The Honorary Degree Citations
ALFRED MAXIMILIAN GRUENTHER General, United States Army, Retired President, The American National Red Cross DOCTOR OF LAWS
ONE of the minor mysteries of modern military history is how even West Point could keep a lieutenant named Maximilian teaching mathematics for eight years only to have him become the youngest four-star general ever. The final result, incidentally, like most results is no mystery to mathematicians. In a profession where the lives of men and the fate of nations depend on good plans you became one of the most respected military planners in American history. When in 1953 the call came to command in the dual role of international statesman and military leader you, as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, measured up even beyond the expectations of your friends and the fears of your antagonist. Your efforts brought the idea of collective security for the Western world to the possibility of reality. Today as you lead the Red Cross our highest hope for you and all of us is that there may never be a catastrophe that would test your undoubted capacity to meet it. Dartmouth salutes an exemplary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
JOHN HOLMES HINMAN '08 Chairman of the Board,International Paper Company DOCTOR OF LAWS
BY birth and character a New Hampshireman, by learning and fellowship a Dartmouth man, by philosophy and experience a woodsman, out of these things you built a career of international business leadership whose work is to be seen from New Brunswick to California and whose results are applauded where good managers gather, where good forestry is admired, and wherever dividend checks are delivered. The successful head of the world's largest paper products enterprise, you have backed education as well as reforestry on the principle that truly profitable industry depends upon the growth of men as well as trees. Here at Dartmouth, where for nearly half a century a Hinman has been harvested on the average every fourth year, it is wonderfully right that the 1908 vintage of such a bountiful supplier should henceforth bear your College's honored mantle of Doctor of Laws.
NELSON ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER '30 President, International Basic EconomyCorporation DOCTOR OF LAWS
BECAUSE you bear a name behind whose renown many would doze, you have been privileged to personify the truth that whatever else comes ready-made, there are nothing but self-made men. Few have cared less for the pat answers that can be bought or worked harder to be both worthy of responsibility and responsive to opportunity. Venturesome entrepreneur in public as well as private affairs, sensitive benefactor, knowledgeable patron of primitive as well as today's art, pioneer practitioner of international partnership in economic development, sinew and symbol of inter-American unity, you exemplify and honor that creativity which in all life weds the truly old to the newly true. Dartmouth senior fellow and Phi Beta Kappa graduate, father, Trustee emeritus, and donor, your College especially delights to bestow upon a laborer in the green vineyards the purple fruit of civic distinction, her highest honor, the Doctorate of Laws.
ALFRED PRITCHARD SLOAN JR. Honorary Chairman of the Board,General Motors CompanyChairman, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation DOCTOR OF LAWS
THE temptation at this moment is to tell you what you have little need to hear: a recitation of your accomplishments ranging from an M.I.T. degree in three years at age twenty through the presidency and chairmanship of General Motors for thirty-three years at age eighty. These are the trail marks of a long-stepping man who had a distance to go in his mind that has always been beyond where the other fellow stopped. It was this Paul Bunyan quality in you that set the pace that built the world's greatest industrial enterprise from whose vital bigness the free world has drawn unmeasurable strength in the decisive years of war and peace in our time. You brought to the American scene not merely mechanical strength and productivity; more importantly you demonstrated that bigness remains vital so long as it is rebuilt each day by the individual initiative of hardworking, open-minded men within reach of a problem. Today your initiative penetrates problems of our higher education from scholarships and teacher education to basic research. Dartmouth's gratitude to you as pre-eminent patron of the working mind is recorded in the unbounded tribute of her honorary Doctorate of Laws.
OMER CARMICHAEL Superintendent of Public Schools,Louisville, Kentucky DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
ALABAMA born and bred, your career as L a public-school man began when you taught in a rural school to pay your way at the State University. In 1954, after forty years in the service of four southern states, you led the schools of Louisville out of compulsory segregation, meeting courageously a challenge that could have intimidated a less resolute man and destroyed a less wise one. By this example, you and the Louisville community demonstrated to this nation and the watching world that both persuasion and compliance with law are essential to the human relations of a democracy. This you did not as a crusader but as a fellow citizen practicing Grey of Fallodon's wise counsel - "nothing so predisposes men to understand as making them feel that they are understood." The faculty and senior class of Dartmouth welcome to the roster of her honored names one of the most respected Great Issues lecturers who eminently merits the Doctorate of Humane Letters.
