Dartmouth Awards Mine Honorary Degrees

Following are the full texts of the citations read, by President Dickey in conferring nine honorary degrees at Dartmouth's183rd Commencement exercises. These arelisted in the order of Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Humane Letters, Doctor of Letters,and Doctor of Science.

JAMES FRANK DRAKE '02 Chairman of the Board,Gulf Oil Corporation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NATIVE son of New Hampshire, graduate of Dartmouth and her Tuck School of Business Administration, your career of service in American business spans fifty years. If our pride in you as a leader in today's vast oil industry sometimes brings to mind the unworthy regret that our New Hampshire hills are granite rather than oil bearing, it also reminds us that in a sense it all started here in Hanover where, one hundred years ago next year, petroleum was first tested by chemical analysis, pronounced "valuable indeed," and with lamentable scientific detachment left to be the work and worry of others. Today that natural resource flows as blood in the arteries of the community's daily life whether that community be town, state, nation or United Nations, and for the past twenty years you as executive head of one of the world's great oil companies have played an eminent part in fulfilling perhaps the largest public trust ever committed to private endeavor. On the fiftieth anniversary of your graduation, Dartmouth welcomes the return of a son known to the world for his accomplishments and known to her for his abiding interest in her welfare and as one worthy of her highest honor, the Doctorate of Laws.

RAYMOND BLAINE FOSDICK Former President,The Rockefeller Foundation New York, New York

THERE is probably no living man who has had broader or more intensive service than you on the fronts of human welfare. Graduate of Princeton and schooled as a lawyer, your mark is a familiar one high up on sign-posts of progress in many fields and many lands. Content to begin as a worker in city government, you became the first Under Secretary of the League of Nations, and later for twelve years you led the Rockefeller Foundation forward on the finest mission ever entrusted to other men by a far-sighted founder, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." And this year you paid the work of that institution its finest tribute by telling its story in a book which documents the optimistic faith of all who labor in the vineyard of higher learning that, as you put it, "the last word is never said." A man of quick spirit and sharp mind, it has been your lot to confront human ignorance, evil and ill-fortune in many forms; whatever the fortune of a particular battle, no good cause has ever been lost in your heart. It is with a warm sense of privilege and comradeship in a common quest that Dartmouth receives you into her fellowship as Doctor of Laws.

SIR OLIVER SHEWELL FRANKS Ambassador of Great Britain to theUnited States Washington, D. C.

THE world's ancient yearning for a philosopher as king will not be satisfied by you, but as the British Ambassador you come sufficiently close to it in American eyes. Born a minister's son and grandson, graduate and later Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, World War II made you a displaced professor by launching you on a career of extraordinary distinction in government service. The quality of that distinction is attested by the fact that your service in posts of the most critical importance has been exacted not only by the War Cabinet but thereafter in turn by both Labor and Conservative governments. In 1947 as chairman of the Committee on European Cooperation you played a large part in saving the free community of Western Europe from suicide by guiding sixteen nations through a crisis of indecision and incredible complexity to an agreed and practical basis for Marshall Plan cooperation. This College proudly bears the name of an English benefactor and its Charter was granted in colonial days by a British King named George who I regret to relate bears not the same good fame in these parts as your gracious Sovereign, Elizabeth. However, we welcome you today not primarily as the British Ambassador nor even as a philosopher, but rather as a man who has shown both the will and the capacity to serve the public good in uncommon measure and rightly merits the highest token of our esteem, Dartmouth's Doctorate of Laws.

GERARD SWOPE Former President,The General Electric Company Ossining, New York

OUT of a Missouri beginning, an M.I.T. engineering education, a period as a volunteer social worker with Jane Addams in Hull House, and fifty years as an executive in American industry, you built one of the most broadly useful and respected careers of our times. You were among the first of modern managers to lead a large industrial enterprise to greatness by demonstrating that the power of bigness need not be a curse so long as the unit of all human strength, the individual, is not lost to sight. Beyond the bounds of self-interest you backed this precept on many fronts with effort, fortune, and name: playgrounds, college loan funds, the community chest movement, social security, low-cost housing, group health insurance, and most recently the responsible study of Far Eastern affairs, to each of these you brought the forthright best of a partner's help and concern. In recognition of the unflagging quality of your exemplary citizenship, this College extends to you, a Dartmouth father, a genuinely heartfelt welcome into her fellowship as Doctor of Laws.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, 2NDLibrettist Doylestown, Pennsylvania

THE top librettist of many a beautiful day, we avow that in our time no other man's words have made so many people feel good about belonging to the human race. We cannot know whether it all goes back to the chromosomes of grandfather Hammerstein or only to your exposure at the age of four to a vaudeville matinee, but it is enough to know that despite a legal education at Columbia you escaped to the theatre with your talent unimpaired. Since then the art of your words has joined the power of drama and the rapture of music in those fresh revelations of joy, truth and beauty which we know as Rose Marie, Show Boat, Oklahotna, Carmen Jones, Carousel, South Pacific, TheKing and I. A little of the essence of each of us is illumined by your insight, your compassion, and your kindly sincerity in putting life to words. And if there be any who ask how deeply your pen probes, let them listen as your King of Siam sings about his puzzlements. Wiser words were never sung. When it can be said of a man that life for millions would be bleaker and meaner without his work, that man honors the mission of the liberal arts college and Dartmouth rejoices to confer on him her degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

