Ball is currently a partner in the Lehman Brothers investment banking firm in New York City. He holds the U.S. Medal of Freedom and in 1968 authored The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure.

His degree citation describes him as: "The wise, courageous veteran of a turbulent era in American foreign policy, now urging reassessment of the obligations and limitations of our national power."

Margaret Mead, who received a Doctor of Science today, is perhaps the best known anthropologist in America. Mead has been associated professionally with the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1926. She has since 1969 been curator of ethnology emeritus, but has continued an active life of lecturing and writing.

Her most well-known books are, Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928, and Male-and Female, released in 1949. Both books are an attempt to bring anthropological methods to the study of human growth and its problems.

Her latest book, Blackberry Winter, published last year, deals with her childhood and early career.

Mead's citation read: "Through her lively and illuminating studies of faraway peoples she has brought us better understanding of ourselves and of the continuum of the human adventure."

George F. Bennett '33, who retired this year as Harvard's treasurer, will receive a Doctor of Laws. He had served as treasurer since 1965, and as deputy treasurer for 20 years before that.

Bennett has been a central figure in the campus disputes of the past few years regarding Harvard's stands on proxy battles against corporations in which the University holds sizeable blocks of stock.

He has always sided with management in the disputes, explaining that it alone has the expertise to look out for the welfare of the company.

His citation read: "For twenty-five years our steward, skillful, prudent, steadfast; he used his talents for Harvard's welfare--and wondrously multiplied her inheritance.

Georgia O'Keeffe, a well-known artist for the past 50 years, was awarded the only Doctor of Arts degree. Her best-known paintings--starkly beautiful prairie landscapes--are displayed in the leading museums and galleries of the United States.

Her citation: "In nature and common objects, free air and open space, she finds inspiration for bold expression--realistic or abstract--an intimate view of 'the wideness and wonder of the world.'"

Robert Penn Warren, the widely respected novelist and critic, received the only Doctor of Letters. Warren is perhaps best known for his 1947 work, All the King's Men, a semi-fictional book describing the Louisiana of Huey Long, a senator from that state.

Warren, presently a professor of English at Yale, has also published poetry, plays and short stories. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry.

His citation read: "To his own distinguished writing and teaching he brings the same high quality he demands of others--'intelligence, tact, discipline, honesty and sensitivity.'"