DePauw Mentioned in Newspaper's 'This Week in History' Column

April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - The "This Week in Cambridge History" column in today's edition of Massachusetts' Cambridge Chronicle notes, "April 7, 1961: British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan interrupted his visit to the nation's capital to travel to Cambridge to address an audience at MIT. Referring to his 1958 speech at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in which he called for interdependence, Macmillan said, 'Today I can say interdependence is not enough. We need unity, a wider unity, transcending traditional barriers. A unity of purpose, of method of organization.'"

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DePauw University: A Pictorial History includes the photo that accompanies this story. It is captioned: "In the Commencement of 1958 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave an address and received an honorary degree from President [Russell J.] Humbert. His maternal grandfather, Joshua T. Belles, was a graduate of the Indiana Asbury Central Medical College in 1851."

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