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Show j Commencement Honors Four Utahns By MARY ELLEN SLOAN o,-f; ,, Baldwin Wallace College in 1962. Dr. Atiya has been instrumental in building the Middle East Library to one of the five finest and most complete in the United States. For his efforts in this direction he has been honored by having the library named the Aziz S. Atiya Library for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Atiya has received international interna-tional stature as a scholar and teacher. He has held faculty posts at 17 universities and colleges around the world and has published pub-lished more than 40 books in three languages. By MARY ELLEN SLOAN Chronicle Staff Writer i Honorary degrees will be con- ferred on four Utahns and a prominent prom-inent California educator on June 7 at commencement exercises in c Ute Stadium. The announcement i was made by Dr. James C. Fletcher, Fletch-er, University president. Recipients of the honorary degrees de-grees will be Dr. J. E. Wallace Sterling, president of Stanford Uni-;: Uni-;: versity; Clarence Bamburger, j prominent Utah businessman and c mining engineer; Dr. Alexander ; Schreiner, internationally famous organist; Dr. Sydney W. Angleman, professor of English at the Uni-: Uni-: versity; and Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, Dis-, Dis-, tinguished Professor of History, also of the University. Dr. Sterling, president of Stanford Stan-ford University since 1949, will also deliver the Commencement Address. Ad-dress. He was born in Canada and received his B.A. degree at the University of Toronto in 1927, M.A. from the University of Alberta in 1930, and Ph.D. degree from Stanford Stan-ford in 1938. He' has been awarded honorary degrees from 12 univer sities and colleges in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has served as chairman of the board of the Stanford Research Institute and as president of the Association of American Universities, Univer-sities, 1961-63. Clarence Bamberger Mr. Clarence Bamberger, a Salt Lake City resident, is president of the Bamberger Investment Company. Com-pany. He has operated mines in Colorado, Utah and Nevada and has conducted petroleum exploration in the United States and Mexico. The prominent Utahn graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1904, received his M.E. degree from Cornell University in 1908, and later la-ter studied at the Student Royal School of Mines in Berlin, and the Ecole Supercure des Mines in Paris. Mr. Bamberger has served as a Regent at the University and vice chairman of the University's Medical Medi-cal Fund. He was national director of both the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the American Ameri-can Red Cross, member of the National Na-tional Founders Board of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and a director and member of the ex- ecutive committee of Walker Bank and Trust Company in Salt Lake City. Dr. Alexander Schreiner has been organist at Salt Lake City's Mormon Mor-mon Tabernacle since 1924. According Accord-ing to national polls, he has always been one of the first two ranking organists in the country. He has published three collections of h i s music for the organ. The famous musician was born in Nuremberg, Germany and emigrated emi-grated to Salt Lake City with his family at the age of 11. He received his B.A. degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. degree in 1954, both from the University. Dr. Schreiner is a member of Phi Beta . Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Sydney Angleman Dr. Sydney Angleman, often described de-scribed as "one of the West's leading lead-ing intellectuals," has been a member mem-ber of the University faculty since 1927. He received his B.A. degree from Amherst College 'in 1923; has M.A. degree in 1925 and Ph.DD. in 1937, both from the University of California. Cali-fornia. At Utah, Dr. Angleman has served as dean of the Lower Division, Divi-sion, associate dean of the University Univer-sity College, associate dean of the College of Letters and Science, and 19 years as director of General Education, 1948-67. He has been a full time professor of English since 1943 and has coedited two college English texts, "A Free Man's Forum" For-um" and the "College Quad." Professor Angleman is a member mem-ber of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic fraternities. Dr. Aziz Atiya Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, known throughout through-out the academic world as a historian, his-torian, writer and teacher, joined the University faculty as professor -of languages in 1959. He has also served as director of the Middle East Center and is currently Distinguished Dis-tinguished Professor of History. He was born in Egypt and received re-ceived his early education in that country. He earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Liverpool in 1931 and 1932 respectively; re-spectively; a Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 1933; Litt. D. degree from the University Univer-sity of Liverpool in 1938; and was awarded an honorary degree from |