Dorothy-Ann 'Deede' Sloan
Class of '47

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U. C. TO AWARD DIPLOMAS TO 5,000

Degrees and certificates will1 be conferred upon more than 5,000 candidates at the eighty-fourth commencement ceremonies of the University of California in Berkeley this afternoon.

For the first time since prior to the outbreak of World War II, the exercises will be held in the stadium. Of the class, some 2,700 are June graduates, the remainder having completed their work for the academic honors in February. Some 2.250 of the graduates will be present for the ceremonies

PROCESSION AT 2:30P.M.

The traditional academic procession will begin 2:30 p.m. led by Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president, and officers of the university, in academic caps and gowns and colorful hoods.

Among the 25,000 friends and relatives expected to attend the ceremony will be many wives and children of veterans of World War II, more than 1,000 of the veterans being scheduled to receive degrees. Today's commencement marks the close of the first full university year since the veterans Bill of Rights aided hundreds of thousands of war veterans to return from battlefields to the universities to complete their education.

Dr. Sproul will make the chief address of the day and will confer the degrees and certificates. Dr. Monroe F. Deutsch, provost and vice president, soon to retire, will give his traditional farewell to the graduates.


HONORARY DEGREES

Honorary degrees of doctor of laws will be conferred upon P Francois F. Matthes, geologist, Erle V. Daveler, mining engineer, and Newton B. Drury, National Park Service director. Army and Navy reserve commissions will be awarded to hundreds of students who have satisfactorily completed their ROTC courses. Rear Admiral Donald B.  Beary, commandant of the Twelfth Naval District, will present the commissions to the Marine Corps and Navy men. Five Marine and five Navy graduates will proceed at once to active duty.

The invocation and benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. Howard Thurman, Negro theologist and pastor of San Francisco's Fellowship Church of  All Peoples. Speakers representing the graduating class will be Joseph A. Woods, law student of 52 Sharon Avenue, Piedmont, and Margaret Agnes O'Donnell of Woodland, major in political science.

UNIVERSITY MEDAL

The University Medal will be conferred upon the student with the highest scholastic average for his four years of study. The traditional senior pilgrimage began at 9 a.m. today, with seniors meeting at Sathtr Gate for a nostalgic visit to familiar campus scenes. The alumni association luncheon, held at noon in Faculty Glade, was to induct new members from the class of '47.

A special ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. in room 11, Wheeler Hall, for the 280 recipients of degrees and certificates from the university medical center in San Francisco. Following an old English custom, a gold headed cane will be given to the member of the grad­uating class considered by both students and medical faculty to have demonstrated qualities most likely to make him eminent in his profession.

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Deede worked a number of years supporting our "Meals on Wheels" program operating out of the North Berkeley Senior Center.

Deede working at Berkeley's Fire Station No. 2 as part of the voting team.
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