President Bok will confer honorary degrees this morning on one woman and five men, including Katharine Graham, the chairman of the board of the Washington Post company, and Meyer Schapiro, one of the world's foremost art critics and historians.

Victor F. Weisskopf, a theoretical physicist who worked on the team that built the first atomic bomb during World War II, and E. Bright Wilson, Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will also receive honorary degrees, at the culmination of this morning's portion of Harvard's 332nd Commencement exercises.

Rounding off this year's list--which is about half the size of previous years' rosters--are Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican author and statesman who will give this afternoon's principal Commencement address, and Robert Winthrop '26, a New York financier and benefactor.

Harvard traditionally keeps the names of the winners of the university's most prestigious award until the moment they claim their degree on the Tercentary theater state. The Crimson reported the honorands' identities in its Tuesday edition.

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Carlos Fuentes began his diplomatic career when he was only 22 years old. A graduate of the School of Law, National University of Mexico, he served as a member of the Mexican delegation to the United Nations, Director of International Cultural Relations for Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, from 1974 until 1978, as Ambassador to France.

The 54-year-old Fuentes, also a prolific playwright, critic, and novelist, has taught and lectured at over a dozen U.S. universities, delivering last year's Spencer Lecture at Harvard. Currently a resident of Princeton, N.J., he is adjunct professor of English and Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fuentes, who told. The Crimson in 1981 "I must write," has penned ten novels, three plays, and a host of critical essays, including commentary on Melville, Faulkner, Bunuel, and Genet. His first novel, "Where the Air is Clear," appeared in 1958.

His two most critically acclaimed works have been "The Death of Artemio Cruz" in 1962, and "Terra Nostra" in 1975. Fuentes' most recent works are a 1980 novel, "Distant Relations," and a 1982 play. "Orchids in the Moonlight," which premiered at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center.

Much of his writing has been concerned with political issues, especially with the legacy of the Mexican Revolution of 1917.

A graduate of primary school in Washington, D.C., Fuentes is well-known as a friend of the United States, but he has recently been an outspoken critic of the U.S.'s policies in Latin America, especially in the Reagan administration's support for dictatorships in El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Katharine M. Graham, the only woman receiving an honorary degree today, has had a distinguished career in journalism, working for her high school newspaper, publications around the country, and eventually the Washington Post, which her father owned. Today, at 65, she is chairman of the board of the Post Company and one of the most influential figures in American journalism.

During her college years, which she spent at Vassar and the University of Chicago, Graham worked as an intern for the Post. After graduation, Graham worked for a short time for the Chicago Times and then briefly for the San Francisco News before returning to the Post as a member of the editorial staff.

In 1940, she married Philip L. Graham, then a Washington lawyer. After World War II, he was made publisher of the Post when his wife's father stepped down. Under the conditions of the transfer, the Grahams could only sell the newspaper with the approval of a special committee, which included former Harvard President James B. Conant.