NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY One Hundred and Twenty -second Annual COMMENCEMENT SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1980 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 he thine, ^ May thy name forever shine! Hail to Purple! Hail to White! Hail to thee, Northwestern! Smoking is permitted only in the outer main floor lobby. f THE PROGRAM PROCESSIONAL (Audience will please remain seated for the Student and Faculty Processional.) THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (The first stanza) (Audience will please remain standing until the Invocation has been offered.) INVOCATION IRWIN WEIL Professor and Chairman, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, College of Arts and Sciences 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 Alma Mater are printed inside the front cover.) BENEDICTION james e. avery University Chaplain RECESSIONAL FACULTY RECESSIONAL (Graduates and guests will please remain seated.) STUDENT RECESSIONAL (Guests will please remain 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 KARL WOLFGANG DEUTSCH — DOCTOR OF LAWS Political scientist. Degree from German University, Prague, 1934; doctor of law and political science, Charles University, Prague, 1938; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1951; honorary degrees from Yale University and the Universities of Geneva, Michigan and Illinois. Instructor to professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942-58; professor of political science at Yale Univer- sity, 1958-67; professor of government at Harvard University, 1967-, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, 197 1-; faculty associate. Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1969-. Director, political research group, the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. Guggenheim fellow, 1954, 1971; many other fellowships, awards and honors. Member American Political Science Associ- ation (president 1969-70), International Political Science Association (president 1976-), Na- tional Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Peace Science Society (president 1973-74). Author and co-author of many important works on international relations and the comparative study of politics and political institutions. Presented by Bryan S. Reid, Jr., Trustee, Northwestern University RICHARD ELLMANN — DOCTOR OF LITERATURE Professor and humanistic scholar. B.A., Yale University, 1939; M.A., 1941, Ph.D., 1947; B.Litt., Trinity College, Dublin, 1947; M.A., Oxford University, 1970; D.Litt. (hon.). National Univer- sity of Ireland, 1976. Faculty of Harvard University, 1942-43, 1947-51; professor of English, Northwestern University, 1951-68, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor, 1964-68; professor at Yale University, 1968-1970; Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, New College, Oxford Univer- sity, 1970-. Member U.S. -U.K. Educational Commission, 1970-. Rockefeller fellow in the human- ities, 1946-47; Guggenheim fellow, 1950, 1957, 1970; fellow. Royal Society for Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute for Arts and Letters. Author of a biography of James Joyce that won the National Book Award in 1960. Author, co-author and editor of many other works on contemporary English literature. Presented by Jean Hagslrum , John C. Shaffer Processor of Humanities and English, College of Arts and Sciences NICOLAS SLONIMSKY — DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Musicologist. Educated at the Conservatory of Music, St. Petersburg, Russia. Concert tours as pianist: Europe, 1921-22, United States, 1923-, South America, 1941-42. Instructor, Eastman School of Music, 1923-25; Boston Conservatory of Music, 1925-45. Conductor, Pierian Sodality, Harvard University, 1928-30. Instructor and conductor at many schools in other locations. Con- ducted the first public performance of a major orchestral work by the American composer Charles Ives, 1931. Author and editor of major reference works; completed the monumental revision of the sixth edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1978. Composer of "miniature forms" including Studies in Black and While, for piano, a song-cycle Grave- stones, My Toy Balloon and Mobius Strip-Tease. Presented by Betty A. Van Gorkorn, Trustee, Northwestern University 3 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT BENJAMIN LAWSON HOOKS — DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Government official, association executive. Student at LeMoyne College, 1941-43, Howard Uni- versity, 1943-44; J.D., De Paul University, 1948; honorary LL.D. from Howard University, Wil- berforce University and Central State University. Ordained to ministry, Baptist Church, 1956. Co-founder and officer of Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association, Memphis. First black commissioner appointed to Federal Communications Commission, 1972; helped lay groundwork for increased minority participation in communications industry. First black judge of Shelby County (Tennessee) Criminal Court, 1966. Succeeded Roy Wilkins as executive director, Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1977. Presented by Newton N. Miriow, Trustee, Northwestern University LEONID HURWICZ — DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Economist, educator. LL.M., University of Warsaw, 1938. Research at London School of Eco- nomics, Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, 1938-45. Associate professor and professor, Iowa State College, 1946-49; professor of economics and mathematical statistics. University of Illinois, 1949- 51; University of Minnesota, 195 1-, Regent's Professor of Economics, 1969-. Visiting pro- fessor at Stanford University, University of Bangalore, Harvard University and University of California. Among the most active and innovative researchers in economics; contributor to a remarkable range of topics in economics, decision and game theory, and mathematical program- ming as author, editor, and consultant. Member, National Academy of Sciences; fellow and former president. Econometric Society; distinguished fellow, American Economic Association. Presented by Donald John Roberts, Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management WALTER ANDREW NETSCH — DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Architect and city planner. B.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1943. Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, architects-engineers; designer of Northwestern University build- ings including Rebecca Crow^n Center, the University Library, Frances Searle Building, Regen- stein Hall of Music and O. T. Hogan Biological Sciences Building. Recipient of Reynolds Award for United States Air Force Academy Chapel. Other major projects include Chicago Circle Campus for University of Illinois and Model Cities Plan for Newark, New Jersey; also medical research facilities, industrial complexes, transportation systems, public and private housing, art museums, college and university campuses. Presented by John P. McGowan, University Librarian 4 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PETER G. PETERSON — DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Corporation executive. B.S. summa cum laude, Northwestern University, 1947; M.B.A. with honors, University of Chicago, 1951. Executive of Market Facts, Inc. and McCann-Erickson, Chicago, 1947-58. Officer and director. Bell & Howell Company, 1958-71. Assistant to the Presi- dent of the United States and other appointments in Washington, 1971-73; Secretary of Com- merce, 1972-73. Since leaving public service, chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb In- corporated, New York. Presented by Allin W. Proudfoot, Vice President for Development, Northwestern University AARON SISKIND — DOCTOR OF FINE ARTS Photographer and educator. B.S.S., City College of New York, 1926. Taught in New York pub- lic schools, 1927-49; Trenton Junior College, 1950-51. Faculty of Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1951-71; trainer of generations of photographic artists in Chicago. Taught at Rhode Island School of Design after 1971. One of the greatest American photog- raphers, his work has helped to achieve recognition of photography as a major art form. Two important monographs have been published on his work, which has been exhibited worldwide. Presented by Leon Forrest, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences SHIZUO KAKUTANI — DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Mathematician, economist. M.A., Tohoku University, 1934; Ph.D., Osaka University, 1941; teacher at Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study, 1940-42, 1948-49. Assistant pro- fessor, Osaka University, 1942-48; faculty member at Yale University, assistant professor to Higgins Professor of Mathematics, since 1949. Internationally recognized authority on func- tional analysis, probability and stochastic processes. His mathematical work has been particu- larly significant for the field of economics. Presented by Alexandra Bellow, Professor of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences 6 Digitized by the Internet Archive