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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1961
NO. 126
3.154 Students
Degrees
At 78th Annual Commencement
Four Seniors Win Scholastic Awards
Award? ior highest scholarship were presented to two men and two women seniors last night during Baccalaureate services in Bovard Auditorium.
The Order of the Palm given each year to the most outstanding male student on the basis of scholarship and service, was awarded to .Tames A. Childs, a School of Business major.
Bittick Lands Trojan Medal For Athletics
Chuck Bittick. a three-time All-American swimmer, has been named the winner of the Trojan Diamond Medal as the outstanding graduating athlete, director of Athletics Je-se Hill announced yesterday.
Winner of the Willis O. Hunter Academic Achievement Award is Ron Stillwell, co-captain of the baseball team.
fir»h Avant, a member of the tipck tram, won the Jacob Gim-het Athletic Attitude Award.
Bittick. who has never losi a meet in three years of competition. was captain of this year's I president of Panhellenic and w as
The Order of the Laurel for leader-hip. scholarship and service was awarded to Lucia Kapetanich. also a major in the School of Business. Miss Kapetanich was announced as the choice for the Order of the Laurel at a special AWS assembly earlier in the year.
AMS Award The AMS scholarship award was presented to Donald L. Snyder, an electrical engineering major, who has maintained a grade |w>ini average of 3.836 out of a possible 4.0 for foor years.
The Emma Bovard award for hi "host woman's scholarship during the past four vears was presented to Susan Laemmle. an English major who has a 3.97'.’ grade point average. Miss I^em-mle has received all As exccpi for three and one-half unit.« of R in phvsjcal education
Miss Laemmle. president of Alpha Epsilon Phi. has been
swim team, which was ranked number two in the NCAA swim title. Last year the Trojan swim team won the title.
New Record
Bittick also set a new American record for the men’s 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:58.6 in the SPA AAU swim meet held at Huntington Park High School.
He was named the Helm's Southern California Athleie of the Month in March for being * triple winner in the 1961 AAU meet, winning in the 100- and 220-yard backstroke and in the 400-yard individual m e d I e v. bringing the title to the Trojans.
He is a three-year letterman on the swim team and a two-year Jetterman on the water polo team Bittick was the 1960 captain of the water polo team. He ¿till has one more semester of eligibility on the water polo team
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Before he enrolled at USC, bittick attended Long Beach City College. He is a graduate *jf Lons Beach Wilson High School.
The Trojan Diamond Medal, which is awarded by the Tro-janeers of the university, is annually fiven to the athlete who has shown "physical skill, courage. intellectual ability and general worth."
The winner of the Hunter Academic Achievement Award. Stillwell. i- a three-yeai \ai-iiv letteiman and co-captain ol the 1961 baseball team. whi«h ha-mst recently won the Bis; Five ha-eball title and will begin competition in the NCAA finals this weekend.
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Stillwell '» a* given the academic awani »= the graduating •JfckU with the highe-i grade average-
BqH Avant. winner of the Gim-heJ Athletic Attitude Award, is the first to high jump over sev-M (Mt •utdoors in th* United fftatn this year.
St «iso hold« the honor of being *n« of four Americans to j dear the seven-fool mark. USC la the only university in the nation io hrtast two seven-foot high fumpeis.
\vant was also -elected as the f,ojd athlete of Mt. San Antonio where he made hi = record
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LUCIA KAPETANICH
. . . tcp female
USC Presents Laurel Honors To Kapetanich
Lucia Kapetanich. a senior in I the School of Business, was nam-I ed ihe winner of the Order of the Laurel, the highest honor for a senior woman, during the Baccalaureate service last night.
1 Miss Kapetanich was introduc-; cd by Pran of Students Robert .1. Downey, who presented the ! award to her during a special AWS assembly last month. The Order of the Palm. AMS equivalent to Order of the Laurel, was presented to James A. Childs, also a business student.
The Order of the Laurel is j presented by the AWS to the i senior woman who has eontri-; buted most, in terms of scho-j larship and service, to the university and community.
Miss Kapetanich is vice president of Mortar Board and holds a Trojan Junior Auxiliary scholarship. She is a memtx»r of Phi Kappa Phi. national scholarship honorary, and Alpha Lambda Delia, undergraduate women’s scholastic honorary.
Miss Kaueianich will graduate with a 3.666 grade point average.