HOMER ARMSTRONG THOMPSON Field Director of the Agora Excavations,The American School of Classical Studiesat Athens DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
IF the given name of a son is any clue to parental hopes, your unprecedented achievement as an Athenian archaeologist is surely one of the most remarkable filial responses in all history. Whatever the initial motivation, out of dedication and diligence you fashioned a career of rare distinction as teacher and researcher in classical archaeology. For over a quarter of a century you have been the informed and insistent inspiration, indeed, the very heart tick of a great cooperative effort to excavate and restore the Agora of ancient Athens, a beckoning example to us of a community center where creativity of hand and mind were united in the enjoyment of human fellowship at its best. In honoring you Dartmouth also honors your request that her Doctorate of Humane Letters be conferred on you as the representative of all those who helped rebuild the Stoa of Attalos and re-create the Agora, in your good words, "that small place to which the modern world owes much."
DOUGLAS HORTON Dean, Harvard Divinity School DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
FOR forty-five years you have studied the word and done the work of God as scholar, teacher, pastor and administrator. Beyond the fixed point of each job's duty you have reached out as visiting minister to countless campuses and as writer, editor and lecturer, at home and abroad, to teach and practice the common cause of God's oneness that binds man's multiplicities into his most meaningful unity. With it all you were never one to leave even a fancied grievance unredressed and having been accused of absconding with a Wellesley President, albeit by Christian marriage, you magnanimously made women welcome as students at Harvard's Divinity School, thereby perhaps also insuring yourself and us a little against your Puritan predecessors' dread concern - "an illiterate ministry." With the award of this honorary Doctorate of Divinity, Dartmouth avows her concern with man's duty to his Maker and his conscience and acknowledges to you, a long-time friend, her obligation and affection.
CARLOS HEARD BAKER '32 Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literatureand Chairman, Department of English,Princeton University DOCTOR OF LETTERS
ABIDDEFORD, Maine boy, with a touch of Spanish disguise, your disciplined judgment and taste have made you one of America's foremost literary critics. Today from Shelley to Hemingway you stand out in the great American academic tradition as a teacher whose scholarly books and critical reviews have won both public and professional acclaim but who remains best known to all his friends as one who has never mortgaged his talents to causes of mere personal enhancement. Here at Dartmouth where as an undergraduate you learned the oneness of both creating and appreciating and from whence no call has ever gone unanswered by you, we rejoice in the good fortune of having such a son to honor on his twenty-fifth reunion as Doctor of Letters.
LYNDON FREDERICK SMALL '20 Chief, Laboratory of Chemistry, NationalInstitute of Arthritis and MetabolicDiseases, U. S. Department of Health,Education and Welfare DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
DETERMINATION is taken for the deed when the personal presence among us of an honorary degree candidate is prevented at the last hour by circumstances he has given the work of his lifetime to alleviate for others. One of the rarely talented research chemists of our time, your original and persevering work on opium alkaloids has gone far to bring the oldest human burden of unbearable pain within the beneficent reach of modern medicine. You graced this campus as an undergraduate with qualities of mind and spirit that were Dartmouth at her best; today that best as realized and exemplified in your life and work is gratefully bespoken by the award of your College's Doctorate of Science, honoris causa.
Dartmouth men who received honorary degrees shown with President Dickey, who is explain- ing the gold medallion he wears on ceremonial occasions. L to r: Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, LL.D.; President Dickey; John H. Hinman '08, LL.D.; and Prof. Carlos H. Baker '32, Litt.D.
Honorary degree recipients (front row) and Dartmouth Trustees photographed at the gym before the start of the Commencement academic procession. Scatrd (l to r) Carlos H. Baker '32, Omer Carmichael, John H. Hinman '08, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., President Dickey, General Alfred M. Gruenther, Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, Homer A. Thompson, Dean Douglas Horton. Back row: Lloyd D. Brace '25, Governor Lane Dwinell '28, Harvey P. Hood '18, Orvil E. Dryfoos '34, Albert Bradley '15, Theomas B. Curtis '32, John L. Sullivan '21, Dudley W. Orr '29, Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Dr. Ralph W. Hunter 31.
Nine Men Honored at 188th Commencement
