COMMENCEMENT
Between 12:15 and 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 10, 1962 some 606 young men formed two lines and solemnly filed past President Dickey to receive diplomas that formally ushered them into the ranks of educated men and the Dartmouth alumni fellowship. Upwards of 70 per cent will go on to graduate schools instead of the "wide, wide world," yet this conferring of the A.B. degree signified in most minds the dividing line between callow, undergraduates and serious men of the world.
The combined Commencement and Baccalaureate exercises climaxed the usual colorful Commencement Weekend. Members of the reuning classes of 1902, 1907 and 1912 rubbed elbows with the '62's, their parents, fiancees and just girl friends at a series of receptions, dinners, concerts, movies, plays, the ROTC Commissioning ceremonies, a crew race with MIT and a rugby match with the Montreal Wanderers. The Baker Chimes chimed almost incessantly and the Class of '79 Trumpeters concertized from Baker Tower. And all the while the sun beamed down in a beamish way.
The exercises also featured the awarding of seven honorary degrees, 24 bachelor of medicine degrees, 25 advanced degrees in engineering and 13 master's degrees. The honorary degree group included two alumni, Gaylord A. Freeman '31, vice-chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, and Charles E. Osgood '39, University of Illinois professor and president-elect of the American Psychological Association. An alumni son also received an honorary degree and created a stir among Hanover's spaceminded youngsters. He was Comdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr., America's first astronaut and a son of Alan B. Shepard 'l3.
The Commencement speaker, Arthur H. Dean, chief negotiator at the Geneva disarmament and test-ban talks, described the peace offensive being waged by the U.S. "For the first time we are carrying the offer to sign a treaty to the Communists. Every time they retreat, we go forward—and they don't like it." The Communists, he explained, have no desire for a lessening of world tensions and have been discomfited by U.S. efforts. Last year Jean Monnet, the French statesman who is called the "Father of the Common Market," told of efforts to create a unified Western Europe and eventually an Atlantic Community. The Common Market and unification became the No. 1 news story of the year. Many listeners left the 1962 Commencement exercises with a feeling that the efforts to come to grips with disarmament and nuclear testing, as described by Mr. Dean, might be the significant development of the coming 12 months.
Mr. Dean's address, the valedictory talks and the honorary-degree citations are printed elsewhere in this issue.
Seniors marching to ClassDay exercises swing by Dartmouth Hall to salute two ofthe retiring professors, Edmund H. Booth '18 of theEnglish Department and JohnG. Gazley of the History Department.
Happy - and relieved — over the waythe Class Day program went wereDean Thaddeus Seymour (left) andAssistant Dean Charles F. Dey 52.
Rear Admiral Joseph H. Wellings, USN, commandant of theFirst Naval District, addressed the ROTC graduates and presented commissions to the Navy and Marine officers.
Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., vice commander in chiefof the Pacific Air Forces, pins a lieutenant's bars on his son,Thomas III '62, member of the Air Force ROTC.
The traditional Phi Beta Kappa installation in Baker Library was Saturday morning's opening event.
