COMMENCEMENT 1986 : Claremont Graduate School

The Claremont Graduate School held its 59th annual commencement exercises Saturday at 3 p.m. in Bridges Auditorium.

Degrees: 234 diplomas awarded, including 64 doctoral and 170 master’s degrees.

Speaker: Jovito R. Salonga, chairman of the Commission on Good Government for the Philippines. “We know the future will not be easy, but there is one factor that will tide us over--our faith in ourselves and our willingness to shape our own destiny.”

Honorary Degrees: Salonga, doctor of laws.

Erik C. Zeeman, professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, doctor of science.

Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and senior medical investigator at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., doctor of science.

Other Graduations:

Loyola Marymount University’s 74th annual graduation ceremonies Saturday featured Archbishop Roger M. Mahony as the commencement speaker. The largest Catholic university in Southern California awarded 950 undergraduate and 350 master’s degrees. Honorary doctorate of humane letters degrees were awarded to Mahony, Richard A. Archer, Robert Bellah and the Rev. George Dunne.

Pepperdine University School of Law held its graduation ceremonies Saturday at the Odell McConnell Law Center at the college’s campus in Malibu. Fred F. Fielding, former legal counsel to two U.S. Presidents, delivered the commencement address to 213 graduates. Honorary doctor of law degrees were awarded to Fielding and David Anderson, president and chief executive officer of General Telephone.