Fifty-eight students graduated yesterday from the Jewish Theological Seminary, while honorary degrees were awarded to eight prominent Jewish and non-Jewish personalities. Among those who received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees were: Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization; Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, emeritus vice-president of Union Theological Seminary; Ogden Reid, former Ambassador to Israel; and Alan Maxwell Stroock, lawyer and chairman of the board of directors of the seminary.
An Honorary Doctor of Letters degree was conferred on Dr. Frederick Ernest Johnson, Professor Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University. Chaim Grade, Yiddish writer and poet, received the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters. Honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees were given to Dr. Guillermo Schlesinger, of Congregacion Israelita de la Republica Argentina, and Rabbi Isidore Soloman Mayer, librarian of the American Jewish Historical Society.
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