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[Photograph of Men Receiving Honorary Doctorates at McMurry College]

Photograph of seven men who received honorary doctorates from McMurry College at the 33rd annual Commencement Exercises on Monday, May 28, 1956. Pictured are (seated, from left): Bishop Watts, resident Bishop of the Nebraska Area of the Methodist Church, who delivered the Commencement Address; J. M. Willson, Floydada (Texas) businessman and Chairman of the McMurry Board of Trustees; Don H. Morris, President of Abilene Christian College. In the back row are (standing, from left): Reverend Ewart G. Watts, Pastor of Asbury Methodist Church in El Paso and Baccalaureate Speaker (Bishop Watts' son); Reverend C. Raymond Gray of El Paso, a retired Methodist minister; Reverend E. E. White, District Superintendent of the Childress Methodist District; and Reverend Dallas D. Denison, Pastor of the First Methodist Church in Abilene.
Date: May 28, 1956
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History