Honorary Degrees

GEORGE BALL: former undersecretary of state, ambassador to the U.N., Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth. Doctor of Laws. "You argued for maintaining a perspective on Vietnam ... it was your destiny not to be listened to when you were most right."

ROBERT OELMAN '3l: former Dartmouth trustee and chief executive of the National Cash Register Company. Doctor of Laws. "Through your leadership and willingness to make tough decisions you successfully brought NCR into the computer age . . . few people have served their alma mater as loyally as you have served Dartmouth."

PATRICK OLIPHANT: political cartoonist. Doctor of Humane Letters. "You insist on poking fun at the absurd, the hypocritical, and the bombastic [and] Dartmouth wishes to recognize your incomparable contribution in keeping politics in perspective."

RODERICK STINEHOUR '50: printer. Doctor of Literature. "The location of your business [remote northeastern Vermont] is as remarkable as the success you have made in preserving an endangered art printing books of the highest quality. For the past 30 years you have demonstrated that a distinguished press, dedicated to individualized design and uncompromising good taste, can compete in an age of mass production."

MERYL STREEP, actress. Doctor of Arts. Exchange student, from Vassar, at Dartmouth in 1970-71. "Your movies, The Deer Hunter, Manhattan,The Seduction of Joe Tynan, and Kramer vs. Kramer, won you every possible award. But, more importantly, they proved that not even Hollywood could stereotype you."

ROBERT PENN WARREN: poet, novelist, literary critic, educator; former Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth. Doctor of Letters. "In an age of specialization, when faculty bemoan that teaching, creative writing, and criticism are mutually exclusive, you are living proof that a single individual can excel in all."

The 1981 honorary degree recipients (from left): Streep, Ball, Stinehour, Oelman, Warren, and Oliphant