Year/Speaker(s) |
|
Info |
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| 1960 |
Norman
Cousins |
|
Cousins was editor of The Saturday
Review for nearly four decades. |
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| 1961 |
Luther
H. Evans |
|
Evans was Director General of UNESCO (United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization) from 1953 to 1958. He spoke on "Problems of
Principal in American Foreign Policy." |
|
| 1962 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
For his final commencement address, Jorgensen
talked about "The Greater Destiny". Jorgensen retired
in 1962 after 27 years as president. |
|
| 1963 |
Raymond
E. Baldwin |
|
Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, Baldwin
was governor in 1939 and signed the legislation
that changed Connecticut State College to The
University of Connecticut |
|
| 1964 |
John
N. Dempsey |
|
Dempsey, a native of Putnam, Connecticut, served as governor from 1961-1971. The hospital at the UConn Health Center was named
for him in 1974. |
|
| 1965 |
Albert
E. Waugh |
|
Waugh, a member of the faculty since the 1920s
and Provost since 1950, gave this address the
year he retired. |
|
| 1966 |
Victor
L. Butterfield |
|
Butterfield was president
of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Scheduled
for outdoors on the lawn in front of Beach Hall,
this ceremony was moved inside to Jorgensen Auditorium
by the threat of rain. With a large graduating
class, the main ceremony was broadcast on close
circuit to several locations on campus (Field
House, von der Mehden, Student Union) to reach
everyone. |
|
| 1967 |
Jack
H. Vaughn |
|
Vaughn was Director of the Peace Corps. |
|
| 1968 |
Charles
J. Zwick |
|
Zwick, director of the federal Bureau of the
Budget, was a member of the UConn Class of 1950,
MS '51. |
|
| 1969 |
Sidney
P. Marland, Jr |
|
Marland was President of the Institute for Educational
Development, and a member of the Class of
1936 (MA in 1949).
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