Honorary degree recipients posing after commencement exercises, June 9, 1947

Recipients of honorary degrees at the 77th annual Commencement pose after the ceremonies. From left: Francis A. Bartlett ('05, Agriculture), Minnie Ryan Dwight (Human Letters), Governor Robert F. Bradford, President Hugh P. Baker (Laws), Sidney B. Haskell ('04, Science) and Thornton Clark, who received the diploma and hood for his father, Frank S. Clark (1887) who was granted his B.S. extra ordinem degree posthumously. Mrs. Dwight, an editor for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript newspaper, was the first woman to be granted a Honorary degree by the institution.

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1 photograph ; 19 x 23 cm.

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Commencement ceremonies--Massachusetts--Amherst--Photographs

Baker, Hugh P. (Hugh Potter), 1878-1950

Bartlett, Francis A.

Bradford, Robert Fiske, 1902-1983

Clark, Thornton

Dwight, Minnie Ryan

Haskell, Sidney B. (Sidney Burritt), 1881-

Massachusetts Agricultural College--Students--Photographs

Massachusetts Agricultural College--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs

Massachusetts State College--Students--Photographs

Massachusetts State College--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs

University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Students--Photographs

University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Alumni and alumnae--Photographs

Massachusetts State College--Presidents--Photographs

University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Presidents--Photographs

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Photographs

Gelatin silver prints

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