John W. Gardner, United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was today awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at the 36th annual commencement exercises of Yeshiva University. A total of 583 students were awarded degrees from 11 different schools of the University.
Other recipients of honorary degrees included: New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz; Dr. Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., president of Howard University; and Rabbi Israel Miller, former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, and chairman of the American Zionist Council.
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