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. and Letters, 57 master’s, 1 degree for advanced graduate stdy, James S. Holden, retired Detroit businessman, banker, civic An honorary doctor of social science degree will be presented MSU will award 3,237 bachelor’s degrees, 916 master’s, 29 and 6 doctorates; Natural Science, 75 master’s and 26 doctorates leader and philanthropist. Holden, a former MSU student, has had to Verghese Kurien, general manager of the Kalra District Co­ doctor of veterinary medicine degrees, 35 degrees for advanced and Social Science, 82 m aster's and 8 doctorates. an extensive business and public service career. He has served operative Milk Producers Union In Anand, India. Kurien, an engineer graduate studies and 107 doctorates. Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren will be com­ as president and director of the James S. Holden Co., chairman and a chief developer of India’s dairy industry, also serves as Spring term bachelor’s degrees to be awarded by college are: mencement speaker at ceremonies scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. president of the Indian Dairy Science Association. next Sunday. Warren, who has served as chief justice since 1953, of the board of Holden and Reaume Co., and vice president and Agriculture, 162: Business, 348; Engineering, 150; Home Econom­ director of Parke-Davis and Co. ics, 150; Veterinary Medicine, 95; Education, 436; Communication will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. The commencement ceremonies will be held in Spartan Stadium. Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences, In case of rain, the exercises will be held in Jenison Fieldhouse. Arts, 114; Arts and Letters, 377; Natural Science, 245 and Social While serving as chief Justice, Warren wrote the court’s famous and professor and chairman of physics at the University of 1111- Science, ¿3. public school desegregation decision of 1954 and headed the com­ Weather Inside P artly cloudy and a lit­ tle cooler with showers Washington wins top ath­ M ICH IGAN ending early today. Fair lete award, p. 6r Gradua­ and cooler Monday eve­ tion plans, p. 7' M SU STATE ning with high in the mid growth, p. 10- Seniors of to upper 70’s.- the week, p. 11. U N IVERSITY TATI r rlr- f 1 e . i u: i : ___ Monday, JuneR, 1965 Price 10{ , ,,A I || 1 " East Lansing, Michigan ~*________ Vol. 56 Number 170______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________— — — — — —— — Campus IFC Leader Killed I Car AN EDITORIAL Homecoming At Noon A Leader Lost Jam es S tefanoff Michigan State h a s lost one of Its finest leaders In the acciden- F ifth A u to V ictim Gemini Pilots Have A Blast *al death early Satur­ HOUSTON, Tex., JP)-Bearded~ “I’m getting tired of hearing due to float down into the Atlantic would have pressed Oxygen and day morning of James Violent death dealt MSU another blow but rested—the twin Gemini as­ that silly voice, too, McDivitt,” at 12:14 p.m. (EST) today—com­ other supplies too closely. Stefanoff, Dearborn retaliated pilot Edward H. White pleting nearly 98 hours of flight. this weekend. This time it took the life of tronauts kept a sharp eye out for Weather was reported fine in junior. a visiting satellite, Joked about II. The prime recovery ships of Stefanoff served his one of MSU’s most active student leaders. "We’re thinking of extending the U.S. Navy are already in the the Atlantic recovery areas. The fellow students andthe an extra week in space and traded seas were clam with only tow- friendly insults Sunday. Their the mission about a week,” Joked general area where they will scan University well, as James N. Stefanoff, 21, Dearborn junior Gemini control. the skies for the descending para­ to-four-foot waves in the prime vice president and spacecraft hurtled toward a fiery a re a s . and Interfraternity Council president, died homecoming to earth at mid­ "All right,” said McDlvitt’s chute with its precious space­ president of Sigma Al- after being struck by a car in front of his day today. bright tenor voice. "You better c ra ft. Meanwhile back at home, Hous­ •pha Mu fraternity, as The astronauts — after some send up some more food.’ ’ ton skies were dark with clouds president of Interfra­ fraternity house on East Grand River Avenue "You’re about over southeast Flight officials toyed with— ternity Council, as a1 sound sleep aided by radio si­ then dropped—the idea of ex­ and there were heavy, inter - early Saturday lence—were watching for the lar­ Florida," Gemini control re - mittent showers. But it didn’t member of Student p orted . tending the Gemini mission for Board, and as a mem­ gest satellite in space, one they another full day, Just to break prevent McDivitt’s wife, Pat, morning. think they saw Friday. "I thought it was an island,” from attending Roman Catholic ber of such honorar- Police said Stefanoff stepped S te fan o ff McDivitt replied. the Soviet and world endurance mass and taking communion. ies as Blue Key and But apparently one scheduled record of 119 hours. To do so into the path of a car driven by chance to see the satellite had The Gemini 4 spacecraft is Excallbur, of which he Leonel H. Wood, 33, of Harris­ failed. At least the astronauts v os recently elected burg, Pa., at 12:54 a.m. The Funeral - ( made no mention of it in their president. accident occurred 481 feet west radio transmissions. Those who knewhim of the Hagadorn Road-Grand Ri­ The astronauts reported see­ have nothing but lavish JAMES STEFANOFF ver intersection east of the MSU T u e s d a y ing another r"HStfey satellite in ASM SU A dds Two C ontrols praise for the person- . S ip iy ? dedication «***1 * M-' 1M" sing policemen Louis space last'night. *' ' Funeral services will be'held They also encountered a small J ability of this young noff be lost in the tra ­ A. Potter had stopped another leader. f gedy in which his life motorist nearby and was Writing at 11 a.m. Tuesday for James problem with acomputeron board' has been cut off. Se­ N. Stefanoff, Interfraterrtity For F inancial Transactions There is something a traffic ticket when he heard the spacecraft. The switch had oppressively sad about ve ra l organizations Council (IFC) president and newly stuck "on.” But with help from of the audit committee to tighten a thud. Potter turned and saw An audit of the old All Univer­ the loss of a person with which he was con­ Stefanoff thrown up onto the hood elected president of Excallbur. the ground other means were By JO BUMBARGER sity Student Government (AUSG) financial controls, revised one so near to fulfilling nected are considering Mr. Stefanoff was killed early found to turn the computer off. ASMSU W rite r suggestion and dropped one rec­ a memorial plaque, a of Wood’s car and then onto the Saturday in a pedestrian-auto last week revealed unrecorded th e prom ise shown p avem ent. After their sound sleep periods ASMSU has added two financial spendings of $111.40, a number of ommendation that no money may throughout high school continuing scholarship accident in fiont of his frater­ overnight, the astronauts sounded controls to those initiated when bookkeeping mix-ups, and an un­ be advanced to students traveling and col lege. Stefa- fund, the re-nam ing of Stefanoff was crossing Grand nity house at 1344 E. Grand happy and refreshed—and Jested the new government began in determined number of long dis­ on ASMSU funds. noff’s is the fifth such a building in his honor. « R iv er Avenue from north to south, R iv er. with each other and with Gemini A p ril. tance telephone calls, which may The board agreed to continue death from traffic Such gestures would and Wood was driving east when The Rev. George Nlcoloff, of co n tro l.