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Commencement Program Eighty-third Commencement Exercises One-thirty o'clock Sunday Afternoon June Fifteenth Nineteen hundred and sixty-nine Memorial Field House Springfield College Springfield, Massachusetts 'X 4-{g \. ~. .s ;:, \%1 COf'.;r. The Board of Trusfees Charles H. Schaaff, Chairman Norman C. Keith, Vice-Chairman Bernard H. McMahon, Secrefary-Treasu rer Herbert P. Almgren Julius H. Appleton Wilmot S. Babcock Paul T. Babson T. Erwin Blesh F. Nelson Bridgham Joseph B. Burns Wallace V. Camp Arthur H. Christ Ralph l. Countryman Solon Cousins Douglass C. Coupe Arthur E. Dome Herbert E. Evans Chester O. Fischer Harold O. Frohbach Richard C. Garvey Herman O. Grimmeisen George H. Grover Donald K. Hacker Edward Harris Willis H. Hayes Richard R. Higgins Melvin I. Holstein Art Linkletter Wilbert E. Locklin Edmund T. Manley John E. Mann James R. Martin Roswell D. Merrick William W. Moore, Jr. Edwin L Parker Winston Paul Magnus F. Peterson Joseph A. Shields Carl D. Smith Chauncey A. Steiger Edward L Stoughton Robert Thompson Richard P. Towne John M. Turnbull Joseph W. Valentine Robert W. Van Camp Alfred C. Werner Rufus Wesson Roberts J. Wright HONORARY DECREE CANDIDA TE RICHARD R. HIGGINS Richard R. Higgins, Director of the Kendall Company, American National Red Cross and Hospital Planning for Greater Boston, graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in English literature. His outstanding contributions to community activities include serving as Director of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association and Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. Mr. Higgins is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program on Business Administration, Trustee of Springfield College. Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, and Trustee of The Choate School which, in 1959 conferred upon him the Alumni Seal Prize. CiTATION Native son of Massachusetts, in you is exemplified the New England tradition at its finest. The strong sense of social justice. The neighborly concern for those less fortunate. These have come down through the generations to you, a twentieth century citizen who is concerned about his fellow men and whose life has been expended in service to others. In more than forty years of your business career with The Kendall Company, one of America's great corporations, you progressed through various stages from your initial position to become Chairman of the Board. During this period you have labored as a willing volunteer in many good causes. In the Young Men's Christian Association. In the United Fund. In the Greater Boston Economic Study Committee. In the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Juvenile Crime. And many, many more. In education you have served as trustee of Choate School and Springfield College - as director of the Harvard Alumni Association - on the Advisory Committee of the Harvard·Radcliffe Program of Business Administration - on the Visiting Committee of Divinity School. In your religious life, you have achieved a rare distinction as the first layman in the history of the Massachusetts Council of Churches to be named President of that Council. For your commitment to youth, to education, to the enrichment of many lives, and to the strengthening of the foundations of the community, the faculty and trustees of Springfield College recommend you for the degree of DOCTOR OF HUMANICS, honoris causa. DOCTOR OF HUMANICS "The faculty and trustees of Springfield College award the Doctor of Humanics degree to selected individuals whose lives and deeds have exemplified the humanics philosophy of Springfield College. Humanics, within the context of this institution, encompasses the education of the whole man in the service of all men; the integration of the behavioral sciences to focus on man and the development of his potentiality; the harmonization of scientific orientation with the Greek ideal of freedom and the judeo·Christian spirit of love of God and fellowman; and the recognition of the responsibilities of the educated man as a citizen within local, national and international communities." HONORARY DEGREE CANDIDATE FREDRIC RAND MANN Dr. Fredric Rand Mann, President of the Mann Kraft Corp., graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Retired Chairman of the Board of National Container Corporation and founder and vice·president of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, Dr. Mann has an outstanding record of service to business and recreation in Pennsylvania. He has also served his government in innumerable capacities and in 1967 was the United States Ambassador to Barbados. He has a strong interest in the performing arts and holds honorary doctoral degrees in music from Combs College of Music and the Philadelphia Musical Academy. In 1965, he was awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross from the Government of Brazil. CITATION Man of many achievements, you came to this land as a child. In the City of Brotherly love you grew to manhood to become a distinguished citizen - a factor in the industrial, cultural, and community life of your city and in the service of the nation. Philadelphia has been enriched by your efforts on behalf of its orchestra, its opera, all its performing arts. Colleges and universities far beyond its environs have grown under your trusteeship. Hospitals and libraries, museums and historical societies have flourished. You have given freely of your time, your efforts, and your worldly goods to youth and community funds to immigrants, to causes in aid of all men, regardless of race, creed, or color. Many are the posts you have held and many the tasks you have assumed for your city and your country. On the Mayor's Cabinet - on the War Production Board - on the Advisory Council to the Peace Corps - as delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - and, most recently, as United States Ambassador to Barbados and Special Representative to Antigua, Dominica, and Grenada. Honored deservedly by many, we join in honoring you. For the example of your life - its imposing achievements and its central theme of service to your community and your country - we, the faculty and trustees of Springfield College, recommend you for the degree of DOCTOR OF HUMANICS, honoris causa. DOCTOR OF HUMANIC5 "The faculty and trustees of Springfield College award the Doctor of Humanics degree to se lected individuals whose lives and deeds have exemplified the humanics philosophy of Springfield College. Humanics, within the context of this institution, encompasses the education of the whole man in the service of all men; the integration of the behavioral sciences to focus on man and the development of his potentiality; the harmonization of scientific orientation with the Greek ideal of freedom and the Judeo*Christian spirit of love of God and fellowman; and the recognition of the responsibilities of the educated man as a citizen within local, national and international communities." HONORARY DECREE CANDIDATE BERNARD H. McMAHON Mr. Bernard H. McMahon, president of the Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank, is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. He is president of the Western Massachusetts Safety Council, vice-president of Goodwill Industries, past president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and was first president of the Joint Civic Agencies. Mr. McMahon is past president of the Savings Bank Ufe Insurance Council of Massachusetts, Savings Bank Officers Club, and the United Fund. He serves Springfield College as the secretary-treasurer of the Board of Trustees, and as a member of the Investment and Business Affairs Commiuee of the Board. CITATION The American dream of many youths is personified in you. Beginning as a messenger boy, you rose, through aspiration and effort, to become president of a leading bank and an honored citizen of your community. leader in the business and financial life of the city of Springfield, your name is known not only to your associates, but to all who care about the educational, economic, and socia l welfare of its citizens. You have served long and faithfully in many capacities - past president of Rotary chairman of the Springfield Chapter of American Red Cross chairman of United Fund - president of the Western Massachusetts Safety Council- vice-president of Springfield Goodwill Industries - first president of the Joint Civic Agencies - past president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce director, vice president and president of the Springfield Orchestra Association - treasurer of Memorial Industrial Park - assistant treasurer of Memorial Industrial Park - assistant treasurer and president of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame - trustee and secretary-treasurer of Springfield College. Honored in the past. recipient of the William Pynchon Medal, we honor you today not only for your measurable achievements, but, in the noblest sense, for your personal qualities - your sincerity, your concern, your affability - for that quality in you which responds to others and expresses itself in a concern for their needs. We, the faculty and trustees of Springfield College, recommend you for the degree of DOCTOR OF HUMANICS, honoris causa. DOCTOR OF HUMANICS "The faculty and trustees of Springfield College award the Doctor of Humanics degree to selected individuals whose lives and deeds have exemplified the humanics philosophy of Springfield College. Humanics, within the context of this institution, encompasses the education of the whole man in the service of all men; the integration of the behavioral sciences to focus on man and the development of his potentiality; the harmonization of scie ntific orientation with the Greek ideal of freedom and the Judea-Christian spirit of love of God and fellowman; and the recognition of the responsibilities of the educated man as a citizen within local, national and international communities." HONORARY DEGREE CANDIDATE ABRAM lEON SACHAR Dr. Abram l. Sachar was for twenty years the di stinguished president of one of America's most illustrious education institutions.