Honorary Degrees

Bartlett Giamatti: president of Yale. Doctor of Laws. "... In what may be the ultimate accolade, one of your students was quoted as saying, 'He makes you excited about the subject even if you're not. . . . '"

EDWARD LAMB '24: lawyer, publisher, author, industrialist. Doctor of Laws.". . . You have sustained a working dialogue with government leaders throughout the world in your quest for the reordering of a global society capable of peaceful coexistence. ..."

WILLIAM MORTON '32: former president of American Express, retired Dartmouth trustee. Doctor of Laws. "After setting more records at Dartmouth in football and hockey, and making all-American in both of these sports, you enjoyed a successful and productive career as a corporate executive. ... In a life of high accomplishment, one of your greatest contributions has been your incalculable service to Dartmouth. ..."

GREGORY RABASSA '44: literary translator. Doctor of Letters. "... Reading and writing would prove to be the key elements of the craft to which, with results that can only be described as spectacular, you have devoted most of the past two decades. Indeed, it has been said that in your field of rendering into English literary works from the Spanish and Portuguese you are 'one of the best translators who ever drew breath. . . . ' "

MARVA COLLINS: educator, founder of Westside Preparatory School in Chicago. Doctor of Humane Letters. " . . . Over the past few months you have endured a variety of attacks from critics who appear as eager to condemn you to some special circle of Dante's Inferno as others were earlier intent on conferring sainthood upon you We honor you today not for sainthood but because you are a gifted teacher with extraordinary energy and a commitment to the kind of excellence that Dartmouth has valued throughout its history. . . ."

MARSHALL MEYER '52: theologian, rabbi in Argentina. Doctor of Humane Letters. "... We.honor you today for a purpose that transcends your scholarly and religious work. Living in an environment in which elemental human rights are constantly under siege, you have dedicates your life indeed, have literally risked your life in a courageous commitment.... Brave men can know fear, and you have admitted that feeling. And you have said, 'ln the face of all this mis ery, how can I, as a Jew, keep quiet.'' How can I, as a human being, keep quiet?' ..."

Honorary-degree recipients (seated, from left) Giamatti, President McLaughlin, Collins; (standing) Rabassa, Morton, Lamb, Meyer.