HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS

THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH THE COUNTESS OF DARTMOUTH London, England DOCTORS OF LAWS

Lord and Lady Dartmouth, we welcome you as family. Since 1769, thanks to the "special grace" of George 111, the good judgment of Governor Wentworth, Eleazar Wheelock's great designs (both for the Indians and on his British benefactors), and most especially thanks to the generosity of your ancestor, the second Earl, this College has been privileged to share with your family the beautiful and historic' English seaport name chosen by the first Baron in 1682 for his peerage. The College has traditionally prized the parentage of its good name and we particularly appreciate the continuity of your family's interest witnessed by your presence here today. You, Sir, a product of Eton and a City man in London town, whose quiet competence rests on a character as English and as honorable as his name, you personify for us the aegis of your ancestor's civilized concern under which in the course of two hundred years 50,000 young men have enrolled here as men of Dartmouth. And now that we are embarked on a study to determine whether that aegis can be wisely, as well as pleasantly, extended to a new category of undergraduates, it cannot be amiss on this occasion to acknowledge that women have meant much to both Dartmouth families, yours as well as that of the College, by noting that the second Earl's great-great-grandmother was a Washington whose family's arms prophetically featured stars and stripes. Today the ninth Earl's lady is a London civic leader whose valor and wit have rejoiced to enter the lists in many a cause, thereby giving her a special personal claim to the Dartmouth family motto, Gaudet Tentamine Virtus. The College delights to inscribe on her rolls of honored membership once again the name of Dartmouth, by awarding to the ninth Earl and his Countess, the Doctorates of Law, honoris causa.

KINGMAN BREWSTER JR. President of Yale University DOCTOR OF LAWS

You come to us not only as the seventeenth president of Yale, from whence our Eleazar Wheelock was graduated with honors in 1733 - that of itself would be enough to make our Bicentennial cup overflow - but today it is as nothing compared with the joy of the reassurance we take from the presence of a president who is not retiring, not resigning, and not just too unimaginative to know the score. Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant; as a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard and then taught at Harvard Law in preparation for the Yale presidency; as the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar girls, then married one and all but seduced Vassar itself; a dyed-in-the-blue isolationist as an undergrad uate you recently chaired a notable proposal for U.N. peacekeeping. Above all, whatever the issue whether in the university or the world of affairs, you have been a practitioner of peaceful change as the essential corollary of any peacekeep ing worthy of the name. On this Bicentennial, Dartmouth acknowledges her Yale parentage with pride and her president's enjoyment of your companionship as a fellow-traveler in the endless wilderness of education by welcoming you into the fellowship of this College as an honorary Doctor of Laws.

HARVEY PERLEY HOOD '18 Chairman of the Board, H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc., Boston DOCTOR OF LAWS

Even in an alumni fellowship that is proverbial for its fidelity, there have been few persons over these two centuries whose service and generosity would warrant the judgment, now permanently recorded of you in the minutes of the Dartmouth Trustees, that "the College would not have been the same without him." Conceivably, but of course off-the-record, the same may also be true of your service to the daily Dartmouth, since a 1918 classmate testifies you were on the board of that paper before the rest of the class knew they were in college, and it is of record that before long you became the editor-in-chief as well as a lot of other establishment things that editors today eschew. Be that as it may, during the past fifty years, twenty-five spent as a Trustee, you led and often launched such critically important Dartmouth volunteer undertakings as the Alumni Fund, the Boston Alumni Association, the Executive Committee of the Trustees, the Tuck School Overseers, the Trustees Planning Committee, the Bicentennial, and currently the Nucleus Fund of the Third Century campaign. In your spare time you "moonlighted" as the third-generation executive head of a renowned New England family business and worked at Greater Boston community causes as if a lot of lives depended on it, as in truth they did. Come 2069, may the love of Dartmouth be no less a factor in the well-being of this College than this Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, testifies it is today.

