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Proclamation in Honor of Dr. Norman Lamm on his 25th Year as President of Yeshiva University (2001)

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Convocation celebrating the inauguration of Dr. Norman Lamm as third president of Yeshiva University – Hon. Joel Sussman, Right Hon. Bora Laskin, Hon. Warren E. Burger – Sunday, May 1, 1977 – The New York Hilton, 53rd Street and Avenue of the Americas, New York City. Order of exercises – Processional: Abner H. Groff, M.H.L., herald, dean of admissions; David Mirsky, M.A., chief marshal, acting vice president for academic affairs. Presiding: Israel Miller, M.A., D.D., vice president for student affairs. National anthem: Cantor Paul Glasser, M.A., associate director of admissions. Invocation: Leo Jung, Ph.D., L.H.D., D.D., honorary trustee, Yeshiva University. Conferring of honorary degrees: Norman Lamm, Ph.D., president. Doctor of laws – Joel Sussman, LL.B., J.D., president, Supreme Court of Israel – presentation by Chaim Herzog, LL.B., L.H.D. (YU ’76), permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations. Bora Laskin, LL.M., LL.D., D.C.L., Ph.D., chief justice, Supreme Court of Canada – presentation by Louis Henkin, LL.D., L.H.D. (YU ’63), Hamilton Fish professor of international law and diplomacy, Columbia University. Warren E. Burger, LL.B., chief justice of the United States – presentation by Paul Abraham Freund, S.J.D., Litt.D., L.H.D. (YU ’75), Carl M. Loeb university professor, Harvard University. Benediction: Rabbi Arthur D. Kahn, B.A., Congregation B’nai Emunah, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hatikvah: Cantor Glasser. Recessional: Guests are requested to remain at their seats until the participants in the recessional have completed their withdrawal. Board of trustees – Max J. Etra, chairman – Morris B. Abram, Joseph A. Ades, David Aronow, Arthur B. Belter, Robert Belsky, Charles H. Bendheim, Hyman Bessin, Eugene Ferkauf, Gerald Furst, Louis J. Glickman, Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, Benjamin Gottesman, Joseph S. Gruss. Honorary trustees: Dr. Leo Jung. Committee on ceremonial occasions – Herbert C. Dobrinsky, M.S.; Joseph Ellenberg, M.A.; Sam Hartstein, B.A.; Janet Knight, B…
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