COMMENCEMENT 1985 : Claremont Graduate School

The Claremont Graduate School held its 58th annual commencement exercises Saturday in Bridges Auditorium.

Degrees: 202 diplomas, including 44 doctoral degrees and 158 master’s degrees.

Speakers: Mayor Henry Cisneros of San Antonio, Tex., talked about the qualities of leadership needed in the nation. “In these complex, fast-moving times, different styles of leadership will be important,” he said. “We need consensus-building leaders with antennae sensitized to opportunities to bring people together. We need leaders who seek a glimmer of daylight in confrontational situations and find a common ground to reach consensus. (Leadership is) the ability to identify what defines a better America, the uncompromising points for which people are willing to fight, such as justice, quality of life, opportunity, mutual respect and democracy.”

Honorary Degrees:

Cisneros, doctor of law: “ . . . you have exerted dynamic, effective leadership in moving citizens and institutions to respond to new demographic and economic imperatives. . . . Your vision of an America that can master a complicated future, and your example as a leader into that future, has quickened all who have come to know your career with new optimism and enthusiasm.”

Simon Ramo, co-founder of TRW Inc., doctor of science: “With technical and managerial genius, you have guided major corporations and agencies of our government as few could. . . . You have made unique contributions to the progress, prowess, vitality and defense of this country.”

Joseph Coates, president of J. F. Coates Inc., doctor of science: “By practicing and fostering interdisciplinary approaches to science, you have pointed toward the possibility that we may yet be able to integrate what we know into a unified whole. “

Other Graduations:

The Pepperdine School of Law’s annual graduation ceremonies Saturday featured Rex E. Lee, solicitor general of the United States, as the commencement speaker. Nearly 200 law students received their doctor of law degrees at the Odell McConnell Law Center at the college’s campus in Malibu.