Cleary College Awards Honorary Degrees
Six recipients of Cleary College honorary degrees as a doctor of science in business administration posed at commencement exercises in Ypsilanti Saturday with Michigan Secretary of State Owen J. Cleary, college president (third from left), and Walter Greig, the college's executive vice-president (far right). They are (left to right): William E. Stirton, Wayne University vice-president; Cleary; Charles L. Wilson, dairy chain president; U. S. Postmaster-general Arthur E. Summerfield; Edward A. Kaegi, divisional general manager for General Motors Corp; George C. Handy, local newspaper publisher; Berry N. Beaman, Parma industrialist; and Greig.
U. S. Postmaster-General Arthur E. Summerfield (left), who spoke Saturday at Cleary College's 70th commencement exercises in Ypsilanti, is pictured here with Owen J. Cleary, Michigan secretary of state and the college's president, who is campaigning for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Summerfield, a native of Flint, is a Cleary trustee.