· MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY * * * * *
TUESDAY, DECEMBER FOURTH NINETEEN FIFTY -SIX '\ UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM ALMA MATER
M.S. U. we love thy shadows When .twilight silence falls, Flushing dee p and softly paling O'er ivy covered halls. Beneath the pines we'll gather To give our faith so true , Sing our love for Alma Mater And thy praises, M. S. U.
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When from these scenes we wander And twilight shadows fade, Our mem'ry still will linger Where light and shadows played. In the evening oft w",'ll gather And pledge our faith anew, Sing our love for Alma Mater And thy praises, M. S. U. ORDER OF CEREMONIES
Tuesday, December 4, 1956, 8:00 P . M.
AUDITORIUM
PROCESSIONAL - "Processional" ...... Marcelli Michigan State University Band Professor Leonard Falcone, Director
"AMERICA" Smith Michigan State University Band
INVOCATION The Reverend C . Brandt Tefft People's Church East Lansing, Michigan
ADDRESS L . Dale Faunce, B. S., M. A., D. Ed. Vice President, Western Michigan College
CONFERRING OF DEGREES Vice President Thomas Hale Hamilton
WELCOME TO ALUMNI Starr H. Keesler Director of Alumni Relations
ALMA MATER Traynor Michigan State University Band
BENEDICTION The Reverend C. Brandt Tefft
RECESSIONAL - "War March of the Priests" ...... Mendelssohn Michiga n State University Band
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The audience is requested to remain seated while those in the procession are entering and leaving the auditorium.
The escorts for the procession are members of the Mortar Board, honorary society for senior women. College of AGRICULTURE
The candidates will be presented by DEAN THOMAS K. COWDEN
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Lawrence William Banning Rennold Lodge Klawson Residential Building; Packaging Technology; Haslett Belleville James Curtis Beachum Helmuth Louis Kohlndorfer Residential Building; Packaging Technology; East Lansing Detroit Alan Frederic Berger William McIlhenny Lott Animal Husbandry; Horticulture; Grosse Pointe York Springs, Pennsylvania Nelson Eugene Bogue *George Randall McVey Landscape Architecture; Ornamental Horticulture; Geneva, Ohio Superior, Wisconsin Arthur Jerome Bott Wesley Eugene Meador Packaging Technology; Food Technology; Grand Rapids Jackson James Albert Brown Howard Burdette Middlewood, Jr. Dairy Production; Industrial Forestry; Pontiac Livonia Raymond John Brzezniak Roger Wayne Nelson Packaging Technology; Residential Building; Bay City Charlotte James William Clark Walter M. Norris, Jr. Residential Building; Residential Building; East Lansing Toledo, Ohio Allan Gay Dalgleish *Frederick Wadhams Roberts Packaging Technology; Floriculture Production; Buffalo, New York Antrim, New Hampshire Robert Edward Dean Donald Ralph Samuelson Forestry; Residential Building; Waterford Traverse City *Henry Engen Herbert Vincent Schroeder Urban Planning; Dairy Production; Detroit Huntingion, New York Clyde Ewing Donald Joseph Sewell Fisheries and Wildlife; Packaging Technology; Cadillac Gaylord John Wendell Foltz, Jr. Richard George Sherman Agriculture E conomics; Packaging Technology; Lansing Walled Lake Joseph Bart Grammatico Richard Skillen, Jr. Residential Building; Agricultural Economics; Ann Arbor Lakewood, Ohio Eugene William Hansmann Nancy Robson Smith Park Management; Dairy Production; Whiting, Indiana Flint Friedrich Johann Henningsen Stanton George Thomas Dairy Production; Wood Processing and Technology; Jackson Ravenna, Ohio John Paul Hynes III George Michael VanLoozen Forestry; Animal Husbandry; Detroit Dearborn George Edward Jenison Robert John Weber Lbr. & Bldg. Mat '1 Merch.; Packaging Technology; Herkimer, New York Fowler
"'With honor COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (Continued)
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
*Clifford Major Wetmore *Norman Wiley Park Management; Agricultural Economics; Stow, Ohio Lapeer Thomas Alden Wiegel Animal Husbandry; Springfield, Ohio
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
William Eugene Morrison *Charles Stuart Thrush Agricultural Education; Agricultural Education; Elk Rapids Shepherd Carl Henry Pohjola Agricultural Education; Ironwood
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
