HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS

CHARLES HABIB MALIK President, United NationsGeneral Assembly DOCTOR OF LAWS

PERHAPS the world's most broadly experienced diplomat in the work of international organizations, you are also one of the rarest exhibits of modern statecraft, a public figure of the first magnitude who is afraid of ghosts - at least afraid of them as the source of his public utterances. You sir, personify the answer to your own statement that "nothing is more needed than a consummate power of articulation, both in thought and in action, with respect to the fundamental things." Yourself a product of educational vision, the American University of Beirut, and a Harvard Ph.D., as both teacher and statesman you have returned in unique measure the investment all men have in any man's education. Drawing your understanding from a culture whose heritage and destiny are rooted both East and West, you know the need of all of us to eat, each of us to matter and the chasms of difference and ignorance that separate even the best of us from our aspirations and from each other. Dartmouth is privileged to award her highest honor, the honorary Doctorate of Laws, to one who exemplifies both in his person and his position the power of mind over men and of men over nations.

LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD President, Carleton College DOCTOR OF LAWS

FOR a man not given to extremes you have carried some things pretty far; to wit, the fact that no man's experience exceeds yours at both ends of the earth, not to speak of your fame as a collector of hundreds of red neckties and one green hat. Educated as a geologist at Michigan, early a veteran of arctic expeditions and thirty years ago the second in command and the geologist-geographer of Byrd's historic antarctic expedition, Chief of the Arctic Section for the Army Force in World War II and most recently Director of America's antarctic program for that monumental undertaking, the International Geophysical Year, if your years preclude the designation of elder statesman, your knowledge assuredly marks you a unique national asset. And with it all, both as teacher and administrator, you have been one of the stalwarts in the cause of liberal learning as the keystone of all education. Dartmouth prizes the ties of common interest, conviction and friendship that are bespoken in your honored acceptance of her Doctorate of Laws.

CHARLES EDWIN ODEGAARD, '32 President, University of Washington DOCTOR OF LAWS

You created the elements of an extraordinary career: Dartmouth A.B., Harvard Ph.D., a strenuous flirtation with the war-time Navy, professor of history at Illinois, Director of the American Council of Learned Societies, a deanship and educational leadership at Michigan; and now these elements have joined, perhaps conspired, to bring you to the presidency of one of the major public universities of America. But we have not called you back across a continent today to recount your erudite, albeit somewhat dilatory, compliance with Horace Greeley's advice. Our purpose is to speak straight out our pleasure that you and this mighty opportunity are met and that the man who looks westward over Puget Sound from your position knows from both his books and life's learning, as you put it to yourself, "how much men need a sense of continuity and support from the tradition of past human experience." Your College takes maternal pride in all the elements of your earned distinction and it is a singular satisfaction to her that on your shoulders this Doctorate of Laws symbolizes that in the common cause of ever-higher learning our public and private institutions are one.

FRED CLARK SCRIBNER JR. '30 Under Secretary of the Treasury DOCTOR OF LAWS

NEITHER your modesty nor your Republicanism would permit you to claim that you planned it all, but a Maine birth, Bath to be exact, a Dartmouth A.B., a Harvard LL.B., both degrees magna cum laude, and a lot of unadorned hard work went into making you one of the top down-East lawyers of our day, and that was only the beginning. A combination of conviction and the fun of it made you a party worker and then a leader in those seemingly distant days when Republicans everywhere, especially in Vermont, could rely on Maine for guidance, company - or at least comfort. Since 1955 you have served the larger community of the nation in the exceedingly exacting roles of General Counsel, Assistant Secretary and Under Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Today as second in command of the mightiest treasury operation the world has ever known you handle affairs of state with that matter-of-fact but commanding competence of a New Englander at his best. It is an especially proud commencement day for this College when a distinguished Dartmouth father and a talented son can congratulate each other as the award of this Doctorate of Laws to you now happily makes possible.

