Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma honored distinguish Blanding with a reception at the chapter house.
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Senator John Sherman Cooper addressed the distinguished alumni ana University friends at the Founder's Day Luncheon.
President Lyndon B.Johnson Receives Honorary Degree
Nineteen hundred and sixty-five, Centennial year at the University of Kentucky, has been a time of enlightened programs and lectures, inspiring symposiums, committees, and outstanding visitors and professors from all fields of endeavor. But the peak of the Centennial celebration came on February 22 at the Centennial Founder's Day convocation held in Memorial Coliseum.
The President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, gave the principal address and received the Centennial honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Dr. John Oswald, president of the University.
President Johnson in a speech primarily directed toward the student body, challenged the new generation to increase its endeavors in order to keep up with the challenges of the next one hundred years.
The arrival of the President and First Lady was preceded by a processional of University faculty and staff, delegates and representatives of colleges, universities, and learned and professional societies and recipients of the distinguished alumni awards.
Rev. Wiley A Welsh, President of the College of the Bible in Lexington, gave the invocation after which executive Vice President of the University, Dr. Arnold D. Albright, presented a portion of the distinguished alumni before the arrival of President Johnson.
As a rule of protocol, the recessional began immediately after President Johnson's delivery and the benediction given by Rt. Reverend Monsignor Alfred Harrigan, President of Bellarmine College in Louisville.
The Grand Ballroom of the Student Center was the scene of a luncheon before the convocation. Nearly eight hundred distinguished guests attended the luncheon with Senator John Sherman Cooper as the principal speaker. -
Immediately following the convocation, President and Mrs. Oswald held a reception in the Student Center ballroom, and Dr. and Mrs. Oswald and the Board of Trustees hosted a dinner for the distinguished alumni award recipients that evening.
The moment the University of Kentucky has waited for fifteen years, the day the President of the United States delivered the principal address at Founder's Day.
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