Pres. Dickey Honored

PRESIDENT DICKEY was the guest speaker at a Convocation in Honor of Scholarship at Wesieyan University on October 8, and on that occasion received the University's honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The subject of his address was "The Search for a Purpose."

In conferring the degree, Wesleyan s President Victor Butterfield gave the following citation:

John Sloan Dickey, your inauguration as your alma mater's tenth president, only sixteen years after graduation, climaxed a brilliant young manhood. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, graduating with Distinction in History, you soon won laurels as a public servant, first, as a partner in a distinguished Boston law firm, and then as a scholarly adviser to our State Department and to the United Nations in the field of international relations. Your insistent urge for social justice, your courage, your tough gentility, your restless preoccupation with an education that will make young men intelligent and responsible citizens, have marked your equally distinguished career in middle age. Out of respect for the indelible impact you have made on Dartmouth and the enduring sense of responsibility for good citizenship you will instill in scores of her sons, Wesleyan extends to you her honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. May we, in making you a son of Wesleyan, encourage you in your faith and express our own conviction that you will prove to be one of the great educational and moral influences of our time.

President Dickey has received the honorary LL.D. degreee also from Amherst, Brown, Middlebury and Tufts.