Israel’s Foreign Minister Golda Meir today received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Wisconsin at the university’s annual commencement here. A similar degree was conferred yesterday on the Foreign Minister by Smith College. Northampton. Mass.
Mrs. Meir was guest of honor last night at a reception in Milwaukee tendered jointly by the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Society of Jewish Learning. The Israel Foreign Minister lived in Milwaukee before she emigrated to Palestine, and attended the Milwaukee State Normal School, now the University of Wisconsin. She was described by the chairman conferring the degree as “one of the truly great women of our contemporary world.”
The Wisconsin university citation read: “Go’lda Meir, because in your long and distinguished life of public service, you have been true to the highest ideals of patriotism; because you have fought courageously to protect human dignity in a troubled world; and because our University would like to claim some small share in shaping those early dreams and hopes to which your later life has given vitality and substance, I am happy to welcome you back to Wisconsin and to confer upon you the honorary degree. Doctor of Laws.”
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