! out <rt a possible 1.0. She plans )<i marry this summer and hopes to continue her studies in Russian and court reporting. Although not certain, she expects to eventually become a court reporter or an instructor in Rus-j sian.
Miss Kapetanich majored in secretarial administration. She served as vice president of-the YWCA and has been active in friends and members of the fa- Spurs, Amazons and Chimes, culty was hosted by President Dean Downey hailed Childs Norman Topping in the foyer of and Miss Kapetanich as "a cred-Town and Gown following the it to the university and the com-Baccalaureate ceremonie-	munitv	tliev lepre-ent."
one of nine graduating seniors chosen a« a Helen of Troy for the 1961 edition of El Rodeo, official USC yearbook.
She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mortar Board and Amazons, and is winner of a WToodrow Wilson fellowship to Columbia University, where she plans to prepare for a teaching career.
Baccalaureate Address
The Baccalaureate address was given by the Rev. Dr. Edward I. R. Elson. minister of the Nat ion a I Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C.. where he was minister to ex-President and Mrs. Dwight Kisenhower. He was graduated from USC in 1931.
Dr Elson is a frequent sfieak-er at colleges and universities in the United Slates. Last year the Rt. Rev. Bishop James A. Pike of San Erancisco addressed the graduating seniors. Other Baccalaureate speakers have included the Very Rev. I^eonidas Con-10«. dean of St. Sophia's ("»reck Orthodox Cathedral, and Joseph Francr. Cardinal McIntyre, archbishop of the Lo? Angeles Catholic diocese.
A reception for all graduating students, their families and
Heald to Deliver Morality' Speech
A total of 3,154 men and women will be graduated in
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USC’s 78th Annual Commencement exercises today at 1:45 in Alumni Memorial Park.
Dr. Henry T. Hcald. president of the Ford Foundation. Npvv York City, will speak on Morality in a Free Society” at the event. Five honorary degrees will be presented to distinguished citizens by President Norman Topping.
Dr. Topping will award bachelor's decrees to 1.584 persons: master’s degrees to 1,035: doctorates to 147: and professional degrees in dentistry, law, medicine and pharmacy to 388 during the general ceremony. Ceremonies sponsored by the individual schools and colleges will recognize the graduates in separate meetings following the main ceremony.
An honorary doctor of science degree will be presented to Dr George C. Griffith, internationally known physician, teacher and research scientist in the field of heart disease. Dr. Griffith is coordinator of cardiovascular teaching at the School of Medicine and is a former president of the California and Los Angeles County Heart Associations.
Allan Nevins, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a senior research scholar of the Huntington Library in San Marino and a former professor of American aistory at Columbia University, will be presented with . an honorary doctor of letters degree.
A doctorate of humane letters will he presented to Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, an honor graduate of the USC School of Education in 1937 and wife of the former Vice President of the United States for her activities in the goodwill missions to 52 foreign nations while accompanying her husband.
Franklin S. Wade, former chairman of the board of the Southern California Gas Company and a life trustee of USC, will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree for his community service.
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation since its creation in 1950 and professor of physics at Yale University for 29 years, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree for his research and leadership in the field of physics.
Dr. Heald’s commencement address on morality will be centered around an appeal to seniors to establish new rules of moral responsibility and vigor that lie feels are desperately needed by a free society.
The Ford Foundation president feels that corruption and bribery in America's public and private business codes are destroying the long-range humanitarian objectives 011 w'hich America was built.
Dr. Heald has been president and a trustee of the F»rd Foundation since 1956. For 29 years before that his career was in the field of higher education.
Education centers where he has served include Armour Institute of Technology In Chicago, where he was president for three years: Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was president for twelve years: and New York University, where he was chancellor for five years.
Dr. Hcald was graduated from Washington StatP College in 1923. Two years later, he received a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. Before beginning his academic career, the foundation president worked as an engineer in Chicago. During the course of his academic career Dr Heald received 14 honorary degrees from various universities and colleges.
Dr. Heald has been president of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Western Society of Engineers and the Association of Urban Universities. He was1 chairman of the American Council on Education.
Seniors to Gather At Final Breakfast
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JAMES A. CHILDS
. . . top male
Senior Childs Wins Order At Ceremony
James A. < ’hiIds. senior in the School of Business, was awarded the Order of the Palm, the highesi senior men's award, last nighi during the senior Baccalaureate services.
Childs was chosen for the honor, which is given tn the graduating male senior who has contributed most to the university, by a special committee of administrators and alumni headed by Dean of Students Robert J. Downey.
