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6 The Transcript, Saturday, May 18, 1985 vi i it La cisy Arthur Mitchell The Lord Crowther-Hont Blythe Danner Peter R. Pouncey Ernest L. Boyer Williams to award honorary degrees to WILLIAMSTOWN Willrams College will award honorary degrees at its 196th commencement to eight men and women who have made significant contributions to education and the arts. Commencement exercises will be held Sunday, June 9, at 10 a.m. on the Stetson Hall lawn.

Bachelor of Arts degrees will be awarded to nearly 512 members of the class of 1985. Thirteen graduates of the two-year program in the history of art, offered jointly by Williams and the Clark Art Institute, will be awarded master's degrees. There are 21 fellows at the Williams Center for Development Economics who are candidates for master's degrees. Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard professor, and nationally recognized paleontologist and writer about evolutionary theory, will speak at commencement and will be awarded an honorary doctor of science degree. Ernest L.

Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will speak at the baccalaureate service Saturday, June 8, on "The Connectedness of Things," and will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at commencement. The Lord Norman Crowther-Hunt, rector of Exeter College, Oxford University, and Peter R. Pouncey, president of Amherst College, will receive honorary doctor of law degrees. Frederick Rudolph, Williams alumnus and Mark Hopkins professor of history, emeritus, will be educators, Washington. She has also given works of art to many college and university museums, including those at Bowdoin, the University of Rochester, and Williams.

The widow of American artist Charles Prendergast, she has been a proponent of late 19th and early 20th-century American art since his death in 1947. She has been instrumental in supporting the extensive research being done at the Williams College Museum of Art on Charles Prendergast and his brother, Maurice. She has donated many of their pieces to the museum, along with an endowment for their preservation and a gallery in which to display them. WILLIAMS HISTORIAN Frederick Rudolph, a leading authority on the history of undergraduate curriculum, recently served on a 16-member committee for a study by the American Association of Colleges on college curricula. He was the principal author, of the report of that committee, "Integrity in the College Curriculum A Report to the Academic Community' A 1942 graduate of Williams, Rudolph received the Ph.D.

from Yale, joined the Williams faculty in 1946, and chaired the American Civilization Program from 1971 THE TRANSCRIPT (USPS 391-940) Published daily except Sundays, Christmas day and New Year's day from The Transcript Building, American Legion Drive, North Adams, 01247. Second class postage, paid at North Adams, Mass. Single copy price thirty cents. Carrier home delivery $1.60 per week. Motor route home delivery $8.00 per month.

Mail rate $8.50 a month. was responsible for creating the National Ballet Company of Brazil. AMHERST PRESIDENT Peter Pouncey became the 16th president of Amherst College in June, 1984. A professor of classics at Columbia College, Pouncey had served as associate dean of the col- lege from 1971-72. In 1972, at 34, he was appointed dean, the youngest person ever named to the post.

Under his leadership, the college made advances In admissions and fund-raising. He left administration in 1976 to return to teaching and research, becoming the director of a Columbia study project supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and chairman of the university's Contemporary Civilization Program. He also wrote a book, "The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides' published by Columbia University Press in 1980. The book received the 1981 Lionel Trilling Award for Columbia's best scholarly publication. In 1983, Pouncey received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates.

Pouncey was born in Tsingtao, China and became an American citizen in 1976. He received the undergraduate degree in philosophy' from Heythrop College in England in 1960 and another in classical literature, ancient history and philosophy from Oxford University in 1964. He earned the Ph.D. from Columbia in 1967, the same year he joined the Department of Greek and Latin there. ARTS PATRON Eugenie Prendergast has been a life-long patron of the arts and, as head of the Eugenie Prendergast Foundation, has directed the dispersal of Important American works of art to major American art museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Gallery in STARRING: TOYOTA BUICK I Frederick Rudolph artists through 1980.

His book, "Mark. Hopkins and the Log," published In 1956, is a history of the Mark Hopkins era at Williams. He is the author of "The American College and University: A History," published in 1962, and "Curriculum: A History of the American. Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636," published in 1977. Rudolph was the executive editor of "Change" magazine from 1980-84, and has written extensively for professional journals in the fields of history and education.

