Newsletter from Lycoming College, May 1963

              Newsletter From
COMING VOLUME 16— NUMBER 2 MAY 1963
1963
ALUMNI
WEEKEND
SCHEDULE
HONORARY DEGREES TO BE CONFERRED
BISHOP MIDDLETON NAMED
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
VV. Vernon Middleton, Resident Bishop of the West-ern
Pennsylvania Area of The Methodist Church, will
receive the honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, at the
115th Commencement of Lycoming College June 2,
1963. Bishop Middleton was elected to the episcopacy
by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in
Washington, D. C, June 16, 1960, following a distin-guished
career in national mission work.
Bishop Middleton was executive secretary of the
Philadelphia Missionary and Church Extension Society
of The Methodist Church
from 1939 to 1944; execu-tive
secretary of the Section
of Church Extension of the
Division of National Mis-sions
from 1944 to 1954;
executive secretary of the
Division's Section of Home
Missions from 1954 to 1956;
and general secretary of the
Division of National Mis-sions
of the Methodist
Board of Missions from
1956 to 1960. At present
he is vice-chairman of the
Division of Home Missions of the National Council of
Churches, an interdenominational organization of 24
home mission societies. He has visited outpost mis-sions
in Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, and is an
authority on the religious and economic conditions of
American Indians, migrant workers, and other minori-ty
groups in the United States.
Born on Christmas Daw 1902, in Baltimore. Mary-land,
Bishop Middleton was educated at Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute; Dickinson College, Carlisle
(A.B. degree); New York University in New York
City (M.A. degree); Drew Theological Seminary in
Madison, New fersey (B.D. degree); and Drew Uni-versity
(Ph.D. degree). In 1961, his alma mater.
Dickinson, conferred the honorary degree. Doctor ol
Divinity, on him.
He was ordained a member on trial in the Phila-delphia
Annual Conference ol The Methodist Church
in 1928 and admitted into lull membership in 1930.
He served as pastor ol several Pennsylvania churches
including Germantown, Canadensis and Narheth.
Bishop Middleton has been a member ol the Board
ol Directors ol Lvcoming College since 1900.
VERNON MIDDLETON
FIVE TO BE HONORED AT
115th COMMENCEMENT
At the 115th Annual Commencement of Lycoming
College on Sunday, June 2, 1963, five honorary degrees
will be conferred. Bishop W. Vernon Middleton will
deliver the Commencement address to the graduating
class and receive the honorary degree, Doctor of Let-ters.
President D. Frederick Wertz will preach the
Baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning at Pine Street
Methodist Church.
Honorary degrees will also be conferred upon Dr.
Roger S. Firestone, Dr. Herbert M. Gould, Mr. Tsing-
Yao Lea and the Rev. Harry N. Peelor.
Alumnus Honored
Dr. Herbert M. Gould will have the honorary degree,
Doctor of Laws, conferred upon him at the 115th Com-mencement
of Lycoming College. Born October 20,
1902, in Philadelphia, he was educated in the public
schools of that city and Lower Merion Township. An
alumnus, he graduated
from the Seminary in the
Class of '22. He sub-sequently
attended Wes-leyan
University in Middle-town,
Connecticut, and
Washington and Lee Uni-versity
in Lexington, Vir-ginia,
from which he re-ceived
the degree Bachelor
of Laws in 1925. A year
earlier he was admitted to
practice law in the state ol
Virginia and was appointed
Assistant to the Common-wealths
attorney of Rockbridge County. In 1927 he
was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and ap-pointed
to the legal staff of General Motors Corpora-tion
in New York. He rose to the position ol Secretary
of General Motors Holding Corporation and finally
was appointed General Manager of the Motors Hold-ing
Division ot CMC. In 1959, alter 33 years of ser-vice,
he received a disabilitv retirement from CMC.
In 1900 Dr. Gould was admitted to practice law
before the Supreme Court ol the United States. Last
year lie was appointed National Arbitrator by the
American Arbitration Association ol New York. Dr.
Gould holds the houorarv degree. Doctor of Business
Administration, from Rio Grande College, Ohio. He is
also a trustee emeritus ol Dickinson College, Carlisle.
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