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HONORARY
DEGREES

JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR.
Doctor of Laws

DONALD S. FREDRICKSON
Doctor of Science

JOSEPH ANTHONY CALIFANO, JR., Secretary of the United States

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Born in Brooklyn, trained at Holy Cross and Harvard, Mr. Califano
has been a brilliant member of law firms in New York and Washington,
D.C. He entered government service, and while still in his thirties rose
from being one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" to Special Assistant
to the Secretary of the Army, General Counsel to the Department of
Defense, and Special Adviser on domestic affairs to President Lyndon B.
Johnson. Fortunately for all of us, today he presides over one of the
largest, most complex and important departments in our national govern-
ment. Thus with experience he has turned from defending our nation
against potential enemies without to eliminating those present enemies
within: poverty, disease, and ignorance. As an author he has delved wisely
and sympathetically into the student revolt of the last decade, the conflict
between the First Amendment and our news media, and the Constitutional
intentions of the Presidency. Along the way he has received many awards,
among them "The Man of the Year" in 1966 from the Justinian Society of
Lawyers.

  The University of Michigan now tenders to this selfless American,
Joseph Califano, the honorary degree Doctor of Laws, and salutes him in
the words with which a great poet of his ancestral land, Dante, greeted
the luminous shade of Justinian, father of Roman law: "Animu degno . .
o bene nato . . nel proprio lume" (Par. V)--"Thou, lofty spirit, born in a
happy hour, art enveloped in thine own light."

DONALD SHARP FREDRICKSON, Medical Scientist, National Admin-

istrator, Humanitarian

  Dr. Fredrickson honored The University of Michigan in 1946 by
accepting our Bachelor of Science degree. Three years later he honored
us again by accepting our degree, Doctor of Medicine. Subsequently he
has risen to the Directorship of the National Institutes of Health at
Bethesda, Maryland, serving, fortunately for America, under two successive
political administrations.

  In this age of specialization, Dr. Fredrickson has achieved distinction
in such diverse fields as cardiology, molecular diseases, nutrition, metabo-
lism, preventive medicine, and medical education. Our individual lives
have been prolonged through his research on plasma lipoproteins, which
has led to the identification and consequent prevention of several new
diseases.

Throughout his leadership in the nation's capital during the contro-
versy on federal- funding of recombinant DNA research, he kept his
talented fingers on the pulse of scientific truth as well as of public morality,
by insisting upon uncompromisingly high priorities for biomedical investi-
gation and by assuring that this sensitive and daring probe into life-study
not transgress boundaries of human concern.

  Donald Sharp Fredrickson, therefore, today gives The University of
Michigan its third opportunity to honor itself by honoring him, with the
degree Doctor of Science.

Hooders:
JOHN E. MILHOLLAND, M.A.,Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
FRANK B.WOMER, Ph.D.
Professor of Education and
Director, Michigan School
Testing Service, Bureau of
School Services

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