Brando, Bergman, Lancaster, Neman, Gielgud … a director working with such an array of stars might have had his own work outshone. But for more than 40 years you have been known, in the words of The New York Times, for your “bravura way with the camera and … artfully composed shots,” in hundreds of productions that have both entertained audiences and made them think. Pauline Kael has called The Manchurian Candidate perhaps “the most sophisticated political satire ever made in Hollywood ” and the Library of Congress made it one of only 100 films inducted into its National Registry. Seven Days in May was quickly dubbed “a modern classic.” Birdman of Alcatraz, The Fixer, The Iceman Cometh—all of these works are studied by aspiring filmmakers today, extending their influence to another generation. In television drama you have quite simply set the standard, at the beginning (as you directed more than 150 live dramas for such notable series as Playhouse 90) and even now (as you have won an Emmy for best director in 1994, 1995, and 1996). With pride in the knowledge that this passion for directing came to life here on the stage of the Adams Memorial Theatre, and regretful that local ordinance prevents us from embedding your star in the sidewalk of Main Street, your alma mater is pleased to add to your honors this one of its own.