Ellis, Richard Hastings

The honorary degree recipients and their sponsors at Commencement on June 4, 1961.

Honorary degree recipients are sitting in the front row and they are, from left to right, Rev. Dr. John W. Mckelvey, Colonel Richard H. Ellis, Bishop W. Vernon Mddleton, President Malcolm, Ambassador Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., and Judge Charles Klein. 

Sponsors are sitting in the back row and they are, from left to right, Rev. Dr. F. La Mont Henninger, Dr. Edward C. Raffensperger, Dr. Howard L. Rubendall, Rev Dr. Edward G. Latch Jr., and Dean Morris L. Shafer.

Air Force Brigadier General Richard Hastings Ellis (Class of 1948) as the commander of the 315th Air Division at Tachikawa Air Base in Japan.

Left to Right: Charles Taylor '52 ; Mrs. Helen Matthews Hunsecker '46 ; General Ellis '41 ; Mrs. Annabel Rice Lower '32 ; Miss. Margaret MacGregor '46