1940 Henry Wallace
1941 Robert Lynd
1942 William Batt
1943 Robert D. Leigh
1944 Alexander Meiklejohn
1945 Justice Frank Murphy
1946 Reinhold Niebuhr
1947 Lewis Webster Jones
1948 Erich Fromm
1949 Hubert H. Humphrey
"Thanks for your friendly invitation to speak at Bennington. Sorry must decline because of incurable fear of platform and young girls. I wish I were different. E.B. White"
In his introduction of commencement speaker, Robert Devore Leigh, President Lewis Webster Jones reveals a special announcement. The student house known as Jennings, will be renamed Leigh, after the former president and ...