Kuldeep Singh Ahluwalia Austin Benson E zzell Horticulture; Agricultural Economics; Ajmer, India Auburn, Alabama Gaylord Ray Alexander Neal Lloyd First Fisheries and Wildlife; Animal Husbandry; Lansing Ionia Kuldip Singh Bains Raymond W. Gieseman Farm Crops; Agricultural Economics; Manak Dheri, India Williamstown, Kansas Donald Frederick Bartz Allen Kay Gillette Horticu lture; Agricultural Engineering; Stevensvi lle Edwardsburg Duncan Grant Birdsell Donald George Gillette Ornamental Horticulture; Agricultural Economics; Beloit, Wisconsin Hudsonville Hermann Bonasch Alfred Richard Grzenda Animal Husbandry; Fisheries and Wildlife; Haddon Heights, New Jersey Baldwin, New York Arthur Lloyd Carpenter Julin Watkins Hanan Resourse Development; Floriculture; Wayne Columbia, Missouri Robert Lee Cross Hans Hoffgard Haugard Forestry; Agricultural Extension; Chassell Ilion, New York William Mack Crosswhite Scott Logan Hedden Agricultural Economics ; Agricultural Engineering; Mountain City, Tennessee Toledo, Ohio Anandarao pandurangrao Deshmukh Donald Robert Johnson Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Extension; Bombay, India Dexter
*With honor
4 C OLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (Continued)
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
John Francis Kelly Harold Schick Horticulture; Park Management; Chicago, illinois Okemos Philip Saba Khouri Glendon William Smalley, Sr. Soil Science; Forestry; Shakka-Lebanon Bridgeton, New Jersey Richard Casper Lott Keith C. Sowerby Agricultural Extension; Agricultural Extension; Holt Sandusky John Yaotung Lu Robert Arnold Sundell Agricultural Economics; Fisheries and Wildlife; Taipei, Formosa Frewsburg, New York Richard S . Nuttall David Denis Sutton Horticulture; Animal Husbandry; Port Huron Fowlerville Syed Mohamed Siddiq Quadri Jaw Kai Wang Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Engineering; Hyderabad Deccan . , India Kowloon, Hongkong, China Leon Franklin Sanderson Shoko Yamasato Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Economics; Vestaburg Hanecki, Okinawa, RyUkyus K. N. Satyapal Soil. Science; Bombay, India
5 College of ENGINEERING
The candiates will be presented by DEAN JOHN D. RYDER
, DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Glenn Dion Brancheau Fredrick Bertrand Krieger Mechanical Engineering; Metallurgical Engineering; Orchard Lake Niles Allen Richard Buchanan Bernard Stephen Kuchek Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Detroit Midland Bernard James Carey, Jr. Edward H . Lahnala Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Jackson Pelkie Arthur Charles Duvall Richard John Lamb Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Erie Grosse Pointe Owen Kenneth Falor Jack Carlton Lane Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Bay City Jackson Charles Frederick Featherly Jack Ronald Larson Civil Engineering; Civil Engineer ing; Hamburg Saginaw Ralph Gram Robert Micheal Litschewski Civil Engineering; Civil Engineering; Lansing Lowell Donald Allen Griffin Lowell K. McLarty Chemical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Downers Grove, illinois Alpena Ronald Wayne Griffin George William Moody Chemical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Downers Grove, illinois Lansing Warren Alfred Hagyard Charles Oran Morgan Mechanical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Pontiac Bellevue Richard Leon Herrick *Richard Dennis Morgan Mechanical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Lapeer Clawson Richard Keith Holmquist John Joseph Mullen Civil Engineering; Civil Engineering; Cadillac Jackson Hoyt Paul Jones Harlow Walter Nelson Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Trenton Traverse City Edwin Tetsuo Kaneko Arthur Henning Nielsen Civil Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Kana, Hawaii Greenville *Karl Kenneth Kerns Armando Louis Odorico Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan Center Inkster John Gordon King Clare Ward Parker Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Ironwood Flint Robert Craig Knabe Donald Lee Peterson Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Grand Rapids Wellston Robert Luke Kopf Donald Lee Rhynard Mechanical Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Franklin Eaton Rapids
*With honor
6 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Continued)
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Edwin Arthur Robertson Kenneth Arthur Schluchter. Jr. Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Walled Lake Pontiac Max Allan Robinette *Robert LaVere Stocking Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Grand Rapids Fremont tRonald Wesly Roe Elmer Linton Valkenaar Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Fulton Morton Grove, Illinois Franklin William Roenicke Howard Dunlap Wilson Chemical Engineering; Agricultural Engineering; Saginaw Lake Orion James Hannah Saum Civil Engineering; Batavia, nlinois
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
Chang Moon Bek B. Naga Raju Civil Engineering; Sanitary Engineering; Chinhae, Korea Bangalore, India Donald Frederick Eary Rodney David Wood Mechanical Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Flint Charlotte Fred E. Freiheit John Basil Zondorak Mechanical Engineering; Sanitary Engineering; Potterville Yonkers, New York Robert William Metzger Mechanical Engineering; Flint
