Some 340 students were awarded degrees at the 11th commencement exercises of Brandeis University here yesterday. Seventy graduate students were among those receiving degrees.
The university also conferred honorary degrees on eight national and international personalities in the fields of education, government and philanthropy. They were: Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Reconstructionist Foundation; Philip H. Coombs, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame; Mario Laserna, rector of the International University of Colombia; Jean Piaget, professor at the University of Geneva; William H. Schuman, president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; R. Sargeant Shriver, director of the United States Peace Corps; and Lawrence A. Wien, prominent New York Jewish communal leader.
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