75th "Diamond Jubilee" Commencement - May 30, 1965

LeMars Sentinel,  May 1965

Westmar to Present
Two Honorary Degrees

Paul W. Milhouse, bishop of the Evangelical United Brethren church, will receive the degree of doctor of human letters at the 75th anniversary commencement exercises at Westmar College Sunday.

Bishop Milhouse, a graduate of Indiana Central college (B.A.) and an earned degree of doctor of theology from Temple University, also holds an honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Indiana Central College.

He was previously a minister of the Illinois conference of the E.U.B. Church and associate editor of the Telescope Messenger.

James T. Robertson, student at Westmar College from 1929 to 1934 and former LeMars resident, now regional manager for Ford Motor Co. in Canada, Mexico and South America, will receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the 75th commencement exercises on May 30. 

The college will present 132 degrees at the diamond jubilee commencement.


~Transcribed by Linda Ziemann, March 2020