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Commencement, August 4, 1950

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Description: Black and white photograph of, from left to right, Senator John O. Pastore (D-R.I.); Charles S. Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce; Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the United States Mint, who had been the first female state governor of the U.S.; Jeannette Carroll Jacobs (Dr. Harry L. Jacobs' wife); and Dr. Harry L. Jacobs, President of Bryant College.

Charles Sawyer and Nellie Tayloe Ross were two of four honorary degree recipients. The other two were William D. Fales, Head of the Textile School of the Rhode Island School of Design; and Lucius A. Whipple, President of Rhode Island College of Education.