Kudos

Biographies of thehonorary degree recipientsand excerpts of thecitations byPresident Freedman

Founder, artistic director and ringmaster of the Big Apple Circus, a one-ring show affiliated with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Founder of the New York School for Circus Arts.

"Ever the creative perfectionist, you haveused your remarkable talents to bring thegenre of the circus securely into the mainstream of popular contemporary culture."

Summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth, graduate of Harvard Medical School. Senior lecturer in policy studies at Dartmouth. Author of "No Place to Hide," a book based on his experience as a member of a U.S. Army team assigned to monitor radiation effects of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini in 1946. Foreign correspondent, New Hampshire state legislator, author of five books, elected to the National Ski Hall of Fame.

Graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. First Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. Chaired Spelman College's Board of Trustees. First Black member of the Yale Corporation. Author of "Families in Peril: an Agenda for Social Change." Recipient of Dartmouth's Grenville Clark Prize in 1986.

America's foremost China scholar.

Member of Harvard's faculty for more than 50 years. Author of numerous books and articles. President, American Historical Association. National policy advisor to several presidents.

"Your life has personified the belief,enunciated by Confucius, that proper education can produce enlightened publicunderstanding." Author of more than 20 books. Awarded Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award.

Graduate, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. Professor emeritus of oncological medicine, Harvard Medical School. Pioneered research in the mechanism of protein synthesis, the process by which cells "interpret" genetic information. His laboratory work in molecular biology led to clinical breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer. Member, National Academy of Sciences.

Throughout your distinguished careeryou have helped the medical profession tounderstand more fully the critical relationship between basic research and clinical practice."

Paul Lewis Binder '63Doctor of Fine Arts

David John Bradley '38Doctor of Humane Letters

Marian Wright EdelmanDoctor of Laws

John King FairbankDoctor of Humane Letters

John Hoyer UpdikeDoctor of Letters

Paul Charles Zamecnik '33Doctor of Science

"Your life has been a drama in which youhave played a series of leading roles."

"Your voice has awakened the nation tothe need for placing children at the centerof our political agenda, not at its fringes,and has changed the ways in which publicofficials think about the destiny of children."

"Eloquent in language and playful withwit, poetic about our private experienceand ironic about our social personas, yournovels, poems and essays have given usa steady portrait of our everyday lives."