JAMES BARRETT RESTONThe Washington Correspondent ofThe New York TimesDOCTOR OF LETTERS

You are a hard man to praise. You are protected by both a professional skepticism that anyone is as good (or as bad) as his billing and a personal belief that the Lord is entitled as a matter of course to a pretty fair performance from each of us. All of which, come to think of it, could explain a man moving from press agent for the Cincinnati Reds to being a reporter. For twenty-five years now you have set a pace as a working newspaperman that has brought in its wake two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting, the accolade of the overseas press and the right to worry each night whether the Washington news of The New York Times will by the morning light seem as significant and perceptively reported as it is fit to print. And yet the esteem of your peers and the rest of us goes further - we know you as one whose on-target questions themselves produce policy and we admire you because what the news is matters to you and as a writer you make it matter very much to us. As a producer of your consumers, Dartmouth is proud to have you bear her Doctorate of Letters.

VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON Arctic Explorer and AuthorDOCTOR OF LETTERS

YOURS is an honored name wherever the pole star presides. Fifty-five years ago you began your historic expeditions to the far north. You went equipped above all else with a searching intellect. Other explorers went further but none saw more and you became one of the great discoverers, because beyond the bounds of any geography you pioneered a state of mind. An author whose fine mind is served by a graceful style and whose varied titles are counted by the dozen, you used the earnings of your writing and scholarship to gather together the western world's finest library on all things polar. Today under the care of your wife and devoted disciple, the Stefansson Collection at Dartmouth serves all who would venture with knowledge in person or in thought to the far north or the farthest south. For all that you have pioneered, for all that you have preserved, and especially for all that you do to make Hanover, as well as the Arctic, a friendly place, Dartmouth's gratitude is bespoken in this Doctorate of Letters.

ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER Director,Museum of Comparative Zoology,Harvard University DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

IT is especially fitting that on the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, you who scaled the heights of scholarly eminence as a vertebrate paleontologist should be honored on this campus where a course in evolution was first required nearly forty years ago. Your research has given us new knowledge of that critical juncture in life's evolution when the backboned animals used the discovery of legs to begin that conquest of land which only some two hundred million years later seems nearly complete as man now, mostly forgetful of legs, moves from land into space by the means of his mind. Whatever the fate of legs, man's future as man depends on a strong "backbone" as you recently demonstrated when, forsaking the peace of paleontology, as a fraternity corporation president at Amherst you stood by a brave group of undergraduates who chose brotherhood above national fraternity affiliation. Dartmouth delights to honor such an authority on backbones, historic and otherwise, with her Doctorate of Science.

JOSEPH LEE MCDONALD Dean of Dartmouth College DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS

EVER since your baseball playing days at Indiana there have been few moments when you were in doubt about who was on first base. Whether teaching economics or speech, at the College or at Tuck School, whether comforting or discomforting students, whether enlightening alumni or disillusioning parents, whether expatiating on administrative imbecilities to the faculty or very vice versa, you have never left friend or foe in either need - or doubt. Even as dean, or perhaps, especially as dean, your humanity shows through to reveal one who under whatever guise will always be carried on both the Dartmouth record book and on our hearts as an all-time Doctor of Humane Letters.

PATRICK MURPHY MALIN Executive Director,American Civil Liberties Union DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS

A friend in the disguise of an Irishman, as a battler for everyman's liberty under law, you are a fearful and wonderful combination of the bellicosity your name flaunts and the Quaker convictions you hold. Trained as an economist, former Swarthmore professor, government official and refugee worker, out of pure conviction you do the dirty work too many of us pass by of keeping the processes of democracy cleansed of unfairness. All men are your clients because in our society any man's claim of freedom belongs to all or to none. We honor you as a teacher and practitioner of Christian principle but perhaps we should also reveal that three Dartmouth-son graduates in a decade make you and Mrs. Malm prime candidates for the College's best customer award and that this honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters is therefore bestowed without prejudice to that claim and with gratitude to all.

Fred C. Scribner Jr. '30, LL.D.

Laurence M. Gould, LL.D.

Charles H. Malik, LL.D.

Charles E. Odegaard '32, LL.D.

Patrick M. Malin, L.H.D.

Joseph L. McDonald, L.H.D.

Alfred S. Romer, Sc.D.

James B. Reston, Litt.D.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Litt.D.