Remarks of Elvis J. Stahr President, Indiana University Introduction of Dr. Erwin D. Canham Clowes Hall, Indianapolis April 11, 1966 - 8 p.m.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I have experienced few platform privileges which have given me

as much pleasure and pride as the opportunity to introduce this evening to

the capital city of my adopted state, my distinguished friend, Erwin Canham.

Our one-time Hoosier humorist, Abe Martin, observed that "a friend that

ain't in need is a friend indeed." Dr. Canham "ain't in need."

In fact, the size of this audience indicates he ain't even in need of

an introduction' There are, however, a few sequestered facts about him that

the long coupling of his name with the Christian Science Monitor may have

obscured, though I disclose them with no thought that a career of such

eminence requires enhancement from the details of its making.

Erwin Canham was born in Auburn, , and chose the vocation of his

father in preference to the traditional call of his state to the sea. A

graduate of and Oxford University (where like me he was a Rhodes

Scholar but where he preceded me by exactly ten years) Dr. Canham has since

acquired 21 additional degrees--the kind that take long years and extra-

ordinary work and service to acquire--21 honorary degrees' The only one

of these I shall mention this evening is that of Franklin College, the Alma

Mater of our distinguished Governor.

The Monitor enlisted Dr. Canham's services the moment he graduated from

Bates and, except for the interlude at Oxford, he has been in its employ ever

since--or it in his' Long a fine newspaper, the Monitor has become one of the

outstanding journals of our country during Dr. Canham's association with it,

as he progressed from reporter to Geneva correspondent, to chief of the -2-

Monitor's Washington Bureau, then Editor in 1945 and Editor in Chief in

1964.

The quality of Dr. Canham's editorial performance early brought him public recognition and assignment. He is a past president of the American

Society of Newspaper Editors; Chairman of the National Manpower Council; a

director of the National Bureau of Economic Research; a fellow of the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a director of the World Peace Foundation. He

serves on the governing boards of four colleges, two philanthropic organizations,

and numerous other concerns as diverse as the Boston Public Library, the John

Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Here again we find common interests, for the chairman of the John Hancock

Board, Byron Elliott, is a distinguished Indiana University alumnus, a former

Indianapolis Judge, and a present member of the I.U. Foundation Board, and my own current membership on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago parallels Dr. Canham's in Boston. To all these services I've recited should

be added the nationwide responsibility our distinguished visitor undertook as president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1959, and since then as Chairman of the Board.

Since busy men are popularly reputed to have the most time, it may not

be surprising to some people but it still is to me that a man with so many

commitments has also authored or co-authored five books: Awakening: The

World at Mid-Century; New Frontiers for Freedom; Commitment to Freedom: the

Story of the Christian Science Monitor; Man's Great Future; and The Christian

Science Way of Life, with a Christian Scientist's Life. -3-

Although the catholicity of Dr. Canham's interests is abundantly apparent, the authority he brings to his world view stems from experience he has gained as a firsthand observer at many of the conferences and events which have shaped recent history. Twenty years after Dr. Canham filled a reportorial assignment to the in Geneva he returned there in the capacity of vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Confer- ence on Freedom of Information in 1948, and the following year he was appointed

Alternate American Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Were I to recite the long list of honors which have attended so much accomplishment, Dr. Canham's message to you would be too long postponed. But the regard for him other nations have shared with us may justify a few more moments' account. He has been appointed a Chevalier of the French Legion of

Honor; a Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau, the Netherlands; an Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross of Brazil; and most recently, an Honorary

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a privilege indeed to present to you Dr.

Erwin D. Canham, whose subject tonight is "The Spiritual Revolution."