Office of the President
                                                     April 5, 1966






Members, Board of Trustees:

                     HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS

Recommendation: that approval be granted to award the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws to Dr. Leo M. Chamberlain, Dr. Philip E. Blackerby, Jr.,
and Dr. Carl M. Hill; the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature to Mr. John
Mason Brown; and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science to Professor Louis
Gordon, at the commencement exercises on May 9, 1966, and that the President
be authorized to notify these persons that they have been selected to receive the
honorary degree approved for each.

Background: The Committee on Honorary Degrees has recommended to the
Graduate Faculty and the University Senate that these honorary degrees be
awarded to the persons listed above, and these two bodies have expressed their
approval of the recommendation. Biographical sketches for each recipient
f ollow.

                        LEO MARTIN CHAMBERLAIN

Leo Martin Chamberlain, Vice President and Professor Eneritus of the University
of Kentucky, was born in Chalmers, Indiana, in 1896. He received his A. B.,
M.A., and Ph. D. degrees from Indiana University, the last in 1931. He taught
in Indiana public schools for eight years and then came to the University of
Kentucky as an assistant professor in 1929. In 1930 he was promoted to associate
professor and became the Director of the Bureau of School Service, which office
he held until 1937. In 1932 he was made professor of education.

In 1937 Dr. Chamberlain was appointed the University Registrar and in 1942 Dean
of the University and Registrar. He was Vice President of the University from
1946 to 1962 at which time he relinquished his administrative duties and served
as Professor of Higher Education until 1965 when he retired. In 1951 he received
the LL. D. degree from Indiana University.

He hxas written many bulletins and articles in periodicals and :contributed. numerous
editorials and reviews to educational publications. In 1936 he wrote a textbook,
The Teacher and School Organization, which has undergone several revisions, the
most recent in 1966 with the coauthorship of Dr. L. W. Kindred, Professor of
Education, at Temple University.