Milford chronicle., 1922-06-16
P. S. DU POINT IS
HIGHLY PRAISED
HIS PIILANTHROPIC WORK COLOSSAL, ,
JUDGE FOX SAYS AT LAFAYETTE
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
GUEST AT LUNCHEON LATER
MANY DELAWAREANS WERE PRESENT
TO WITNESS The BESTOWlNG OF
The HIGH HONOR.

Pierre S. DUPONT, of Wilmington
manufacturer, financier and philan
thropist, who last Monday received
the degree Doctor of Laws from Lafa,
yette College, was a guest at a lunch
con following the commencement ex-
ercises. In the course of the luncheon
Mr.. DUPONT was called upon for a
speech, and was loudly applauded by
those present. Mr.. dupont was accom-
panied to EastOn by Mrs. dupont and
the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Odell
of Wilmington, and several other Del
aWareans also were present to wit
ness the bestowing of the high colleg-
late honor upon their fellow resident.
In the academic procession from
South College to Pardee Hall, Mr..
DUPONT walked with Dr. Bingham, pro-
fessor of chemistry, who recently ad-
dressed the Delaware Chemical So
ciety in Wilmington.
The exercises were opened with an
invocation by the Rev. DR.. Joseph H.
Odell, director of Service Citizens of
Wilmington, and after several address
ses by members of the class the for
NAL Grafton was delivered by Senator
George Wharton Pepper, of Philadel-
phia. The honorary degrees were then
conferred, the first of the four to be
given the degree of LII. D. being Mr..
DUPONT, who was presented by Ed
ward J. Fox, former Justice of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and
a member of the board of trustees. In
presenting Mr.. DUPONT to President
McCracken, who handed out the diplo-
mas, Judge Fox among other things
said that ''Mr. Wanamaker, with char
acteristic keenness of vision, recently
directed the attention of young men
to the fact that there was no longer
a distinction to be maintained be-
tween commerce and manufacturing
and what used to be denOminated the
learned professions" He continued:
"The candidate 1 now present is one
of the men, who has been most sue
cessful in the world of commerce and
manufacture and exhibited wonderful
qualities of leadership and executive
ability. He was at one time the head
of the great manufacturing corpora
tion known Familiarity as the DUPONT
Company, originally organized to fur
nish powder for commercial uses.
During the World War as the eXecu-
tive head of this great corporation he
reorganized and enlarged the business ,
and the manufacture of explosives to !
so great an extent that 40 per cent of .
the ammunition used by the allied ma
tions in their great struggle with .
Germany was generated under his di-
rectiOn. Without his executive genius
and the contribution he made to the
issue of the war we trem-
Die to think what might have happen
I'd. The channel ports would have
ALLEN in 1915 and rout and disaster
would have followed in their wake
through the years '16, II, and 1S.
PhiIanthrOpic Work Colossal
"Since the close of the war he has
devoted his splendid energies to civic
md educational affairs and through
he Service Citizens of Delaware has
lone much for the public health, ed
lcation and the Americanization of
he foreign born and the general i'm
of vital conditions in Del e.
ware. His philanthrOpic work and
lis contributions to the educational
nd other organizations for the i'm
and betterment of condi- ,
ions have been colossal and he has 7
sed the means which God has given l
i'm as a good steward for the benefit l
# humanity. Lafayette is glad to i
onor him today. I present Pierre
amuel dupont for the degree of LII. {
- The mantle was then placed upon r
ne shoulders of Mr.. DUPONT. q