Newsletter from Lycoming College, May 1968

              LYCOMING
VOLUME 21 / NUMBER 1
Newsletter
MAY 1968
isliop James W. Henley Dr. B. Davie Napier Robert S. Clippinger
Three to Receive Honorary
Degrees at Commencement
Lycoming's 120th Annual Baccalaureate and Commencement Services will
take place on Sunday, June 2. Bishop James W. Henley, resident bishop, Florida
Area of The United Methodist Church, will deliver the baccalaureate address
at 10:45 a. m. at the Pine Street United Methodist Church. The commencement
service is scheduled to take place at 3:00 p. m. outdoors in the Flag Court (in
case of rain—The ^^'illiamsport Con-sistory
Auditorium). A graduating
class of 347 students will receive the
bachelor of arts degree. The College
will also confer three honorary de-grees
at the ceremony.
Humanities Degree to
Bishop James W. Henley
The honorary degree of doctor of
humanities will be conferred upon
Bishop James W. Henley, resident
bishop, Florida area of The United
Methodist Church.
Bishop Henley administers the work
of The United Methodist Church in
the Florida Episcopal area and has
visitorial responsibility for Methodist
work in Cuba.
Born in 1901, in Cleveland. Tennes-see,
Bishop Henley attended Emory
University, where he received the
A.B. degree. He obtained his bachelor
of divinity degree at the Yale Univer-sity
Divinity School and did graduate
work at the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. He holds the honorary de-gree
of doctor of divinity from Emory
and Florida Southern College and the
honorary doctor of laws degree from
Bethune-Cookman College.
Bishop Henley was admitted to the
Holston Annual Conference of The
United Methodist Church in 1926, or-dained
deacon in 1928, and elder in
1930. In 1944 he was transferred to
the Tennessee Annual Conference,
where he served as pastor of \^'est
End United Methodist Church in
Nashville until his election as bishop
in July, 1960, by tlie Southeastern
Jurisdictional Conference.
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Academic Center Dedication
Highlight of Founders Day
Three Receive Honorary Degrees
Dr. Richard H. Sullivan, president
of the Association of American Col-leges,
Washington, D. C, delivered
the 1968 Founders Day Convocation
address on Thursday, May 9. The ob-serxance
was part of the week of dedi-cation
for the College's new $5 million
Academic Center.
Dr. Sullivan, one of the foremost
figures in American higher education,
received the honorary degree doctor
of laws. Honorary degrees were also
conferred upon Dr. Myron F. Wicke,
general secretary of the Division
of Higher Education, the Board of
Education of The United Methodist
Church, and Dr. Lawrence Clark
Powell, dean emeritus of the School
of Library Service, the University of
California at Los Angeles. Both Dr.
Wicke and Dr. Powell received the
doctor of humane letters degree.
The Founders Day Convocation
was held in the new Consistory Audi-torium
in downtown Williamsport.
The honorary degrees were conferred
at that time.
Dr. Wicke was the speaker at a
luncheon held in the Consistory Din-ing
Room following the Con\'ocation.
Dr. Powell delivered the address at
the College's annual Faculty-Direc-tors
Dinner.
Dr. Sullivan gained national atten-tion
as a college administrator while
serving as president of Reed College,
Portland, Oregon. In January, 1967,
he concluded ten years as president
of Reed and assumed his present posi-tion
in Washington.
An honor graduate of Harvard Ihii-versity
Dr. Sullivan holds honorary
degrees from seven institutions. He
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