*With honor tWith high honor
7 College of HOME ECONOMICS
The candidates will be presented by DEAN THELMA E . PORTER
, DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
*Jean Ellen Barron Karen Aagaard Rasmussen Foods; Home Furnishings; Detroit Lansing Carol Jean Beyersdorf ':'Tamara Sedlar R etailing; R etailing; Hemlock Al vordton, Ohio Nadine Ruth Doehr Barbara Ann Turner General Related Arts; Research in Foods & Nutrition; Kingsford Selfridge Field Rose Ella Menter Cat herine Joan VanHaften Institution Administration; General Clothing & Textile s; St. Louis Kalamazoo Mary Jean Padjen R etailing; Ontonagan
DEGREE OF BACHE-LOR OF SCIENCE RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Kathleen Ann B e uerle Sue Helen 1. Hatch Child Development & Teachi ng; Retailing; Farmington Waukegan, Illinois :~O rrien e First Denslow Patsy Linderoth Nuttall Child Development & Teaching; Horne Economics Teaching; Rosebush Daggett Julia Mary Fostini ':' Jayne Wright Randall Home Economics Teaching; General Home Economics; Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Katherille Amelia Grieve Muriel Janet Summers Home Economics Teaching; Home Economics Teaching; Howell Lansing Rhoda Jean Kelly Home Economics Extension; Okemos
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
Evadne Chitrangani Ameresekere Ruth Watkins DeVoe Nutrition; Foods & Nutrition; Nawalapitiya, Ceylon Manchester, Okl,ahoma
" With honor
8 College of VETERINARY MEDICINE
The candidate~ will be presented by DEAN CHESTER F. CLARK
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Marjorie G. Rundell *Mary Elizabeth Smith Medical Technology; Veterinary Medicine; Niagara Falls, New York Presque Isle, Maine Carmencita Mildred Sturgis Medical Technology; Atlanta
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
Mark Phinney Rines Madheshwar Dhari Sinha Surgery and Medicine; Surgery and Medicine; Gorham, Maine Patna, Bihar, India
College of SCIENCE AND ARTS
The candidates will be presented by DEAN MILTON E. MUELDER
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
Forrest Marshall Byers ,/ *Edward Francis Ducey, Jr. Psychology; SociaL Science Divisional; St. Clair Grand Rapids pack Gordon Cairl R. Don Eberhardt History; Social Science Divisional; Lakeview Flint Sue Ann Conrad """ Carl William Ericke Psychology; Psychology; Grosse Pointe Detroit Clarence Cook ...... Keith Belden Fletcher Psychology; Philosophy; Chicago, Illinois Lansing James William DeCou Robert William Hall Social Science Divisional; Social Science Divisional; Kalamazoo Tecumseh Kenneth Norman DeYoung v Tamara E. Harrod' Psychology; Art; Sparta Grand Ledge Richard Boulton Dickenson H. Ronald Kaufman Geography; History; Los Angeles; California Des Plaines, Illinois Palmira Anna Maria Dolza Charles Laven Spanish; Art; Fenton Detroit
* With honor t With high honor
9 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ARTS (Continued)
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
Jam·es Frederick McMichael V' Robert Lowayne Ramsey ...... Psychology; Psychology; Greenville Howell Thomas Patrick Mitchell Barbara S. Runestad Social Science Divisional; English; Grand Rapids Detroit Brian Donlea Moore Irma Louise Sjo History; Social Science Divisional; Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts Junction City, Kansas Harry Edward Murphy *Richard Ross Sutherland Social Science Divisional; Art; Troy, New York Detroit Arthur Nee! James Parker Thomson Social Science Divisional; Social Science Divisional; Grosse Pointe East Lansil1g William Patterson Delbert Clare Willoughby, Jr. Social Science Divisional; Social Science Divisional; Richmond Owosso Nancy Jill Phares V Donald Wayne Wolfe Psychology; History; Battle Creek Sault Ste. Marie
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
*Doris Ada Cook Jean Gretchen Schade Spanish; Art; PawPaw Grosse Pointe Enid Beth Alexander Becker Victor Hugh Sis ung Art; Social Science Divisional; Perry , Lansing Lois Brown Cairl tPatricia O'Tool Smith English; Art; Grand Rapids Bay City Wayne LaVerne Getty Margaret Mae Sullivan Social Science Divisional; Sociology and Anthropology; Bay City Ferndale Dorothy Mae Goad Ruth Ella Thompson English; Social Science Divisional; Lansing Frankfort Beverly Louise Grenda tVerne Nicholas Vackaro Social Science Divisional; History; Bay City Pontiac Marilyn Ann Hollis David B . Van Dommelen Art; Art; Owosso Lansing Arthur Jay Laing, Jr. tJames Emery Wresinski English; Social Science Divisional; Highland Park Manistee Shirley Darvishian McKee Bruce Frank Werth Art; History; Berkley Hollywood, Florida Bonnie Lou Burgess Prouty Gene Allan Wilson Art; Social Science Divisional; Adrian Midland
*With honor tWith high honor
