Mount Mary University Digital Collections

1964 Mount Mary Commencement program, honorary degrees page

Item

Commencement Program_03.jpg

Title

1964 Mount Mary Commencement program, honorary degrees page

Description

List of Honorary Degrees awarded by Mount Mary in 1964, including one to Harper Lee.

In May 1964, Mount Mary College awarded an Honorary Degree to Nelle Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize winning author of To Kill A Mockingbird. In accepting the honor Ms. Lee traveled to Mount Mary and took part in commencement ceremonies, which resulted in a friendship between her and Sister John Francis Schuh, President of Mount Mary.

Date

1964-05-31

Source

School Sisters of Notre Dame North American Archives

Identifier

https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/e09f32039ad8c24b857d62c11bfd767f.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Subject

Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Commencement ceremonies
Programs
Lee, Harper

Type

Text

Format

JPEG

Language

eng

Citation

“1964 Mount Mary Commencement program, honorary degrees page,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/1316.