The Honorary Degree Citations

DETLEV WULF BRONKPresident, The Rockefeller InstituteDOCTOR OF LAWS

IF ever we run out of elephants for use in the fable about the four blind men who variously described the creature as like a fire hose, a telegraph pole, the side of a barn, and a piece of rope, the same point could be made with isolated excerpts from the life of a man who began as the son of a Baptist minister; enjoys the role of impish elf in the presence of any pomposity; flew as a navy aviator in World War I; worked as sports writer and power engineer before turning to physics, physiology and biophysics; who has taught in four institutions; endured life as dean of men for two full years; filled a score of distinguished lectureships; edited several scientific journals; carried out pioneering research in neurophysiology, even recording the internal music made by a cat's nervous system; headed the National Research Council, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences; led the Johns Hopkins University as its President for five years; and now as President of the Rockefeller Institute has given even that renowned scientific enterprise a fresh and enlarged sense of educational mission. Taken together such pinnacles of achievement form the mosaic of a career which in distinction and reach is unsurpassed in American science today. It is good and right that such qualities of mind and usefulness in a long-time friend of Dartmouth should be gratefully acknowledged with the imprint of her Doctorate of Laws.

ARTHUR FRANK BURNS Chairman, The Council of EconomicAdvisers DOCTOR OF LAWS

BORN in Austria, brought as a boy to America, a scholarship student at Columbia, you have had the brains and you have done the work to make yourself an extraordinarily expert economist. Professor of Economics at Rutgers and then Columbia, Director of Research of the famed National Bureau of Economic Research, preeminent authority on the business cycle, you earned the reward of having your professional judgment matter greatly to the President of the United States and all throughout the world whose daily livelihood is influenced by his understanding of their economic life. Such responsibility measures its own praise, but here on this campus where philosophy, politics and economics are met we rejoice that the power of your expertness is safeguarded by a wisdom of rare restraint and that your staunch faith in our competitive enterprise system embraces all the little facts and factories alike. As befits your professional and personal tastes these words are a plainly put preface to the merited award of Dartmouth's highest degree, her honorary Doctorate of Laws.

LUTHER HARRIS EVANS Director-General, United NationsEducational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization DOCTOR OF LAWS

THE delightful story of the Texas flea that bought himself his own dog reminds us that there is something wonderfully Texan about a teacher who as a librarian counted his books by the millions and then went on to take under his wing the educational, the scientific and the cultural affairs of the whole, wide world. Born and reared on a Texas farm, A.B. of the University of Texas, Stanford Ph.D. in political science, you taught in four colleges, including Dartmouth, before going to Washington to direct an inventory of the nation's historical source materials and thereafter for nearly fourteen years to serve and ultimately head the nation's largest library enterprise, the Library of Congress. Since 1953 you have skillfully administered the exceedingly delicate and wide-ranging affairs of the first international organiza- tion to be founded on the proposition that "wars begin in the minds of men." The mere existence of any organization assures nothing, but the fact that UNESCO exists as an organized expression of international concern for things of the mind is surely one of the tangibly hopeful signs any perceptive dove would take back to an anxious modern Noah. In appreciation of this instrument for peace and of your part in its use by the nations, Dartmouth wellcomes your return as Doctor of Laws.

GEORGE HENRY HOWARD '07 Lawyer DOCTOR OF LAWS

VERMONTER by heritage, New Yorker by conquest, corporation lawyer and financier by profession, you became and remain a Dartmouth man by conviction. Having deliberately followed Daniel Webster in coming to Dartmouth, the extraordinary energy and determination of your fine mind made you Phi Beta Kappa as well as editor-in-chief of both the Aegis and the daily Dartmouth. Within twenty years of your graduation from the Harvard Law School those qualities of mind and heart brought you colossal business responsibilities first as President of the United Corporation and later as founder of that financial empire known as Atlas Corporation. With it all - the zest of success and the loneliness of trouble and loss - you remained yourself, and in the busiest of days found time to serve your College as Alumni Councilor, President of the General Alumni Association, and as a member of the Development Council. Above it all you stand preeminent among the loyal alumni of Dartmouth as an uncommonly interested and generous patron of Dartmouth's most precious tangible asset, the good teacher. Thus it is with uncommon pleasure that the Faculty and Trustees of Dartmouth join in the tribute of awarding to you the degree of Doctor of Laws.

PAUL MARTIN Minister of National Health and Welfare,Canada DOCTOR OF LAWS

OUT of a bilingual heritage, the boyhood of a steelworker's son in a family of eleven, an attack of paralytic polio, an education gotten at four universities in Canada, the United States, England and Switzerland and the promise of a brilliant career at the bar, you became a Canadian Cabinet member at the age of forty-two. Today, after ten highly successful years as Minister of National Health and Welfare you stand out at home and abroad as one whose potential as a democratic leader is constantly being pressed and paced by an ever stronger performance. Your leadership of such difficult enterprises in a federal government as social security, civil defense, and polio vaccination has commanded admiration on both sides of our common border. Long-time student of international affairs and a former delegate to both the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization, today as the head of Canada's delegation to the United Nations, you carry forward the delicate dual role so uniquely fulfilled by your country as bridge-builder and defender of the free faith among the nations. For all this and your Great Issues lectures, too, we delight to affirm the traditional ties of affinity and affection between this College and Canada by admitting you to a fellowship already occupied by your Governor General, Prime Minister, and Minister for External Affairs - the fellowship of Dartmouth's Doctorate of Laws.

