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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY One Hundred and Nineteenth Annual COMMENCEMENT SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1977 McGaw Memorial Hall, Evanston, Illinois THE UNIVERSITY ALMA MATER Hail to Alma Mater! We will sing thy praise forever; All thy sons and daughters Pledge thee victory and honor. Alma Mater, praise be thine, May thy yiame forever shine! Hail to Purple! Hail to White! Hail to thee. Northwestern! Smoking is permitted only in the outer main flour lobby. THE PROGRAM PROCESSIONAL (Audience will please remairi seated far the Student and Faculty Processional.) THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (The first stanza) (Audience will please remain standing until the Invocation has been offered.) INVOCATION DR. CARI. H. MARBURY Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation, and Dean Elect, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Citations read by RAYMOND W. MACK Provost of the University AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS AND CONFERRING OF DEGREES ROBERT H. STROTZ President of the University DELIVERY OF DIPLOMAS TO DOCTORAL RECIPIENTS Deans of the Graduate, Medical, Law, Dental, and Music Schools THE UNIVERSITY ALMA MATER (Words to the University Abna Mater are printed inside the front cover.) BENEDICTION JAMES E. AVERY University Chaplain RECESSIONAL FACULTY RECESSIONAL (Graduates and guests will please rouain scaled.) STUDENT RECESSIONAL (Guests will please reinain seated.) Parents and guests are respectfully requested to remain in their seats during the entire ceremony. The aisles of the hall must be kept clear at all times, and those who leave their seats before the close of the ceremony must leave the building immediately through either the north or south door (whichever is closer). THE HONORARY DEGREES GWENDOLEN MARGARET CARTER—DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Political scientist. B.A., University of Toronto, 1929; B.A., Oxford University, 1931; M.A., 1935; M.A., Radcliffe College, 1936; Ph.D., 1938. Faculty member at McMaster University, Wellesley College, Tufts University, Smith College, Northwestern University, Indiana University. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. George \' medal for public service; achievement award of American Association of University Women; medal for distinguished achievement, Radcliffe College. Founder of African Studies Association. Influential member of many im- portant councils and associations. Author of numerous books and articles. Presented by Jack Berry, Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Program of Oriental and African Languages, College of Arts and Sciences EARL BURRUS DICKERSON—DOCTOR OF LAWS Lawyer. A.B., University of Illinois, 1914 (having attended Northwestern University for three semesters following graduation from the Evanston Academy in 1909); J.D., University of Chi- cago, 1920. Member of Illinois State Bar Association and the bars of the Federal courts and the United States Supreme Court. Member Chicago City Council, 1939-43; other public offices. Member of various legal and learned societies and veterans' organizations; a foimder of the American Legion. Former president National Bar Association, Chicago Urban League, National Lawyers Guild. A retired director of the NAACP. Member of boards of directors of business and civic organizations. President, Supreme Life Insurance Company of America, 1955-71; chair- man, 1971-73; honorary chairman and financial consultant. Presented by P. Sterling Stuckey, Associate Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences BERTA VOGEL SCHARRER—DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Scientist. Ph.D., University of Munich, 1930. Research associate at various institutes and uni- versities, faculty member at Western Reserve University and University of Colorado, 1931-55. Professor of anatomy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1955—; and acting chairman, 1965-66, 1974—. Holder of distinguished fellowships; member of national and international societies and of editorial boards of scientific journals. Author and co-author of well over 100 scholarly books and articles. Presented by Norbert Freinkel, Kettering Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Endocrinology, Metabolism., and Nutrition, Medical School 3 ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH COMMENCEMENT NED ROREM—DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Composer. Student at Northwestern University, 1940-42, Curtis Institute, 1942-43; B.S., Juilliard School of Music, 1947; M.A., 1949. Lived in France, 1949-58. Fulbright Fellowship, 1951; Gug- genheim Fellowship, 1957. Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1968. Pulitzer Prize in Music, 1976. Composer of symphonies, piano concertos, operas, ballets, choral Avorks, and hundreds of songs, including ^vorks commissioned by the Ford Foundation, Lincoln Center Foundation, and Koussevitzky Foundation. Author of books including two volumes of diaries; Critical Affairs, A Composer's Journal, 1971, honored by the ASCAP-Deems Tavlor A^vard. Presented by Betty A. Van Gorkom, Trustee of Xorthwestern University JESSIE BERNARD—DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Sociologist. A.B., University of Minnesota, 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., Washington University, 1935. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1938-40; professor, Linden^vood College, 1940-47; Pennsylvania State University, 1947-64; research professor honoris causa, 1964—. She is the author of twelve books, co-author of six, and contributor to eighteen others; author of numerous scholarly articles; has frequently been honored by universities and national organizations. A doctoral dissertation has been ^sritten on her contribution to the field of sociology. Presented by George E. Johnson, Trustee of XorthivesterJi University JOHN PAUL STEVENS—DOCTOR OF LAWS Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. A.B., University of Chicago, 1941; J.D., Northwestern University, 1947. United States Naval Reserve, 1942-45, Bronze Star. Law clerk to Justice \V"iley Rutledge, 1947-48; private practice in Chicago, 1949-70, partner in Rothschild, Hart, Stevens & Barry, 1952-70. Part-time teacher at Northwestern University School of Law, 1952-53 and 1958-60. Jtidge of the United States Comt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1970-75; Justice of the Supreme Court, 1975—. Member of national and state commissions. Author of numerous scholarly articles. Presented by Harry B. Reese, Professor of Law, School of Law JACOB MARSCHAK—DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Economist. Ph.D., University of Heidelberg, 1922; M.A. by decree, Oxford University, 1935; M.A., Yale University, 1956. Honorary doctorates from Bonn, California, Heidelberg. Professor of economics, University of Chicago. 1943-55: director of CoA\les Commission for Research in Economics, University of Chicago, 1943-48; professor of economics, Yale University, 1955-60; professor of economics and operations research. University of California at Los Angeles, I960—; director. Western Management Science Institute, 1965-71. Distinguished fellow and Ely lecturer, .American Economic Association, 1967. Fello^v, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Presi- dent, Econometric Society, 1947. President-elect. American Economic Association, 1976-77. Many publications in German and English. Decision and Orgariization , a volume in his honor, was published in 1972 under the editorship of C. B. McGuire and R. Radner. Presented by Theodore F. Groves, Jr., Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Graduate School of Management 4 NORTHWESTERN U N I \ E R S I I V FRANCISCO AYALA—DOCTOR OF LITERATURE Writer. Doctorate in law, University of Madrid, 1931. Professor of political law, University of Madrid. An exile for many years from Franco Spain, living in Argentina and the United States. Professor of Spanish literature, University of Chicago, 1966-73; currently teaching in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Author of many important novels, short stories, and works of a literary-critical and sociological nature. Presented by Cyrus C. DeCoster, Processor of Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences ELLIOTT COOK CARTER, JR.—DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Composer. B.A., Harvard University, 1930; MA., 1932. Studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger at I'Ecole Normale de Musique. Teacher of music, Greek, and mathematics at St. John's Col- lege, Annapolis. 1940-42. Music consultant for Office of War Information. Teacher of theory and composition, Peabody Conservatory, 1944-48; teacher at Columbia University and Queens College; professor of composition, Yale University, 1960. Guggenheim Fellowships in 1945 and 1950; Prix de Rome, 1953; Pulitzer Prize, 1960; New York Critics Circle Award, 1960, for Second String Quartet; many other honors and awards. Member Institute of Arts and Letters. Numerous musical compositions including the Piano Concerto of 1946; the String Quartet of 1951; the Double Concerto for Harpsichord, Piano, and Two Chamber Orchestras, 1961; the Concerto for Orchestra, 1970. Author of numerous writings on musical subjects. Presented by John S. Buccheri, Associate Professor of Theory arid Composition and Chairman of the Department, School of Music CHRISTIAN JAMES LAMBERTSEN—DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Medical scientist. B.S., Rutgers University, 1939; M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1943. Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1944-46. Professor, Department of Pharmacology, llniversity of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1953—; Department of Medicine, 1972—; director, Institute for Environmental Medicine, 1968—. Awards from the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Member numerous profes- sional and scientific societies and civic organizations. Founder and first president.