10 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ARTS (Continued)
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Robert John Brigham Seymour Albert Maisey Geology; Entomology; Union City Brooklyn, New York Francis James Cameron Norman Wayne Melvin Geology; Geology; Newberry Barre, Vermont James Robert Cestkowslti John Edward Nicolay Geology; Mathematics; Watersmeet Detroit James Joseph Drake John Kojun Oshiro Zoology; Mathematics; Detroit Wahiawa, Hawaii Richard Nicholause Ewasek Roberta Ann Purdon Biological Science Divisional; Biological Science Divisional; Detroit Mt. Clem·ens George Wesley Gaiser Richard Ralph Riker Physical Science Divisional; Chemistry; Cleveland, Ohio Lansing Michael Peter Graff Edward Alexander Schiller Microbiology and Public Health; Geology; Brooklyn, New York Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Joseph Bernard Gratzer George Michael Smith Physical Science Divisional; Physics; Grosse Pointe East Lansing Robert Paul Jackson Roger Anderson Solberg Geology; Geology.; Straffordville, Ontario, Canada Felch Nancy Mabeth Kromis Harvey Wesley Spurr, Jr. Biological Science Divisional; Botany; Ferndale Maywood, Illinois Virginia Ann Kueny Clarence Star M"thematics; Geology; North MusJ DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION tMary Lou Andrews Mary Anna Richards Mathematics; Biological Science Divisional; Hillsdale Farmington Ralph Robert Brown Donald Richard VanDerKolk Mathematics; Zoology; East Lansing Grand Haven *Leonard Charles Hockley Rolland L . Williams Physics; Physical Science Divisional; Detroit Niles George William Kielwasser, Jr. Biological Science Divisional; Dexter *With honor tWith high honor 11 . COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ARTS (Continued) DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MUSIC **Richard Carlyle Carson Carl Hilding Johnson, Jr. Public School Music; Applied Music; Buchanan Grand Rapids *Sarah Forman Graves Public School Music; Oxford DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MUSIC RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Patricia Douglass Findorff *Sarah Frances Owen Public School Music; Public School Music; East Lansing Algonac DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Joanne O'Dell Breazeale John L . Maes L./ English; Psychology; Bristol. Tenne ssee Port Huron John Dumitru Stanley Allen Maheffy Sociology and Anthropology; Sociology and Anthropology; Detroit Davison Shirley Ann Falter Elizabeth Williams Nall History; Sociology and Anthropology; Elmhurst, Illinois Dighton Rolf Armin George John Otto Schlump Philosophy; Art; Lue beck, Germany Monroe Anthony Michael Graziano""'" J eanne E layne Trude 11 Psychology; Art; Nyack, New York Bay City Nolen Franklin Hurt Clarence Murray Williams .,/ History; Psychology; Washington, Indiana Lansing Donna Carey Lavey Social Scie nce Divisional; Lansing DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE Charles Richard Barr Yen Fu Bow Chemistry; Physics; Dakota, Illinois Anhwei, China Leonard Thomas Blouin Dugald A. Brooks Physiology; Chemistry; Minden City Rochester, New York * With honor ** Graduate as of August 24, 1956, with honor 12 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ARTS (Continued) DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE Bruce Burton Dice Janet Bradford Vandoren Geology; Chemistry; Grand Rapids Midland Adalberto Figueroa Potes Harry Bennett Weinburgh Entomology; Entomology; Palmira, Colombia, S. A . East Lansing Richard Trent Reist Saul Wider Botany; Physiology; Saginaw Bay Shore, New York Gideon Schwarzbart Mathematics; Natanya, Israel DEGREE OF MASTER OF MUSIC Richard Robert Foor Charles Maynard McDermid Music; Music; Flint Detroit 13 College of BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SERVICE The candidates will be presented by DEAN HERMAN J. WYNGARDEN DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS Eugene H. Achenbach Larry Sutherland Cooper General Business; Accounting; Unionville Calgary, Alberta, Canada Constantine James Afendulis George McKenzie Cox, Jr . Economics; General Business; Muskegon Detroit Charles Morgan Alden John Glenn Crawford Economics; General Business; Lansing Lockport, New York Barold Wong Aloiau Thomas Allan Curtiss General Business; General Business; Honolulu. T. H. Grand Rapids William Anderson, Jr. tWarren George Cushing Economics; General Business; Flint Cadillac tJames Richard Archambault Charles Willard Dare General Business; Economics; Lansing Birmingham Lawrence William Armour Joe LeRoy Denison Accounting; Economics; Vassar Royal Oak Foster Dickie AschenBrenner Richard Roy Deskin General Business; Economics; Farmington Birmingham Robert Patrick Baird Ronald Eugene Dissette Accounting; General Business; Montreal, Quebec, Canada Harbert *Robert Lindsay Bell Robert Henry