President Bok this morning conferred honorary degrees on:

Albert Hamilton Gordon '23, financier--Doctor of Laws;

Paul C. Mangelsdorf, botanist, educator and Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus at Harvard--Doctor of Science;

Barbara Jordan, Democratic Congress-woman from the 18th Congressional district of Texas--Doctor of Laws;

Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer and Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard--Doctor of Laws;

Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar, author, and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England--Doctor of Laws;

Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer--Doctor of Letters, and

Marian Anderson, contralto--Doctor of Music.

President Bok conferred honorary degrees on four men and three women at the Commencement exercises this morning, including two professors emeritus and Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Tex.).

The two retired faculty members who received honorary degrees are Paul W. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, and Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus.

In naming Jordan, the University broke with the tradition of keeping silent about potential honorary degree recipients by announcing in May that she will speak to the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni in Tercentenary Theater this afternoon.

The other degree recipients are Albert H. Gordon '23, chairman of Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc., a New York stock brokerage firm; Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England; Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer; and Marian Anderson, contralto.

Freund's teaching abilities are legendary at the Law School, but he is also well known as a great constitutional scholar who laid down many of the principles of constitutional study and who is wellversed in American constitutional history. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he came to teach at Harvard in 1939, after serving as law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and working in the Solicitor General's office during the 1930s.

He became a full professor in 1940, and in 1958 became the first person to fill the Loeb University Professor's chair, in part because it was felt his ability to inspire his students should not be restricted to the Law School.

Freund's citation says he is "A brilliant scholar whose powerful intellect illumines the history of American constitutionalism; a kindly and responsive colleague for whom no task is too great, no problem too small."