YALE GIVES DEGREES AS 7,500 WATCH 11 ARE HONORED AT 254TH EXERCISE

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• Publication Date: June 14, 1955
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NEW zunu.
JUN 4 iWeJ
MAID TRIBUNE
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Yale.
Degrees as
7,500, Watch
11 Are _Honorecl.
At2ilthExerel?e
By Francis Sugrtie
NEW HAVEN, June 13.--Yale
Univergity gave degrees to 2,029
men and woinen today when it
held its .254th _commencement
exerciSes befere 7-,500 witnesses
under a blue sky. on the Old.
Campus. ,,
The ninety-minute graduation
ceremony, ?With, an academic
procession, theAsingirig of hymns
and the awarding of degrees;
was composed ,of equal 'parts of
tradition. sentiment and the
general feeling of a reward well
earned. _.As is customarY, no
commencement address ? was
delivered. 1
,T4t Main theme seemed to be f
focused on thesmiles of the par-
ticipants; the. coMpesed and
friendly smiles of the
deans, officers Aid?-trustecs
looking on from 1Qertte blue-
I . ',,, Herald Tribune photos by Joe Engels
' Recipients of :honoraiy,degrees at-Yale University ivith Dr. A. Whitney Griswold, president of the University. In
,front (left to right) are Mrs. Winifred Stuiley, Lawrence H. Gibson; Treasury Se,cretarY George M. Humphrey;
Dr. Griswold, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith., Douglas 'S. Meo,re and Detlev W. ?Bronk. In the rear (left to right) are
John H. Benson, Albett B. Coe, Wallace Steven, Vincent .du-Vigneaud and William E. Hall.
canopied plagor
smiles of acconlp
by. the candidates or. degrees.
cl the
ent Worn
? 11 lionorareglrees
. Dr. A. 'WhitrfeY Griswold,
president of Yale, read the cita-
tions when ten hien and ? one
woman. were 'called to receive
honorary degrees. ? ?
Each citation gave a totich-
stone in words to describe why
Yale had decided -to honor' the
recipient:
" When Secretary of the Treas-
ury George S. Humphrey came
forward, Dr. Griswold declared,.
"Trained in law, seasoned in
industry, you left the security
tof private life for the ardors of
tpublic responsibility in one of
the nation's highest offices. We
recognize in you a 'man worthy
of that office ?
Wallace Stevens, a poet who
won the Bollingen Prize in
poetry in 1949 and a vice-
president of the Hartford Acci-
dent, and Indemnity Co., ? was
told that "in You the two worlds
of practical affairs and art have
found a perfectanarriage.".
In , the citation' for Albert
Buckner' Coe,. moderator of the
General Council, Congregational
Christian Churches of 'the fessor Frederic W. Keator, chief
United States of America, tOinarsha1,? who carried the uni-
sentence read: "You have re? versity mace, Which ds made of
fleeted the integrity of the tilver ' covered with gold and
prophets." eighs twenty-four pounds. This
?
, -
Gen. griiith Tionored
There was loud applause
when Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
,fermer Under Secretary of State,
stpod before Dr. Griswold, who
said, "You have performed with
!distinction difficult and thank-
!less roles of the greatest con-
sequence to the security of the
nation, and the preservation of
its way of life."
Yale was able to.put its words
Tto music in the case of Douglas
_Stuart. Moore, composer and
Ichairman of 'the Department of
Music at ColUinbia University.'
"'Your music springs naturally,
from our soil, and you have
giveli wings ,of melody to the
legerals of our people," his cita-
tion read, and as a part' of the,
commencement program the
Yale University band played
"Passacaglia," one of Mr. Moore's
Compositions.
Thefirocession began shortly
alter 10 EL",m. from Cross Cam-
pus; with Professor Frederick W.
Mlles,? corporation marshal,
eading the way, followed by Pro;
?
L' a symbol of the Yale presi
dent's authority.
Leading. the line of the eleven
Who received honorary tiegree
wasiSecretary7l1umphrey; ? Who
was escorted?by .the Right Rev.
Henry Knoxi;Sherrill, presiding
bishop
copal Church- Airs, ;.;inior
low the universitp.? Next paTfle
Gen. Smith,' aceompanied by
Dea,n Acheson, a leilow of Yale
University. 4,.',,:!;?1/4,1'
The precession 'moyed on
Elm 'St. to :the New Haven
Green, where,:everyone-,walke
once around the, Center Church
in COMMeniOrAtiOn of the early
Yale commencements that' were
held in it.
When the long line of cap, and
gowns crossed College St.' and
entered the'Old.Cimplis through
Phelps Gateway, the bells in
Harkness Tower 'began to toll;
which is customary 'on this pc
casiont . ' ! ? ? -
But a new note was added
this ,year. Four trumpet players
from Yale bandwere also in'the
tower, and they greeted the pro,
cession with Gabrieli's "Can-
zona."
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The honoraryDegrees
The recipients of honorary ?
degrees were: -
JOHN HOWARD BENSON, artist,
Newport, R..I. Sculptor, callig-
rapher, and teacher. Master of
Arts.
MRS. WINIFRED STURLEY, prin-
cipal of the Foote School, New"
Haven. Conn. Master of Arts.
WILLIAM EDWIN HALL. (Yale
Class of 19.00; Sheffield Scientific
School), former ,prebident . of the
Boys' Clubs of America. Master
1 of 'Arts.
LAWRENCE HENRY GIPSON,
(Ph.D. from Yale. 1918),, research
professor of history emeritus,
Lehigh University. Ddctor of
# Humane Letters.
WALLACE STEVENS. poet, Hart-
ford, Conn. Businessman'and poet.
Doctor of Letters. `
VINCENT DU VIGNEAUD, professor
of biochemistry, Cornell Linivtr-
sity, Cornell University Medical
College. Doctor of .Seierice.
DETLET WULF BRONK, president,'
Rdckefeller Institute for Medical
. Research and president: National
Academy of 'Science. Doctor of
Science -
ALBERT BUCIOTER COE,- ,(Bachelor
of novinity from Yale, 1922), mod-
erator of the Gqivral Council
df thb Congfegationat Chirstian
',Churches of the. upited States of
, America. Doctor of -Divinity.
bOUGIAS STUART ? MCCRE,
(Bachelor of Arts, 1915, and Bach-
elor ,of Music, 1917;- from Yale), '
composer, chairman, of the De-
partment of Music, 'Columbia
, University. Doctor, of Music. ?
WALTER BEDELL SMITH, ,general
United States Army, Aofrner
Under' Secretary of State and
Director of the Central- Intent-
'hence Agency. Doctor of Laws.
GEORGE' MAGOrvIN HUMPHREY,
Secretary of the Treasury. Doctor
of Laws.
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