Centre Graduates Hear Steelman

48 Told Aid Others, Don’t Seek Reward, and Intensify Life Feeling

Special to the Courier-Journal

Danville, Ky., June 5. — "Discover the pleasure and satisfaction of doing for others without worrying about your own rewards," urged Charles R. Hook, Middletown, Ohio, chairman of the board of Armco Steel Corporation, at Centre College’s 132d graduation exercises here tonight at Farris Stadium.

Hook told the 48 graduates, all of whom had earned bachelor-of-arts degrees, that "concern for others always serves to intensify the life feeling that is operating in each of us all of the time. Anybody can find it in himself, if he will cultivate it. And when he does, and lets it flow out to people in general, and into his work, community, and society, only then is he living life to the full.

Anchorage Pastor Speaks

The baccalaureate sermon this morning was preached by the Rev. Edgar E. Houghton, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Anchorage.

He said that "work done not primarily for the money in it or for the position it brings, but for the sheer joy of creative effort brings fulfillment."

Honorary degrees were presented tonight to Hook and Houghton and two other persons. The doctor-of-laws degree was presented to Hook and Charles R. McDowell, Danville native who is professor of law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. The doctor-of-divinity degree was presented to the Rev. F. Gault Robertson, pastor of the Paris Presbyterian Church, and to Mr. Houghton.

Lanier Participates

The honorary degrees were presented by Ike Lanier, Cincinnati and Danville, chairman of the board of trustees; Dr. Walter A. Groves, Centre president; and Dr. Jameson M. Jones, Centre academic dean. President Groves presented a message to the graduating seniors.

Dean Jones gave the invocation and Mr. Robertson the benediction. The Centre A Cappella Choir under the direction of Dwight Steere, music department head, presented three numbers.

Other persons on the baccalaureate program this morning beside Mr. Houghton were the Rev. Bruce D. Compton, pastor of Danville’s First Presbyterian Church, who gave the invocation and Lord’s Prayer; the Rev. John R. Gosney of Danville, Centre trustee and Presbyterian official who gave a prayer; the Rev. Roland W. Tapp, Centre religion professor who read scripture, and Dean Jones who gave the benediction. The Centre choir presented two numbers.

12 Prizes Given

An innovation to the commencement program this year was a Communion Service for graduating seniors and Centre faculty held at 9:30 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church.

Twelve prizes that are annually awarded were presented to graduating seniors at commencement exercises tonight.

The prizes and their winners included:

• The Gavin Easton Wiseman Valedictorian Prize, women’s department — Norma Ramsay Jones, New Castle, Pa.

• The George Winston Welch Valedictorian Prize, men’s department — Gordon Hollins, Nashville, who also won the Phi Beta Chi Scientific Fraternity Prize.

• The George C. Young English Literature Prize — Mary Lee Tipton, Covington, Tenn.

• The Music Prize — Kathryn Cole Eblen, Hazard.

• The Yeager, Ford, and Warren (Louisville) Accountancy Prize — Sarah Carroll Edmiston, Danville.

• The Sally Warfield Memorial Prize, mathematics — Harold Nelson Hanson, Augusta.

• The Preston Carter Chemistry Prize and the Nelson Allen Chemistry Award — James Brown McCormack, Stanford.

• The William Ernest Memorial Prize, debate — Richard Noel Parks, Danville.

• The Owsley Rochester Memorial Award — Thomas Lee Sale, Henderson.

• The Breckenridge Jones History and Political Science Prize and the Ormond Beatty Alumni Prize — James Robert Wilson, Jr., Keene (Jessamine County).

• The John W. Yerkes English Prize — James William Broaddus, Irvine.

Honor Graduates Listed

Graduating summa cum laude tonight were James Robert Wilson, Jr., of Keene, Jessamine County, and Gordon Hollins of Nashville.

Magna cum laude graduates were Sarah Carroll Edmiston and Bertram Kelso, both of Danville; Mary Alice Fygrear, Palmyra, Ind.; Mary Lee Tipton, Covington, Tenn., and Norma Ramsay Jones, New Castle, Pa., and Barbara Lee Buckley, Berea.

Cum laude graduates included Nancy Ruth Roark, Franklin; Gordon Reese, Liberty, and Homer Wilkins Lacy, Jr., Hopkinsville.

Other Kentuckians among the graduates were:

• Mary Ann Heil, Lee Chadwick Russell, Dorothy Lynn Weinedel, Henry Walker Castner, Henry Ewing Dusker, and Richard L. Soehner, all of Louisville.

• Mary Lynn Bryant, Gladys Hendren Jackson, Betty Joiner Mercer, and Richard Noel Parks, all of Danville.

• Sally Jean Lobaugh, Frances June Moore, Thomas Riffle Jennings, Jr., and Richard Gordon Scott, all of Ashland.

• Mary Elizabeth Greer and Duard Ray Sullivan, both of Hopkinsville.

• Kathryn Cole Eblen, Hazard.

• Kathryn Nell Justice, Winchester.

• Ruby Lee King, Campton.

• Martha Vernon McConathy, Nicholasville.

• Margaret Lee Stafford, Yosemite.

• Gorden Randolph Coe, Erlanger.

• Kelley Deaton, Jr., Grayson.

• Powell Barlow Gillenwater, Jr., Glasgow.

• Harold Nelson Hanson, Augusta.

• David Long Lawrence, Jamestown.

• John Rutledge McClure, Springfield.

• James Brown McCormack, Stanford.

• John Wathen Morgan, East Bernstadt.

• James Hume Rucker, Madisonville.

• Thomas Lee Sale, Henderson.

Out-of-state graduating seniors included:

• Elizabeth Ann Denise, Westfield, N. Y.

• Mary Frances Westmoreland, Griffin, Ga.

• Ramon Lawrence Adams, New York City.

• McCormick Royall Covington, Shaker Heights, Ohio.

• William Kenneth Decker, Garden City, N. Y.

• Hughes Oliphant Old, East Redondo Beach, Cal.