Father Charles S. Cassasa, president of Loyola University, was awarded an honorary degree at the annual commencement exercises here of the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Other recipients of honorary degrees included: Dr. Sanford S. Elberg, dean of the graduate division of the University of California, and Rabbi Henry Rabin, executive director of the Los Angeles Hillel Council.
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