Dornbos Hotel Management; Economics; Bronx, New York Grand Haven Duane Arehart Berry James P . Drinkwater Hotel Management; General Business; Toledo, Ohio Grottoes, Virginia Richard Ray Bettison Robert Hicks English Food Distribution; Economics; Lansing East Lansing George Laird Bolton William Dale Ferguson Economics; Institutional Management; G ro s se Pointe Sault Ste. Marie Richard Galloway Bristol Richard H. Fessler General Business; Economics; Battle Creek Fenton Philip Rutherford Burnett Francis Brownell Flanders General Business; General Business; Jackson Oscoda TuliG Jose Carta Escalona Frank J. Flemming Economics; General Business; Barguisimeto, Venezuela Marion Sheldon Wesley Church, Jr. Walter Gordon Godfrey Accounting; General Business; Berkley Detroit *Charles Duane Collison Armen Peter Googasian General Business; Economics; Saginaw Pontiac August Richard Consiglio *George Lewis Granger Restaurant Management; General Business; Detroit Gaines *With honor tWith high honor 14 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SERVICE (Continued) DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS " Gordon MacKenzie Guilbert, Jr. Donald Jerome Ludwig Accounting; General Business; East Lansing Grand Rapids *M e lvin Burger Hahn Kenneth Jerome Ludwig Accounting; Economics; Frankenmuth Grand Rapids John Peter Hamm Saul Phillip Luria Accounting; Hotel Manage m e nt; Iron Mountain Vineland, New J ersey Robert Warren Hanke Brent MacDonald Hotel Management; Hotel Management; Mount Morris, Illinois Kansas City, Missouri Harland Delbert Harris Peter Charles Marchant Hotel Management; General Business; Fort Collins, Colorado Lansing Walter Alfred Heberlein Ross Samuel Marzolf General Business; General Business; Detroit Alma Ronald Fre derick Heck Frank Ronald Mayer General Business; Food Distribution; Monroe Ironwood Thomas Arleigh Hess John G. McBain General Business; General Business; Detroit Lansing H . Hugh Hickok Edward Austin McKillop Accounting; GeJ1.eral Business; Nashville London, Ontario, Canada *Niles K. Hill Russell John Mee uwsen, Jr. Accounting; General Business; East Jordan Grand Rapids Lloyd David Holmes Harold James Mellen, Jr. General Business; Accounting; Mayville Detroit Bruce Chaney Huron Kenneth Mende ls Institutional Management; General Business; Iron Mountain Grand Rapids Charles Lane Jansen Yukinaga Mochizuki Accounting; Hotel Manageme nt; Port Huron Tokyo, Japan Rodney Leroy Kelly Daniel Joseph Morrissey General Business; Economics; Sunland, California Farmer Gity, Illinois Robert Glen Kilpatrick " Jay Norman Mossman Institutional Management; Accounting; Willis Coldwater *Kenneth Bernard Lange James A. Murphy Economics; General Business; Saginaw Benton Harbor Kenneth Nord Larson Philip Michael Murphy General Business; Accounting; Manistee Pinckney Bruce Lawrence Lax Owbra Dryde n Nary E conomics; General Business; East Chicago, Indiana Birmingham Howard Roland Lewin Betty Ruth P e tch Economics; Accounting; Chicago, Illinois Hubbard Lake Thomas George Lipman Morton Arthur Potter Economics; Economics; Grand Rapids Belleville Donald Claiborne Lisle David S. Raspier Economics; General Business; Royal Oak Forest Hills, New York *With honor 15 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SERVICE (Continued) [)EGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS "" Rhea Joan Rautio James Joseph Sweeney, Jr. Economics; Economics; Palmer Troy, New York Melvin Harold Revall Nicholas A. Theodore General Business; Hotel Management; Stephe nson Westcheste r, New York John Smith Richardson C. Robert Utter Economics; Ge ne ral Business; Charlotte Detroit Gustave Henry Rissman, Jr. tDavid James Vander Broek Hotel Management; Accounting; Howell Grand Rapids Douglas Ellwood Rix Luis Antonio Vivaldi Hotel Management; General Business; Concord, New Hampshire A r ecibo, Puerto Rico Richard Charles Schurrer " Harold Bernard Vogt Economics; General Business; Birmingham Be llevue Duane Arthur Scott " Robert Vratanina Economics; Political Science; Birmingham Charlevoix Clarence William Shepard, Jr. Charles Andrew Waks Accounting; Accounting; Rochester Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Carl Rolland Shook Bruce Franklin Walker, Jr. Economics; General Business; Grand Rapids Bay City J arne s P e te r Sinadino s Walter Fre derick Webb Hotel Management; General Business; Lansing Bay City William George Sinn, Jr. Richard Scherer Weinman Economics; Accounting; Detroit Steubenville, Ohio Arthur Luck Smith, Jr. John Frederick Will General Business; Economics; Lansing Wauwatosa. Wisconsin H. Keith Smith James Elvin Wingerden Economics; Hotel Management; Detroit Hastings Kenneth S. Sohn Marvin Eugene Witbeck General Business; Accounting; Lansing Evart Harvey Raphael Squire George Wolf Economics; Economics; Forest Hills, New