CARL ZUCKMAYER Author, Playwright DOCTOR OF LETTERS

GERMAN by birth and culture, American by exposure and choice, as solid and yet full of zest as that combination suggests, you have known the harsh lot of a man blown good by ill wind. As an honored German poet, novelist and play-wright you spoke for the universal values of civilized men until under Hitlerism there was no room for such a voice and those values. In exile you and your gifted wife became our neighbors in the Vermont hills and Dartmouth's Baker Library provided a haven of the intellect for you both. New books were born, her Farm in theGreen Mountains, your Second Wind, and the way was prepared for the dramas which establish you as the foremost playwright of today's new dawning in German life. Having been true both to your Fatherland and to the best that was betrayed by Nazi Germany, you stand where great writers have often stood, among the few who, without too much seeming to, can quicken those qualities of understanding and aspiration by which the character of a nation lives or dies. To borrow one of your famous titles, in The Happy Vineyard of your notable sixtieth year Dartmouth, in gladsome congratulation and confident expectation, bestows on you her honorary Doctorate of Letters.

HENRY PITNEY VAN DUSEN President, Union Theological Seminary DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

THE many and varied roles you play in our national and international life make all too clear how easy it would have been for you to have achieved fame, and perhaps fortune too, in some other field, yet you chose the ministry and theological education. But could it have been other than the pull of original sin even in a place supposed to be professionally ag'in it, that drew you into academic administration? Be that as it may, we here avow that the religion of our day is well served by a leader of one of the foremost schools of theology who possesses both conviction as to the value of unity among churches and an instinct for the protection of individual diversities; who believes in the relevance of the intellect to problems of faith but is willing to see men moved toward religious experience by preaching less sophisticated than his; and who, having borne suspicions of heresy himself, knows that the work of God cannot long be carried on outside the free market place of ideas. A generous and wise counsellor and a preeminent worker at the ancient and delicate task of helping men become strong through commitment to a worthy faith while leaving their minds free to grow, Dartmouth confers on you the degree, Doctor of Divinity.

HILDRUS AUGUSTUS POINDEXTER '27 M Medical Director, Chief of Health andSanitation Division, United StatesOperations Mission to Vietnam DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

LINCOLN University A.B., graduate o£ the Dartmouth Medical School in 1927, Harvard M.D., Columbia A.M. and Ph.D., sometime Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, Professor of Howard University, Colonel of the United States Army Medical Corps, and onetime porter of the Pullman Company, you have the rare distinction of having saved human lives on a vast scale. Born into the poverty of a farming family in Shelby County, Tennessee, educated through the generosity of others and your own determination, you equipped yourself to become a world authority on the control and elimination of malaria, the largest health impairment of human effort on the face of the earth. As teacher and researcher and author of some seventy scientific publications in microbiology and public health, as army officer, administrator and public health official you have followed the trail of the malaria-bearing mosquito into well-nigh all the continents and archipelagos of the world. Holder of the Bronze Star for spectacular reduction of the malaria scourge among our soldiers in the South Pacific, Knight Commander of Liberia for a similar service to that land, Dartmouth where you received your first professional education is proud to count you among the most honored in her fellowship as Doctor of Science, honoris causa.

WILLIAM HENRY WESTON JR. '11 Professor of Botany, Harvard University DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

GRADUATED by Dartmouth as a member of the Class of 1911 and thereafter as a Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University, for thirty-five years you have played a leading role in American academic life as one of the truly great graduate teachers of botany. Your wide-ranging work as a scholar and consultant to governments and private organizations on the pathology of flora was occasionally complicated by such fauna, to use your words, as the "howling monkeys, toucans, coatis, jaguars, etc." in the jungles of Panama, not to mention handicaps of a related sort undoubtedly encountered by you in the undergrowth of Guam, the Philippines, Cuba and Washington, D. C. Throughout your career you have given expert service to your government in two wars, you have responded to numerous calls from sister institutions to fill distinguished lectureships, and as a scholar, indeed a starred man among scientists, you have permitted the layman to enjoy at least such a mellifluous title as the Downy Mildew of Maize. And now on the forty-fifth anniversary of your first Dartmouth degree and in the year you become emeritus professor at Harvard, your College is honored to enroll you as Doctor of Science.

CHARLES EDMUND GRIFFITH '15 Musician; First Vice President, SilverBurdett Company DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS

ENTERPRISE, talent and character won you the Barrett Award as a Dartmouth senior in 1915 and your use of those endowments in the larger community for two score years now is proof that your promise has been well kept. As publisher and purveyor of good books both at home and in distant lands, as music editor and concert violinist, as a collector of folk music of the Philippines and other areas of the Far East, you have both practiced and enhanced the arts that lift and enlarge the human experience. You have led and served your home town far beyond the calls of even such duty. Your College is stronger in music, moral purpose and her alumni fellowship because of your unhesitant response as Chairman of the Visiting Committee to the Music Department, as Chairman of the Tucker Foundation campaign committee, and as President of the Dartmouth Club of New York. The world is a better place because in wartime you embraced the human needs of both the son of a Japanese classmate and the sons of a murdered Filipino friend. Generous in every dimension of outlook and giving, you are a son whose example Dartmouth rejoices to acknowledge with her Doctorate of Humane Letters.

Honorary degree recipients with President Dickey in Baker Library. Left to right, front row: Hildrus A. Poindexter '27m, Sc.D.; Carl Zuckmayer, Litt.D.; Detlev W. Bronk, LL.D.; President Dickey; Luther H. Evans, LL.D.; William H. Weston Jr. '11, Sc.D. Back row: Arthur F. Burns, LL.D.; Charles E. Griffith '15, L.H.D.; The Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen, D.D.; George H. Howard '07, LL.D.; and Paul Martin, LL.D.

The Monday After: senior gowns drying on the Memorial Field bleachers.