He has served in a variety of roles on panels and advisory boards for the American Council on Education, the National Institute of Education, and the Association of American Colleges. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given by -the Hancock Planning Board under provisions of the Massachusetts General laws. Chapter 40A, Section that a hearing will be held at Hancock Central School on June 1985, at 7:30 PM to discuss the proposed zoning by-law. The by-low to be presented will reflect a correction to error in Section 4.1, uses permitted by right, which was made in the by-law presented to voters on May 13, 1985. A complete text of the proposed zoning by-law is posted at the following places in the town of Hancock: Hancock Town Hall, Hancock School, Hancock Post Office, Hancock Fire Department No.

1 and Fire Department No. 2, and also with the Town Clerk. Hancock Planning Board Brian Lobdell, Ch. Sherman L. Derby, Sr.

Mary Hendricks Edward Borosky Margaret Fenander May 18,27, 1985 18 AND 19 SKSttS AM-4PM PM-J PM ADAMS, MA SUPER DEAL A NEW SERVICE FROM educator, joined the Carnegie Foundation in 1980. Before that, he served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, then the country's highest education post, and administered a $12 million federal budget. He was an administrator for 12 years in the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest university system in the United States, serving as executive dean from 1965-70 and as chancellor from 1970-77. As chancellor he initiated a numerous programs, including a five-year review of college presidents, developed an experimental three-year A.B.

degree program, and negotiated the first undergraduate exchange program with the Soviet Union. BRITISH FELLOW Lord Crowther-Hunt has worked with Williams College administrators to implement a program for Williams students at Oxford University, which will begin next fall. Crowther-Hunt, whose professional career embraces both politics and education, was educated at Cambridge University. He earned the Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1951.

He was affiliated with Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, for his graduates studies, and was made an honorary fellow of that college In 1982. Crowther-Hunt was a fellow and lecturer in politics at Exeter College, Oxford, for 30 years, before being named rector in 1982. He has served the British government in a number of advisory positions, including as constitutional adviser to the government, Minister of State for the Department of Education and Science, and Minister of State for the Privy Council Office. He was created a life peer in 1973. WTF ACTRESS Blythe Danner, the well-known actress, has appeared for 11 con-secutive summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

After graduating from Bard College in 1965, Danner made her debut in Boston in 1966 In "The Service of Joseph Axminster" and "The Way Out of the Way In" at the Theatre Company of Boston. Her first major success on Broadway, as Jill Tanner in "Butterflies are Free" in 1969, earned her a Tony Award. Since that time, she has appeared in many stage productions as well as in films and on television. PRINCIPAL DANCER Arthur Mitchell -trained as a jazz and modern dancer at the High School for Performing Arts, and studied ballet at the School of American Ballet following his graduation. When he joined the New York City Ballet in 1955, he was the first black dancer in the nation to become a permanent member of a major classical ballet company.

He rose quickly to the position of principal dancer, and has been noted particularly for his performances in "Agon," and "Arcade," and In such roles as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In his 15 years with the New York City Ballet, Mitchell performed In many roles, dancing with every major ballerina in the company. He has also performed as a modern and jazz dancer. Mitchell is also well known as a choreographer and also formed an interracial dance company which appeared at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. At the request of the United States government, he awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree. Actress Blythe Danner and Arthur Mitchell, founder and artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, will each receive honorary doctor of fine arts degrees.

Eugenie Prendergast, art collector and patron, will receive the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters. PALEONTOLOGIST AUTHOR Stephen J. Gould is best known for his award-winning books and articles on various scientific theories and disciplines. His writing style has made complex ideas accessible to general audiences. Much of his writing concerns the effect of cultural and social factors on scientific theory and his disagreement with biological determinism.

Among his books are a collection of essays, "The Panda's Thumb," which won the American Book Award for Science in 1981, and "The Mismeasure of Man," a study of intelligence testing, which received the National Book Critics Cirle Award in 1982 and the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association in 1983. Gould also writes an award-winning monthly column for Natural History magazine on an aspect of evolution or a subject relating to evolution. A professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, and curator of invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Gould has been honored with many awards and fellowships. EDUCATION COMMISSIONER Ernest Boyer, a recognized FILLED FOR 664-4838 NO. ADAMS.

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