NELSON ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER '30 Governor of New York DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAWS

Twelve years ago at another Dartmouth Commencement we unwittingly marked the close of what we now know was your prelude period by observing that "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"; to which we added that "few . . . have worked harder to be worthy of responsibility and responsive to opportunity." Despite the Delphic opportunity of that occasion, we failed to note that we were speaking of a man who emerging from his chrysalis would a year later take political wing as "Rocky," be elected to the first of three — or perhaps we should now say four - terms as Governor of New York and who would thereafter in at least three national elections, shall we now also say, be a progressively major factor in the selection of the President of the United States. All oracles, Delphic as well as pollsters, frown on amateur foretelling and it must therefore now suffice to say that you and that other Dartmouth alumnus who also had promises to keep before he slept are the only men in the College's history to have received from her the earnest tribute of two doctorates, honoris causa. To your Doctorate of Laws, we now proudly add the academic oak leaf cluster, Doctor of Civil Laws.

JOHN HULTON WOLFENDEN, A.M. '51 New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Assuming, as Hovey's song proclaims, that Eleazar was the faculty, such an idyllic state of affairs has assuredly never prevailed for his eleven successors. A committee of your peers, however, has said that if one man can be the faculty to receive the College's bicentennial tribute, it should be you who, coming in 1947 from twenty years of distinguished service at Oxford, gave Dartmouth twenty years that in every sector of faculty life and work exemplified the best that is Dartmouth today. Born in Lancashire, England educated at Oxford and Princeton, a physical chemist whose principal research interest is electro-chemistry and kinetics author of two score scholarly articles and an internationally famed text in advanced physical chemistry, a teacher par excellence of both students and peers, you are academia's answer to anyone's concern about modern man being able to span two cultures, be they science and the humanities, British and American, the mountaineer and the intellectual, the committee and the individual, the simian and the human, all with modesty, integrity, and a quiet joy. In appreciation to all the teacher-scholars whose work has built two hundred years of Dartmouth and with a prayer for her third century that your kind will always abide on Hanover Plain, Dartmouth awards you her Doctorate of Science, honoris causa.

LAWRENCE LAZELLE DURGIN '40Pastor, Broadway United Church of Christ, New York CityDOCTOR OF DIVINITY

You and Dartmouth's founder, the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, march together not merely in the historic community of this College, not merely in the Congregational ministry, but above all in your common mission to see God's will done, not merely preached, to those whom in all times we are too pleased to know as the least among us. You, like Wheelock, could have enjoyed an easier distinction: he chose the rigor of the New Hampshire wilderness; you chose the human wasteland of New York's inner city. In truth your mission reaches out from one of America's great crusading pulpits to every hard-pressed outpost of the human spirit and no last-stand of any great cause whether on Broadway or in Tougaloo, Mississippi, will be lost because it was beyond the jurisdiction of your concern. Surely it is more than happy coincidence that this College founded by a "new light" of the eighteenth century's "great awakening" should today avow both its purpose and its pride by awarding to a son, Class of 1940, as a great awakener of today's religious life, its Doctorate of Divinity, honoris causa.

FRELL MCDONALD OWL '27 Retired Agency Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS

In this two-hundredth year of the College, your life validates a reawakened Dartmouth purpose. Born a Cherokee on the reservation in North Carolina, orphaned in boyhood and one of six children out of seven who went on to college on their own, you dedicated the privilege of your Dartmouth education to the service of those culturally bewildered American citizens who, as you put it, "wear a shoe on one foot and a moccasin on the other." For a third of a century, first as a teacher, and then as a leading administrator of Indian affairs, you worked to bridge the chasm between the Indian and the white man's world on which he had been required to depend as a stranger in his own land. Through it all - group frustration, personal perplexity, national dilemma - you never swerved from the goal of integration through the power of education. May this award of your College's honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters be a harbinger of a third Dartmouth century committed to nothing less than the fulfillment of this goal everywhere.

Honorary degree recipientswith President Dickey onCommencement morning. Lto r, seated: Governor NelsonA. Rockefeller '30, LordDartmouth, Mr. Dickey, LadyDartmouth, Kingman Brewster Jr. Standing: Frell M.Owl '27, Harvey P. Hood '18,Prof. John H. Wolfenden,and Lawrence L. Durgin '40.