Childs plans to attend Harvard Law School, where he has been accepted for entrance in the fall. At USC he has a four-year scholarship average of approximately 3.6 out of a possible 4.0. He was recently named to the Dean'.- I.isl of the School of Business in recognition of his scholarship.
Childs ha.- i>een a member of Phi Eta Sigma, undergraduate men’s scholastic honorary, and was chosen for membership in Phi Kappa Phi. national scholarship honor fraternity. He Ls a member of Blue Key and Skull and Dagger.
He was president of Knights, upper division men’s service honorary, and served as chief justice of Men - Judicial. He was chairman of the 1960 Homecoming Committee and wag a member of the 1960 Sonzfest Committee.
He has also served as vice president of the Inter-Fraternity Council and as a member of Squires and the freshman track team. He Ls a member of Phi f>e!tu Theta fraternity.
19 Scholars Plan to Study At Cambridge
Names of 19 outstanding USC students who will attend Cambridge university in England this summer were announced yesterday by President Norman Topping.
A breakfast for graduating seniors and their parent-wili be held this morning at 11 as the final senior activity before graduation.
Senior President Ken Unmacht announced thai the breakfast will be held in the Town and Gown foyer with President Topping and Chancellor von KleinSmid as honor ed guests.
Seniors' favorite professor, chosen earlier in a secret ballot, will he introduced at the breakfast. Unmacht said. The cost is $2 per person.
Graduat«* Exercises
| The commencement exercises will begin at 1:45 in Alumni Memorial Park. Candidates for degrees and certificates are asked by E. Kent Springer, commencement marshal, to form for : 1 he academic procession | "promptly" at 1 by academic de-■ grees at marked assembly points on University Ave.
From the marked assembly points, the candidates w ill foi m and march in columns of twos.
Candidates who are physically handicapped should contact Dr.
Springer at 203 Engineering, ext.
838. regarding social arrangements.
Faculty members will form on j the walk in front of the Administration Building, dean« in the Hall of Nations and the President's party in the President’s Conference Room at 1 :30.
Springer said.
The procession will begin promptly at 1:45, Springer said.
Section A and B will move down 35th Place and Sections C and D down 36th St., to reserved sections in front of ‘ Doheny Library.
.Vo Smoking
Once the procession starts.
I candidates are asked not to smoke Dr. Springer said. Each 1 candidate will In* seated with persons marching directly in I front and t>ehind him.
’Hie procession assembly p«*ints for the various schools and colleges are as follows;
Section A:	Naval	ROTC.
Medicine, letters. Arts and I Sciences and Dental Hygiene.
Section R: Education 1 EdD>.
Engineering. Public Administration. Music and Pharmacy.
' Section C: Dentistry. Education 1 BS. MS*. I,aw and library Science.
Section D: Graduate School (PhD). Business and Business Administration. Social Work.
Architecture and Graduate School (master;»
Immediately after the Commencement Convocation, the exercises will continue in separate meetings by the several schools and colleges, at which the dean (Continned 011	I)
Colorful Cap, Gown Rituals Possess Tracing Back Centuries to Central,
A bugle fanfare at 1:40 today will herald seniors Into a centuries-old graduation ritual that will begin with a parade of th^ ROTC color guard in Alurrni Memorial Park and will last the remainder of the afternoon.
Much of the ritual that will bp followed during the afternoon, such as the changing of ta,-sel.s from the right to left side of the scholars' caps, at the ceremony’s conclusion can be traced to graduation ceremonies in central and southern Europe hundreds of years ago. Other traditions, such as the use of the color guard, evolved during the 77 previous commencements held at USC.
To 3,154 men and women who will be graduating this afternoon, commencement is the final flourish that—for most of them—will mark the end of 16 years of academic study; to an expected audience of 10,000 parents and guests, commencement is a strange but fascinating array of colors and robes.
To the members of the academic community, the multihued insignia and three types of gowns reveal the history and interests of the wearers.
Dr. F,. Kent. Springer, professor of mechanical engineering and commencement marshal, explained that, the scholars robe. w-hich was first probably a
cl^ak needed to protect the student from the weather,
is now cut and colored to .-how the scholar's field of study, the institution that graduated him <>nd the stage of his academic career.
The robes are cut differently for the three .stages of degrees- bachelor's, master’s and doctor's," Dr. Springer said. ‘Bachelors’ robes fasten down the front and are rut very plainly, like a dressing gown,” he continued. The masters robe fastens at the rrllar and has a tail, which is supposed to have been used for carrying books and lunches.”