York Charlevoix Michael Larry Starkey Richard Dubois Young, Jr. Economics; Accounting; Parkersburg, West Virginia La Jolla, California Arthur Judson Stewart, Jr. Hotel Management; Hillsdale DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION *Gretchen Ann Brightman Margue rite Eaton Frost Economics; Business Education; Oke mos Flint *With honor tWith high honor 16 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SERVICE (Continued) DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (Continued) Robert Leigh Knowles Carl Winfred Pope Political Science; Business Education; Saginaw Grand Haven Mary Isabel McRobbie Marjorie Eileen Shudark Accounting; Business Education; Royal Oak Midland DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Dewey Mikeal Allen James P e ter McLaughlin Police Administration; Police Administration; Honolulu, Hawaii Detroit Noel Carl Bufe Roland Lorne Nafus Police Administration; Police Administration; Wyandotte Niagara Falls, New York Leo Edmund Chesher Richard A. Rosen Police Administration; Police Administration; Saginaw Lansing Donald Gene Czinder Naomi Ruth Thrower Police Administration; Police Administration; Grand Haven Ypsilanti Ralph Fredrick Doe hne Paula Jean Veich Police Administration; Police Administration; Detroit Allegan Charles Edward He rbert *Glenn Leroy Weaver Police Administration; Police Administration; Muskegon Grand Rapids Thomas Lambert Alvin James Zimmerman Police Administration; Police Administration; Dearborn Traverse City Daniel David Lee Police Administration; Honolulu, Hawaii DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Nicholas J . Beltsos Herbert L eighton Dean Economics; Accounting; Lansing Niagara Falls, New York Robert Dugald Buchanan John Kenneth Gore Hotel, Res. & Gen'!. Inst. Mgt.; Economics; East Lansing Cassopolis Hernan Charneco Bhaksook Kambhu General Business; Political Science; Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Bangkok, Thailand Gordon Loren Cook, Jr. Donald Joseph Koza General Business; General Business; Pelham, New York Romulus Lynn Roger Crawford Raymond George Luoma General Business; Accounting; Alma Newberry Luiz Felippe Valle Da Silva Ivan De Sa Motta General Business; General Business; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil ,; With honor 17 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC SERVICE (Continued) DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Thu Ngoc Phan Carl Anthony Smith Economics; Economics; Saigon, Vietnam Defiance, Ohio Robert Henry Schwartz Ernest Ervin Street Hotel, Res. & Gen'!. Inst. Mgt.; Accounting; Westchester, New York Bancroft David Robinette Shelby Howard Lewis Wright General Business; Accounting; LaFollette, T ennessee Detroit DEGREE OF MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK Jack Donald Eaton Ward Wayne Wood Social Work; Social Work; Lansing Lansing S. Jerome Roach Social Work; Grand Rapids College of EDUCATION The candidates will be presented by DEAN CLIFFORD E. ERICKSON DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS Jean Leslie Anderson Doris Ann Harris Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Rockford, Illinois Coleman Charlene Helen Boyd William L. Kopp Ele mentary Education; Elementary Education; Flint De troit Irene Triplett Brett Julia Ann Malpass Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Grand Ledge East Jordan *Joan F. Durand tMolly Martina Robyn Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Morley Kalamazoo *Emily Mae Edmunds )!t; Myrna Arbutus Severance Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Royal Oak Lansing Elarbara Wright Fox Jannette Elizabeth Stephens Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Saginaw Birmingham tSandra Lou Fraser Judith Delores Zimmerman Elementary Education; Elementary Education; Niles East Lansing *With honor tWith high honor 18 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (Continue d) BACHELOR OF SCIENCE William He nry Boivin Linus George Larner Industria l Arts; Industrial Arts; Saginaw Flint Lydia Filomenia Borrillo Vonda Lee Naylor Physical Education- Dance; Phy sical Education; De troit Lansing Jerry Lee Boyd Narcissa France s Polk Industrial Arts; Recreation; Bronson Chicago, Illinois Phyllis Jean Conklin James Grover Pletcher Physical Education; Industrial Arts; Alma Muskegon Frederick T. Fink Edward John Roe Industrial Arts; .Industrial Arts; Lake Odessa Flint Carol Ann Fraleigh Thomas Saidock Recreation; Physical Education; Port Huron Dearborn David J. Hendrickson William Elmer Smiley Physical Education; Physical Education; Eveleth, Minnesota Bay City Edward Russell Hobaugh, Jr. P e ter Stoll Physical Education; Physical Education; K:ittanning, Pennsylvania East Tawas David Danie l Hoke Edward Eugene Townse nd Physical Education; Physical