroad, you combine two qualities which this College covets for her sons—capacity for high accomplishment and concern for the right things. Effective worker and lifelong devotee in all matters pertaining to Dartmouth, your ultimate loyalty has been to human beings in need, everywhere. In token of the gratitude men feel for your works and the pride your College knows for your service in the mitigation of suffering, whether from prejudice, disaster, hunger, disease or war, I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws.
HAROLD E. STASSEN Former Governor of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota
THREE TIMES Governor of Minnesota; Flag Secretary to Admiral Halsey in World War II; Delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco; thoughtful and forthright spokesman on public issues, you have demonstrated noteworthy capacities of statesmanship and public leadership. In the affairs of nations you have shown that quality so to be desired in public men of respecting facts above prejudice and of being prepared to work for and with the attainable without permitting yourself or others the indulgence of belittling more distant and difficult goals as beyond the attainment and concern of men worthy of being masters of their fate. In awarding you her degree of Doctor of Laws* Dartmouth acknowledges her regard for your performance and your promise, and her concern that those qualities which she honors in you may be found more widely in those who are chosen to lead.
THOMAS W. STREETER '04 Lawyer and Bibliographer Morristown, New Jersey
BORN A NEW HAMPSHIREMAN; Dartmouth man by your choice and by distinguished heritage as son of a father who gave this College three decades of devoted service as a Trustee; Harvard-trained attorney by profession; financier; you have quietly gained renown as an authority on Americana and one of our foremost private collectors of early American imprints. High distinction in your avocation has resulted in your counsel being sought by the nation's leading libraries and in your recognition as President of the Bibliographical Society of America. Dartmouth's library counts no better friend. Upon you as one whose broad culture and personal qualities mark notably and truly the man of liberal education, Dartmouth renews her claims and affirms an important aspect of her purpose with the award of her Doctorate of letters.
LEONARD D. WHITE '14 Professor of Public Administration,University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois
MEMBER OF THE Dartmouth fellowship on several counts, possessor already of two degrees of this College and one-time member of its faculty, you have been teacher, thinker and doer in matters of large public concern. Few, if any, men in our time have with greater felicity combined scholarly understanding of public administration with the will and the ability for responsible participation in the public service and in its improvement. You by your teaching, your personal service and your perceptive writings stand acknowledged as America's foremost interpreter of the civil service today. Dartmouth, profoundly mindful that citizens of a democracy should understand as well as participate in public affairs, bestows on you her Doctorate of Letters.
LESTER B. GRANGER '18 Executive Secretary, National UrbanLeague New York, New York
BORN IN VIRGINIA; graduate of this College in 1918, successor to two Dartmouth brothers and predecessor of two others; artillery officer in the first World War; holder of the United States Navy's highest civilian award for exceptionally outstanding service to the Navy as Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Navy on Negro personnel in World War II; you as writer and speaker, as worker in sundry areas and many capacities, most recently as Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, have truly merited the designation leader in the promotion of interracial understanding and cooperation. Yours is an earned eminence in the long and yet to be won struggle to bring America closer to her ideals as a true, a complete and thereby an exemplary democracy. In the traditional and most especially in the literal sense of the word humane as one "having feelings and inclinations creditable to man," Dartmouth esteems you uniquely worthy of her Doctorate of Humane Letters.
To attend the second commencement of Dartmouth College in 1772, Governor John Wentworth of New Hampshire and his party traveled overnight and had to hew part of their way through trackless forests. Today, two or three hours suffices to cover the distance from Wolfborough, where the governor had his summer home, to the town of Hanover.
HONORARY DEGREE WINNERS. Front row, left to right. Warren R. Austin, President Dickey, Harold E. Stassen, Leslie L. Biffle; back row, left to right, Lester B. Granger '18, Thomas W. Streeter '04, Basil O'Connor '12, Paul G. Hoffman and Leonard D. White '14.
DARTMOUTH MEN among the honorary degree recipients chat with President Dickey. Left to right, Lester B. Granger '18, Mr. Dickey, Basil O'Connor '12, Leonard D. White '14 and Thomas W. Streeter '04.
AT THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION on Commencement weekend the receiving line included, left to right, President Dickey, Mrs. Dickey, Mrs. Neidlinger, Dean Neidlinger, Mrs. Stearns and Prof. John B. Stearns '16.