The doctors’ gown folds back like a cloak, instead of having a plain back,” he added.
Dr. Springer explained that the velvet band around the scholar’s hood shows the field in which the wearer has taken his degree, while the lining of the hood itself bears the color or colors of the institution from which the wearer was graduated.
‘ Dr. Topping, for instance, will have a green band showing that his field is medicine, and his hood lining will be cardinal and gold since he was graduated by USC.” he said.
The tassel on the scholar’s cap shows whether he is a graduate or undergraduate, since it is traditionally placed to the right until a student is graduated. If the tassai is gold, instead of white, it shows that the wparer w'a.s graduated with honors.
In a message that will be distributed to seniors before th« ceremony begins. Dr. Sp.-lnger explains that, twice during the ceremony the president and
Tradition, History Southern Europe
candidates traditionally salute each other by tipping their caps.
Immediately after each dean has presented bis group of candidates to the president. thr president will fac<= the group and acknowledge it by tipping h - rap. Each member of the group will then tip bis cap in reply." the notice reads.
It. adds that the president salutes thc candidate« a second time after all the groups have been presented to him. The candidates then reply a .-econd time by tipping their caps.
The candidates will march into the park from the two sides of Doheny Library following presentation of the colors. One side will be led by Dr. Springer and the other will be led by his assistant, Dr. J. Wynn Frederick, head of the physical education department.
Candidates from the various schools and colleges will also be led by faculty marshals, who will accompany them throughout the ceremony to minimize confusion. There will be 74 faculty marshals leading groups ranging in size from 5 to 400 students.
Some scholars have traced the commencement rituals back to the initiation rites of primitive tribes or clans. They explain the many symbols and rituals a.s a multiplication of th“se simple rites, which symbolized the conclusion of the youth's education and his acceptance as a fully trained and accredited member oí the adult community.
Named to the "Cambridge class are Darryl W. Adams. Jon H. Barrett. Hugh M. Roby-, James I. Caleshu. Chapman R. Cox. John J. Faulkner. Virginia L. Gubin. Michael A. Gubin. Mary a (ice Herrick and Ham M. Horner.
Also. Stephen R. Imboff. Jean L. Kroger. Jo Ann Madron. Janet Marie Nelson. Joan Robin-on. John Ley Trammell. Bernard L. Wemer. Robert M. Weiner Mary Bee Young.
Study Abroad
Participation by this USC group in a month-long period of study at the 750-year-old English university will mark the beginning of a continuing program of study abroad for locil scholars. Dr. Topping said.
From July 12 to Aug. 9. the I dozen men in the USC group will live ai Trinity College, while the seven women will be aceom-itnxlated at Newnham college. A Cambri. ge tutor will re-ide with the men and act as adviser for the entiie group.
During the period. USC students will attend one of three ■seminars conducted bv regular Cambridge faculty members and will receive four unit« of credit from USC.
Requirements for the »tod^nfs
selected ini I tided ai lea-t a 2.75 ~rade point average and an is. year age minimum There was no requirement concerning major field of study.
Seminars Offered
Seminars will be offered in British institutions, international relations and 20th century English literature. Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, vice president, academic affairs, said.
The seminar in British institu-. lions will cover topics such as the working ot tlie Bi ilish con-I -dilution, the partv system, the 01 ^am/aiion ■>( British iinliisir\. thr legal and educational sys lem.- and public opinion.
"Britain and the World Today” will tie the title of the international relations -eminar which will be concerned with Riitain': relationship with the Western al liances. the Sino-.Soviet h|ne anH rhr*	I mahoni.”
Wnrlorn F,f»y!Kh
The litptafyrr -f?rr»!n--!r t,r?Il
n Tth the moHprri English
novp 1. the pjay- of Bifpnard T S. Eliot. English drama and poetry since 1930. specifically the poetry of Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owne, W, B. Yeats and Eliot.
Students will be required by Cambridge to wnte a brief essay relating to the subject of their choice. The essay will be used to give the appropriate tutor some idea of their level of knowledge of the subject and ol their interests.
In addition to the -eminai-s. students may attend thre*> Cam-bi idge-sponsored excursion-- during their study period to Strat-ford-npon-A von. Ely Cathertrel and either th* I'ntversiry r>f f>v-fnrrl nr thp wool fourrj; and
churches of Ea«t Anglia.
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