Education; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Lansing William Robert Kester William Howard Walt Industrial Arts; Physical Education; Pontiac Angola, New York DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Polly Page Atkinson Stephen Orne Krebs Adm. & Educ. Services; T eache r Education; Grand Rapids East Lansing Ivan W. Bentley Richard Charles Larson Adm. & Educ. Service s; Vocational Education; Lansing Olivet William L. Doss, Jr. Foster Kenneth McClelland Adm, & Educ. Services; Adm. & Educ. Services; Detroit Eaton Rapids Carmel Edith Elliott Gladys Marguerite Monique Vocational Education T eacher Education; Roseville East Lansing Ke nneth Gene Emmer J a m es Fred Morse Foundations of Education; Adm. & Educ. Services Eaton Rapids Adrian Nancy Lou Hull Lyle Otha Plews Teache r Education; Vocational Education; Ashley Fruitport Bettie Jean Hunt Willis Freeman Porter Adm. & Educ. Services; Adm. & Educ. Services Ann Arbor Wyandotte Elizabeth Ann Kennedy Esther Gowan Re agan Foundations ·of Education; Teacher Education; Lansing Scottville 19 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (Continued) DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Peter Nelson Roon Renate Teran Adm. & Educ. Services; T eacher Education; Holland East Lansing Danie l Morris Smith Marcia Arline Thompson Vocational Education; Adm. & Educ. Services Cleveland, Mississippi Dayton, Ohio Edward D. Smith Arthur James Thorsby Adm . & Educ. Services; Teacher Education; Howard City Flint Robert Edwin Stowe William L e land Webb Adm. & Educ. Services; Adm. & Educ. Services; East Lansing Lansing Carme la Caputo Sviland Foundations of Education; Birmingham College of COMMUNICATION ARTS The candidates will be presented by DEAN GORDON A . .sABINE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS " Steven S. Arnett William John Jonson Journalism; Journalism; East Lansing Hamilton, Ohio Joel Frederick Ayers Jack Dingman Jourdain Radio And Television; Journalism; Harbor Springs Lansing Paul H. Babbitt tMabelle Lou Kelly Speech; Speech; East Grand Rapids Flint Charles Wesley Barr II Ronald Charles Kohls Speech; Journalism; East Lansing Okemos Paul Albert Blattner Frederick E. Linehan Journalism; Journalism; Grand Rapids Harbor Springs Burton Howard Kunza Brooks Ric hard Spaulding Marshall Journalism; Speech; Bellevue East Lansing Charles Proctor Charron Da le W. Mathews Speech; Journalism; Oxford Vassar Noel D. Chrisman *Joan Dorothy McCarty Journalism; Journalism; Flint Carsonville Dolores Claire Dover Robert Allan McClenahen Journalism; Speech; Hancock Wyandotte William Alexander Hall Rober t McDonald Speech; JournaLism; Detroit Detroit * With honor t With high honor 20 COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION ARTS (Continued) DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS Joseph John Moylan Constance J. Smith Journalism; Journalism; Chicago, !llinoi" Detroit John Hope Peddie Catherine Louise Snyder Speech; Speech; Detroit East Lansing Lawrence Michael Rau Basil C. Stevens, Jr. Journalism; Journalism; Lansing Saginaw Lewis Fred Renshaw, Jr. Journalism; Troy DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS RECOMMENDED JOINTLY WITH THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Nancy Christine Buerk Irvene Muriel Mills Speech; Speech; Lincoln Park Flint Joyce Ann Crow Gloria Virginia Regner Speech; Speech; Rapid City Dearborn Sylvia Lore tta de Steiger James Joseph Renkiewicz, Jr. Journalism; Speech; East Detroit Detroit DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Merlin Edwin Bement Speech; Bedford, Ohio 21 School for ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDIES The candidates will be presented by DEAN THOMAS H . OSGOOD DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Abolghassem Amin Albert Nelson Halter Phy siology and Pharmacology; Agricultural Economics; Es sfahanl Iran Okemos Edwin Leo Baker Carl Thomas Herald Chemistry; Dairy; Charlotte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Robert Walter Berry Charles Eugene Heyd Chemistry; Chemistry; Atlanta, Georgia Detroit Lytle Houston Blankenship Irvin George Hillyer Fisheries and Wildlife; Horticulture; Campbellton, Texas Thief River Falls, Minnesota Milford Dean Bonner Leah Stewart Houser Dairy; Sociology and Anthropology; Reform, Alabama Owosso Theodore Laurence Brown Thomas William Humphreys Chemistry; Microbiology and Public Health; Urbana, Illinois Burlington, Ontario, Canada Robert Thomas Christian Joseph Benedict Jenks Mic robiology and Public Health ' English; Lansing ~ Jamaica, Long Island, New York Myron George Cropsey C. Gratton Kemp Agricultural Engineering; Administrative and Educational Services; Corvallis, Oregon East Lansing Harry Kirk Dansereau James Edward Kennedy Sociology and Anthropology ; Psychology ; Oxford, Mississippi