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Record 4,324 Degrees To Be Aw arded S u n d a y nols. A nationally known research physicist, author and educa Other spring term degrees to be granted are: Agriculture, mission which investigated the assassination of President John F. By JIM STERBA K ennedy. tor. Seitz has received honorary degrees from numerous institu State News Staff W riter 39 master’s and 19 doctorates; Business, 59 master’s and 4 tions. doctorates; Engineering, 19 master's and 1 doctorate; Home Ec Honorary doctor of laws degrees will also be presented to four other prominent men. They are: Russell I. Thackrey, executive secretary of the National Associa A record 4,324 students will receive degrees and six distin onomics, 8 master's and 3 doctorates; Veterinary Medicine, Elisha Gray 11. chairman of the board of Whirlpool Corp., of tion of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Washington, guished men will receive honorary degrees at spring term com 2 master’s, 29 D.V.M.’s, and 2 Ph.D.’s; Education, 163 mas Benton Harbor. Gray is also a director of General Foods Corp., D.C. Thackrey, a leading spokesman for the land-grant philo mencement ceremonies Sunday. ter’s, 34 degrees for advanced graduate study, and 32 doctor on the board of governors of the American Red Cross and a member sophy of higher education, is a former newspaperman and teacher. Of this total, 3,185 students are spring term degree candidates ates; Communication Arts, 10 master’s and 6 doctorates; Arts of the Business Council. and 1,139 are summer term degree candidates.
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