WILLIAM GURDON SALTONSTALLPrincipal, The Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, New Hampshire

As many men in this graduating class know or will soon swiftly learn, the United States Navy has a well-merited reputation for wanting things put where they belong, but they never worked harder at it than when they sent you to war in the Pacific as an officer on the aircraft carrier BUNKER HILL. Holder of two degrees and letters in football, crew, and hockey from Harvard and today an Overseer of that University, you became by your choice a teacher of boys. Six years ago you were chosen the ninth Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. In your teaching, in your leadership, and most especially in your own life, you have practised the belief that the true end of a fine education is a good man in action. The lives of our two venerable New Hampshire institutions are intertwined at many points, but they are never more happily joined than when their common aims and work are fused in the same staunch man. In fond tribute to you and in witness of the warm welcome which the sons of Exeter have known at this college since Colonial days, Dartmouth confers on you her honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

FRANCIS BROWN '25 Editor, The New York TimesBook Review; Author New York, New York

BORN as you were in the shadow of Lord Jeffrey Amherst's renowned namesake, providence rather than propinquity prevailed and it was your destiny to be graduated from Dartmouth in 1925, to serve the College as teacher for three years and thereafter to be clothed with the authority of the Ph.D. of Columbia. Since then you have exercised this awesome authority not as a teacher, but rather as an editor and purveyor of history. But that authority is as nothing compared with the oracular judgments on all literary efforts over which you now preside as Editor of The NewYork Times Book Review. In quiet fact this position is one of sacred trust in the world of letters and it is due both writer and reader that it be occupied, as we here now affirm it is, by a man of integrity, taste, and perception. This past year you your- self again entered the literary lists with a life of Henry Jarvis Raymond, founder and first editor of The Times, a major work of deft biography and full-bodied American history. It is with the unabashed pride of a co-author that your College bestows on you her honorary Doctorate of Letters.

JOHN POLLARD BOWLER '15 Surgeon; Chairman, Hitchcock Clinic Hanover, New Hampshire

IT would be hard to say where Dartmouth leaves off and you begin. Son of a Dartmouth physician and teacher, graduated with the Class of 1915, professionally trained at Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools and the Mayo Clinic, this College has known you as student, professor, Dean of Medicine, surgeon, good neighbor and loyal friend, not to overlook your renown as a pioneer who intentionally somersaulted off the ski jump. Parenthetically, it should be noted that modern medicine regards somersaulting on skis as more likely to produce a patient than a surgeon. More importantly, in 1937 you and four far-sighted colleagues pioneered here in Hanover a venture in private group practice which has provided the entire North Country, including Dartmouth College, with the unique blessing of superb medicine practised by men who meet their patients, as they're meant to be met in these parts, as neighbors. On this twenty- fifth anniversary of the founding of the Hitchcock Clinic, your College delights to confer on you, a practitioner of medical statesmanship, her Doctorate of Science as testimony of her pride in your professional distinction and as a token of this community's feeling toward all the medicine men who serve this tribe and town.

LESLIE CLARENCE DUNN '15 Professor of Zoology, Columbia University New York, New York

GRADUATE of Dartmouth College in 1915 and presently Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, your life has been devoted as student, teacher, and researcher to the pursuit of a scientific interest developed in Hanover as an undergraduate under the stimulus of that dedicated teacher, Professor-Emeritus J. H. Gerould. Following graduate work in genetics at Harvard, you spent a quarter of a century in the company more of mice than of men seeking insight and verified knowledge about that most pervasive determinant of all life which we laymen trustingly call heredity. Indeed, the gap between lay ignorance and work such as yours can only honestly be bridged at this point by the humility which permits us to acknowledge that you know more about the "factors affecting the taillength of the house mouse," to use one of your own titles, than we do about anything. And yet upon just such work other men will some day fashion specific answers to the mystery of cancer, the need of the world's people for more food, and even those far off questions regarding life which today we know not even enough to ask. In recognition of the rightful place of science in the range of the liberating arts and of your earned distinction as one of America's leading biological scientists, Dartmouth confers on you her honorary Doctorate of Science.

HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS at Dartmouth's 183rd Commencement shown with President Dickey. Left to right, front row: Raymond B. Fosdick, Sir Oliver S. Franks, President Dickey, Gerard Swope, J. Frank Drake '02. Back row: Dr. John P. Bowler '15, Oscar Hammerstein II, William G. Saltonstall, Prof. Leslie C. Dunn '15 and Francis Brown '25.

DARTMOUTH MEN who received honorary degrees: With President Dickey (center) are, I to r. Dr. John P. Bowler '15 of Hanover, surgeon and chairman of the Hitchcock Clinic; Leslie C. Dunn '15 of New York, professor of zoology at Columbia University; J. Frank Drake '02 of Pittsburgh, chairman of the board of Gulf Oil Corp.; and Francis Brown '25 of New York, editor of "The New York Times Book Review."