Flint Robert Jack Deans Aleksander Kivilaan Animal Husbandry; Horticulture; Cincinnati, Ohio East Lansing Lucile Ellen Decker Joseph Lambert Chemistry ; Philosophy; Bellevue Dowagiac Gerald Gean Dull Henrietta Marie LeDuc Chemistry; Chemistry; Billings, Montana Detroit Elmer John Fuhr George Lamar Maddox Horticulture; Sociology and Anthropology; Roseville McComb', Mississippi EJnerson E. Garver A. Marie McCarthy Chemistry ; Microbiology and Public Health; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Worcester, Massachusetts 22 SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDIES (Continued) DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Donald McCarthy V Bernard Joseph Sloan Psychology; Botany and Plant Pathology; Jackson Detroit Denton Delbert M<:Grady Jean Judson Smith ,;r Metallurgical Engineering; Psychology; East Lansing Klamath Falls, Oregon Richard Edwin Michel William Francis Smith - Physics and Astronomy; Psychology; Saginaw Boston, Massachusetts Marvin Murray Orrin Edison Taulbee Physiology and Pharmacology; Mathematics; Milwaukee, Wisconsin Taulbee, Kentucky Howard Ralph Neville Glen Anthony Thommes Economics; Chemistry; East Lansing Austin. Minnesota Norman Wellington Painter Herman Tiessen Sociology and Anthropology; Horticulture; Ga te sville, Texas Leamington. Ontario. Canada Clark D. Paris Clayton Edward VanHall Horticulture; Chemistry; Paonia, Colorado Grand Haven Charles Harry Proctor Frederick Eugene VanNostran Sociology and Anthropology; Botany and Plant Pathology; Wayne Huntington, West Virginia Ramon Frederick Rolf Arthur M. Vener Chemistry; Sociology and Anthropology; Ft. Wayne, Indiana New York, New York Joseph Mario Sandri Jack LeRoy Weigle Chemistry; Horticulture; Chicago, Illinois East Lansing Victor D. Sanua ...... Ruth Holm Wells .,/ Psychology; Psychology ; New York City, New York Williamston DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Louis Andrew Doyle Paul Ernest Rupff Administrative and Educational Administrative and Educational Services; Services; Mecosta Bay City Laszlo Joseph Hetenyi Colon Lee Schaibly Foundations of Education; Administrative and Educational Gainesville, Florida Services; Woodland 23 SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDIES (Continued) DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Burton Kellogg Thorn Vocational Education; East Lansing GRADUATES AS OF AUGUST 24, 1956 DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY John Lucian Bagg Robert Lawrence Herrmann Statistics; Chemistry; De Kalb, Illinois Whitestone, New York Clarence Frederick Becker Earl Joseph Hodgkins Agricultural Engineering; Forestry; Laramie, Wyoming Auburn, Alabama Thomas Lucien Blair Bernard Jacobson Sociology and Anthropology; Mathematics; New York, New York Cleveland, Ohio Martha Marie Briney Coy Hilton James English; History; Ann Arbor Albion Lyman R. Caswell John Edward Jordan Chemistry; Administrative and Educational Rockport, Indiana Services; Owosso John Christensen Chemistry; Irving Stanley Katz Collegedale, Tennessee Psychology; New York, New York Richmond Cowan Davis Vocational Education; Eldon George Kelly Cotton Plant, Arkansas Administrative and Educational Services; Frances G. Fallon Flint Chemistry; Baltimore, Maryland Karl Kereluk Microbiology and Public Health; Forrest Dean Freeland, Jr. Fargo, North Dakota Forestry; East Lansing Leo Lapidus Mathematics; Walter Edward Freeman East Lansing Sociology and Anthropology; East Lansing Robert Bruce Miller Physics and Astronomy; Gerhard F. Gettel Scottville Sociology and Anthropology; Owendale 24 SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDIES (Continued) GRADUATES AS OF AUGUST 24, 1956 (Continued) DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Richard Dana Moore Donald Ora VanOstenburg Anatomy; Physics and Astronomy; Battle Creek Grand Rapids Miles D. Pothast Frederick Weber, Jr. Psychology; Microbiology and Public Health; Melbourne, Iowa Montvale, New Jersey Jorge H. Rodriguez-Arias James Ward Wilkins, Jr. Agricultural Engineering; Psychology; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Newton Falls, Ohio Spaulding Merrick Ruffin Allen Eugene Willner Animal Husbandry; Psychology; Emporia, Virginia Forest Hills, New York Rama Dayal Singh Farm Crops; Jaunpur, India DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF EDUCATION Leland Wilbur Dean Aubrey Lloyd Pulliam Administrative and Educational Foundations of Education; Services; Adrian, Missouri East Lansing Edwin George Spacie Leon Anson McDermott Administrative and Educational Teacher Education; Services; Mt. Pleasant Mt. Pleasant Kenneth Harvey Parker Administrative and Educational Services; Binghamton, New York DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Edwin Marshall Ellis Veterinary Medicine; Adrian 25